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THE NAVY THAT FLIES
THE Fleet Air Arm was once
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branch of the Royal Air Force. The Navy contributed three-quar- ters of the pilots and all the observers; it was administered by the Air Force ashore, and by the Navy when it served afloat.
This arrangement worked very well because it worked on unbounded good. will; but it had certain disadvantages and in due course the Fleet Air Arm ceased to be a branch of the Royal Air Force. It is now a part of the Royal Navy, and it lives mostly in aircraft carriers and the larger men- of war that carry aircraft.
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Now in certain parts of the const there is a great deal of co-operation - between the Air Force and the Navy,
If you remember they gave a re- markable demonstration of this on Trafalgar Day, when a convoy escort- ed by the Navy was attacked by Ger- min bombera, The Air Force fighters came whistling out from life coast like a stream of machine-gun bullets in de- fence of the convoy. Twelve enemy machines took part in that attack. Only five returned to Germany.
At one of these points where the two services are in close touch, à squadron of Fleet Air Arm fighters on board an aircraft carrier recently got orders to fly off and take a spell ashore.
I think the iden was to give them a rent because they had had a lot of gruelling fights and possibly to give them opportunities for certain specialised training. Anyhow they cocked an eye to windward and gave a hitch to their trousers and did all the things sailors do when they are told to go somewhere and do something, and off they went--streaming up from the deck of their carrier one after the other like bees going up from the alighting board,
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WHEN I found them they had come to earth on a bleak headland with hangars and rows of huts, the only things that broke the skyline.
They agreed that one good thing they had in plenty, and that was fresh air. There is normally only one Aound on an 'aerodrome-the roar of propellors o engines are warmed through and machines take off or alight. Whenever thoro was a' full in this one heard the cry of gulls above the cliffs, and the faint grumble of the surf.
Working in conjunction with the [ness in the sky to castward which Air Force they instituted a con was reflected in the puddles. The tinuous naval patrol across a part cold wind blowing off the land, of the North Sea from dawn to carrying silvery wisps of rain across dusk. One day was very like an- the aerodrome, smelt of heather and other except that sometimes the fog the hills. came rolling in from the sea and,
The engines were being warmed, spoke into it. The observer did the unless the visibility was too low for lying or they intercepted an enemy through-that meant that the naval same and they both laughed. They reconnalsannce or bombing machine fighting.machines, drawn a little were finishing a conversation they one patrol was very like another. to seaward of the ranks of A.P.started in the hut,-in-that rush of This saundron, of Fleet Air Arm machines, were roaring like all the air and uproar it was their secret. We climbed up Into our cockpits. fighters is carrying out, day after bulls of Bashan.
Each pilot and observer walked They were all two-seater fighters.
day, what I shared with them for
a few houra,
to their allotted machinen. Two of
ONE observer was so obvious-
First of all a word about the kit them stopped to exchange a remark Full flying kit conalsts of a com- drowned by the deafening roar of bination suit like the skin of a the engines in the slip-stream, ly unfamiliar with the situation teddy bear. On top of that goes a where normal speech is, of course, that a member of the mainten wind-proof combination sult with a
an Impossibility.
high callar lined with fleece. Then
comes a life-saving waistcoat.
ance personnel-a cheerful red-
The speaker reached out for the faced person with little drops of This can be inflated in a few tube of the other's headphone and rain on his eyebrows-leant over
moments by the wearer, and for
some obscure reason Is known
technically na a 'Mae West.
over
The parachute harness buckles onj this. i. is a cumbersome arrangement to walk about in, but it can be relcased in a second, and there are moments when it gives its wearer quite a lot of moral support.
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Lastly there is a flying helmet with ZBW, 355 motres (845 k.c.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles)
gloves, and fleece-lined flying boots. "World Affairs" and Other)
carphone
attachments,
gauntlet
Now pleture rows of wooden huts,
something like what one imagines
a mining camp to be, rising out of a
London Relays
Radio Programme Broadcast by sea of mud churned up by lorries ZBW on a Frequency of 045 k.es.
one of these huts, warned by and 8-11 pm.
on 0.32 m.c's. per
the edge of the cockpit and de- monstrated Д few essentials such as the stowage of the para- chute, the switches of the wire- less telephone that connected the machine with the base, the re- lense gear of the gun, how the strap clipped the observer into his seat.
After that he grinned and winhad me a happy landing and disappear. ed. And then the roaring, grow n little louder and the ground flowed bumptly away beneath us, turned in a wide circle and receded.
It was quite far beneath us by tho time I had finished fiddling about with my straps and switches and trays of machine-gun ammunition and looked over the edge to sco what was happening.
It was doing funny things- the earth we had left behind- tilting on edge a bit, and a mare and her foal in a field and some sheep on the edge of a cliff seem- ed quite unconscious that they were grazing at a most impossi ble angie; and there was a rush- ing wind that sang In the wires and a rather queer feeling of lightness in the region of the tummy.
I screwed my head round and saw the other fighters, qulte close to un Their movement was like that of boala, rising and dipping slightly on the surface of an invisible sen. The real sea, was far beneath, us, dark greenish grey, and fnded.
then it
The observer in the next machine was blowing his nose on a pocket handkerchief. I rather envied him that pocket handkerchief: I couldn't get at mine through all those layers of flying kit. Perhaps it didn't inat- ter, up there above the clouds. They stretched beneath us like an Arctic panorama, with little dark streaks which was the sea thousands of feet below showing through rifts in a while floor that looked like pack Ice, and cloud mountains in the for distance catching the first rays of the rising sun.
Not only did handkerchiefs not matter, but nothing seemed to me to matter very much, because we had been climbing atendily for some time and the altitude produced a curious feeling of detachment. It seemed impossible to recapture any emotion: one was sure only of peace: a sort of Nirvann; and a rushing wind tearing through empty space: blue sky above and n white light gleaming on the cloud floor beneath. A little voice apolte in my earphone-a buzzing mumble. It was the pilot ançaking. Keep n good look-out. That was what we were there for, of course. Somewhere out of the cloud mountains to the south-east, or out-of the blus of space, a speck might appear, or a cluster of specks, and we should be after them full split. And death would be abroad in that sunny emptiness. It was queer to think of death, up there in all that peace.
ONE of the pilots-the youngest, aged twenty- said one evening that the hunt was grand. It was the kill that wasn't so funny.
German bombing He himself had intercepted a machine one afternoon and a grim game of touch-lust began in a series of gigantic cloud valleys.
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through at 200 yards range. But then, when you saw the poor devils spinning down nose first through the clouds, with smoke pouring from the engine, It wasn't so good. I hated that part of the business."
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So that's how they feel about it. Occasionally disastor comes to one of our machines. This mmo pilot-I think he is the youngest fighting pilot in the Fleet Air Arm had engine trouble when on patrol over the North Sea the other day. Down he came from ten thousand feet-planing down In the direction of a trawler be remembered seeing carlior.
Colombo Deini
He hit the water at 90 miles an Belay - "World Haiphong 9.30 London Affairs."
OREIGN EXCHANGE and General hour, slap into a fifteen-foot swell, 0.45 A Classical Request Pro-
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and about three miles from the traw TammeGavotte, Leopold Stokow Banking Business transacted. ski and the Philadelphia Orchestra; FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year ler. Another fighter in his patrol
periods Cur
The Hell Song, Millan: Korjus (Soprano) or shorter petes which will be quoted on Baw him going down and followed
him through the clouds. hestra; The Barber of with Orchestra;:
application ACCOUNTƐ also opened in Overture,Philharmonic-
Local Currency and Sterling with interest trawler's crow were below decks Symphony cond. by Arturo Toscanini; Prologue The Bank Hand Office In London
and all the traffic of a camp: Intand on Short Wave from 1-2.15 perchestra of New York allowed at rates obtainable on application and to attract their attention the
parafin stove and lit by a single second.
hurricane lamp, the fighting pilots and observers were pulling on their
H.K.T.
12.15 p.m. Short Service of Inter-to "1 Fagliacel."A word allow me, undertakes Executiar & Trustee business undamaged plane circled round, But not to prate, Marlo Bastola and claims recovery of British Income firing an occasional burst of ma Tax overpaid, on which may be (Baritone) and Members of La Scala Teled of any of its agencies and chine-gun fire.
Milan; "Cavalleria Rus-1 Branches.
flying kit. They were all pretty cession. young-two of the pilots were Mid-
12.30. Songs by Lillan Harvey and Antermezzo,
12.45. Creek Philharmonio Orch. 1.00. Local Time Signal and Wen-
shipmen, one a Sub-Lieutenant-willy Fritsch, South African. There wore two wero Several Marine Officera. 'Petty Officers, ex-telegraphlat Air ther Report:
Gunners and so on.
1.03. Dance Music by Jack Harria and His Orchestra.
1.30. Reuter, and Rugby Press,
ments.
Symphony
New Light Tiny Orchestra; Your is Frozen, Han Alda,
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Journal
I SEEM to remember that in Weather Forecast and Announce the The Man from the Star of the
the last war there was a good 1.45. Chopin-Concerto No. 2 in F deal of rather feverish almost minor, Op. 31,-Arthur Rubinstelb macabro gaiety among the (Piano) and The London Symphony fighting pilots along the front. Orchestra conducted by John Bar- They made jokes about death.
birolll.
2.15. Close down. 0.00. Dance. Music,
0.68, Closing local Stock Quota tions.
7.00. London Relay-Musical Illa of Thirty, Forty and Fifty Years Ago. 7.30. London Relay The Newe
Symphony Orchestra cond. by
The Composer: Wallz In A Flat
I A CAMIDOR,
MADREST
Maier, Isolde Menges (Violin) with Hongkong
Plano accomp., Lullaby, Op. 18, No.
4, Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano) with Orch: Sonatine for Plano, Jeux Fisheries D'Eau. Alfred Cortot (Piano).
11.0 Close down,
NEW PAA. AGENT -- Mr. Delaney Going On Leave Boon
Research Station
I haven't noticed any of that in this war. I thought they all looked soberly cheerful. Much the same expressions framed by the leather helmets and lit by the flame of the hurricane lamp as 18.00, Local Time, Signal, Weather could recall on the faces in the Report and Announcements.
8.03 Brahms-Coneerio. In 1 Flat Mr. Owen Johnson, who will act as changing room before a rather
Major,
Op. 88 Artur Schnabel, managing agent for Pan American Important football match,.
(Piano) and The B.B.C. Symphony Airways in Hongkong when Mr. Phil Then one by one, burdened by the Orchestra conducted by Sir. Adrian Delaney goes on leave to Miami, Now on Sale
Florida shortly, arrived yesterday by they want harness,"
aquelching Boult
3.50 Sindio-Talk on Paychology the China Clipper from Manila. through the mud towards the land- ing ground where the fighters were by Father G. Byrno, 8, 7. 5: My Dor's Johnson has been stationed with Pan at
Feelings and Mine, jud
American office in Manila.
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of
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The trawler's crew decided reasonably enough that they were being attacked by a Ger- man machine and stayed below. In the meanwhile the machine still doated. The pilot land his observer
and although climbed shaken they managed to launch their collapsible dinghy; but that in some way became entangled with the tall of the maching, and the pilot in try ing to tree it got his hand nipped in the hinge of the rudder,
out
very
50 Uiere he was up to his waist in icy water, clamped by his wrist to a machine that at any moment might cock up her tall and dive to the bottom.
The observer realised the situation in the trawler and most gallantly decided to try to swim to her for So off hotel, supported by help West.
circling The other fighter was helplessly overhead: she must have looked like distracted mother pea- wit. However, her strange behaviour reassured the trawler's crew.
They came up on deck and finally sighted the wreckage of the plane. the rescue and cama. rushing to houled the observer and the pilot on board.
9.92 The Regimental Band Mr. J. L. Fleming of the Bishop Morning Post Building. Stoking for all they were worth they A bank of gray low-lying cloud, M. Coldstream Ginards Ruddi- Trust Co., Honolulu was the only
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in a day or two they were as right as trivets and back on patrol again,
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