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DONALD DUCK
OH, BOY!
SAVED BLAZING PLANE, GETS V.C.
"THE plane was on fire and by the time my, whiskors wore singed it looked as if it would blow up. We made for our parachutes, but when I got mine I found it was on fire too.”
This in part of a letter
home in
whichi Sergeant
John Hannah, an R.A.F. wireless operator, tells how ho won the V.C.
Hannalt, who is only 18, is the youngest recipient of the V.C. pince the war began.
Single-handed, he extinguished fro when the plane was hit by anti-aircraft fro over Antwerp on September 16, after the gunner and navigator and baled but.
rear.
The pilot, who brought the machino safely home, has already been awarded the DP.C.
"I am really lucky to be alive," Bays Bergeant 11annali's letter.
"The plane was a blazing mass. And a terrific target for the Ack. Lick.
Quick Thinking
"I did some quick thinking and started throwing out the flaming mass
SERGEANT J, JANNAHI
The omelal account of Sergeant afïannali's work says he forced hi
way through the flames to get two extinguishers, with
hd which fought the Ara for 10 minutes.
"During this time ammunition) on the 'klie' was going of 10 penny and the heat was terrific.
Finally I got the fire out and jwa limped home and landed at bur base.
and
"I hear that AA. chiefs RAP. officers have been having khe 'kita' photographed from all angles, and I have had so many visits from the big shola that I am of beginning to feel quite a big shotļinside the aircraft,
myself.
When these were empir he continued to beat out the flamer with his log book. Meanwhile thousands of rounds ammunition were exploding
Icat from the fire was so intense "I have been congratulated on that all the aluminium sheet metal conduct. It seems to have been the on the floor of the cockpit was Prst time a fire has been put out melted away, leaving only thd ku,the, sir.""
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Birth
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January 24, 1941.
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By Walt Disney
TREASURE
CHEST. SALE LAST
DAY
RE
ATREASURE
ON
BARGAINS
of The
SPITFIRE
mono-
Britain's "Spitfire" figh- ter was really born 15 years ago! It began its amazing career in 1925 as Supermarine S4 plane, designed and built to take part in the Schnei- der Trophy race off Balti- more, U.S.A., and piloted by H. C. Baird. The 'plane, after setting up a
Revon
the speed course of rounds totalling 217 miles.
What appeared to be a silver bird dancing in the sunlight was the seaplane banking round the first pylon off Bembridge. Across the open scu il dashed to West Witter-
by
the age of 11 sold newspapers on the streets of his home town.
*
The "Spitfire" was evolved by the late Mr R. G. Mitchell, chief engineer and designer of the Supermarine Aviation Works, Southampton.
. Only 30 years old,when he designed the first. Super- marine S4, he laboured un- with undaunted courage against failing health, for
record of 226 m.p.h., crash Arthur Lamsley ceasingly,
ed in a test flight before the contest.
Two years later the Air Ministry took
up the Schneider Trophy chal- lenge through the Royal Air Force. In the contest off Venice Flight-Lieuten-
Webster
won the Trophy for Britain in Supermarine S5 with a speed of 281.65 m.p.l.
ant
Flying Officer Waghorn, R.A.F., won the Trophy again in 1929 in an improved Super- marine SG at a speed of 328.63 m.ph. During the same year I watched Squadron Leader Orlebar, now Director-General of Training at the Air Minis- try, create a world record of 357.7 m.p.h. with the same machine.
Came 1931-the last of the Schneider contests when Bri- tain won the Trophy out. right, with three successive -wins
✰ ☆
The day of the great race arrived, September 12. But what a day! Visibility was reduced to about a mile with blinding rain and mist, and the wind howled half a gale. A more unfriendly day for high speed racing could not be imagined. The rules provid- ed for unfavourable weather; and the international racing officials abandoned the race till next day.
Sunday, September 13-un- lucky number to the super- stitious, but the luckiest day in British aviation-dawned a magnificent day, sun-floodet and with a "visibility of over 15 miles. Huge crowds of spectators lined the shores of South Hampshire ́ and the 'northern coast of the Isle of
Wight.
In the testing area off Cal-
ing, off Chichester Harbour, rose higher, swooped down round the next pylon and on along the 14 miles' leg of the course fringing Southsea" and Portsmouth towards the pylon in the Solent.
M * .* Lieutenant Boothman flew superbly. His machine was steady as it hurtled through the air at 343 miles an hour! He shattered the world's lap record in this first round.
Round after round he flash- ed by the spectators; flying so low that his figure could be seen crouching in the cockpit. The crowd could never have realised a fraction of the colossal strain on the pilot in this dash through the air, faster than any man had ever. flown in a distance flight.
In oxactly 38 minutes 22 seconds, at an average speed of 340 m.p.h. Flight Lieuten- ant Boothman won the Schneider-Trophy-for-Great- Britain, and presaged the "Spitfire" fighter. A few days later Flight Lieutenant George Stainforth in the same winning monoplane created the world's record of 407,5 m.p.h., in a series of dive tests from a height of 15,000ft, into a measured mile in Spithead.
The "Spitfire" had arrived! All the experience gained in these Schneider Trophy con- tests was embodied in the pro- duction of the single-acster fighter which was to become the wartime terror of the air. It was powered with Rolls- Royce engines designed by the late Sir Henry Royce, who at
21 dozen years during which he successfully re- designed his first creation and made it possible for a British, machine to attain a world record with a speed of 407 m.p.h.
It was a great blow to British aviation when he died suddenly at the early age of 42, a few months before the delivery of the first fighter Squadron of Spitfires to the Air Ministry in July, 1938.
Designer Mitchell, although born at Stoke, made his home in Hampshire,' and the "Spit- fire" is á Hampshire machine, created, perfected and pro- duced in the works on the northern shores of South- ampton Water.
Over 1,000 years ago King Alfred' founded and built the first British Navy on this same bit of Hampshire const. Alfred's ships cleaned up the invading Danes in a West Solent battle In 897 A.D. and "established the beginning~or~ British sca power. "Spit- fire" fighters, arriving 1,043 years after, are to-day shoot- ing down invading German bombers in the skies over these same historic English waters.
Recently over Spithead and the Solent it might almost have been a repetition of the Schneider Trophy races when squadrons of "Spitfires" were hurtling through the air after German bombers, sinking one every minute with the fire from eight machine guns.
History repeats itself to those who invade Britain's shores.
Some New War Means
Are Old To Magicians
AGICIANS have
shot Castle in Southampton MAGng tricks
Water a small silver sea- plane waited near the start- ing line, rising and falling un- easily on the short, choppy A waves. One o'clock came. gun boomed! A dull roar followed immédiately, and a great splash of spray told that Flight Lieutenant Boothman, R.A.F., England's first choice of pilot, had taken the air in Supermarine S-OB.
His mighty engine, sensitive to the touch of his fingers, roared as the seaplane took off, circling at about 150ft, then landing gracefully, skim- ming the shimmering blue water like a great gull. It was a magic moment. The crowds within sight gasped as they watched the sonplane .when ngain rise suddenly Lloutenant Boothman opened his engine full throttle and flashed the starting-line into
more than ever this season, but without a single exception they are based on known physical foundations that can be mas. tered by anyone with a proper training in legerdemain, ac- cording to Mrs. Harry Hou- dini, who has just returned to her home in Los Angeles from a round of conventions of the Pacific Coast Association of Magicians.
"It is a mistake to teach children superstitions about supernatural phenomena, says the widow of the man who was world famous for his illusions, and who spent much of his lifetime exposing and debunking the so-called "BU. pernatural."
"Master magicians with few ex ceptions are franker to-day than they've ever been in admitting that even their most" mystifying. per- formances have natural explana- tions, and that all forms of alleged
psychle phenomena are włu:out foundation." Mrs Houdini says.
Magicians spent considerable time at the conventions, discussing the extent to which nations at war are now using some of the most spectacular tricks of the trade,
Mrs Houdini says it was her husband who taught the inventor of the rip-cord parachute, how to fold huge pieces of silk into a small package, a trick first dentonstrated on the stage of the Hippodrome Theatre in New York.
Prior to the
the World War, Houdini himself gave to the Navy Depar!- ment diving suit which he per- fected for one of his acts,
for a number of years, magi clans have startled their audiences with "devil fire," harmless looking bits
of *paper that suddenly bum into flames, a device reported to have been scattered in large quan- tities by war planes in Europe recently.
Camouflage is but a large seale adaptation of principles known and practiced by magicians for cen turies, according to Mrs Houdini, and even recent stories of new "invisible paint", applied to ROXD~ plane are "old stuff to profes sional prestiglatóra.
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