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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1980.

NON-STOP JET PLANE FLIGHT MORE THAN JUST A STUNT

Ex-Olympic star turns missionary

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Tokyo, October 10.

A former Olympic. star, and World War II hero, who lef'. Japan hu 1945 with black hate in his heart against his captors, is back in this country to seek out his former enemies and bring them spiritual peace and Ktivation.

One-time star "miler Louls Zamperini flew into Tokyo on Sunday, carrying a bible and a list of 109 names of his captors and prison guards who had starved and tortured him during] his two years in a Japancée pri- son comp

from

The 33-year-old former pilot Compton, California, arrived here as a member of the Youth for Christ Group.

He is the second ex-prisoner to come to Japan since the war as a missionary-the first was for me: Sergeant Jacob Deshazer of Doolittle's bombing group.and a second former mile athlete. The Arst "Flying Preacher" Gil Dodds.

Was

Zamperint said today he was converted during Billy Graham's! revival meeting in Los Angeles last year. His wife, n devout Christian, had persuaded him. to

attend.

Word of God

After his experience Zam- perial told friende "There is such a change in my life that I feel I have a duty to perform. That

hat duty lo to return to Japan with the power of Земна Christ,

"I shall offer to them the word of God. For now I belleve it is Christ or Communism for nations, Christ or atomle ammihilation for the world. Our only remedy for| these threats is Christ for the individual."

Zamperint was captured in 1043 when he ditched his plane off Osha, Hawail, and drifted 2,000 miles in 47 days on a life rafi.

A Japanese vessel picked up the pilot and his companions. He spent the rest of the war in a Japanese prison

During his confinement the Japanese made him run against the best miler in Japan. Weak andernourished, Zamperini

ond

won.

camp.

In the former track star's pos- session is his own death certi- ficate signed by the late President Hoosevelt.-United Press.

JAKARTA KEEPS SILENT

Jakarta, October 10.

Washington, Octobor 10.

The non-stop trans-Atlantic flight of single-ongine jet fighters was not just a stunt. It was mount as a practical demonstration of how the Air Force is solving two problems of modern air war ono technical, the other military. The technical difficulty concerns the high fuel de- mands and relatively short flight time of jet planes.

The military problem is how to deliver such planes

quickly to unexpected hot spots and how to. keep them in the air over long periods for air

cover.

UK offering scholarships to Japanese

Tokyo, October 10. The British Council, a semi- ofcial cultural and education- al organisation in Great Bri- tain, is offering for the acade- mic year of 1051-1952 a limit- ed number of scholarships to Japanese students, it was an- The flight by two Republie | lose from the tanker plane. How. F84E Thunderjets showed that ever, a nozzle-tipped probe ex-nounced by the United King- some work remains to be done.tending from the left wing of the dom Liaison Mission to Japan

was lost at the fighter Is manoeuvred into a fun- today, One plane Labrador coast line when the nel shaped lip at the end of the pilot was unable to complete is automatic. his third refuelling.

The other plane Landed safely at Limestone air base, Maine, 600 miles short of its goal, because of bad weather over New York,

If the flight had been headed Eastward, to Europe, the demon- stration would have been much simpler. The planes would have been helped by the winds rather than held back so much that their, average ground speed was about two thirds normal.

hose. The rest of the fuel transfer

Temporary method

The scholarships wil be ten- nula at universities and Other educational Institutions. In the Unlied Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

to

The scholarships, which will not exceed nine in number in the

1851-52, will be open year Japanese man and women wha have already successfully com- pleted university degree courses stonal qualifications. or who have equivalent profon-

Candidates should have attain- ed their 25th birthday in 1951 and

Air Force officials say such methods are intended only for the period it will inke to devetop jet planes with sunt cient range to do. their job without in-flight retuoiling. A system quite different from the flexible hose method has been adopted from Air Force bombers and is in production. This is the "Flying boom.” A telescoping tube is extended from the tall of the tanker plane. The bomber ap-not reached their 30th birthday. prooches close to the tanker until an operator can boom into bomber's nose.

The "Flying boom" has a very C-high fuel flow rate and can Al a bomber's huge tanks in minutes or less. But it can handle only one plane at a lime.

The "Dromethod, a ! British

transfers fuel

When the refuelling system has been perfected, it will mean that jet fighter squadrons based in the United States can be dispatched to defence positions thousands of miles away within 24 hours. The need for basing large fighter ele-

duced. ments overECAS

should be

A fully dependable refuelling in-flight method will permit Jet fighters patrolling borders or pro- tecting bombers to remain in the air as long as pilots can endure it. The longest such fight thus far for a single-pilot jet fighter is

more than 12 hours.

Saving fuol

Rafualling In fight wyll sharply reduce the number of fighter planes needed for patrol and escort. assignment by

tima eliminating most of the loat in climbing to altitude and returning to baco. It also will save the fuel needed for climb. Ing.

manoeuvre

ал opening in the

British Council scholarships are the normally for one academic year of 10 months (from October to the end of July) or two acadeinte years. according to the duration of the approved course of study. adequate knowledge of written All applicants must have an

and spoken Engleh

Union officials ›

airport

at a rate only one third of the "Boom" system, but it appears likely that it will be able to reseral Council Trade Union officinis Four Japanese Trado and Gen- fuel three fighters at once by trailing "Drogues" from the tanker arrived at the London plane's wingtips_as well

yesterday and were met by u tail.--Associated Press.

Foreign Office representative and trade union delegates, adda United PICAS.

as ils

POTATOES AND.

BUGS AGAIN

Belgrade, October 10.

·

The Japanese came at the in- vitation of the Foreign Office or the first offelal visit since the

wor.

A new story has been cir- The visitors could not speak culating Yugoslavia as an after-English and caused a Customs -Mid-air refuelling is not new. [math to Russian reports in the stir until the official "Interpreter The Air Force did it with a World face of a poor crop that the from the Foreign Office, who was War I plane 27 years ago. Six United States has been dropping delayed en route to the airport, years later it sponsored the 160 potato bugs over Eastern Europe arrived. hour flight of the "Question to destroy the harvest..

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Mark." A system basically the "Now," so the satire goes, "the The Japanese will spend four same as that of 1929 was used to Americans are dropping potatoes weeks studying British. trade -refuel. . a B-50. Superfortress to feed the huge"-Associated unionism-Reuter, and · Unitéd "Lucky Lady II," on a round the Press, world non-stop fight last year.

The method used in the trans- 1929 methods only in details neces Atlantic Jet flight differs from the sary to adapt it to single-pilot operation at high altitudes,

The "Question Mark" CTOW. caught a hose dangled from a transport plane carrying cans of petrol and ell. The "Lucky Lady"! | | crew caught a hose from, the tan kers, but did it with a trailing.

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The jet fighters used a system known as the "Drogue-probe" method. It also calls for a trailing

a

The Foreign Minister, Moham- med Roem, today refused to con- firm or deny Indonesian reports military ald programme in the that discussions between a joint same way as the Philippines and U.S. State Department-Military Indo-China, and result la Mission and the Indonesian gov- United States military mission ernment on US military aid to bere which is contrary to Indo- Indonesia had failed.

nesia's neutral foreign policy. Antorn, which mento

mentioned sources, said that Indonesia pre- fers to choose and purchase the Antara, the Indonesian news kind of arms needed here herself. agency, said that Indonesion ac- The Melby Mission is at present coptance of the United States visiting Ball Island and is due military aid would tie the coun- to return to the United States try into the South East Asian next week-Associated Press.

He refused to be committed so long as the Melby Mission is stli here.

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