FLYING into DANGER ... Third day of BILL WATERTON's. story of the life of a test pilot in search of SPEED
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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1954.
TO
FASTER!
OW do you become a wonderful engines.
test pilot? In my ense
someone
must
have
had his
eye upon the owner a potential Derby winner looks around
for the experienced jockey who can ride his horse to victory.
For Britain, in 1946, had a race on her hands in the air and the stake was vital.
Wu held
the world air speed record at 606 miles 125
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We knew I did not want to leave the but you have to eat, knew the course I And of
knew the poten- Meteor-and tlalities of this plane.
we could fly at something like RAF.. 021 miles an hour. It would be
world The
record we did i right away. But if the Ameri- cans flew at 615 miles an hour We would not have meanwhile,
to establish an enough margin ometal record, and the trophy would be theirs
So it was a question of getting the right plane ready and and- ing the right pilots to take it into the air, before the Ameri- cans made their tid.
Our job
Since I came directly from realised Fighter Command I what the fighter pilots wanted. I might well be able to help Glosters in providing it.
One of my first jobs as a test
pilot with losters was to take the Meteor with which Donald- son broke the world speed recurd
(EE549)
the first postwar to international or exhibition in Port
hour. This WAN miles an hour ahead of the previous German record (made by a Messerschmit). TERA.F. formed it famous there,
was
The British had a big success The French wanted to
the
High Speed Flight with see what the Meteor could do. exhibition was Group Captain E. M. Donaldson So when
commanding officer and over, one of their officials asked the city. 1 as Neville Duke and myself pilots, me to "bent up" the
with astonish- looked at him Our job Wis to set
ment-but it was official.
1
new
reemid the Americans could not
It looked like a large lead -but not if you knew what
in happening American aircraft industry.
They were after the world boat.
They resied to Dir speed knew it value (us, indeed, we national prestige and did) fuk
foreign sales.
Unit now they had lagged bestrul
the British ligh
But thes Speed jet aircraft.
www
were
wrong up fast We hend that they pouring money into the develop ment of new planes and skim- ming the cream off the Ameri- can Air Force to get the talented pilots they needed.
First!
FOR this was
Donaldson was a well-known Aghter pilot with a fine record. Neville Duke had a magalleent war record and came from the R.A.F. Test Pilot School.
Exhilarating
TOOK
the Meteor up and gave them what they had asked for. I went up and down As for me, I had previously the Champs-Elysees at lower- been with the RAF's Central thon-rroftop level.
wak Establishment, I Fighter affeer in charge of flying at the Air Fighting Development down.
I flew right side up and upside I had to pull the stick Are de Squad where we flew other buck to get over the
ations aircraft besides our own. Triomphe. trying them but against our 1 gyrated 50 tightly round
own planes,
the lower apary of the Eiffel
We did the job for which we Tower-looking up at the people Donaldson, watching me from the observa- had been recrulted. new kind of Duke, and I were each givention platforms that they might well have imagined that I did who Meteor IV. 111677
1KIL flying and the
see the guy-wires attached
right. could handle The complicated Towards the end of 1940 we to it. I saw them
If I had done it over London Bying the postwar planes of
1 would have gone to gao!. ere were not then to be found pushed the record beyond the
There was an even more ex- come, hilarating experience
in every cockpit.
Sk
and
reach
uf the Americans. Donaldson flew at 016 miles an the word went through the hour. I did 014. Duke reached
aircraft 613 miles an hour. R.A.F.
kingdom: boardroom "Don't let the Americans teke 1 away from 13,"
an
overy
the
We know that the Americans ould dy faster than 800 miles
hour.
But how much faster? Our information was that they up to about 013 could put miles an hour and, since the international regulations decreed that a new record must be at Jea one percent better than old, this wan enough to give them the trophy, with the sales prestige that went with R.
We
could knew WVC faster than that. We had magnificent
plane
the
new
WAS
In Paris
WHEN the High Speed Flight disbanded, I returned to my unit in the RAF. Since short-service I was a prewar officer (and the RAF. had not yet offered me a permanent com- mission-they did later when I was too late) I started to con- I was getting sider the offers from private aircraft firms.
One of them came from the n Gluster Aircraft Company, with makers of the Meteor.
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PALACE
GOES UP
It's for UNO
bureaucrats
7ITH but one aqueak of protest the grandiose cheme for the new Purls headquarters of UNESCO rumbles onwards to its fulfilment, Pickaxes are hacking at an old barracks near the historic Ecole Militaire, southwest of Paris, and on that site next September yet another sumptuous palace of bureaucracy will begin to
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It will be
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In two years,
all being well,
a staff of 800,
A model of the £2,000,000 building
district and that the wrong site was chosen.
NoteBritain's share of the UNESCO budget in 1954 was 11 percent-about £370,000,
earning from £25 to £800 a month, will gather up their files and rubber stamps in the Hotel Majestic, near the down settle Etoile, and costly in their new home. UNESCO's new palace is to cost £2,000,000.
RENT £50 A DAY
THE French Government have lebt the whole of the money repayable without interest for 30 years and they are charging only El a year ground rent,
This is not complete altruism because the Government expecla the country to benet in the long run from the Influx of foreign officials with money to spend.
T
REST IN THE ALPS
These may be the GREAT FINANCIERS
HY
OF TOMORROW
By
ALEXANDER
THOMSON
London. One of his biggest was buy-
It
Kitchen"
Ho has quickly developed a is the word for ing the Fifty Shilling tailoring hobby horse: To get people to business for £4,500,000 last talk of "houseware" instead of hardware. "That's such an ugly most of our financiers
year. and business men.
to a stores word," he says. "and Now it belongs
that balsca Iri
gents drudgery in Unlike MPs, film stars, TV combine
Fleid personalities and other Richards dress shops and Ard- public performers, they get on with their jobs and don't make much fuss.
ing and Hobbs of Clapham.
In 10
namo
may
the
The
is a powerfully-built man who speaks in a gentle, To him bust- bo unhurried voice, Kenneth news is "much моте
worth- while" thon
a stock- being broker.
you years as much of houring Keith na you hear about men So when you start looking like Harold Drayton now.
With his wife, Doreen, ho A chubby young man of $1, around for the Young Men
whose
EDWARD lives in Chislehurst, "She is my of today who may become RAYNE, also deserves a place most critical <guinea-pig"."" ho the Big Men of tomorrow in the Forty Club. He runs the will tell you.
In ten years Stanley Field na sure of H. and M. Rayne you are about picking winners ag are nose punters in the Grand Na
tional.
After all, when a young Harold Drayton, who first
came to the City as a 198, Bd.-a-week office boy, began to get on a bit he didn't make A song and dance about it.
Yet he is now one of its most powerful figures. He controls an investment notwork reckoned to be worth more than £100 million.
When an eager Leonard Lord was mnde Lord Nuffleld's right- hand man at 36 he sought no public attention either. And cer- tainly he received none.
Today he is the biggest man In the motor industry. He bosses both the Morris and Austin organisations. He is "king" of a
£78 million "enstlo" in cars.
TUCE
Stepping out
FUCKED away in factories and offices there must be other Harold Draytons
Sir and Leonard Lords of the future.
They will be keeping their hopes and ambitions to them- selves as they strive to get to the
top.
But there are young men of 40, or under, who are already stepping well out in front. You can spot them now as you look around and wonder.
In the motor Industry there's ALICK DICK. At 38 he is Bri- tain's youngest car chief, He is director of Standard managing Motors, turning out 630 cars and tractors a day.
on a
first met Dick, tall, dark and handsome,
Motor Show stand seven years ago, 1 noted his restless energy, his keen sense of fun.
The same restlessness is still there. But his volee has a more serious note in it now. For when Sir John Black, architect of Lio Standard business, had to quit after his car crash last year, a sudden load was thrown Allck Dick.
A
on
Str John WILS managing director of the company. Dick has taken over.
He is married and has three
shoe busi-
woman's kitchen.
Hia jobs include making could have a footing in every
and Queen Princess Margaret. And on
shoes
for the
reckoning
ta he
youngest company chief,
Elegance is young
צות
Britain's In the garage
Rayne's ITCHENS and what goes in
With his wife and nine-month-
stock in trade-and background. K Them are the inspiration for old son, he lives in Park Lane. another of industry's successful The family Сог La a black Bentley.
youngsters,
KENNETH WOOD, who is 37, With £800 and a hood full of ideas, he began making electric mixers in premises
But he is a craftsman, too.
200 There are
in rented processes putting line and glamour into Woking fish shop.
women's shoes, He can do them all.
it
Since taking over the family Arm, Rayne has expanded eagerly. Eighteen months ago it had a capital of £180,000. Then he bought the Randall chain of
shoe
"take-over"
in shopa deal. He paid £ €70.000 for
them.
Now he is busy on a plan to merge with the Lotus and Delta
business. It will be a £4,690,000
He-up. I believe we shall hear more of the chubby Mr Rayne, In ten years who knows?— his could be the top name in belling shoes.
Hobby horse
EXPECT to hour a lot more, too, of STANLEY FIELD, a
That was ago.
A
next to
only seven years Today he has 400 work- Ing for him. This year he hopes ver will top his turnover
£1,000,- 000 for the first time.
Kenneth Wood lives modest
own
ham, Surrey. But in the garage ly in a inodern villa at Chob-
there is a a sleek Bentley now.
Ha Не has a
a passion for taking how they things to bits to see work. At week-ends ho still Hikes
so in his lo do kichen while the child
the children-#150 boys and a girl-look on
His latest machines do meny jobs.
They peel potatoca shred vegetables, as well BA doing the kitchen mixing. They sell in many lands, including America and Canada.
And now
and
this young man success
prepares to add to his
story. He lo
irons that will in for electric damp clothes as you from them,
Is he just having beginner's they are wh is praise, Indeed. luck? His biggest rivals admit watching closely all ho
lively 40-year-old, who was a successful stockbroker until 'a few months ago. He has quit to be managing Arm £2,700,000
pressure DILE of
stockbroking director of
of a moking 'Prestige
other cookers and kitchen equipment.
In his new job he runs four factories with a pay roll of 1.800.
Already he is planning
a big expansion which will mean 600 more jobs to fill.
does.
In 10
years he could be the man ambitious young men, will think about
at the
start of their business careers.
These are among the young men whom the future beckons. They may not be the lions of tomorrow. But they
win the high hopes of today,
The robot learns
to
'parlez-vous'
for all
sona. He farms 50 acres at HI || WORK on a robot brain
PARIS newsletter
Wootton, near Leamington; keen on all sporta.
WILLIAM ROLAND
Mr Ortiz-Patino's British polici- tor. Bew back from Parks after consultations with Comte Rene de Chambrun who acts for
oli three dined together at Maxims.
W which
stand"
will "under- foreign
several
This is undoubtedly his big op portunity. Now Standard and languages when it hears Rover are planning a 225 million them spoken, and will im- link-up. So the horizon widens mediately trans- for Allck Dick,
late them into English, has be
In 10 years he could be the Big Name in the motor in- dustry.
IN
Famous name
gun at a Lon- don
University
laboratory.
The
LA PLIME DE MA TANTIL.
CHAPMAN PINCHER
. COLUMN
The foreign language will be that when the air temperature is
the
him in France. The other night Anance I nominate 37-year- ́) spoken into a microphone at one below 70 degrees Fahrenheit any old KENNETH KEITH He end of the machine and the further fall wakes up the slugs
translation will be tapped out by and brings them out on works for a £5,000,000 City
an automatic typewriter at the prowl. banking and investment group, other.
famous It carries a
name of
Dr Andrew Booth, of Birk- HILL Philip
the financler
of beck College, Bloomsbury, who the wars, And Keith first thought up between
the idea of
Mr Ortiz-Patina
told friends
in Paris: "I am off for a long rest, probably in the Alps." He wears a black tie,
NO RAVES
Ho
memory
PEPPERY LOOK
THE TRADITIONAL rod face of the peppery EX- Indlan Army .colonel WIS often due to probably more
Beoteh
is the day-to-day boss now. robot translatora, plans to pack
brain's He is a tall and immaculate the
with with humour. mathematical codes representing man, bubbling Meet him casually at a party, the contents of several foreign eating curry than to drinking and you would never imagino dictionaries. bigh finance was his line. But He has already built a brain
have shown that chilllos, QUGAR RAY ROBINSON'S Kenneth Kelih has a part in which can remember 8,000 words the dried red fruits included in WENTY-FIVE - YEAR - OLD No. huge crushed-strawberry many of the Acals that go-far more than are used by the good curry powders, redden the
James Ortiz-Patino, member coloured CadBlac calipes A through in the Cily. He plans average Englishman. of the wealthy -Boliving- tin. senzation' among Farls street quite a few of them. family, Is peiliioning · for a crowds, but so far there is no divorce from his 28-year-old rush by cash customers to see led on April 22 this year and the Alhambra music hall. It is wife, Joanne. They were mar- the former boxer's dancing at after only 49 days of married not exactly a flop, but there has life. Mrs Ortiz-Patino dis- ören no rave noties, appeared from a nursing home in Romo where she was under
"During" rehearsals for the act treatment for excessive use of outs were out looking for, a sleeping tablats. The other day flat and the Robinson menage she arrived in Frankfort by air moved into one near tho from London.
Trocadero.
Fair-haired, brown-eyed Joanne was the former wife of ex-British amateur golf cham- plon Robert Sweeny,
The Majestic, once one of the luxury caravanserals of Paris, was requisitioned in 1939 and lator became. German military Headquarters. Stulpnagel, the Ortiz-Patino has taken the German military governor, was Arst step in the divorce-a pell arrested there by the Free, Lón totás president of the Fals French." 1 nów belongs to the civil court who has, signed an CHY of Paris and one day our order to proceed, „The grounds. haps it may become in: hotel include desertion, unive
UNESCO- Bow pay £1,500 month InkrURL....
There were no objections to
Next the judge will consider npoesible-reconciliation make a further order if this i
the new building on the ground IL Mar. Ortiz-p
or expediency. But body called LEM
contert the petition:
and
...
here will live Robinson and his wife, their four-year-old 800, Mrs Robinson's mother, a valet and secretary, The no resident population will consist of George, Gainford, Robison's Inspetor,, n. msical director and RAY' comedy "foll.
The entouÍMIDE). has indeed khrunk from, she, boxing dagna/ wiên they trumpered pechado 130. The valet now has to do the
morežimes evi
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
[According to Dr Booth the face and engorgo the veins of
the temples. total vocabulary of the average
The body reacts so strongly to Englishman is. 2,000 words.
In an ordinary day most of the whites of the eyes go red, a mouthful of chillies that even us get by, he says, with about Dr T. B. Loe reporta. 500 words]
The robot will have to rack Ha memory for the counterpart of every word it hedra, but tho process will be so rapid that it
ON THE CO S
THE SWIFTS screaming will seem no more: hesitant than round Britain's steeples ard a fuent human lingulat.
probably the world's most ener- Dr. Booth does not expect that gette creatures according to the brain will be strong on Dr David Luck and his wife grammar at first, but he belloves Elizabeth, who have been doing that within 10 years it may be A dawn-to-dunkc watch on the possible for a robot to translaja swift's behaviour. The German of Goethe Into the English of Wordsworth.
TIME TO. STIR
IT 18 falling temperature, not damp ok, Zeiling light, which bringes : alugs out to feed: on your flowerbeds: In evening, a woman scientist has discovered.
A king sleeping binder, a damp stone already, so wet / that cannot detect any change in
On a fine day a pair of swifts. may collect more than 20,000 insects all mapped up, separ- ately on the wing to feed their greedy, youngsties.
LOBSTERS CHEAP-O!
lobatars has been built by OTRON LUNG"
Aberdeen, scientists to measu
sters in esptivit
Sefault, sometime