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London Express Service
It began, almost unnoticed, ten years ago today
THE JET AGE
To celebrate a birthday the historians let slip by, Hugh Dundas flies to South Africa on a flying-interview with jet-inventor Sir Frank Whittle. This is what...
WHITTLE SAYS
"I BELIEVE the jet engine will become completely dominant in the aircral world. Progress in the last ten years has been due to improvements in materials and increased skill in detailed design. I expect further advances here--paralleled by substantial improvements in aircraft design to reduce resistance. That would add to speed.
• "MY IMMEDIATE INTEREST is in seeing the achievement of my qriginal target of the 1930's-a 500 miles per hour Transatlantic cir airliner. There is good hope that the Comet jet airliner, which the 0.0.A.C, in putting into service soon, will do that.
• "AND THEN? Well, I am thinking of a later version of the Comet which will be suitable for the North Atlantic route in, say.”
three years time.""
A few names on a wine list-then mastery
1. The Day
LITTLE group of men standing by the runway of Cranwell airfield, in Lincoln- shire, were the only wit- nesses of the birth of the Jet Age.
No detailed record of that supreme moment has ever been published. The authori- ties, apparently unaware that history was being made on May 15, 1941, failed to summon the usual photo- graphers and historians.
RANWELL. May 15, 1941: Jerry Sayer, George Carter, Frant
Whittle autograph a wine list (Cherry Brandy-one shilling)
веріст
CA GARY NHANDY," HEEKIN 15
By HUGH DUNDAS
the runway, After 000 yards it flew.
The startled watchers saw that This is the moment they Sayer quickly retracted his land- missed. Contre-piece of the ing gear, an unusual procedure in drama was Britain's first the first flight of any prototype airworthy jet engine, invent- 11 was a magnificent gesture of ed and perfected, after years confidence.
of single-minded endeavour,
by Frank Whittle, then an R.A.F. wing-commander.
Solemnity
FOR a little more than ten
minutes he flew around,
In this first decade of the Jet Age it has been Britain, Britain all the way along the road of jet development,
The secrets of Whittle's engine went straight to the U.S.A. But despite American efforts and
resources, the biggest jet aero engine in the world today is
ours the Bristol Olympus, now well advanced in its tests,
There is a dark side to the Built round the engine
story. Although our designers Was 1 small green and disappearing briefly between the have constantly developed and brown monoplane. It was dark cloud banks. Then, as the Expanded the first fruits of called the Gloster-Whittle sun fell from sight, he brought whittle's genius, the R.A.F. is E.28/39, and its designer, the monoplane down on to the no longer first, but third, among Mr George. Carter, stood runway in a series of "S" turns, the Jet Age air forces. there with Whittle on the as though he had been lying it
all his life. runway,
What happened then? Hilarity? Cloud-watch. Celebration? No. There was
pervading sense of solemnity. PLANE and engine had The men who had worked and arrived at Cranwell five hoped and prayed so long for days earlier by road, with that moment retired into them- a dozen technicians, from selves, overcome by the signifi- the Gloster Aircraft Com- nce of the fight, incredulous
of its complete success. pany and an équal number from the engine works at Lutterworth.
}
May 15 dawned wet stormy. All
and morning and all
afternoon there was nothing to
They gathered together in the mess for a drink all round, then went early to bed.
Souvenir
It happened because
it was
No other country in the world hos anything to compare with our Comels or with some of our turbo-prop airliners,
WHAT'S GOING ON
A new and lovely Princess of Kent is growing up
By EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE
LONDON.
LMOST without us knowing it, PRINCESS ALEXANDRA OF KENT has grown into a beautiful, young lady.
Born on the misty Christmas morn- ing of 1836, she will be 15 this year.
Tall and brown-haired, sho has all the good looks of her mother the DUCHESS OF KENT, all the good taste and charm of her father the late Duke. In a year or two she may be rivalling PRINCESS MARGARET in the niten- tion of the public.
*
*
No. 1, Carlton Gardens is the property of the Commis- sioners of Crown Lands. Its future will be decided soon by the Ministry of Works, to whom it is lensed.
Mrs Bevin is moving to a flat near Regent's Park.
PRINCESS ALEXANDKA
Mother's good looka,
of
Chieftain of the Gathering the Clans at Murrayfield" this summer.
VAS hereditary Lord High Constable of Scotland, she ranks next to the Royal Family in Scottish order of precedence.
Her nomination Was un-
opposed.
Most clan chiefs have accept- She and her husband lived ed, invitations to attend. But in the top two floors at three who condemned the now- Carlton Gardens. The rest down Princes Street as hea- cancelled march of the clans of the building-it has been trical nonsense" maintain their the home of MR GLAD- opposition to the gathering. · STONE and LORD NORTHCLIFFE was for conferences and receptions.
43 servants
They are THE CAMERON OF LOCHIEL, LORD LOVAT (chief of the Clan Fraser), and the MARQUESS OF BUTE (Stuarts).
LORD LOVAT told me: " am contemptuous of the whole affair. Frasers will come to the Fraser country to meet their chief."
Best-seller
IFE "below stairs" in palmy 14 Edwardian days is the sub- ject of a new book "Before the Sunset Fades" by Longleat's best selling chatelaine THE MARCHIONESS OF BATII,
Drawings orc bo' CECIL BEATON.
THE Royal Family is a best- At the turn of
the century, seller everywhere, Back in the indoor staff at Longleat London numbered 43. Et ranged down round-the-world tour is pub- the domestic hlerarchy from the fisher HUBERT PITKIN, House Stoward and the Butler to two Odimen, wo Pantry boys, and six Laundry-matris.
Now, writes Lady Bath, "the empty kitchens are almost as sad as the silent nurseries which have missed the care and atten- tion of a whole generation of
children."
LITERARY fume comes easily to Daphne Bath. Her hand- book on Longleat, she tells me, has sold 50,000 copies. What shall We rce after Her guide to the another ten years? Expect no Caves, which are part of the advance in engine Bath estates, is selling each spectacular power, Planes have yet to be edition as fast as it is printed.
bulkt
which can absorb the phenomenal thrust · of engines
already in existence.
Can Britain keep, the lead which Whittle gave us? I believe
from
จ
six weeks
whose glossy picture-books on the Royal Family have sold three million copies.
HOW does he explain the un- flagging demand?
He believes the Royal Family is popular because it is happily united within itself.. It holds the Commonwealth together.
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From Africa's Gold Coast an Cheddar 18-year-old
prince offered cocomus
for a picture PRINCESS ANNE,
Of
His letter was sent to Clarence House,
For the King
Expect, rather, a refinement DR FRITHIOF TVEDE - GAARD, of... Copenhagen's of present designs, more power Military Hospital, "regards it as for size and weight, greater range his duty" to suggest that KING for less fuel.
GEORGE VL should try his treatment for Buerger's disease from which the King suffers.
Full details have boon for warded to the Danish Ambas The warplanes, alone,
are sador in London, COUNT RE- missing. But orders have at last VENTLOW, who has been ask... been placed. A swept-winged to inform those concerned."" fighter called the Swift is being DR TVEDEGAARD'S made by the firm which gave us ment, which has been success the Spitfire.
ful in Denmark, is said to in
$0.
treat-
A four-jet bomber is nearly clude the injection of hor
mones, which Improve blood circulation of the fers.
ready for light.
R.A.F. can once again have the With proper direction the best planes in the world.
That must be our target in the
second decade of the Jet Age.
-(Lohton Express Service)
Woman lead's
the
THE 25-year-old COUNTESS OF ERROLL, chief of the Clan Hay, has been choen as
FALA IS STILL
Whose idea?
I started the idea of the Festival of Britain? Some believe that it finds its origin in
open the
letter from ME GERALD BARRY to SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS in the News Chronicle on September 14, 1945.
I and an earlier source of law spiration-nine months earlier. CLAUDE W. BELL wrote in In December 1944 Industrialist Courier magazine: "It is time that Britain told something of her greatness."
Under the heading "Let's Tell the World" he suggested "a series of exhibitions in principal to caveat Britain's way of le, her culture, her greatness (London Express Servies.)
AS PERKY
(BY UNITED PRESS CORRESPONDENT).
HYDE PARK, NY. Kellog of Westport, Conn. She and his brains sent to Albany soon found that to overcome the "sound barrier" a plane must COME people wonder offered him to her friend, Miss for a rabies test.
Suckley, who in turn suggested what has happened to that he would make an ideal
have swept-bank wings and tail. SON
new-looking ceta of such the most famous dog of the dog for the President,
planes could any Twentieth Century, Fala.
nation hope for air superiority.
Guilty men... MERICA and Russia tackled the problem with gusto. Sabre and MIG15 Bghters are the results of their efforts.
Fala was on trial at the White months that
Fala hit the front pages again the following sun, when Mrs Roosevelt Look him to Marine with her. A Portland hotel told her she He is years old now and House for a few
could not continues to lead a retired "dog's year and was officially "adopted" have the dog in her room, so life' at Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt's on November 10. From then until she cancelled her reservation expansive Val-Kill cottage here. his master's death, his fame rose and, with Fula, spent the night
to international heights.
In a nearby tourist cabin. The nation's "Arst canine" U- appeared from the
public eye
Re-
sex?
During his "term" at the White The curly-haired black dog's six years ago after the death of House, Fala scampered around fame is assured for posterity his famous master, President the grounds during the day and The Roosevelt memorial Ebrary Britain, too, met the challenge Franklin D. Roosevelt. Since slept on a rug in the President's here has his.complete story and built prototypes
which then, he has romped about freely bedroom at night. He frequently, plus thousands of letters proved our potential ascendancy, at home, and occasionally has ac- accompanied FDR on train, car cards addressed to Fals. de but watch the skies and wait, ONE of the central figures did But we went on producing the companied his mistress to the president is and was with the Roosevelt historic site for various President when he met Winston not live to see the fullment old straight wing airframes as momorial services. About an hour before dusit, inil
The colection inclusies lưð. Churchill for the Atlantic ters suggesting that Fala "visit" angular Jerry Sayer, the test of his work. For Jerry Bayer, before.
Charter talks.. His best playmate these days
numerous female dogs through- pilot, gave the word for flight, a great pilot and a well-loved
Do not blame the designers is one of his grandsons. Tamas Perhaps his most famous trip out the country, and tavo out- The douds had broken up man, was killed in October 1942, and manufacturers. Blame the MeFalla. When nobody's home, was when he went with his right requests, addressed direct
who waited too he frequently is the quest of master to the Autlaus
ty to Fala, to mate with appar- into huge masses of towering lying a platon-engined Typhoon guilty, men cumulus when the E.28/39 taxied fighter. Sayer's signature hends long before giving-the-witch Miss Margaret 1. Suckley, of publicans charged that the dog ently willing female scottles.
nearby Rhinebeck, distant cousin bad, been left behind and that. Also ineluded in the Fala of the late Preaktent andt lhe one out. As Sayer lined up on the the only souvenir of that great order,
a destroyer returned for him at exhibit is the No. 1 got licence runway, facing west, the sun's, meeting in the mess-a signed
That is the debit side to who introduced Fain to his the expense of thousands of tog lasued to him by the com- rays knifed through wine list, with British signatures Britain's jet ledger. evening
On the roaster.
dollars to taxpayers,
missioners of the District of Commribin. directly into the eye of the plane, scrawled across French liqueurs, credit side is initiativo, in the
Since Roosevelt's death, development of commercini “jet
The files show The famous Scottle is still coal Fala's publicity has dropped off originally was named Big Boy. producing a majestic effect of
that Fala flying A fleet of four-jet Comets black, and as perky and appeal- considerably.
Thio President cosbristoned him free of noise and vibration ... is being rushed ahead in the Dong, es he was in the early 40s In November of 1048, he "after a romote direct ances
was a household tangled with Daze factory at Hatfield,
Ellott tor" named Murrayer, out- Gently the throttle opened; PRITAIN today has fet engines Havilland
word
Roosevelt's migo bulk mastiff law of Fala HMF FM KI the turbine screamed and lugged. Din production which give ten, I took a trip to Copenhagen - Fala was born April 7. 1940, a Although · Fulo fared -- badly, was the ancestrat home in against ~ ' the: brakes; the little times the power of that original, in one. - The 008-mile flight took son of Peler and Wandy. He Blaze pali, nulih his lifa for Scotlandt of the Proakienie sn= plane rolled, ran, dashed down model flown ten years ago. exactly 78 minutes.
was owned by Mes Augustus . the shooter. Ho was killed oastor.
ught and shade, sunshine and 2. The Future
overcast.
when his name