AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1931, Page 5

AVIATION

searchlight MARVED. A BRITISH CONTRIVANCE. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, December 3. The world's most powerful searchlight is that which , has just been tested successfully by the War Office. It is a search light, equipped with three hundred' (small mirrors, 'throwing a three thousand candle power beam oil the form of a pattern, sixteen thousand feet skyward, thus- enabling the position of raiding aeroplanes to be plotted in the air, in the same manner as artillery targets are plotted on

map squares. It is claimed that, as,* the speed, ■height and direction ol an aeroplane can be calculated within one inmutJ ■ of tiie time that it is located by the beam, the new searchlight constitutes a valuable means of aerial defence. Th’e beam’s power can be gathered from the fact that at a of fi' e miles, a newspaper can be read in its light. . , . . > SOUTHERN STAR’S PROGRESS. /' ' ' ’’ f *''*■ ' . ■. BATAVIA, December 4. f " After a short stop at Batavia to-day, the Southern ' 'Star restarted at 11.15 ft.m., hoping to arrive at Singapore late in the afternoon, j Klagsford Smith' said the new landing field "at Grobftlc, where' he landed yesterday, is so splendid that on the return trip he is again 'landing at ©ali,

PLANE AT SINGAPORE.

(Received this day at 9.25 a.mi SINGAPORE, December 3 The-Southern Star has arrived.