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THE CHINA MAIL:/ SATURDAY, ♪ OCTOBER 22, 1960.
BEHIND THE SCENES,
TAKI
MON REPOS
POLICE
REVOLUTION-
You may fly to work
in 10 years' time
the days when the Charleston and the Black Bottom were the rage, the Golden Age in British aviation revolved around such names as the Moth, the Avian, and the Bluebird; and around such fliers as Amy Johnson, Jim Mollison, and Kingsford Smith.
It was the time, between the wars, when to fly meant swaddling up in fleece-lined clothing, with a fashionable helmet and goggles-only one stage away from the fighter pilot's garb of the First World War.
and
In those days, Aring for ten longer-British-made American been making such headway, the was a serious business, And at cxecutive
light aircraft British aircraft Industry-pre- rightly with Ita occupied, that time, the British light air- dominate the sides. plane led the world,
During the past year, when exports of fighter and transport a new revival of both business aircraft such as the Hunter, the and pleasure flying has been Viscount and the Comel worth dying seen, nore thari £1,000,000 more than £160 million a year niary worth of American, French, --has been too busy to turn to has the smaller try, except for the bea and Ilaflan light aircraft
than been imported into this country, Dove.
Today a new Golden Age for the lighter types of is ih prospect. But in ways such flying will
far less serious business in the old Sparten days,
of
Too busy
be
.
by PETER MASEFIELD
-former president of the Royal Aeroriautteal Society
collision hazards wil be vir-
Islam 'holy
march
to convert
Africa
ISLAM is pressing a “holy murch" into deepest
Africa today in an open challenge to Christianity. The goal: to convert millions of natiye pagans to the religion of Mohammed-and to lure as many 'Christians as possible to the Moslem faith.
Unofficial headquarters for this ambitious campaign is Cairo, the Moslem world's biggest ate vertical separation, so that city and the seat of Islam's oldest and highest- two aircraft can pass at 500 ranking citadel, 1,000-year-old Al Azhar Univer-
tually elimited. With accur
feet above or below each other,
the amount of air space avail- sity. able is almost unlimited.
The future
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Cairo's Moslem elders are Roporta from across Africa now proparing thousands of say the pressure of. Telam lo gramophone records carry being felt particularly In East the traditional chanting of the and West Africa, where Chris- holy Komn into remote African tianity has secured a strong
supply plots and aircraft ready the high standards of work- to take n business man any manship and the air of elegance
Hike where, rather
a glorified which have been the hallmark
of our larger motor-ears.. cab-runk.
Parallel with the develop. Such aircraft, we may hope,
I say then that this is the jungle areas and into Ardan footing in the last 50 years. ment of the smaller and more will boost our exports substan
In West Afriga, the two chief aircraft will come tally, and carry the hallmark time not for csation but for countries too.. personal
workmanship to of British
10 boldness. The opportunity is
The Egyptian authorities, areas of busiem, missionary the flying boardrooms of
there, Britain cares to take
most other North work are in the British territory MOITOW--TRnging in size from plachs as yet untouched.
st-but it is not going to be backed by
States, four-seater up
are of Sierra Leone, due for Inde- comfortable
We African Moslem This is not, just સ "ring" handed to us on a plate. to 10 or 12-seators, with
bustness. It means that Britain shall have to plan, and work unging that Arabic (the lan pendence next April, and in the conference room attached, is entering a market which will hard, to achieve it-both guage of the Koran) should be western region of Nigeria, which official tongue of hesame independent on October, be worth technically, and above all by made the
replace 1. Such business aircraft will in years
tens of millions of finding ways to out manudar emerging Africa make it possible for the busy mary executive to hold meetings at pounds, will employ thousands turing costs. three or four places in a single of people, and can attain day, separated by hundreds of scale approaching that of the
modern motor industry. miles.
to come
Less offence
-
Now, however, let me fore- Today no helmets and goggles
east a change. required. Comfortable,
Already motor car engineer- warm, executive"-style mon- tipes
the air are already
well ing and aircraft experience arK! They are the aircraft,
allied in England in After a morning meeting in available.
abead
which to anything of
London he will fly to a business a new concern, to produce a existed in previous days. But, Ajas, these modern
new gencration of British bus lunch in Brussels; return for a or his descendants of the line of the But while the American and noss and sporting aircraft further meeting at one
Yo the cautious voices will Moth and the Avian pre no Continental manufacturers have which will once again carry factories, say in Swansea or the
the flag to the furthest corners go back in London for dinner, new age? Is Britain a suitable Midlands, by teatime and still ask: Do we really want this of the world,
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Clearly in Britain about to see this lighter form of aviation develop in two ways.
sports
us examine
Many Brush firms already beginning to use craft in this way.
are
place for such flying?
Well, let objections.
Small part
I do not
English and French,
to
Lectures
uni-
Learned Moblem scholars have lectured in the new versities of West Africa, and have commended themselves. to the intelligentsin,
In that way, 10 Jeurs from In many parts of Africa, now now, one may expect that, both achieving independence at re- for business and for private cord nace, the bulk of the flying, aircraft will be available natives are not yet committed
either esto
Christianity which will be as easy, pleasant, arid as comfortable to Mohanmedisin. flying as the average family car. In the three hours which the normal family allows for
■ drive from London to the tais same family will oogst, be able to fly, for little more and along the east coast-and the
benches some 21,000,000 Christians, expense, to the Francoat in a litle longer. even to Spain or Haly. Such
Journeys will be a
weekend outing.
'normal
Though accurate statistics are cot available. it is estimated
There also have been huris bat there are about 60,000,000 dreds of sponsored visits by Maşlem Africans mostly con- students to Cairo's Al Azhar. centrated on the northern shelf University
Witch doctors
The rest (nearly 150 million)
Calro The propaganda of radio also has helped boost Islam's prestige, particularly will this great increase in the The trainer and light sport-
number of light aircraft add
along the East African coastal ing weekend type of plane will
belt where Arabic is spoken. seriously to the noise nuisance in years to come cost no more
for people on the ground? than a fast two-seater
Religiouis' experts: "kiy"- Islami So there is the future! car. It will introduce a new This growing use of aircraft
are uncommitted pagans many oppeals to the average African think so. Smali generation to the delights of for business in this country is,
business aircraft
Even if you are between 40 still under the spell of tribal native for a variety of reasons: Blying for fun..
however, only a small part of private and
will have piston-type engines, and 00, you run a fair-sized every misfortune in family or
усало not jets, for many The other type, the executive generation of British light or conic. And well-lenced piston either on business
and you like to travel witch doctors who preach that It is a simple and direct or in you tribal life is the result of "evil faith, calling for belief › in one aircraft, is likely in future to executive aircraft.
Supreme Power, engines will give less offence spare time, you may well find magic." cast little more to run Dr maintain than a big car,
The Commonwealth, South, then a sports car passing the yourodif at the controls of one
of Britain's now, "personal" Marler consider this the⚫ It makes allowances for America, and even the United front door,
aingaft or at the wheel of an ideal moment for Islam's holy human nature, particularly in
such matters States offer even more oppor
the march."
polygamy, aerial "taxi," hired for tumities for the sale of airborne
weloond.
which has been, practised by vehicles.
(and African tribes for centuries.
Big_increase
the market open to the new
by
What about congestion?
to car,
Moslem
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Will the vast development of
mizzionaries and busineri fying It is said that the modern Cairo radio”. broadcasts) · my · The longer distances which private
Fo 4 "more genuinely is regarded as the, faith There will also be a great have to be covered in such terre trafic problems in the world depends on two kinds of talom
air like those that now exist on people those who believe Africm"-rellaton then Chris with no sense of colour bar, or increase in the "hire-and-fy- ritorles mon that there
the incredible and those who Unity which is so closely que racial prejudice, the roads? yoursel!" business-for the already on immense and grow-
do the improbable,
nected with the outgoing white many people who may not be ing market, which is so far I need not be.
Islam has been called a sociál man." satisfied largely able to own, Hcense, and oper- being
In the years ahead the people
system as well as a religion New developmenta of auto- of Great Britain will find • that ate an airplane 365 days American machines.
social system that gives the motic contral and radar com- there is nothing either incred-Billy Graham noted after a tour with all other baltovers.
Even the American evangelist bellever a conviction of equality year.
There is a considerable munication will enable all air- ble or improbable about using For executive flying many potential for British equipment, craft-even the smallest to be the air for everyday person of Central Africa that Chris
facing an uphill more Arms will grow up to carrying with it the auchet
There are today an estimated of spaced out accurately
that travel in the some way that tianity is
| struggle because many Africans 450 million Moslema in the we now use our cars.
consider it an imported "Euro- "world. ---(London Express Berpice.) ipean religion,"
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