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DISNEY AND
Why are there so many THE LITTLE
flying accidents?
N three or four years safety in the air will reached a high standard.
different
be
It re breaks out. It must restricted by bulkheads, and Are-Aghting apparatus must be pro- Kood vided.
No final rules about anti-icing! equipment have been evolved, though ice Is the biggest danger in requirements, the air to-day. Research favour hot alt new pipes along the leading edges of the
multi- wings. mint be able to,
10.
time. Many have approach aids are being planned for already being appiled
navigation
and One of their VIIF R/T, so these tuý sets bring safety to every airplane in the engined machines
mayBritish aircraft--is that af sky.
take off zafely it one engine falls.
Closely allied to this rule is the
By then nearly all the radar alds developed in the war will have been
amply provided for civil airplanes GEE set for navigation weighs 2016, wing loading-the weight supported RULES about the uses of diferent
be
The Ministry of Supply miniature and new standards construction and of performance will is an improvement on I. too.
of strength in compared with the original 70-and by every square foot of the wing, have become universal,
Air Ministry have set up
The Before the war no airliner exceeded Things to-day are
GEE a wing loading of 30. To-day ground station all over Britain, over many are over 50 and a few over Here are details of various aspects Empire. They hope i may
not so ideal.most of Europe and of civil flying.
inuch of the 60. adopted as the world-wide naviga- tlon system. It provides pinpoint And that most of the big airliners used if necessary,
poslilons at any time, and con already carry radio and radarproach.
for a blind up-| equipment which enables them to fly with pinpoint accuracy from place to weight, place. But radar has not yet beaten designed purely for civil airplanes. dense fog on landing.
the new Decet navigator, The service, hire and maintenance of a set costs £250.
rador
Similar to it, and comparable
be
Some airdromes have blind approach beacon and standard| bearn approach-both etlletent until tish airliners-though it in
Thus we have already to big Bet- the last touchdown,
Ministry of Supply teams fcientists are trying to develop a safe blind-landing system.
strict enough. PICAO are soon to types of aircraft are not, nearly issue their own regulations.
be carried only in multi-engined air- They will require tht passengers liners, except in special cazes.
REPORT ON AN INVESTIGATION by KEITH PULVERMACHER
wing
PEOPLE
By “OBSERVER",
News Item-Walt Disney arrived in England recently on his way to Ireland to make a film called "The Little People," involving Barry Fitzgerald and other real characters in a plece, which he sold will reflect Celtic twilight, leprechauns and the art of Walt Disney, THE Leprechauns, the little THE
fairy people that the Irish see and the English 'don't, have taken Walt Disney to their hearts and wouldn't he be the next: Lord Mayor of Dublin if the Leprechauns could vote?
ran
Loading, gure is imposed, but the blems is likely to be found in the jeta drop of Irish in the movie
At present no maxinu Fengine-failure-on-take-ot rule pre-engine with or without propellers. Answer to many construction pro-
Some say it's because there's Yents very high loadings.
It will provide such an abundance of relatively cheap pbŵver that over- those
himself but there are loading, high wing leading, and high
who hold that JEW rules are being enforced for necessary. And It is ely
Janding speeds
the will become un Leprechauns are aleller seating.
safer against firc.
out to spite to be
English, for the hard things they have been saying about Leprechauns-and about
of the smaller ones-radio and radar many of the airports in Britain still ofpids for everything except blind NE
landing. Who is astonishing is that Iock the ground equipment which is the essential already provided in the airplanes.
counterpart of that
Until they do, the enly answer to dense fog is diversion to a fog-free Delt
LTHOUGH
chyll
the
The sent must be of sufficient i teeth not to break up in a fairly heavy crash and must be securely THE British delegation at the next Walt Disney. fastened to the floor. And the pas-T senger must have a strap round hin] body and not over his krees.
Jealous
even
PICAO meeting
are likely 10 S speeds and distances flown be-
raise again the question of the free- inos! British
dom of the air, airields are only just beington Heard in Britain and the Civil the people who have been injured their air. Certain areas and
come greater, the Air Registra-seating rules would have saved half, It has been calculated that the new equipped with modern blind flying Aeronautics Board in the USA, are
Many countries nids, the big airliners already carry insisting on
sony as ine
higher standards diRelent bulky aircraft construction. Soon PICAO
whole countries are forbiciden. (Provisionn! International
This jeopardisus safely, Aviation
Civil precaution must be taken, including the safest way for years to come wil Organisation) will by down even higher standards for all terials, teakproof joints and proper storms, high ground and telug
lay the use of non-indaminable ma-be to go round, and not through, That itaway does not necessarily follow cor-
ridors.
radio sets.
They will soon he replaced mlaiature sets.
52 countries which are members,
of
in past becidents,
Anti-Bre
rules say
ventilation.
Is there a
market
for culture?
BY CHARLES RAY
Millions will recognise the stirrings
that
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True it is that Home Londoners that write for the papers took a dim view, as they say, of Dis- ney's Irish expedition in search of fairy lore for a new pleture. There was John Grime of the Sunday Ex- press, may the saints forgive him, who sald:
"In some thousands of years no one has ever seen a Leprechaun any more than anyone has ever seen the Indian rope trick. Walt Disney must think we are half-wits.”,
"I don't know what Disney thinks opinion of people who don't believe they are but I have my own in us." reported one Leprechaun,
THERE have been accidents lately enused by inexperienced alr crews and bad servicing, but on the whole the standard is high.
The standard for civil ground crews is higher than in the air and RAF. But It Is doubtful whether some of the pilots are belag given enough practice in bad weather fly-quoted by a Dubliner who said the ing.
little man-no bigger than a pint of Spare parts for certain American he spoke.
eider--was doing the rope trick us CTT'S a clever story," said the "IT'S
liners have been scarce since the end film magnate to the of their own hearts in Ponderevo's of a million people will attend one made in British factories and they seen the London Evening News which
We live in an era when a quarter taken by the AltB
of Lease-iend. Action author, "but this industry is words. It corresponds to their own season of promenade concerts; when are now available for civil, but not took Disney apart
10 have them added, that his fairy friend hadn't It was just as well, the Irishman built on ninepences. What, I impulse towards the good," so far outside
sverel, indefinable must ask myself, will the nine- as it is directed to material improve-lar
yearnings. This Shakespeare draws all-night queues RAF, Dakotas and Liberators.
the theatre; when pennies think?"*
for making his ment is strong.
editions
cartoon characters speak with Ameri- self-confident and articulate, so that no one dare malign and, and the clamour for serious airliners. Servicing on the pre-war
complication of modern i human temperament. it as a regrettable weakness of the when the circulation of newspapers force in the RAF has been started Dallas?" demanded the paper's citie,
books is incessant
"Is there any reason why Peter and insatiable; man and boy basis is
DIG! possible.
no longer Pan should be turned into something Improvement, it is shakler self-doubt evening classes and adult education for civli airplanes. A foreman
Now a system like that in acceptable only to Kansas City or Se for as it gropes after cultural is on the constant Increase: when for entertaing, unpolitical and unorganised.
1s Jympson Harman, who added: movements of all kinds attract armies specialist tradesman carries out pro-
responsible for seeing of men and women in search of self perly his daily or periodical inspec Captain Hook, talking with a bowery 'Can you imagine that old Erian, improvement. of
accent? Will you put up with
If they are too ignorant or disinterest- an American Alice
Let the American; have In Wonderland ed-but send us a separate sound Arack."
med are
Wherever
-engaged calering for your leisure occupations, in they ask themselves that question. Do you want more than the facile and the evanescent for your ment? How far does popular interest in serious art extend? Is there a Trevelyan's market of culture?
I believe that the common consistently underrate the potentialities,
PRIVILEGE
pou-
Wells are sold by the hundred thou immense
Shaw and A new factor in civil dying is the can accents.
TRY THE HEIGHTS
110:s.
that each
it?
Dublin where McKenzie Porter wrote There were na sneh hard words in well to the landon Sunday Chronic'e:
No one who reads a book like G. M.
Socini History England (whose tremendous sales are answers in themselves an indication of a
I repeat what John Moreley told ground engineer has to be licensed people's growing predisposition for rewarding his audience at
Every air crew member and every forms of recreation) can fail to be
Diraingham Town by the ARE. impressed by the plant strides which Hall, on October 5, 1870, in an popular tasie has made in the last address on "Popular Culture": 100 years.
"I know it is said-you will never The idea that there is a God-given
get plain people to respond to it; it MY survey has shown that most order uf privilege in all that concerns an cra
If we are still a long way from is a thing for Intellectuut dilettanti material well-being bus been rumbled generally admired than
when Bach will be
factors of air safely are more and moralising virtuosi. Well, we co looked after, but there is still too by the people. Being no longer able doop, we are also universes removed honestly tried, what the commonest 2-few-years" attitude,
boops-a- not know, because we have never yet much of the "it-will-be-all-right-it-tell one from the other in this ethereal to undermine the people's belief in from the gin shops where the in- people will er will not respond to. their own claim to the infinite possi-dustrial proletariat плее bilities of material advancement, the squalid and besotted leisure when its the height and pitch to which our ICAO decides. Then is the creator of Mickey Mouse, Pinocchio
"We are never yet. I
We could use war surplus reactionary transfers his attention to working day was done,
I say, tried the idea of privilege in culture.
people are capable of rising."
time 16 adopt the international and Bambi is here to capture the
mood of the Leprechaun."
It is no longer possible to object in public to the installation of baths in working-men's houses
on the ground that baths are meant only for cranks and aristocrats; but it is still easy to get away with exactly the same argument in respect of guud art.
spent
According To Culbertson
(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson)
Doubts of the people's capacties for tive play. In
Very few hands demand superia- | reached, a contract the use and enjoyment
almost all
of six spades cases anduubled. of physical ordinary care and foresight are the comforts spring from the same back-only ingredients necessary to success, tables. At table ward-looking motives
The heart king was led at both as doubts of Once in their capacity for beauty and spirirames along that will really permit dummy, then led and passed the a while, however, a deal led two rounds of trumps, ending in 1, South ruffed. tunt self-improvement. The difference Is that whereas
a player to prove his skill-a deal heart queen, discarding the diamond common self-con- such as the following, for example: six from the closed hand. West won fidence has become imperviotts to the first form of attack, it is still too
South, dealer,
and returned weak and young in its opposition to
a heart, conceding dummy's jack, the second.
Oll this trick de- clarer obviously had a cholec discards-not that it mattered-and of finally decided to let go the diamond queen. This obligated him to the etub Anesse, and when it failed he was down one.
I am far from suggesting that It requires merely the right sort of pro- paganda to make the masses "roll on culture.
e." I do say that there exista in most people a natural urge for things of quality.
VAST URGE
It is that vague and vast urge to which George Ponderevo gives volce
la II. G. Wells's Tono-Bungay.
"I don't think he muses, "I'm blind to the fun, the surprises, the jolly little
foarsentersc sufficiency of life, but I know that and in-
oter all these merry immediate things
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He too ruffed the opening lean, but he led only one trump
then led and passed the! heart queen, discarding the mond six. West won and returned
.dio- ! heart, and on this South carefully discarded the club fack.
leaving a trump at large, declarer Then,
there are other things that are great four match with total-point scoring. entered dummy with a trump and This hand occurred in a team-of-cashed his ace and king of clubs, re- and Gerone, very thing the reality. 1, haven't got.it, one spade, West overcalled with two lished dummy
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