THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY
1935.
Splendid
Record
Of R.A.F.
.47,000,000 MILES
IN ONE YEAR
BUT 31 DEATHS RECORDED
By Major C. C. Turner
In the year just ended the Rayni
Air Force has flown about 47- 000,000 miles. Half-way to the sunt A hundred times to the moon and backl
Yot there have been fewer scri- our accidents in the Service than in any year since the War. So far this year there have been 20 fatal accidents, resulting In 31 deaths, of pilots and others on. gaged in duty-Bylng, including the Fleet Air Arm, but not including an accident to R.A.F. officera on for elvil machine hired out private flying.
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Parachutes have played an im- portant part in saving life. Since they became standard equipment | In 1920 they have saved at least: 123 lives in the Air Force. The last two years are here compared:
1993, 7 saved in 6 nccidenta.! (one other died from injuries in the fall); 1934, 14 saved in 7 nc- eldants. (including 4 lives and 3 lives Baved in alngle accidents).
Last year
the Air Force flew about 45,000,000 mlies; and there were 39 Tatal accidents, in which; 64 lives were lost. On inquiry atj the Air Ministry it was learned that the decreased number this your has been accompanied by an ex- ceptionally good record as regards
WALTZING INTO POPULARITY
Is your dancing of the 1933 or earlier vintage? Then here's your chance to modernize your steps. Arthur Murray tells how to do the latest tricks in waltzing. It's the first of a series of six illustrated articles by the famous dance-master-to-celebrities.
BY ARTHUR MURRAY
New York. If you want to be up to the minute, learn to waltz. The revival of old-time fashions in dress and a return to more genteel mannerisms have popularized this most charming of all dance steps and you may be sure there'll be a lot of waltz music played at holiday parties and balls this year.
Point
Start
Moro
As a matter of fact, nothing is
beautiful
the old- than fashioned waitz. To master Ite rhythms to become infinitely more graceful and to get into the spirit of dancing which, after all.
is important. The best dancers are the ones who love to dance. Never forget that.
For those who have learned the fundamental waltz step, there is a fun-to-do variation that 1 tenching my pupils right now. Appropriately called the "Debutante Waltz," because It In youthful and rather whimsical, this dance is easy 10 leari.
The feature of the Debutante Waltz in the swaying of the body in the direction in which you point your foot on the hesitation, step.
Start by stepping directly side- ward to the left, balancing the weight on the left foot for three counts, meanwhile pointing the right foot as shown in the photo- Kraph. Then reverse, stepping to the side with the right foot for three counts, pointing the left one. Now follow the diagram.
Remember that you take a left waltz turn of three steps, and on the fourth count you step back on the right foot, holding your weight Point
neeldents non-fatal, but resulting Diagram of debutante wallz, step on it for three full bents. in personal injuries,
The decrease, as compared withi
1933, is not, however, in quite the
same proportion. The Agures are
by step.
not available. It is rightly polnt-death for every 9,000 hours, and
ed out that a two-yearly 'average, this rather than a year by year one,hnura, should be taken. On that basis? 1933 and 1934 sinhd out as the best years on record.
FRANCE'S FICURES
Air Forces,
iwice the number of aeroplanes, flew last year not more than 38-1921 000,000 miles. The casunities in-11992 'cluded 45 deaths.
year one
Maurice and Cordoba show how the hesitation is executed in the débutante waltz. The gentleman steps back with the right foot, and pauses for three full benis,
the left foot as you do it and let your head sway toward the left.
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The record for the past eight with an obstraction on Croydon taking of necessary and Inexcu aerodrome, are not included; norkable risks are the príncipal causen, death in 12,100 years la:
does the list include two fatal as in the vast majority of road ac-
Three fatal ne- joidents. gliding accidents. eldents in travelling flying "etr enses" are included, and one to a pllot below the permissible age for nying.
The losa of A French liner in the Channel,' and collision of a French utr
47. 43
UNNECESSARY RISKS Examination of the causes of the accidents akows very clearly that all of them could, theoretically, have air been avoided, and that many of the them could very easily have been Iner avoided. Human
Fatal accita,
Deaths.
The following table, shows the 1927 gures of fatal accidents during 1928 the past 14 years:
G
D
13
∙10
1920
12
1930
13
27
No. of Fatal
1031
12
15
The Fronch
with
sqdns, needle. Deaths.
1032
13
17
1933
18
33
22
37
1934
32
34
51
1923
422
12
46
62
40
72
むう
43
58
than 5,000,000, and in 1930 it was 1926 about 20,000,000. The mileage in 1927 based on hours flown, speeds, and 1928 other data. It is not an offcial1929 figure, but is a close, restrained "estimate,
61
54
BG
40
57
60
std
76
75
31
42
1930
82
44
65
1931
85
46
1932
88
34
88%
39
93
20
CIVIL FLYING
The British Air Force milenge|1924. in 1921 was probably not
more 1926
The continuous process of re-1933 equipment steadily increases the 1934 average speed of the Air Force. Moreover, the year's remarkably
good record as regards accidents!
The proportional casualties in
is the more striking in view of civil lying cannot be shown until the increased dying in air exer reports are complete as to the claca and manoeuvres under condi- amount of lying done. It will tions approximating to active probably he found that this has! service.
increased by 100 per cent., or more,
In last year's total one accident during the year, for not only b
is included in which an Air Force Imperial Airways greatly increased | and a civil machine were involved, its operatingal activities, but there This accident, therefore, is also are also to be taken into account:
The growth of inhoud included in the list of civil flyingj
lines: accidenta,
The reduction in the ensunity! rate is Vory striking when examined on the time basis. It 1921 there was one death in every 2,238 hours flown, in 1930
A great increase in air taxii and special charter work; and
A steady, but slow, increase in the number of private aeroplane
one
owners.
air
Regulations, supervision anti medical tests are steadying factors, but there appears to be a need for tests which would eliminate pilota. who, although skilful, are tempera- mentally disposed on occasion to be indiscreet..
On the Walls of some of the flying clubs is seen the excellent reminder: "It is better to be an old pilot than error and the the best pilot."
Chess champions of Harbin and Shanghai ware matched at the Russian Chose Club, Shanghai re- cently, when the local matter, D. V. Poliakoff conquered .. K. Trofimoff, the visiting player. A large crowd of members watched a lively contest.
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