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Aviation History
1934
1934 - 0011.PDF
FLIGHT, JANUARY 4, 1934 FAR FROM HOME : A British-owned Comper " Swift " r" Poojoy " over the entrance to Hong Kong harbour. Air raids in Turin A FULL day and night's drill has been held at Turin, Military and Red Cross contingents all wore gas masks and were covered from head to foot in rubber overalls, specially prepared as protection against mustard gas. The population were also issued with masks. At dawn one of the streets v. is cleared of people and barricaded. A thick coating of chloride of lime and sand was spread about and the walls of the houses were sprayed with antidotes.Endurance record Two American women, Mrs. Frances Marsalis and Miss Helen Richey, are reported to have broken the endurance record. They stayed in the air for 237 hr. 42 min. French flight to Saigon THE new French three-engined Dewoitine, Emeraude, which recently flew from Paris to Morocco and back in record time, is reported to have arrived at Saigon in Indo- China. It carried mails from Paris and did the flight in 48 flying hours, at an average speed of 155 m.p.h.A height record for France A FRENCH pilot, by name Bourgin, claims the height record for machines carrying a load of a ton. He states he reached a height of just over 30,000 ft. A French long-distance flight Two French airmen, Capt. Bonnot and Lt. Jean Pierre, of the French Naval Air Service, left Etang de Berre, Marseilles, about midday on Sunday, December 31, in a Latecoere 30.1 flying-boat named Croix de Sud. The machine is equipped with four 650-h.p. Hispano-Suiza engines. They flew non-stop to St. Louis, Senegal, a distance of 4,000 km. (2,500 miles). The time taken for the flight was 22 hr. 23 min., which gives the flying-boat a cruising speed of about 114 m.p.h. ; incidentally, it has been designed and built to carry mails between Africa and South America. This is a record long-distance flight for a seaplane. The previous record was held by Lt. Mermoz, who flew from St. Louis, Senegal, to Port Natal, in Brazil, a distance of 3,173 km.Inverted flying record ACCORDING to a report an airman, by name Milo Burcham, has set up a record for inverted flying ; he remained upside-down for just over 4 hr. Lord Londonderry's tour LORD LONDONDERRY, Secretary of State for Air, who is making a 16,000 mile tour of K.A.F. units overseas, flew from Cairo to Wady Haifa on Wednesday, Decem- ber 27. The next day he flew to Cairo, accompanied by Air Vice-Marshal Newall, stopping on the way at Bara, where his machine was re-fuelled. Five Fairey " Gordons " (" Panther ") of No. 47 (B) Squadron flew out and met the party and escorted it on to Khartoum, where it was entertained by Mr. Bell, the acting Governor- General for two days at the Palace. At Khartoum, Lord Londonderry visited No. 47 (B) Squadron, and during the week flew on to Amman to visit No. 14 (BJ Squadron. From Amman he flew to Hinaidi,.the aero- drome of Baghdad, in just over six hours. The units at Hinaidi are No. 55 (B) Squadron, equipped with the Westland " Wapiti " (" Jupiter "), and No. 70 (B.T.) Squadron, which uses the Vickers " Victoria " Troop Carrier (2 " Lions "). Air rescue in the Arctic SOME time back the Russian ice-breaker Cheliushin set out on an expedition to the Arctic under the leader- ship of Prof. Schmidt. A few weeks ago it was reported that the ship had been trapped in great ice floes. Now, in response to urgent wireless calls from Prof. Schmidt, aeroplanes are being prepared to go out and rescue the members of the expedition. Some of these machines have been specially built for work in arctic regions.More aerial rescues in Canada THE intense cold of the Canadian winter is providing many instances of rescue work done by aeroplanes, and rescue work of such a nature as can only be done by aero- planes. Here is one such incident. A trapper, by name Jim McAuley, trekked many miles through the snow to obtain medical aid for a sick friend, George Corston. As a result of his report an aeroplane set out, and within a few hours had brought the sick man to where medical aid was available.Missions to Rome A CHINESE military mission headed by Divisional General Yang Tse, Director of the Military School at Nan- king, recently visited the Italian Air Ministry in Rome. In the " Common Messroom " of the Ministry, H.E. General Valle offered a toast in honour of the delegates. Returning the visit of H.E. Air Marshall Balbo to Brazil in 1930, a Brazilian delegation headed by Minister Osvaldo Arenha will soon arrive in Italy. A Fieseler machine for the circuit of Europe HERR FIESELER is building an entry for the Circuit of Europe in his factory at Kassel. The aircraft is quite a new type, and has been specially designed for the com- petition.Punctuality is the soul of business DURING the recent bad weather, when gales blew all round the shores of Great Britain, the cross-Channel ser- vices were highly disorganised and quite a considerable amount of inconvenience must have been caused to indi- viduals. Even the large trans-Atlantic liners were late in arriving. In spite of all this bad weather, however, Imperial Airways were able to maintain their scheduled services with very little discomfort and with no delay. Many people unable to cross the Channel by boat decided to travel by air instead, and applied to Imperial Airways, who were so inundated with applications that they were unable to cope with them all, and many applicants were turned away. 15
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