AIR FLASHES,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1950.
the Brab
...
NEW PLANES,
NEW ROUTE
TO S. AFRICA
GREEMENT
A
has been reached between B.O.A.C. and South African Airways on the Springbok services to be operated by them in partnership between London and Johannesburg when they both bring new types of aircraft into operation later this year.
B.O.A.C. will fly new Handley Page Hermes fires-
Cashing insurised Jandplines three
on
tourists
from U.S.
悲
124.34"
BA.C. plans to introduce
times weekly in each direc tion vin Tripoli, Kano, Leopoldville And
Living-
stone (Victoria Falts).
S.A.A..
APARA
presturi edi
will
1. kleed Constellation 749. A's
of Skymasters, place
thre tate
ught top.
dollar-earning each e-stop service from New throu York to London in July to,ate will meet the increasingly heavy i demands for bookings by American tourists.
servic
will
1
Tua HOW orer weekly and will merence B.O.AC. present weekly cape city of 128 Strutteriner pas ett- gers brach direction to 180.
Passengers
times week-
enction vin Nairobi,
b
Speedier
Home. 130th
Hown without
This pattern is designed to mok the best use of the now types of amerɔtt new available to the parktiera mund tu provide, The pubfee with a choice o
pemind comfortable
and between Lonion
about both the
a choice
Bving from neke United States to Britain will Julebunt make a non-stop 3,400 modes the public with „crossing frein New York
London
and
the return journy will leave London Air- port and rive in New York the same day.
IN ADDITION
Jut"tÇ
These York-London
to hig
To partner my vary the pattern between the two mutter at
time to any
sult ile tmffe dritant. nvt, atlier conciatur
Lowion-New which Bughts, will be in addition to the pre- ent daily run, each way, will Tavoler competitive ervice on the North Atlantie route 'during peal:
* neve
Lerrets.
The
SB - applementary rivers are due to leave Len- arm at 10 am, ench Satu: LAM
Jund Now York at 4. pm every Sundapr
Left-hand drive
MAD. M. FIT, KC, Grm
171. jork pandent Sound: A
Hanmer make. for North
frving to park Temple,
his en
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A Bar student tandustar ve verbal directime to unde Pelit Inde the small ijnen avail
Bate
Irik 261
of is eat.
Candid the student.
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of thin
"to do that
Quipped the student in reply.
Y what one really med
flow-traveller."
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Con ellation
Spunbok Conte
Mut
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4.
wina on Sky marder service a he restated by a
Conta
Hee weeks
vize.
later all three
pigeons tourists
HELICOPPERS...Three Bell 47D1 de luxe helicopters hover in formation near Niagara Falls, N.Y., prior to The heading for New York City for police duty there. 'copters are equipped with pontoons for over-water operation, and they'll be used for rescue, search and traffic control.
THE LOONY LINGO OF JETMEN
Old hose nose chomps
LD
on the binders
out by Constellas Hose Nose came squirting in, chomped on
werkly S.A.A.
be Fried this.
eserviers with
the binders, climbed out and made for the squirrel cage. "There I was fat and flute happy
in Ators på Suprauber 32 at 40,000 feet and all a'sudden the oil burner quit,”
will
the
.8 lent ying-boat he exclaimed.
Lesviors between
Lonion andi
Roadja, nd the York langiplane „zed. bebween London, "Kano, A and Avera.
and competitive
"
WOMEN AND
MONEY
And so the talk goes at Liet fchtor bures all over Etize world. The_jet jockey, Mars has a in Englan!, for Man from AFTER a monti
Mrs Doren: Chpbell, vire, lingo all his own to which president of an American bank. he is adding new expres- Two of the four Hermes per Row home. Before leaving shexions daily. Almost no one
gave this advices in each direction Leer a week
Teise knows what he's talk- "Earl:h won 1
gould als Betwen Ivation and Narobi
ing about. much more interest THE BOA wah wall at Eatole to enter for
blostly they sit at bume ndj Take the 102 -ban. A ̋jalt. The maportat! Urwl traffic. The frequency of the Hermes seal with domestic sinonen. Pew ralled her
rla ... West invest theimelven, termuntin: in VILUS
"The trans that they have rin, cage found Africa will be adjusted
been told they have. so heads, "Squirting" a ale demanda.
(London Express Services
Explosion Every 3
to
he age o ONYCH m asta lil bær N referring
for money matters. And they to let y I have believed 1"
Prebone
en tie hande e s dom win anyang else woul call applying The brakes
Minutes
Firemen in Ypsilanti, Mich., pour tons of water on the flaming hulk of a gasoline truck which was wrecked after its rear wheels snapped off. There were five explosions in 15 minutes, damaging buildings a block away, before firemen brought the blaze under control.
K. O. CANNON
ZUT! A BOLSTERĮ
Brain department
The "squirrel Cage" }
brain department
the Why & 10-
tenak meg. cumeen and the Fact
like ok
right pe blems
Our hero allows he was "fat and flute Ja," means simpl
at he
inding everything, oley and was doing all the aneks in the book. The flute" is the bead ¦ of the control stick,
The "oli ber" quit," An "il buza "
jet engelle włach buzu. Reverent.
u1
Wats particular glovary Jet termas w assembled by i Hepublic Aviation Corp. Beld Aupremum bataven tationed at Air: Potre 7-84 Thunderjet basUS.
More expressions
The F-R1 ruznes apart where the tall retion and main use-
and jets
Brab may tour
Britain
[AVING successfully completed landing and
HAVI
take-off trials at London Airport, Britain's giant airliner, the Bristol Brabazon, is now undergoing thorough inspection and tuning up before embarking on the next phase of its flight which will include a number programme,
fest
of endurance flights.
It is expected that during
test
the lights
these
Brabazon will fly over some Pigeons who
of the major centres of population in Britain.
3
LONDON DIARY
Goldwyn and Korda
chums again → Cripps' cures o St Matthew's mag'
TRAVEL agencies In London
of
Athletes, Holfurs, lennis
report that the Korean players are shown in mirrors n(Tair las caused American why their movements result in Gusinessmen to cancel trips to strain. Musicians come to learn Europe.
to play without tension. Other Say Cook's: "There is no pupils are MP's and industrial scare: andi business
people chiefs. svem to be the caly ones Carousel star is affected. The
proportion passages cancelled is small,"
leaving Airlines and shipping com- ESS than seven weeks after penies are not suttering. The L the American musical | Queen Elizabeth has just left Carousel apener n Drury New York with evety berth Lane, the star, 20-year-old Iva filled.
Withers, told me she wants to In New York there me wait-go home. mg-1-ts for eastward-bound } She is leaving the shaw Mr A.J, Pent, chief test
hips and aircraft.
four weeks' time-sooner it a pilot of the company, has ex- ;
substitute can be found. "But pressed complete satisfaction
my understudy will take over with the Brabazon's perform-
Sir Stafford then if no substitute is avail- ance at Lontion Airport, The lawdding and take-off runs of
Renson Miss Withers has do- an im-painted house in Hollnd Park,, played 1.200 to 1.400 yards were con
named after hig wife. It is cided to leave: her husband is siderably leg than the landingportant part in the war
sick in New York. They have and take off runs of other four- though little could be writ-
been married only six months. engine aircraft now in service.
ten about it at the time.
Film hatchot buried SAMUE
It is believed that the Bra- bazon could operate from vir tually any ciril airpurt of first- class ternational standard,
Flight testing so far has been largely confined to the south of England and the need to con centrate exclusively on the long nukl rigorous programme of Might texting has pr.cluded visits to other civil airports,
Flights over the larger towns will be made as an integrat part
uf
The Night fest programme
and the aircraft will return on meh occasion to Fillon. Tras atlant.c er continental lights.
hold no place in the immediate programme.
FROGS HAVE 'PIGS' NOSES '
helped win
the war
Lessons for Cripps
week
THE
IE National Pigeon Ser-Erips on teen able."
vice
Now there has been publish- ed, under the title of Pigrons in World War 11 (Racing Pigeon
Ltd.. Publishing Co..
18. Od. net), a "meritorious perfor- mance list" which gives somo of the valuable work letalis | carried
aut by pigeons 401 active service for Britals and her
allies.
I
Through the National Pigeon racing pigeon Service, British breeders voluntarily
supplied nearly 200,000 young birds.
The Army, the Royal Air Force, United States Army and the mindy use of these pigeons, and highly trained bird given or lent by the National Pigeon Service were employed num: rous special missions as well las by the resistance movementa
of the Allies.
KING'S BIRD
גזנ!
During the thron and a half years that the National Pyeon
Sovice was in operation 10,554 Cripps' physical co-ordination. pletons were ciropped singly by parachute
Europe; 1,842 Unded Kingdom,
enemy-nettpied etaimed that what he learns eturned to the there helps him to work his
jabnormally long hours,
The house is called the Isobel
CAMUEL GOLDWYN sat smil- Str Alexander Korda's Piccadilly olleet "Burying-the-hatche" party. Both men announced they und agreed to "dissolve our muluni lawsuits"thus curling a year's antagonism.
They had disagreed-vigorous- ly and colourfully-over Korda's lig How production of The Elusive
Pimpernel Goldwyn, holding an option on the Amerl can rights, saw the first
com- pleted version, demanded altera. (lons. Cross-lawsuits were be gun.
Thus, showing of the picture, which cost more than £230,000, has been held up many months. David Niven and
Margaret Leighton have made retakes of
several scenes.
"Mr Goldwyn
wasted cer- tain things put into the Pim- pernel." said Korda today. Those things are now in it."" Magazine Gospel QTREAN-LINE presentation of the Gospels la being pioneered by the Bible Society. Next month 100,000 copies
St. Malthew's Gospel in
magazine form no on sale, price
Much useful information was Cripps Centre, 11 re-educates conveyed by the successful re- people in the daily uses of the d tums, in spite of the increasing ! body. laims to relieve over – elciency and reverity of enemy Tenriett, "counter-ate insure The service.its.
was also extended to India and exercise. turma.
#train It is
and
The magazine's title, The Man posture in the Street, is imposed on a done without photograph of two men in dis- cussion beneath the crucified Say the Centre's principal gure of Christ on a church A pages owned by the King Charles Neil Sir Sufford
teacher, dark-hatred Scot, Mr Wall. Photographs Illustrate the and trained at Sandringham been a pupil, for
years. He The other Gospels are also bought back merge from camer-like many other people belog prepared for magazine
POUR little Afclean frogs
of a type not previously an air crew that had made a Holland in Fren in the
forced inding Zoo, will be on elbit socn at the Teplite October, 19:0; this was the first Binnse.
pigeon to carry ipck in the war.
They are "pic-noted” - Drugs. And arrived by aly as a gif frem Ir R. L. Mitchell, of Bantyre, Nyasaland,
The frota are expected to give visliors a laugh because of their grotesque appearance. Their eyes are large, and their noses something like the
nix. sout of a
Odd feature about frogs
these that try cannot jump, their mend of
pro- pression being a slow
wagi- dling crawl.
London Express Service)
SAUCERS?
THEY DO NOT FLY
FLYING Lancers.
"seen" by
handron of prople ull over the world, do not exist,
The Inter-Services Aircraft tape section join. The Recognition Journal published where they joint called, by Jet by the Air Ministry ways. "It is
olk, the belly band,
Then there are other fancy rignificant the in Britain, where expresions. The cockpit instru- there are thousands of trained naut paund with it, dinks, lights and experienced observers, very f what have you is called few saucers have been report- the pin-ball machine. Control pancy wika Their knob. acd stenches are called couples.
An enzines besides being cell ed an of burner, is a
ed.
HNU Royal Observer 11 sighted, much less reported one, until they do, wo think torch, and throttle controls are everyon; may rest assured that
blow and
villed go-handles. The brost system that helps pilots move the flying mchines, celestial or the controla i called a musele { supernatural, do not exist,
zuttcker.
Quite a gadget, the squirt job, that is, the Jet plane
THE RIDDLE OF THE ROME REBELS
GOOD EVENING -` LOOKING FOR ME.
ALBERTO?
́E-I CAME TO ASK
WHAT TIME BIGNON WISH TO BE WAKENED
IN 20 MORHINO..........
YOU DID, EH? ..AND SUPPOSE THAT WHEN I WAS INEARLY KILLED BY FALLING MAJONAY, "VOUR HANDS WERE
DIRTY BECAUSE YOU] HAD BEEN DOING A LITTLE GARDENIMO ? GET OUT, ALBERTO)
'Our advice is...
"Our advice to nyone who may think he sees flying sau- rez le ta do what General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Alr Chief of Staff, U.S.A.F., did when he was dying a 17 bomber one. night, in 1947, when itu 'sauce? weare of that year was at its height.
"A strange disc-shaped light was observed to pass by at great spced. Instead of calling the nearest tower and reporting the 'saucer,' the General gently moved his head about and found he could bend the 'saucer to his will, making it appear and dis- appear as often as he wished.
"It was merely the refcction of a light upon the windshield."
---{London Expren Service).
otat stich
Horseback boom
of
1185
who have no actual defect toe.
be remedied-to achieve max! unum physical co.ordination."
Lady
Cripps is also a upit. She allowed the Centre to be nomed after her, because of her) belief in its work,
The rose of the year
XPERTS describe as "the
nest true red rose
cver
19
It was at the National Krown. Rose Society's show and called Cinnabar.
It is a superb, rich scarlet His equipment:hands
ore with delicate scent: was TREEING petrol
awarded the gold medal. brought a booth lo sabur- The Centre can cope with up!
Cinnabar is the result of 20 tan riding stables.
500 pupils a year. They year patient work by growers Wanbledon stablesuwner pay £2257 for an inital con-
Germany. For amateurs me 75 percent of new suisation. then take a course of there are only a few thousand
Women Mu of levons: £118. a lesson for pri plants, at 10. Gd. cadt, aru
A
tells riders them work in the City by day, ke rities in the drive out to evenings.
Charges are lower on werk- days: 7% 61, an hour lastoad of 10s, on Saturdays and Sun-
tays.
Also. nov. that petrol la Mentiful,
manny take drives stead of tides at the week land.
to
Vale tuition. 7s. 6d. for classes. Fees are cut for those who can-
ot afford them.
Incidental intelligenço
Pupils are warned that the teachers are not doctors, ant SKED it "guess" (in, the that anyone who is ill will not A meaning of think or be- be accepted except under fieve) is good English, the con
ductor of a popular educational "ATV equipment?" ays Nell. column answers, "Not terribly." fe helds out his hands. "Three: Jost awfully, we presume.-
and my mirror One is The Ottawa Citizen. wall mirror: the other, portable.
medical advice.
ta a full-length frame,
(London Express Service)
TO LEAD
ISRAEL ORCHESTRA
After a four-month tour of Europe, Dr at Mrs. Serge Roussovitsky dow back to the U.S., landing at a New York alsport. Dr. Koyssavitsky announced that ha and Leonard Bernstein will conduct the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in most of the concerts of its American tour next winter under the sponsonip of
the American Fund for Israel Institutions. -