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1935
1935 - 0649.PDF
MARCH 21, 1935- Four More Master Pilots Impmal Airways pilots naturally have a bettei chance than anyone of obtaining the experience necessary to pass the stiff requirements for obtain ing the Master Pilot's certificate, and four more awards have now been made. The latest holders are Captains F. V. W. Foy, W. Armstrong, O. P. lones, and H. H. Perry, bringing the total num ber to nine—all obtained by Imperial pilots. This is a Beacon I Seventy-five feet above the topmost floor of the Paliriolive Building, Chicago, is the Lindbergh beacon, probably the most powerful in the world. A high-intensity arc lamp—in which the carbons must be charged every i| hours !—gives a light of two billion candle-power from a reflector five feet ; in diameter, the whole beacon making some two revolutions a minute. If such a figure in candle- power conveys nothing, then it can be said that \ at a yard the light is 20,000 times brighter than noon sunlight. A second lamp is placed directly below the beacon \ itself and is permanently trained on Chicago's : airport. This light is supplied by incandescent lamps, and the candle-power totals some 11 £ millions. Two light keepers, relieving each other at midnight, serve the beacon, which is in opera tion from dusk to dawn. Incidentally, from a machine flying at a normal operating height it can be seen, in clear weather, at a distance ol 200-250 miles. This beacon is the only one in Chicago which has a reflector diameter greater than three feet—the minimum size for beacons using a white light. The supporting steel and aluminium tower sur mounts a limestone penthouse which covers a great part of the roof of the Palmolive Building. In the centre of the tower, encased in Jin. steel plates, an automatic elevator rises to a point fifteen feet from the top. The beacon was a gift by the late Mr. Elmer A Sperry, a former resident is Chicago, and, of course, famous for his gyroscopic and other in struments and the manufacture of airway Deacons. However, $132,000 was spent by the ralmohve people on its installation, and the annual operating costs are in the region of $15,000 f*nich sum includes an electricity bill of $3,000! 1 he only similar beacon in this country is, or • placed on th«. ,.„«* ~c - . « • •- -• FLIGHT. 319 Commercial Aviation was nl i UMUJ" FairdfT*' EqM^ment for China National iVace £ Sn^ ^ LOCkheed "Electra" are to 01 the Ch na Na«onaTflblanS and the Stinsons « so™ s WionsareLnf ,nA,Vlatl°n CorP°ration routes. D/F. At p^ell?11* at fhanghai and <***» Hankow and Ch,,,,„C- c°Perates services between Shanghai. ^"gtu, Shanghai^(tS*" ^ 5*** Chungking and **^. 8riJ „i Canton. According to Shell Amotion "Wfrra carried. "** fl°Wn last year and 4-57o pas- La,twek Prct>ari*g the Pacific > be used nT PTA ^ nameS of the various island bases fA1ameda airnoVt ;„ c' °" lts experimental Pacific service. £aval station will LJrancisco Bay, and San Diego, the fen c °ast u ;' v as temPorary bases on the Ameri- "ents necessarv ™prolf We that certain harbour improve- iT Penary tohiS8 A?Sfes ,can ** completed in time for H^ ^ Alameda development programme has been Meanwhile tre • • ITfwd mile,' JZ S^orsky S.42 has completed some five P first long-range mXl"8 °Perations °" the AtJantic route. t '"' a total dkt. S WaS from Miami to Puerto Rico and E?Um was made in «°t 2'4°° miles- The non-stop flight *Th Omenta,. 2l .min- D*ta has been collected .uJ^1* lubrica«n„DeW,dn£t sight' a system of au SS^n figures h"l°"' and new Stents and sextants re initial or" „e been taken at BY NIGHT : The Lindbergh Beacon photographed from the top of the Chicago Civil Opera House, more than two miles away. the machine will be taken to its full range limit—3,000 miles, or even more. The naval authorities in Japan are now objecting to the Pacific bases on the very reasonable grounds that these could be converted at short notice into naval stations. Monospars for Australia lot-.-. J e1uipment »« ., ', r. ~—-•* **~* »»»»«• mun.icu retail tnai^K. ,ent ^ a new drift sight, a syste of automatic °n, and new octant —> Dm„™ i been n at var *ond •S'ftf°PMwie has now been completed, and the series of fl-T. nas now e °t flights should, by Con- various throttle settings. now, have started, in which For some months it has been known that General Aircraft, Ltd., have a large commercial type on the stocks for Oceanic Airways, of Australia. Last Friday, while opening the informal little ceremony concerned with the christening of two Monospar S.T.12S (two "Gipsy Major" engines) bound for the same Australian company, Sir Maurice Bonham-Carter hinted that these new machines would have a cruising speed in the neigh bourhood of 200 m.p.h The ceremony was performed by Mrs. S. M. Bruce, the wife of the Australian High Commissioner, and the first twc machines destined for Australia were successfully named Cap tain Cook and Captain Phillip. Of course, one of the massed photographers forgot to press something at the psychological moment and Mrs. Bruce was prevailed upon to beat once again an already well-beaten bottle of Australian wine. These Mono- spars, the first of a large series, are to be used to feed the Melbourne-Brisbane service. The affair was an important one inasmuch as it virtually marked the signing of a most important contract for civil aeroplanes. The Australian company chose the S.T.iz for feeder work, after examining a number of types both here and abroad, because of its exceptional take-off and its good per formance with one or both engines. After the ceremony Fit Lt Schofield showed the assembly something of the "fighter" performance possessed by this type in a lightly-loaded condition.
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