From wing tip to wing.tip the machine measures nearly" 100 The fuel is cartied in this. wine. For the duration attempt, there will be more than 1,000 gale Jons of xasolino stowed away. The total weight of the machine. and fuel is 10 tons, and to carry it the and tyres have had To ensure no failure of the gaso~ line supply, a" wind-driven pump can be pushed through the site of the fuselage if the engine pump fails. "If that also fails, a hand pump can be used. The Altering arrangements for the are duplicated, in order that one site can be eleaned when the other use. "Arrangements have been ade, also, for oil to be jettisoned Nihile the monoplane is. in the airs The pilot's seat la fitted with pneumatic upholstery, wand there 19 2 pneumatic. bed. There axe facilities for obtain rinks and food.
The engine is an ordinary type Napier-Lyon, developing power, but secret alterations have een made with the carburetter system greatly to reduce the aso me consumption. In a bench tes the engine ran perfectly for mor than 70 hours.
The Crew Despite the secrecy. surrounding. the attempts on the records, the Royal Air Force oticers who will man the plane already have been, chosen, They are Squardron-Lead= ex Arthur G, Jones-Williams, 31.0. and Flight-Lieutenant Major. They Pileting and. navigating, The records they have to beat at present are held by Italy and Germany. " Two Tali Arturo n-stop rom Italy. to South America, a distance of niles. 'The longest time over a closed circuit is held by two Germans, Rieztic and Zimmerman, with' 65 hours 25 minutes, ments in the country outlined by. him, were, at the present as "A' dream that may come true," and assured his audience that it was hardly to be expected that a re public established but 17 years could work out in that short period of time all the improvements, and progress essential to an enlighten-motion, andthe audience was dismissed with the feeling that they lad been listening to a beautiful dream which might end in a night mare, or he forgotten when the sleeper awaked, Dr. Yui said that the YMLC.A.
China had been accused of being Red, or at least "Pink" bezaure of the accusation that they dabbled in politics, but the speaker assured his, audience that all the Y.M.G.A. was. doing was in an earnest endeavour lift the Chinese people, who for the most part, are illiterate, to a resition of equality with peoples of ther nation
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