The first Danish aircraft, a Dantorp Atted with an 800 hip, Siddeley Leopard engine, to visit the Faroe Islands from Copenhagen was manned by Commander Captain Grandjean, Chief; Lieutenant Muenter, pilot; and Wireless Mechanic Grove Rasmussen.
The aircraft started from the Naval Air Service Station at 330 am, and landed at Thisted in Jutland to fon a full load of petrol. Taking off at 8.00 am. the Dantorp encountered strong head winds, the speed being 'Snly 110 kin. until the Shetlands were passed at 18.00 hrs, At 15.03 hrs. the Dantorp landed at 'Tveraa in Trangisvaag from which place Commander Captain Grandjean' wired home "alt same sight on Blackpool sands as passing through—bandit-infested miles. Despite the low power of each you can in gay Paree."
Chins Their geography is a little motor, this machine can operate with hazy but always practical, They full load on either engine. This being The Prodigal Son probably start-know every susceptible newspaper most necessary feature to an opera office in "the—world for in a country where aerodromes fed the fashion by going off on his arriving they always make for it or landing grounds are few and far own, accompanied by the tears of his parents and an attitude of "I-still believing that, although three between,
told-you-so" when he came back. hundred of their ilk, swimming, Standard Hawk Machines skating, standing on their heads, Lief Erieson and Christopher Columbus also had apart in it hop, skip and jumping, have al-'The Miles Hawk Major, piloted by. Flight Lieutenant Tommy Rose, was ready made the editorial while as far as China is concerned department weary and cynical, their's is—and this article concerns it—the with names frequently cropping up feat unparalleled and is worthy stamp of approval was given by {in telegrams. The youth who had of the Marco Polo who found his native lest circulation so they travelled in the Arabian Gulf in Venice so restricted to his imagina-can sell their picture postcard as slave dhow and made his living tion that he set out on his famous [shooting tigers in India was not trip which unfolded to him' the }so convincing, but they all passed Cynicism reached its height—or magic and colour of Cathay and Jatong the great highway which depth—when three parties arrived adjoining countries and landed eventually leads back to Berlin, during one working morning. Two him back at his own fireside in Bombay, Bolton and Budapest, as Venice fourteen years later with a were a couple pushing a peram-Picturesque and motley a stream bulator round the world, storing story which the world simply of humanity as ever lived in a their meagre luggage in the per-clined to believe. But all these strangely unreal world of experi ambulator. Raised—_eyebrows people discovered something Jences which never happened and /greeted its appearance and the pros-cause aeroplanes bad" not then adventures born of imagination and flown over both the poles, and pect of pushing the perambulator an abundant trust in the generothrough the burning sands of the School children were not as familar sity and kindly and not too inwith the geography of the Ros: Sahara, the unruly Arabian wastes, quisitive tolerance of human Barrier or the Gran Chaco as they the jungles of India and dizzy nature. heights and precipices of the un-fare to-day. The Prodigal Son sealed Himalayas. It looked batter-discovered the profound truth of Of all the international tramps Jed enough, hardly decent enough 4 sentiment immortalized in song: who came to Shanghai, Pansy was that be it ever so humble there's for the serap-heap and certainly an|outstanding.
She was. vulgar, no place like home. Evieson and Jobject of scorn by any self-respect- hard-boiled, frank and fat, and Columbus succeeded in disposing ing baby, but the baby did not con-lat least forty. She believed in of the comfortable belief of the stitute a part of the expedition. the broadening influence of travel, ancients that the earth was flat 'The couple looked hardy and sun-So much so, that she must have burnt: the tale was a little far-and-if you travelled far enough weighed sixteen stones and encased fetched but, still, the idea was' you just tumbled off and disap herself in a queer khaki uniform original. It passed. Hardly had eared into an unknown—region consisting of a long coat and wide the perambulator left the building peopled by fierce spirits and mons-flapping knickers something like ters. They did not exactly do that, when two Hungarian students, balloon-like golf knickers. Her although Chicago was incidentally walking round the world for a bet equipment consisted of a battered and expecting to be back in Hun-connected with their trips, but they suitcase and a haversack and what-did discover the New World, an gary in two years, appeared offer~ jover means she used to obtain act of which subsequent history ing their book "of autographs, money, such as invading clubs and rubber stamps and newspaper cut-must be the judge. As for Marco foreing her way into the most Polo, he was probably the first tings collected en route. (They all private and reserved sanctums of have these books.) This was one man to discover that tourist litera-taipans, in her way she was honest. of the earliest appearances of ture, if sufficiently attractive and She told her story without any Hungarians among the internation-brightly written, is a disturbing trimmings. "Sure, Tam - going factor to people with roving ambi al army of world tramps visiting round the world. I walk mostly Shanghai and had a slight claim tions although it might take but when I can get a lift I get it. tremendous amount of "sales-tali thereby. It passed with a deep You don't think you can walk sigh. The climax was reached be-to overcome the initial scepticism. across an ocean, do you? I don't fore noon when three German Incidentally, Marco Polo is still worry about selling postal cards. I students, walking round the world in believed to' have been the first jam just bumming' my way around the interests of education, arrived man to introduce Chinese spaghetti fand I ain't ashamed of it. I never and macaroni into Italy, once again also with a book. If there is any saw a rajah or an Arabian prince. crediting China with the dis problem of education in Germany The only tiger I ever saw was in due to the lack of school facilities tinction of discovering something the Bronx Zoo, and, take it from it must have been settled by then, Centuries before anybody else, me, anybody in this game who somebody murmured after tabulate tells you he saw them running wild ing the number of students is just cuckoo.'
The travellers are in a category ready received that year.
Buxom Pansy had no airs but by themselves, having done some-we are not interested!" was frightfully jealous of her thing, The mystery traveller of not interested, and we have travell- laurels. to-day is not the tourist, who ex-jed all the way from Europe and "Heh, mister, has there been a pects to see exactly what the guide Asia on our way round the world couple round here pushing a baby book pictures for him, but the—walking?"—They looked genuine-Jearriage?" she inquired. strange class of wanderers, inly surprised, but Job never worked 'Well, the dirty crooks. I met ternational tramps, who embark newspaper office and they had|'em in' Saigon where they said on world trips' on nothing not started this stunt in his days. they'd leave Shangh: alone after and go from port to port begging, I stopped over at Hongkong and borrowing or collecting on the} The Russian who was singing meretricious value of their per-his way round the world was pic-Janybody pushing a baby carriage formances but largely relying on turesque enough and quite pas-again, just a game. Not like the fact that human nature is unsable. He was not aggressive in me, an honest girl just walking changed anywhere in the world. his methods. The couple who had round the world. And I can warn They travel with the claim that Jo motor truck and trailer and you there's a couple of cyclists in they are going "round the world could produce photographs this neighbourhood and three on eighteen pence" or are a mar. themselves standing of the entrance on a canoe tri ried couple pushing a baby carrie to the Khyber Pass and also in up and they're doing what I'm age for a wager, or Boy Scouts Kabul during a recent war were jdoing—hiking. Don't let em kid acquiring experience, or German convincing although, months later, you. I'm an honest girl, T am, and students broadening their world it was reported that the man was I know what I'm talking about. knowledge. Most of them claim Jarrested when he arrived in San /Say, could you let me have a clippthey are walking round the world, Francisco and his name was coning of that article. I want it for scorning any other assistance but nected with a murder on a yacht my autograph book. Thanks." their own legs. Indian students which he subsequently chartered And this great world keeps on generally are cycling round the for a South Sea cruise. Theirs was: turning with the—international world, Russians generally traverse an adventure, a real adventure, tramps still on the road.
In our columns elsewhere appears the news. that the London Police were trying out a new type of autogyro to see what uses could be made of this type of machine for traffic control. The use of aircraft for police work is rapidly spreading and the authorities are investigating the possibilities of using aeroplanes in numerous branches of crime detection. The following story shows the great assistance which can be given to the police by aircraft:
On the afternoon of June 27 one of the students of Air Service Training, "Ltd, at Hamble, saw the AST. /Speed Boat leaving its moorings. Next morning it was found that the boat had disappeared. Police and Customs. were informed and four or five AS.T. aircraft few over the creeks and hours of the Isle of Wight and Beau-Meu River trying to discover the whereabouts of the boat. Two days! later the purser of the Nevasa, troopship lying off the AST. slipway, told the Commandant that two of his men had seen the speed boat leave iis moorings and start towards Solent. "It then turned round and proceeded at full speed towards: Southampton. It, therefore, appeared that the beat was somewhere al Southampton Water and not he Solent.
Next morning the proprietor of a hotel at Totton reported that he ha right", Two of the greatest objections to the installation of parachutes for passengers in aircraft have been their bulk and obtrusiveness and the di culty of getting into the usual hi ness—particularly for women. Thi Chair Pat in which the parachute forms the back cushion and the harness is cleverly concealed in the upholstery. In an emergency the passenger attaches himself to. the Parachute with three simple motions,—first snapping together a strap that resembles the ordinary seat belt across the lap, second, pulling it tight by a single motion on the free end of the webbing, and, third, slipping the arms through shoulder loops and snapping the harness across the chest. He is then ready to stand up and jump, using the rip cord in the usual manner. The whole operation can be done in, a very few seconds. The ha as the passenger ris from the seat, The weight of the equipment, complete with harness and pad, is 16% Ib.
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