Word: havilland
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...last week over Melbourne, at the end of his flight in a seaplane from England. The ovation far outdid the holiday mood indulged in last fortnight by Port Darwin, Cobham's first point of contact with the kangaroo continent (TIME, Aug. 16). The motors of his big De Havilland ship were examined, found in flawless condition after a month and a half of droning through all temperatures, humidities and aridities, from the English Channel, over the Dolomites, Syria and Arabia, the Indian Ocean, New South Wales-13,000 miles. Cobham planned to relax for a day or two, then...
...then an ephemeral insect frame, then a droning, then a roaring seaplane that circled Darwin Heads and harbor, over the blasting sirens of steamers and warships, then a tired great gull floating on Fannie Bay off the naval aviation grounds. Mechanics swarmed to lift the craft (a big De Havilland biplane) ashore and fit her with wheels; she was to fly on, over desert and bush, to Sydney and Melbourne. And Pilot Alan Cobham, his hand wrung red with congratulations, regaled officials with the story of his 10,000-mile flight from England in 36 days. Crossing Arabia...
...easy to build a machine which will rise vertically. With skilled design, one horsepower can be made to lift 100 pounds; 35 horsepower will lift a weight for which an airplane like the De Havilland requires a 400 horsepower Liberty. Nor is a high degree of forward speed really hard to achieve. It is in coming down with engines stopped that the main difficulty lies. The airscrew must then act as a giant parachute. When one man sails down gently in a parachute its supporting area must be over 100 square feet. It is enormously difficult to provide a supporting...
Accompanied by the large De Havilland airplanes, the flivver maneuvered beautifully, to the surprised admiration of many experts. But per-haps the most extraordinary feature of the monoplane is its ability to get away from the ground at not more than 15 miles an hour, and to land in any small field after a very short run of perhaps 50 feet...