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"Just think, Mummy, when Spike and I are mair.ed, you'll be able to come and visit us in New York two or three times a week,"
London Express Service
THE "DELTA YEAR"
BRITISH
London, Sept. 3.
T has taken the Hawker Siddeley Group, world's
biggest aircraft com- bine, two years to convince Britain's air chiefs that Delta-wing planes are the natural vehicle for the mammoth power of jet pro- pulsion. But convinced them. they have, for, in less than a month, two Deltas have been added to the line-up of super-priority British mili- tary acroplanes.
Those two years were tough enough for Hawker Siddeley. But the faith. they put into the Delta, or flying triangle, goes back at least five-years, when they first set out to prove it was the "aircraft of the future.
er.
By
OF
AVIATION
Brett
Oliver
}
DON IDDON GOES BACK TO
The
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
New York, Tucaday. prettier, the
men nattier,
FRIEND in the the dollars greener, the British Embassy called Communists redder.. me by telephone from Washington about an hour
New York, the super-,
-
after I had returned to New colossal, the mammoth, and York. "Welcome back," ho
the ultra spectacular, I said. "You're just in time salute you.
for the slanging_match, I made the journey back from und I don't mean the elec- Hamilton in the British ship tion. There's going to be Queen of Bermuda. This is the quito A wrangle about first voyage I have made since tariffs-you wait and see." 1 the Blue Riband crossing of the American liner United States. said I would:
Same comparisons are in order. I thought the food and service On 57th Street I bumped in the Queen superior to those into an American editor I In the American flagship.
know. He seemed more breathless than the British official: "Things aro cer-
tainly blowing up here. It's
'Brush it yourself'
the United States' a knock-down and drag-out ONCE on
maiden voyage I rang for a fight between Eisenhower teward, and when a bell-boy and Stevenson. Hold your appeared I said: "Is the cabin hat-it's going to be a real steward around? I'd like to get ride on the merry-go-round." my dinner jacket brushed." I said I would hold my hat. The bell-boy, very attentive and polite, said: "The steward's In Toate Shors, the off duty. Why don't you brus restaurant, I joined a group your jacket yourself?"
of newspapermen and actors.
I thought the point was well They were erupting feverish- taken, and said nothing more. ly: "Ike's been double- crossed by the Old Guard. There's no unity in the Re- the old superlative British ger-
vice has been maintained. publican Party. Stevenson's
Aboard the Queen of Bermuda
too remote and sarcastic for The wallers are quick and many Democrats. Truman's ficient, taking pride in their job. The stewards are always hopping mad with him. on call. Anything can happen. Don't say we didn't warn you."
Bermuda baim
of
The Queen of Bermuda in D handsome ship, getting old now, with a gallant war record behind ber, though to sall. In her you would think she was made just for pleasure.
the months lick by and the AFTER a few hours
Her swimming-pool is vastas factorles continue building
hearing admonitions, re- blg as those in the Queen, Mary obsolete machine. To create an velations, confidences, dire and the Queen Elizabeth air force which would measure forecasts, .and chilling bigger than the United States' up to that of any foe, Britain
and
must select and rush into pro- prophecies, I went home pool. Her lounges are spacious and elegant, and she tooles and duction the best aircraft avail-with a good book. I thought, behaves like a ship, not a magni- able, without holding off till "Oh, for the urbane United ficent, modern Park Avenue something better comes along.
apartment house.
Russin has built a dormidable Kingdom,
force by doing just that.
Britain,
New York and Now
Not streamlined Yorkers seem to be run- ....
ning more rapidly in bigger
circles than ever before. CHE is not fast or streamlined though lacking the
like the United States, and productive capacity of a counts going to take me some sometimes she creaks and groans ry like Russia, can follow the time to get used to the weaṛlly, but I am very fond of same principle and looks os.If roller-coaster." she will do so now, according
her.
to Supply Minister, Mr Duncan
One thing, however, is. needed During the past day or Sandys.
Commenting on the order for the Iron Curtain must be in the cabins, I booked my two I have been told that board our ships on tropical runs, and that is air-conditioning
the Delta bomber, he said: "The
Government recognised that to rung up, the Communist cabin very late and was allotted order an aircraft of unconven- carpet rolled back, the the hottest of hot-boxes on E tional design before even the United Europe formed deck. prototype had flown, necem preferably before Election
rieks.
consider,
types, put consequent low wing-loading, and Avro 698 bomber will not weight of re-equipped creased, taxes
one a twin-engined sich facilitates servicing. And two obsolescent.
These latter were the Gloster GA, ROW known as the Javelin, and the Avro 699. And both have been ordered for the RAF.
That is why Hawker Sid- deley are calling this, 1052, the "Delia Year" of British Avia tion. I don't think anyone can contradict them.
the
the
oled.
-
Less than one percent of the
in the could have been advanced seven will prove to be justicecision cousins, but. I have assured and hunting in pairs and trios.
#roup's
As it is,
Javelin production
months had the British Air Staff decided to order the type
flew or before it orders for
with Hunter,
date
intensive co-
them of our The Government hos to
super-priority production operation.
seven types the
There must be something Swift and Javelin
008
I was struck by the number of Scottish costumes worn by the passengers. The same thing hit one in the eye in Bermuda... The
was apparent
It
Was
that
a
They designed and built two have a large wing area and This means that the Javelin however, that these were out- Day and certainly before passengers aboard was British experimental
by the overwhelming | Christmas-armaments In the Americans monopolised the ship by sheer force of numbers them through the most and are extremely easy to con- be in the RAF's hands in
any RAF
cut, wages and dollars. for well over tavo RAF with the most
up-to-date exhaustive trials, then be- tro at all speeds. They don't numbers
have to be equipped with com years. By then, British designers machines as quickly as possible raised, and inflation lower-
Women and girls outnumbered gan work on two
more plicated high lift devices like will almost certainly have built and of concentrating our re-
males by at least ten to one. Deltas,
and flops, elimination of new versions which leave these sources on production of the
A newest types. I am confident
Most of the females were school- tall order from our all-weather fighter, the
that
teachers, typists, secretaries, оп both military and tall
taking American shop-girls on the prowl for men other a four-engined bomb- the group claims they will ac-
commadate all
economic grounds the increases In engine power expected foreseeable future.
"Since the first light of the Avro 7073 in September 1950, as soon as the Delta shape has proved it- few, as they have done self again and again," said Sir- months were lost while Govern and Avro
the Avro 608. Instead, seven fighters; the Canberra, Valiant in the Manhattan air which ship was, a blaze of martins and Frank Springs,
the Falrey
Gambers; and has almost everyone jump plaids. the managing director. The new ment heads dithered.
turboprop ing. During my absence of everyone a Stuart, anu-submariner. bomber, which few for the first The Ministry
While per a few weeks the buildings McDonald, a McGregor, or at of time on August 30 last, will,
Supply's formance figures for them are
to have got higher, Dewar. One woman told me lenst a Holg and Haig and a action in ordering up the Avro secret, they look to be a fine seem am convinced, show Htself fully 698 is, fortunately, a sign that array of military aircraft, the motor-cars bigger, the she was a direct descendant of capable of the
the work it will be the Government intends to now remains given to do."
make a choice quickly in future, industry to roll them off with shriller, the lights brighter,
the production sirens louder, the horns Bonnie Prince Charlie, With Britain's military air and get on with production in some of the speed so readily
It in British aviation, just as it en- chiefs convinced also, it is ap- stead of humming and hawing found when Britain was at the drinks stronger, the Americana that though the tered the "Jet Age" 11 years parent the Delta shape has em over numerous prototypes while ing for her life a decade ago. food fatter, the girls may be critical of the English ago, has now leaped forward barked
and not too enthusiastle about Into the "Delta Age." More reaching as the invention of the
the Welsh or even the Irish, they planes like the Javelin and jet power which drives it.
| adore the. Scots. Avro 608 will be developed by These last two weeks have the
Siddeley group and, Hawker
an astonishing amount of
given away in the future, there is the pubilety ven
British Com- prospect of air travellers cross- dominance in designing. ing the world in big Delta jet- menting on such planes as the Hawker Hunter, Supermarine Uiners.
Swift, de Havilland Type 110, The air show at Farnborough, e
Vickers Valiant und the two organized by the Society of Dellas, newspapers, politicians
Constructors, and British Aircraft signs the birth certificate of the dustry itself. have lost them-
the aircraft Delta Age. Cautious appraisal selves in a welter of praise forWHEN Spaniard Senor genel tender, the two sovereigns, which he could sell but English money7-10 thank of triangular aircraft has been
the excellence of British WB. and Italian replaced by a frank acknowledg- signing. But they stress British ment of their Ane attributes, designing, not Critish produc-Signor G. B. thought up the
Twenty thousand foreign
ition.
an estimated 300,000
ECC
on
a
carcer as
men of
All praise They have
for-
in-
THE SENOR AND THE MAKE "REAL FALSE"
Geneva.
From Ernest Ashwick
or lega
SIGNOR COINS.
a curious feature of
The next time we are in non- cial trouble, which will probably be next week, perhaps the need could be presented as Scotland's, pot England's, and then we'd got twice the money.
Price trebled
my Informant. "Swiss watch THE Master of the Queen, the findings of manufacturers, hard hit by the Captain Banyard, invited the Swiss federal tribunal, any present slump, could easily turn me to the bridge and we talised
According to
་
ships. The captain deplored in-
Incidentally, in this British ship no United Kingdom,,cure and that sovereigns, napoleons had the
rency was accepted. You could necessary dies
and spend
Bermuda pounds, or and Mexican dollars Caro no presses, he could make 125 American or Canadian dollars,
developing their new commercial him a profit of £39. 142. Gd.
are thinking of to the banks for £800-giving you. technicians and air chiefs, be-
idea of making British enterprise into a big scale manu- "Following the Swiss federal sides
sovereigns, French
of napo. facture
"real false" court's decision, I would not be Britons, will have seen Britain's
leons and Mexican dollars in
sovereigns.
surprised to see quite a lot of five Delta types when the show
people enter this to the desiguera, Milan, little did they think
Bald mcket" ends, Many of them, certainly
done the Job of the foreign visitors, will have
their lives. But many Britons they were really starting learned why Britain is going ahead on full-scale production can't help feeling these wonder- something.
For Smor B. and Signor D. body in Switzerland can make out the dies and moulds Instead about money instead of about with the Javolin and Avro 690, ful airerati are still only show-
The Deites have been evolved ploce toys, to be unwrapped at (Swiss courts only, divulge the gold coins as the Swiss courts of watch cases."
fiation. He could have bought o Farnborough each year and put initials of their clients') did regard them no longer as legal to meet the growing need for
30: away again while a bald-
house in Bermuda before the war tender. They things in on honest way. aircraft that will fly higher, throttled production
asked a Swiss banker what Since now gold regulations for $10,000, but today the same Industry made "real" sovereign, full to make Swiss gold plece, faster, further, more economi-
om hobbles along at snail's. pace,
napo would happen if anyone started. came into force in Switzerland house was costing him more "cally and with a heavier load
leons and Mexican And even that paco, is, got-
He in September. 1942, sovereigns than $30,000. than over before. It is the re- ting slower. This, considering gold content, correct weight. raised his hands and ropiled ara now! classifed sult of natural evolution of do the urgency of Britain's defence came curious though, the Senor different.
When the Italian police be hastily "Oh, that would be "merchandise.” There are, no There was no offelak“ fuss or sign, and it is the design for needs, is almost unbelievable and the Signor
You can make us export or import restrictions awkwardness at the New York years to come.
The Select Committee on
took the first many sovereigns as you like, but long as the government gets its pler when we docked, as there The Hawker Siddeley group, Estimates recently confirmed train to Switzerland: And here you must not make Swise gold tour percent purchase tax rake often is when you call in from Oghting to have the new form that
between again they showed enterpriso, for coins. - You neo,, the Swiss V It is as easy, an that, · the interval.
Europe. officially accepted, proved that orders and first deliveries of they never attempted to make has
Going, through the: Customa - the aircraft la simple to build aircraft is increasing. Last year, | Swiss gold francs, ....
He monopoly for this
said anybody could go and
Soon, may be, will be seen af was phainer sailing than "in the and claims it, has... grebter it was 15 to 17 months for exist- Now that the Swiss federal buy a kilogram of gold at today's noon algn over Genova: gold Gulf Stream, so let it be on re- stability and more favourable Ing typen but now it is 18 to 20 tribunal fue refused to extrudite price of 5,200 Swiss francs street-the Hue Potitot saying: cord once and for all that Ameri- norodynamic characteristics than, months. For new types, It used the Senor and the Signor car the (£494) and pay the govemment "The Bury Ta. Sovereigns made can officiels cabo charming, any other plane in existence to be 21 to 24 months; now grounds that the coins were not purchase tax of four percent to order. Discount for large helpful, considerate and Ano Delins-, sro „super-streamlined, is 29 to 20 months,
| falso but only "regl falad" coins, £17, 07. From the gold, If. ho quantities."
diplomats for their
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