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Soviet Russia, by compulsory agreement of the type she has unsuccessfully sought to impose on Finland, has already gained several strategic Baltic naval -and-air-bases, and a-Finnish capitulation which complete the Bolshevik hegemony in the in- land sea.
In one respect Russian ag-
gression
against tho Baltic States temporarily favours Ger many, since it provides ice-free ports through which Russian trade can pass to the Reich,
thus improving the route through which war supplies can be provided.
But the price at which the Third Reich acquires this minor advantage appears to be very high indeed. It is no less than
A
FINLAND
LATVIA ESTONIA
WHITE RUSSIA
UKRAINE
ADOLF: "And to think I complained about being encircled!”
The
pilot they
all look
FIGHTER pilot friend
of mine, speaking of courage, sald to me the other' day: "There's nothing to an air scrap, really. It's just a matter of getting your guns going first. The ex- eltement stops you worrying. Not like the jobs our 'X Chasers' do every day. Now, they take quis!"
X Chasers. .. dealers in the unknown quantity." A fine nickname for the men whose dally job is to fling new and untried 400 m.p.h, planes about the sky in what appears to be a crazy effort to smash them_to_ pleces. Fortunately with rare success.
Nowadays the X Chasers-- test pilots to you-are working overtime at aerodromnes Some- where Throughout England. Most numerous are the "Ac- ceptance Test Pilots," who put every one of the dozens of fighters and bombers which are produced dally through rigorous trials before turning them over to the R.A.F.
Though their daily power-
acrobatics dives and
would scare the skins off you and me, these pilots have jobs which are mere routine compared with the Hollywood-like lives of the
the giving to Russia of a foot- G.B.S. HAS
hold which may well lead to a
complete Russian hegemony in!
the entire Baltic region.
This was obviously the aim
of the Russians when they were angling with London for the right to impose guarantees on the Baltic States should an Anglo-Russian agreement be concluded. Russin's contention then was that unless such guar- antees were imposed, Russin's position in that area could be jeopardised by Germany.
.
HIS OWN
A.R.P.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW does but he has not carry a gas-mask devised his own A.R.P., and has come up to London to place orders for
One hat, lined to safeguard the Shavian skull sealnst strapnel;
Ono white coat, as a warning to motorists; and One white walking sick.
"My warden has fixed me up with a gas mask at my Hertfordshire home," he said, "but I find it a bit of a nuisance to carry about with me."
THE BEARD IS O.K.
"What about the beard?" "Oh, that," he Inughed. "The war- den managed to fix it up quite com- fortably, thanks."
up to
by A. P. Luscombe Whyte
BRITAIN'S output of warplanes is
note
axceeding a thousand a month, arul this figuro will soon be oven greater. What happens before thara brand new machines are sent out to take their place in the R.A.F.'s "front line "?
This article tells you of the heroic work that is carried out behind the scenes by airmen whose exploits aro as daring as any you have read of since this war began.
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and
"type" testers.
The type tester's mount is the Arst and untried model of a new design, which he must take up (not knowing that it will not nose-dive suddenly at 1,000 feet) and submit to every aero- nautical torture. On his report depends the future of the new production, type big-scalo modification, or scrapping.
"experimental "
Since hundreds of men may have worked for months, and £100,000
have been may spent on this one small plano, It is an anxious group of do- officials signers, technicians, and Air Ministry men which gathers on the nerodrome tar- mac while the type tester cases it gently into the air.
At first he keeps to straight tests
of speed, climb, turn, revs.-noting dozens of dial readings on the pad strapped to his knee. Then comes the real ultimato trial of the plane's strength, and of its ability to withstand any possible war
manœuvre.
Pilots call it the "Nine Gs" test, and it would kill most of us. Even the type testors-picked from hun- dreda for their hardiness--frankly
hate it.
Before taking off; the pilot's body and limbs are tightly bound around with bandages to keep his organs in place under the tremendous strain. His cars are plugged with wool. He is strapped rigidly into his cat.
Though he will have to climb Into the intense cold-maybe as low as 80 below zero-at 30,000 ft.. he cannot wear bulky clothing. He must be free to jump quickly In emergency from the small cockpit.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
Nearly six miles above the nero- drome he levels out and pushes the plano's nose down into a vertical dive. Speed-jumps from 200 m.p.h. to 260, 300, 360. The engine, full out, acreams and the whole plane shuddera.
Four hundred, 450, 500... until they Bro diving at terminal speed" near 500 m.p.h. The pilot opens his mouth and screams at the top of his voice to tense his muscles and relieve the sudden pressure on his car drums.
Untesa his plane is fitted with self-registering
dials, or with a cinema camera which aims their readings, the plot must keep an noting the jumping needles, For a minute he plunges at second, faster than a revolver bullet, from 30,000 10 6,000 feet. Then, judging the time to a second, he pulls back with all his strength on the stick,
third of .000 feet
The plane is a bare 1,000 feet high by the time, the dive has been turned into straight flight, and during these agonising seconds centrifugal force has been pulling the tuselage and the pilot's body downwards with a force nine times.
The pilot's that of gravity.
Appar- ent weight incronnes to over half- a-ton, forcing him into his scnt, dragging at his arma, draining blood from his head and eyes so that his sight goes black.
No wonder tho watchers below gasp with relief as the plane shoots upward in a half-milo zoom back into the sky.
Though scientific design-with. its wind tunnels and models--now produces almost fool-proof planes,. there have been times when the wings of now type, bearing the wolght of nine planes during the Nine Os tost, have suddenly folded. upwards like a blown umbrella, leaving the naked fuselage to plungo to earth unchecked.
One type testor aurvived auch a. crash. His wings sheared off at the bottom of a dive and the fuselogo. crashed, burying its engine 12 feet In the earth. Yet the pilot la stili.. fying to-day....
And hoko is one danger the test: pilot dreads. For when a broken: wing folds down over his cockpit.. there can be no escape.
and:
Civil test pilots make earn good salaries, especially in: America, where a first-rate man сяд ask £1,000 for putting one new plane through all its paces.
Not so RAF. test pilota..
30.00% Most of them join experimental. stations for a year or two and fly new, untried planes as part of. their regular jobs--or did in | peace- time. Their reward is perhaps to: be assigned to a world record at- tempt.
Russia-to-day evidently is aceing to it that that position will not be jeopardised even by pressure. on Germany, The Finland, exercised by Soviet Russia, is so similar to tho pres- sure with which the Third Reich has disrupted other parts of Europe that it is possible oven the Scandinavian neutral bloc will soon have to reconsider ita he continued. "Moreover, it will «That boy ought to make a good husband for Daughter-I've been every time!" as my HAF, friend. joint policy of neutrality:
G. B. S. remembers the last wor well enough to know the danger of falling shrapnel. "I'm getting a hat made to keep the stuff out," he said. His new hat is to be lined with n form of bakelita...........;)
"They tell me it will be quite safe,"
look nice, and be very much lighter than the steel type."
Now in war-time faster and faster planes will be coming from the factories Power dives may BOʻ from 600 m.ph. to 700,tos..
"Give me a scrap or a lernst raid.
borrowin', monay from him for six months and he still comes back!!! | aaya,