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THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,
JANUARY
1985.
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 Royal
Air Force has flown about 47.- 000,000 miles. Half-way to the sual A hundred times to the moon and back!
WALTZING INTO POPULARITY
Is your dancing of the 1933 or earlier vintage? Then hero'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 danco-master-to-celebrities.
BY ARTHUR MURRAY ́.
Now 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 |usic played at holiday parties and balls this year..
Yet there have been fewer serl ous accidents in the Service than In any year since the War. Sol far this year there have boon 201 fatal accidents, resulting in 31 deaths, of pilots and others en- gaged in duty-flying, Including the Fleet Air arm, but not including an accident to R.A.F. officers on a civil machine hired out for! private flying,
Parachutes have played an im -portant part in saving life. Since they became standard equipment: In 1926 they have saved at least 128 lives in the Air Force. The last two years are here compared:
1933, 7 saved in 6
accidents.
(one other died from injuries in the fall); 1934, 14 saved in 7 nc- eldonts. (including 4 lves and 3 Hives saved in single accidents),
Last year the Air Force flew about 46,000,000 miles; and there word 39 fatal accidents, in which 54 ivos were lost.. On inquiry a the Air Miniatry it was learned that the decreased number this year) has been accompanied by an ex- ceptionally good record as regards
Point
Start
nccidents non-fatal, but resulting| Diagram of dobutante waltz, atap th personal injuries.
The decrease, as compared with
1933, is not, however, in quite the
same proportion. The figures aru
by step:
not available. It is rightly point-denth for every 9,000 hours, and
ed out that a two-yearly average, this rather than a year by year une, hours. should be taken. On that basis 1933 and 1934 stand out as the best years on record,
FRANCE'S FIGURES
death in year one
As a matter of fact, nothing in more 'beautiful than the old- fashioned waltz. To master Itá rhythm is 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 la a fun-to-do variation that I am teaching my pupils right now. Appropriately called the "Debutanto Waltz," because it is youthful and rather whimsical, this dance is enny to learn.
The feature of the Debutante Waltz is the swaying of the body
In the direction in which you point your foot on the hesitation step,
Start by stepping directly aide. ward to the left, balancing the weight on the left foot for three counts, meanwhile polating the right foot as shown in the photo- graph. 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 on for three full beats. Point the left foot as you do it and let your head away toward the left.
Maurice and Cordoba snow how the hesitation la executed in the debutants waltz. The gentleman stops back with the right foot, and pauses for three full beats.
The record for the past eight with_an obatruction on Croydon taking of unnecessary and inexcu-. 12,100 years is:
aerodrome, are not included; nor enbla risks are the principal causes, dora thelat include two fatal as in the vast majority of road ac- Fatal acedis. Dentha, gliding accidents. Three fatal accidents.
13
0
10
43
27
15
17
47
43
French
air
silent-ig_travelling #ying "cir- euses" are included, and one to a pilot below the permissible age for Enying.
UNNECESSARY RISKS Examination of the causes of the accidents shows very clearly that all of them could, theoretically, have of a
been avoided, and that many liner in the Channel, and the them could very fasily have been collision of a French nir liner avoided.. Human
The following table shows the 1927 figures of fatal accidents during 1928 the past 14 years:
1920
1930
No. of Fatal
1931
The French Air Force, twice the number of aeroplanes,} flow last year not more than 38, 1921 000,000 miles. The casualties in 1922 cluded 45 deaths.
with
sqdḥs. needts. Deaths.
1932
1933
33
22
1934
32
34
The Joas
1923
42% 32
B2
19
54
41
58
54
40
DO
31
42
-82
.44
1931
86
45
19:2
88
34
The continuous process of re-1933 equipment kteadily increases the 1934 average speed of the Air Force. Moreover, the year's remarkably)
882 39
93
20
CIVIL FLYING
The British Air Force mllenge 1924 1926 in 1021 was probably not more than 5,000,000, and in 1930 it was 1920 about 20,000,000. The mileage la 1927 based on hours flown, speeds, and 1928 other data. It is not an official 1929 gure, but is a close, restrained 1930- estimate.
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good record as regards accidents The proportional casualties in
is the more striking in view of civil flying cannot be shown until
the increased flying in air exer- eface and manoeuvres, under condi tions approximating service,
active
reports
are complete as to
anonnt of flying done. It wi}! probably be found that this has increased by 100 per cent., or mure,
In last year's total one accident during the year, for not only has la included in which an Air Force Imperial Airways greatly increased and a civil machine were involved, its operational activities, but there This accident, therefore, ia nino are also to be taken into account:
The Krowth of inland Included in the list of civil flyingj
linca; necidenta..
The reduction in the casualty- rate
la very striking when examined on the time basis. In 1921 there was one death in every 2,238 hours flown, in 1930-
A great increase in air taxi and special charter work; and
A stondy, but slow, increase in: the number of private aeroplane?
ong
owners.
air
crror and
of
Regulations, supervision and medical tests are steadying factors, but there appears to be a need for tests which would eliminate pilots who, although skilful, are tempera- mentally disposed on occasion to be Indiscreet.
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