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SWEDNESDAY APRIL 13 1932.
AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.
UBIQUITY OF THE RAF
MANY JOBS IN MANY PLACES.
BEST EQUIPPED OF ALL AIR FORCES
Strange, glamorous, even fan- tastic occurrences in the farflung life of the Royal Air Force were outlined in the House of Com
CROSS COUNTRY NAVIGATION.
NEWSPAPER ORGANISES AIR RACE.
PILOTS TO TAKE OFF WITH
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SEALED ORDERS.
MY TEST FLIGHT WITH WOMAN PILOT
COOL AND EFFICIENT."
WHY THEY SMILE AT M.P.
WHO CALLED THEM DANGEROUS.
BABY
OVER A PROTEST AGAINST TRADE WITH RUSSIA
WORLD'S SMALLEST MACHINE FLIES HIGH.
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I should recommend Mr. Patrick · teratürn to diplomacy at the Arst *pportunity, for he has the balan ced and non-committal phraseology
A tíny "British single-seater mono- plane with a wing spread of only 24 feet-probably the mallest machine in production anywhere in of the career at his fugery' onda, This youthful Machiavelli anda bis the world-has accomplished a splendid foat in crossing the formid-ynical speech by saying: "I think [uble ridge'"af, the Andes from there will be practically unanimoua
Argentina to Chile at a height of agreement upon one point, and that "[ 18,000 feet:
is that it is highly desirable to in-
Its pilot, Mr. C. Taylor, is encreuse our export trade with Rus gaged in business in Argentina and six.?
An air, race of unusual interent,"
Young women pilots smiled to deserving the flattery of wide day when they heard that they had "usoloss, dan" spread imitation because of the boon' denounced as emphasis it places on the most in-gerous and inefficient" by Mr. mona recently, by Sir Phillip portant side of touring aviation, Robert D. Perkins, M.P., who isject of demonstrating that even the Sassoon, Under Secretady of State is that organised by the London himself an owner-pilot, writes a
Morning Post to thke place over a London journalist." course of, 500 miles on May 21
And then, unconcerned, they took off," in dificult flying wea The regulations are framed to
on various cross-country make the race as much a test of ther, skill is the use of maps and com-ights to visit other flying clubs.
To-day I visited Brocklands Fly- passes as of engines and acro- planes. Nowadays tho, acroplane ing School, and was "taken for a
be made the journey with the ob
smallest member of the British family of light acroplanes is cap. able of performances which cannot be surpassed by aircraft of five or ten times. the power. The atual crossing of the mountains took him 1 hour 50 minutos, and at no time an he swept shove the stupendous
for Air, in his speech of introdus tion to the 103 Air Estimates.. They proved" in striking fashion the ubiquity of the Force, the heavy and "unexpected responsibilities it has to behr in three continenta grestar for than those imposed on any other of the world's fighting air should have emerged from the ride" by a woman pilot of 15 backbone of South Americs did he
services and the remarkable adapt- ability of the British airmen and his aeroplane.
circus atmosphere that develop. ed inevitably when flying was still a novelty, but a surprisingly large number of private owners and amateur pilots still seem to think that flying round aerodromes, tere, batics, taking friends for joy rides," and similar pastimes represent the
main uses of the finest long dis
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Every competitor will start from Heaton Airport, near London, with sealed orders. He will be handed
a soction of the air map of Great Britain sealed ten miles to an inch,
The Royal Air Force, hid the Minister in a passage that
seized
the attention of the House, can safely be relied upon to turn up in time to extricate one from the worst consequences of one's mis- fortuns."
He cited examples.tance touring vehicle yet produced Teuring cars belonging to the staff by man of the Egyptian Stats Telegrapha sometimes get lost in the sand wastes of the Libyan desert; the Royal Air Force finds them, An African trade expedition atranded north of Wadi Halla with only one small bottle of water received up plies of water and other essential needs from "the air, like Elijah of old. The brother of the Sulton of Bahrion in the Persian Gulf, con- tracted serious eys trouble; & Royal Air Forge flying boat carried him from Raa-al-Khaimah to Bahrein for treatment.
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with points marked on it that he musty over this way to the Arat control.
order of visiting them will be indicated on
a slip attached to the latest weather re
hours' solo experience.
The chief instructor did not in- form her that I represented the Evening Standard. That was in order that she should not frol that she had to be on her best flying be-
haviour.
Business Woman's " Vacation.” - She is a young business woman of 12 years, on a week's vacation, which she was using to "polish
"her flying. up
Comfortable?" she asked, as T Adjusted the safety belt in the front scat.
Then, patiently, she waited for' the engine to warm up for about
four minutes. In a few seconds the Brooklands track sank away.
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have the slightest need for anxiety. His tiny machine and its 75 h.p.
motor behaved perfectly.
The machine chosen for the trip
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DISCREDITABLE.
I assure Mr. Patrick he is wrong. I, for one, consider our relations with the Sovieta to be as disersdii- 2 table to us as a civilised Power an they will prove in the long run to the commercially disastrous:
I am not surprised that this par formance alicited the approval and the compliments of Mr. Kirkwoodi For in England, and, indeed, all over the world, opinion is divid ed between those who believe that the Five-Your Plan will succesă. And those who are confident that it will fail.
Fourteen years ago the only statesman who realised the danger
a Compor Swift a fast of Bolshevism to the osuse of civili sporting craft driven by a geared nation was Mr. Churchill, and he Pobjoy motor wtiel holde the pre-appealed to the Western. Powers to sent record for the journey from stamp it out. But the civilised England to Australia in the handsworld, was weary of war and pre- of Mr. C. A. Butler. It cruises secupied with binding up its ow easily at two miles, a minute, and wounds, To-day the Duchess of its top speed is 135 m.p.h.
THE ORIGIN OF CYCLONES.
INQUIRY INTO ATMOS- PHERIC DEPRESSIONS.
Atholl seems to be the only politi cian in the British Parliament who both sympathises with the sufferings of the wretched victims of Bolsho vist cruelty and realises the econo mic danger of a flood of cheap goods produced by slave labour.
BARBARITIES EXPOSED,
As for the barbarous suffering · inflicted upon Russians by their Visibility was not more than 1,500 London, March 30.-The jubilee own inhuman Government, there is of the first "international polar no remedy but in themselves. But yards because of mist. Steadily year," 1899-83, which was the start. I sometimes contrast the righteous wo climbed to 2,000ft, over Surrey, ing point of all present-day data wrath into which Gladstone used, to "Heston,?" came her cool voice regarding atmospheric conditions is lash the British public over Armo.. over the speaking tube.. "
to be celebrated in an appropriate rian massacres and Bulgarian atro-
ings and making the usual correc.show me a few air tricks?"
"No," I answered "but will you manner, according to an announce cities with our indifference to-day to
ment made to-day.
horrors quite as poignant. Wors An international meteorological than that, the modern Briton is
port. Then he must get dowși un ided to the task of plotting his course, laying off his compass bear-
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Out in the loneliacas of the tions for strength and direction of
Too, misty, sorry," come
a
Dunfar region of the Anglo-Eg3P | wind. After halting & atipulated slightly contemptuous voice-na if commission, in which 13 countries actually eager to prolt by the re-
tien Sudan a man went sick with
appendicitia... Within a few hours length of time at each, control the I ought to have realised that.
he was transported 500 miles aBCTORS the desert to Khartoum, As-Italian noroplane was forced down on the Somali const; British service aero- planes located the craft and pro- visioned the members of the crew till such time as they could be re-
competing pilot will be given. furthen list of places to visit on the next leg of the race.
Handicap.
Pilots with less than 250 hours
will participate, is to make aults; as Mr. Patrick, M.P., any special investigation into the origin. "We must all unanimously desire to "Oh
was all I could reply. of cyclones, anti-cyclones and at- increase our export trade with We flew, and flow. Then I decidmospheric depressions. ed. flying was. monotonous with "a woman at the controls
Perfect Landing.
Russia."
To her credit, the Duchess of These investigations which will commence on August 1 are expect. Atholl does not agree with Sir, ed to take over a year. A number Stafford Cripps and Messrs. Pat By patient We returned. A thick patch of of stations in the polar regions will rick and Kirkwood. mist entirely concealed Weybridge.ba visited and a co-ordinated effort and undaunted investigation the made to ascertain now data respect Duchess as exposed some of the Where was the landing ground?
barbarities of the timber trade; ing air currents, temperatures, at mospheric electricity and other cognate matters,
of solo flying on their log-books will be allotted time allowances of varying length to bring them more !' It is just ahead," she replied, on a level with more experienced and added in tolerant explanation, competitors,
"ons in taught to calculate thess things, you know."
The points selected have been cunningly chosen to avoid obvious Jandmarks that some competitors
But when wo gently, sank low onough to see the ground we found that we had slightly overshot, that is, the aerodrome was already nearly under us.
Quickly she side-slipped, until we were flying broadside on, then straightened and landed perfectly
Billy of me, wasn't it?" she
laughed.
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lieved. Sick men belonging to column operating in the wild hinterland of Aden were escorted and evacuated, to the base by air. In many remote regions of the Em pire the aeroplanes supported. the efforts of Political Agents and Dis- trict Commissioners faced with de- licate problems of tax collection and government anong restive might know already, and the will ner of the race seems indeed likely tribesmen.
to be fairly picked out from the The Force plays a chief part in rest. He will have to calculate and exploration and in the pioneering set a good course, and fly well work which necessarily goes before over it, tasting to the full the satis the opening of fresh regions to faction-one of the finest things In commercial enterprise Along the dying that attends a muccessful route to India and over the Cape cross-country fight. And that is Cairo route the service aeroplanes the best way in which to use the preceded the airlines; between neroplane. Egypt ud, the westermost abores of HPAD VAN Africs they fly each year over coun- tries that are certain to be linked sorvios aircraft be attributed to by civil air lines before many lessons learned in the building of years and out. If transportation is the world's fastest
eroplanes and civilisation, in Kipling's phrase,
most powerful sero engines for the Royal Air Forch may fairly
participation in the Schneider claim to rank among the world's Trophy contests. From setting the Great civilising indences. And the world's speed record at the stapen. pioneering work is done without dous figure of 2073 miles on hour special expense to the taxpaper.
to the satisfactory operation of a near the ground in such a way) Da "general purpose plane in Arabia. to cause any malé pilot to make the may seem a far cry; the link is slightest complaint. Sir Philip Sassoon emphasized discernible in the
far chnical porfes
“Women definitely do not talco. that the Royal Air Force has better tion of each of the aeroplanen con- the risks that a low youn
Young men flying equipment than any other carhed, while the expert would think are part of ordinary flying. air service and that its standards have no difficulty in tracing many
4 The secret is that a women of training and oficiency are un rivalled. Much of the lead in technical design held by British
Britain's Technical Supremacy.
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Why did you do that?" I ask
She pointed to another machine that was taking off at the other end of the aerodromp and said. It might have been awkward for him if I had gone on
A perfect santlewoman of the
air!
An official of the club told me We have taught many women and not our of their has even broken a tail kid, or behaved in the air or
points in the design of the service never forget an instruction while. machine that had their origin in the learning. Men sometimes do-rand bold experiments made in building the result is the necessity to take a Frommuru ar fer of next columit the racers
British Expeditions. Great Britain is sending out two expeditions, one to Tromsde and the other to Fort Rao, Canada, and it is anticipated that much useful information will be obtained, lead ing to possibly important improve. ments in methods of wireless com
they make money she has pointed while for those who don't care how
ont, by unfailable, figures, that Russian exports depress the prices, of world commodities,
How can this traffic he stopped?"
keeps up the farce of pretendin So long as the British Government that the Union of Sovieta in friendly Power, and continues to maintain diplomatic relations, which the Americans, have always' municatio
réfused, prohibition of Russian Small pilot balloons, with in, dumping in, I think, impossible. A straments recording height and boycott in contrary to the comity of temperature, will be utilised by nations, and is an act of war, the investigators. Wireless ap But surely the same result can peratus will be attached to these be attained by a swingeing protec, balloons to sunounce the heights tive duty! There is enough tim sild temperatures automatically sober, oil, wool, leather and minerals that all the trouble and diBculty in the rest of the world without previously experienced in regaining solling our hands with the produnts these instruments when they fall to
of led labour. the earth will be obviated.
What do
you want ?
Unlike most people, I am not afraid of the success of Bolshevism: whatber by & five or a fifty years" plan. It may, probably will, hate a short-lived superficial secca. But there's a devilish deal of hực manity in man. Robbery, murder, torture, lying have ever since the world began tried conclusions with truth, honesty, industry and kind ness, and have always been beaten.
After the wars of 1905 and MÀ, ids $1.00 prepaid why is anybody afraid of Rumis!
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