PETER WODN Clad for the magic curper,
London,
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1959. ↑
I FLY IN BRITAIN'S SAUCER
AS FIRST. PASSENGER
1 REPORT: IT WORKS
AND IT'S SUCH FUN
more
After nearly an hour's sacer-
From:
PETER WOON
Cowen, lale of Wight
air
around there were phets of showering spray. There was no feeling of lift, but 1 knew 4 mighty downward rush of had formed an articlal' high- pressure air cushion beneath 113, that had raised us a foot above the water.
We moved forward noisily with a gentle floating motion. Lamb iwisted the throttle further and as the speedometer needie flickered past 12 knots
us,
It was more like gliding craft of tomorrow, which will the spray vanished in front of then
flying,
like grues the seas at 150 miles an
hour, floating than sulling. But we were under power alling 1 report that this almost right-and at Queen Mary shatteringly simple theory of air cushion travel really does speed.
work in profice, More than that: It is enjoyable.
Test pilot Peter Lamb. who welcomed me as the first caveor
Cushioned
It was at midday, with a 12- the uscolly
and we skimmed along
shallow wake. leaving
Up to 25 knots, the waves tossing beneath US, and Thu coastline lashing past.
We turned and beaded straight for the bench. With no change in the smooth sensation of cushion-riding, we curved up and round over the beach ki ነ back neross the water,
faint water to of Osborne Bay calm waters
beneath dark rain We returned and Lamb
I FLEW recently in Bri- passenger, put the Saunders Rose tain's fantastic flying overcraft through its paces
I skimmed 12 its capables.
in a complete demonstration of choppy saucer. inches above the white- crested waves of the Solent at nearly 30 miles an hour on ย magic carpet ride into the future.
The sensation is like no other in transporta- tion. There
Through clouds of swirling spray that even suked through my oilskine and with the roar of
e 450 h.p.
Alvis Leonidee i engine drumming in my ears. was taken forwards and back-
VET
wards and in tight turns the water and then straight up
above the one-la-ten gradient a beach.
In this almost circular four- machine, experimental Awkward looking but extra
designer
clouds, that I climbed on the parked the queer on the sing Rut aturniham top of the dying for quick conference with saucer from the Valkyrie launch
Dick Stanton-Jones. moored along-ide.
Then again we curved over the water. Just two or thire Times there was a "bump" us WT rode a particularly steep wave. The water was not touching the saucer-instead,
cushion was being momentarily wash- ed beneath us,
In the open-sided cabin in front of the fan-engine "funnel" I strapped myself in pilot's seat besitle Lamb for his thirtieth hur of saucer diving
Floating
the ro
He fastened his bune-deme, had project lender John Chaplin In a frogman's suit release the low rope, and grinned across at me.
"All set? Then let's go." His right and held the twial-
was featherbed softness as the blue and white ton Hovercraft smoothly aww mamuuvrable. ex grip throttle and he pressed the rode above the water on pirtenesí a sensation which is but which the air cushion that is today revolutionary
ay be commonphice for travel its secret.
les in the 191,000-tom Hover
Mr K's OLD HOME HAS NO MOD CON
From CHRISTOPHER DOBSON
Moscow.
THE Mayor of Stalino, one of the boom towns in industrial Russin, has just shown me the house in which Mr Khrushchev fived when he worked at the local coal pit before the Revolution.
Now can report that th Khrushchey house still stands in all its poverty stark against the slag hoop and the pit wheel.
The house has only three tiny, 1x-Fike TOONS, privy. 1 running water.
FOOTBALL
butside
The house is still in, use, Mayor Alexei Bakayev, himself a miner, explained:
after button.
of
the
I left the comparative dryness the enbin for the spray. lashed saucer surface as Lama circled around more slowly.
Out in the bay Lamb throttled back, cut the motor, and were seaborne again.
የሮ
uf
teaped The Leonides
Inio roaring life and he opened the
wider. Suddenly, throttle
"It's like driving a bus," said Lamb. am getting a lot fun out of fi.”
all
And so was 1.
-(London Express Service).
Scattered in the backyard, bogle wheels and rubble.
The widow wants a flat
"We are
fcite,
many
of
Can't le apart-
get out of this house? you get ment?"
me
+
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MOR
PRO
'You see, there's nothing man cannot achieve.
Just like
cricket-that's
Lonton apreze Service.
what music is to me
PROBABLY the most com- manding conductor in Britain. Sir John Barbirollt bring the Halle Orchestra to London next month for the Proms at the Albert Hall, One of his rute Interviews is recorded her by John Cruesemann....
by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
like a comedy, where an for whom only the best 1 have always held that, con- Actor can use for effect, "cunned" music will do. He ductors are bom, not made,
on. But not does not venture
and I refuse to teach condueling RICKET and music music flows
into the because I feel that would be are so akin in many all music need be treated wide world outside.
the solemnity of ways, the beauty of a Beethoven's Ninth.
I have made many re- Sometimes a composer 'lo in- Mayor Bakayev promised single stroke is like that
cordings and know it to be capable of directing, hist Once, when conducting more strenuous and some physical gift to do so. of a chord well played. william Walton's "A
music, because, he has not the Po- how
unnatural compared
Thus toll-worn woman lost ber 11 see what I can do, but the building
situation is very difficult.' houses, but the shortage is still husband in a pit necident.
She lives on her penslan
The old lady appeared The Germans destroyed:
roubles (about (13) a indifferent to the fact that Mr
She month.
tu turned
us: Khrushchev once lived there, can you help me 10
London Express Service). Then Mayor Bakayev, "Please, whose Corchead has the
It was one of these built for 70 per cent of the houses here." 360 the men employed by John Hughes
Wales. from
le developed Stalino as one of the Ukraine's coal and fron centres of the inst towards the end century.
Khrushchev plotted against the
Czar there.
off-plotting
moments he was taught to play Tootball by the British mine fochinelars.
blue scars of a coal face
worker, showed me into
house at the invita- THEY SEND
of its present oc-
the tion cupant, the danya.
widow Kan-
CANS
TEST
BY TUBE
CIENTISTS at Harwell have heard of the reseler
fourd novel wre for the pressed air. "pneumatic tube", syslem used
give
Swift
At the
touch
by com-
with
fraudulent.
insist 001
DWTI
de
Falla conducting "The Three
I remember that fine old pular Song," which is with concert conducting. I remember years, ogo walch- cricketer Wilfred Rhodes delicious parody of a fox- telling me:: "It's not the trot, I turned to the stolid Not a sound must be out of ing Diaghticht
place in that airless void, Cornered Hat." The effect was number of runs you make, audience, saying: "Now, for the recording studio.
disastrous and after 10 minutes- it's the way you make my own pleasure, I am going
de Falla gave it up. them." For runs read notes to play it again, and you and I would have these may smile." And they did.
words emblazoned on every music school in England.
The flow
(nes.
Unity
a manner as pos-
No peaks
are no
All conductors are super-
Each part you are record- stitious, particularly Italian
Today we are producktig a And I have to admit ing of a whole work is that I am. My own super- played again and again. group of artists of tremendous technical proficiency What One of the most difficult #tition is that starting any Even so I always try to sometimes saddens me is that, things to bring home to new venture on a Friday is muke my records in as con- in gaining profielency we seem
belief timous
to have lost grace, poetry, and in many department stores to
people is humour in music, unlucky. This is
individuality.. The level is high, tò achieve musical but on a lovel there Audiences seem so afraid of common in the part of Italy sible customers their change
Laity rather than patched peaks. quickly. A network of tubes
teraughing, they sit grim my family comes from has been built linking the glant button the can is whisked out faced, and often the players myself was born in Blooms- uy, perfection. experimental resetor BEPO with again, back to the laboratory.
bury and I have at times Jaboratories up to a milo away.
The big advantage of the
resorted to the most, shame- These gramophiles would comment a eritie in Rome made the Yet think how much less untruths to avoid, for rather listen to a "perfect" after one of my concerts, when he wrote: "Barbirolli is the last can now system is that litile of alem boffins feed a sample of material into radicuctivity is lost before the music, from a Haydn sym- instance, beginning rehear performance by a secund- of the great school of conductors Is not afraid to sent BEPO for quick dose of scientist has a chance to watch adiation, and have It back its effect on the sample. Some phony to a Strauss waltz, cal of a new piece on-Friday. rate musician than go to who
materials lose their "dose" of has grace and gaiety True,
hear a vital performance by shivers down the backs of the in more complicated music This is becoming the age a first-rate musician, with audience."
occasionni you have to know the score of the "gramophile," the possibly well to appreciate the wit of music lover who sits glued wrong note, but full of colour and phrase, for, un- to the record-player, and spontaneity.
Thic
within a few seconds.
the
redicactivity very fast.
Best time so far over Samples, in aluminium cans, are placed in the tube. The mile. from Laboratory 408 to relentist presses a button, and BEPO: 10 seconds, there __the_can__is whisked into the back.
and
are not much better.
ал
} shall always cherish the
artists today who would
send
How I wish there, were more
shivers down my back!
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If there is no Press to watch them they can be themselves al last
by Cummings
IKE can stop pretending
to be President, and can give Barious thought to serious things at inot .......
MACMILLAN on stop.
ba pretending to "WonderMao,** and can "Jast" be 'himnut? 2)
DR. ADENAUER · can ̧ -stop dressing up in his democratic talicoat, and can now rêlux
VINS
NYE can stop pretending to be sightly working class, 'and can dress for dinner -every night.......
SELWYN LLOYD can stop pretending to fook cheerful; about, foreign 'affaire
KUGH can stop profunding to bo ...Gocialist, and
oqnsume oyuters with Hailsham at the Carlton.