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1934
1934 - 1091.PDF
OCTOBER I8, 1934. FLIGHT. 1093 FEET r-3.OOO Z.OOO I.OOO I O- r ALLAHABAD Bay of Bengal tCALCUTTA - " AUORSTAR SEA is the chief feature of stage 3 in the speed race. SINGAPORE dark of night the aeroplane would be heading towards the Persian mountains. "% Still assuming an air speed of 200 m.p.h., Allahabad would be reached in n£ hours, the distance being 2,300 miles. The landing would occur at 7.40 a.m. G.M.T. on the morning of Sunday, October 21. Allahabad is 5^ hours ahead of London in point of time, so that it would be 1.10 p.m. local time when the machine landed. After another hour spent in refuelling, etc., the machine would be off from Allahabad at 8.40 a.m. G.M.T. (2.10 p.m. local time), with Singapore as the next stop, 2,210 miles away. At 200 m.p.h. this distance would take about 11 hours, Singapore being reached at 7.40 p.m. G.M.T. The differ- ence in time between Singapore and London being 7 hours, it would by then be 2.40 a.m. local time on the morning of Monday, October 22. After the usual hour's wait, which we have assumed to be the average spent at controls, the aeroplane would be off again at 8.40 p.m. G.M.T. (3.40 a.m. local time). The 2,084 miles to Darwin would occupy 10 hours 25 minutes, which would mean that this stage would be covered in daylight, the arrival in Darwin taking place at 7.05 a.m. G.M.T. (4.35 p.m. local time, Darwin being 9| hours ahead of London). As the High Commissioner for Australia facetiouslv remarked at the Royal Aero Club banquet to the competitors, the race is " only really be- ginning " when Darwin is reached! Having arrived at Darwin, the most difficult part of the race should be over, and at 8.05 a.m. tr.b&iT. (5.35 p.m. local time), our machine would be off again, heading towards Charleville, 1,389 miles away. At 200 m.p.h. this stretch would take about 7 hours, so that our machine would land at Charleville at 3.0 p.m. G.M.T,. or 1 a.m. local time (on October 23). After the customary hour's stop, it would be off again at 4 p.m. G.M.T. (2 a.m. local time), and the finishing line on Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne, 787 miles away, would be crossed at 8.0 p.m. G.M.T. on Monday, October 22. Melbourne being 10 hours ahead of London, it would be 6.0 a.m. local time, on Tuesday, October 23. The foregoing can obviously be a very rough guess only, but it should serve to show the approximate times of arrival at the various controls, and the approximate lime of the finish. 6.000 5.000 4,000 sooo 2OOO 1.000 Floret /\South-east / - Malay -f— -Archipelago k Karimata Str. SINGAPORE BORNEO tJa va Sea L Savu fSea I KOEPANG Timop Sea DARWIN FEET r1.0O0-ri-lOO•r- DARWIN CAMOOWEAL. CLONCURRV LONGREACH CHARLEVILLE MELBOURNETHE TWO FINAL STAGES of the speed race ; the Australian contour is not a startling one. AERODYNAMICS AT OLYMPIA The Coachwork Designers Become "Air Minded WHETHER the all-pervading vogue of the "Airline"or "Airflow" coachwork is merely a passing fashionor whether it will persist and develop in the futureremains to be seen, but at the Olympia Motor Show this year streamlining is the predominant motif. Flying has, after all, gripped the popular imagination quitethoroughly during the past year or two, but it is just possible that the car designer may discover that he is chasing a shadow.Air resistance does not matter so very much at speeds below a mile-a-minute, and proper streamlining on present-daychassis is only possible at the expense of comfort and body space. But the vogue may persist, and, if it does, chassisdesign is likely to be fundamentally altered to suit the new conception. « j • ± 1 This year the majority of makers have travelled just so lar along the road—perhaps by way of testing the trend. Wings may be beautifully shaped, coachwork smoothly rounded off and tails brought back to complete the aerodynamic shape, but bonnets and forward fittings so often remain unchanged. There is a world of resistance, both direct and parasitic, in the inevitable arrangement of the front of a car, and the vast majority of designs give one the impression that they would travel backwards much more satisfactorily than forwards. Wind tunnel tests have, as a matter of fact, sometimes proved this to be so. Curiously enough, the more perfect aerodynamic designsare, to unaccustomed eyes, inclined to appear "brutal," but the man in the street is no longer .shocked by the sight of thecars which have pioneered the movement. Certainly we shall see no more sharp corners in bodywork. " Eddyfree " is thecar manufacturer's motto. PI. A. T. " THE TRAINING OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERS " Lecture at the K.Ae.S. TO-DAY, Professor A. J. Sutton Pippard, D.Scv, F.K.Ae.S.,Professor of Civil Engineering at the City and Guilds Engineering College, will lecture before the Royal Aero- nautical Society on "The Training of Aeronautical Engineers." This lecture is the opening one of the session and is one which it is hoped that aircraft manufacturers and educational authorities and others will attend and express their views. The Council of the Society are anxious to obtain such opinions in view of the importance of laying down sound foundations for aeronautical education for the future. The views put for- ward by Professor Pippard are controversial. The lecture will be held in the Lecture Hall of the Royal Society of Arts, 18, John Street, W.C.2, at 6.30 p.m. Non-members may attend on signing the visitors' book.
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