AMERICA'S CHOICE

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 45, 22 February 1929, Page 7

AMERICA'S CHOICE

BRITISH AIRCRAFT

Flying-boat Designs For New Services. COMMERCIAL UNDERTAKING. ; British Official Wireless.) T!I"<;RY. February 21. Klyinc-boai- of I*.ril: ~h dc-icn will 110 n-ed nil tin- new «•«•i:uiii-r«-i:tl air >'Tvi«*o< to be e>i«bli.-hod between liif Atlantic .-onboard of the I'lutc.' States and the l'aeiric «-■ .;i-t <.f S-•ui -i A!i!or;<-a. Inllueiit:::1 American linan'•ior- are j»i*«>iu>>tiuir the -clienie. Tlic technical representatives of i!i----capitali-t-. after a fi\ «■ month-" tm.i <lt \ oted tn tlx- <-\a in ilia t i< hi iif 11n- ll -v in •_ linat. t\pe- in many c.mimic-. li.ni-••liti-rcil into an apieemoiit ith tli«r.'ai kt.iirn Ari'i>pla i:e (. i.m]iaiiv. Lee, N.

Thi* is line of the pioneer firm- *n British aviation. ami i> |*aiticiila ]v Poted fin- it> all-metal of larjc fl\injr*l"iiit«. An American coin pa i v will lie f<irmed. T<» be known a- tiie H.ackburn Alrcrait ( iirjHirat ion. It will have tile rflit under tile aj*i eeiiient t > Jim* the Hriti-h HTacUiu :i dc-i;:n.- f..i tl\ini:-boat- and liuht aeroplanes and seaplane*.

It wa- in a TUackburn-Iri- flying-boat that tile Secretarv of state for Air. S : - SaniU'.-I iliijnc, la-t \mr made a crui--.- < f tin* Haiti,-. rile J'a rlia tin-lit ary Secret a v lor Air. sir Philip ISas>oon. al-o tleW to liul;a ill oil,-.

DETAILS OF AIRSHIPS

Built Too Strong Rather Than Too Weak. NEW TYPE OF ENGINE. (British Official Wireless.) i Hci-ivnl 1U noon.) Kl<iß\. February 21. Details of the new air-hips KIOO and Rltrl. now Hearing completion. were given in a lecture la~t night liv Ciroupl aptain Fellows. Kach will be 730 feet long and of JS.OWi.OOO cubic feet capacity, with a «peed of *>2 knots and a crui-iiij speed ot o"> knots over a range of 40'NI miles. He stated on the highest authoritv that the\ were ni:icli -trouper than anv other -hip which had hitherto taken to the air. 'I hey had been delil»eratelv built too stron- rather than too weak. The heavy oil engines. the first of their type ever produce,!, were ill-tail.-< 1 to give additional safety even at the expense of efficiency. The RlOl would have ti\e <i<HJ horse-j»ower engines.

THE "BULLDOG" BREED

Most Formidable Fighter For London's Defence. BRISTOL PLANE ADOFTED. (Australian and X.Z. Press Association ) LUNDU.V. February 21. For the purpose . t defending Lond -n at. night the Royal At Force authorities have adopted the Bristol "Build,.?/" 1 his is reputed to I><- the worlds nios' lonnidaMe lighting "plane. 1 he machine is capable of attaining? an altitude ot 20.(ittl feet in twelve minutes and of maintaining a sj.ced of 172 milean hour at that lu-ight. The pilot- ~f machines of this tvpe wear electrically.heated clothing j»nd oxygen ma-k-.

BERT HINKLER.

AVRO'S TO BRISTOLS. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association l tKeceiv*ml 1n.."0 a.m.) LCMXiN", February 21. Bert H inkier )i;is severed connection With the A\ ro Company ,\t i) has accepted tlio posit i«mi of chief tent pilot for the Bristol Company.

NIGHT LANDINGS.

WEIRD ELECTRIC SENTINEL. ft nite<l Service. > NKW \01!K. Fehruarv 21. Alt air pilot in search of « landing wheeled about high in the darknr-s over the port of Newark. The new municipal landing field was shrouded in the daiknes.s below him. The pilot turned the handle of a sir.-n fixed oil the cockpit alongside him. The note of the siren rose to a shrill shiiek. which was audililc <>u the ground in -pile of the noj>e of the motor. I lien, although the switches were not actuated by any human touch, tin- gicat floodlights of the Newark air poi t w.re fla-hed on. showing wide runwax- and the limits of the field and making landin? from the air at night f.-a-iblc. The howl of the siren was the older for thf> lights which wa< olieyed iu.med la te! v i>v the televox electric setitix watchman The siren"- note \\a< aruplif <-d tnioiigh a delicate apparatu- to the pint uc-de.l to turn on the light-.