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By GEORGE SCOTT-MONCRIEFF

GOOD

WHISKY, LIKE

LOVE, IS A MYSTERY

Wes

posed

resume post

bier,

dread word,

remains

an

in the whisky distilled from it which effectively....malipox!" cannot be reproduced in

Water Of Life

from

Taking the fear out of flying

by HUGH DUNDAS

ITHIN 14 days we gaining the speed of safe

have twice be on night.

ters in Britain.-

shocked by news and pic- His eyes' are on the Instru- tures of fatal airline dians-ment panel, for the lightest drop or swerve, the loss of a fow miles an hour which can happen in two seconds, would mean disaster.

In three crashes of passenger- carrying plants in Britain this year 136 people, have been illed. Only six survived.

Why do airliners crash? And

Three factom predominate.

what makes their crashes fatai? Three factors

Pilola and aircrews aro human and therefore fall ble. Aeroplanes, engines, and

radio alds, being made and worked by man, are also fall- ble. So the human factor is Enemy Number One.

More often than not whon a plane crashes it bursts into flames.

Whether or not passengers are fatally injured they

And then 'on 'engino, cuts; la quarter of his power is lost; the struggling giant blows one side,

At much a moment the human factor, the mechanical factor, and the weather factor all conspire together against-the- pilot.

W

Next comes the question of:

probably be burned to death. fire. Can anything be done to So petrol is Enemy Number avoid the probability of firo £2 Two,

Bad weather-fog, storm,

a crash occurs?

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Petrol may one day be drive! and lee; against them the trom the field altogether. Jo uirline pilot must fight an un- ending war.

Fateful moments

planes use paraffin, fuel, whic has a much lower Cash: pai than potrol.

The danger of fire after crash in a jet liner would be:

When these elemental forces much reduced. oppose him he is most likely to make a mistake, and it is

Meanwhile

1

great safety

then that a mistake in most advance has been made by the likely to be fatal.'‚·

The human and weather fac- tors may seem to present insuperable problem.

an

But analysis shows that the struggle to overcome them can

Invention of fuel tanks which cannot rupture and spill their load.

They are called “bag" tanks, and are ditted to all modern airliners.

-

be concentrated largely on two But many planes still nylig, particularly fateful phates such as the Viking, do not have the moments before and during these, safety tanks, landing, the moments during and after take off.

any laboratory.

the last still to the

Patent Although most of the whisky consumed today is taken in the form of blands and some of them extremely good blends— whisky connoisseur malt pro- duel, taken neat, with

ly before landing, Pure Malt, Neat

"Talked down.

I am often asked about the- efficacy of radar and radio alds to landing.

Is it true that they have al- most eliminated risk, or is it the fact that all these inven- tions either cost too much, on are not being developed with enough vigour?.

The answer is that systems have been perfected which talk" a pilot down almost -

way.

Another distiller whose about to search the church, he Analytic chemists have tried OOD whisky, like good

Glenlivet and unsatisfactory removed his kegs of whisky in- to fake

other wine and falling in whisky

opened a new distillery drawing to a neighbouring house, cover famous Highland whiskies, and

failed love, is

The completely. a mystery. its water from the same supply ed them with a coffin lid and a have

of the It is then that human control Nobody really knows exact- but further down the hillside, mortelot, and gathered a party reason is that in spite

rerefying effect

of distilling, is absolute; it is then that bad ly why two whiskies dis- and was successful in producing of "mourners around the sup-

When the Excise whisky

organic weather quite

Presum good whisky.

fights most fercely tilled by identical processes ably very small diferche water interrupted her robs to whisper. life of its own.

in men arrived one of

the

party product, with something of a

against the pilot and the something that within a few miles of one the mineral content c

ground controller. the another can be quite dif- can make very big differences the

Of the last six major disas ferent in flavour and

It is a little difficult to be further curiosity on their part.

ters, four occurred immediate- character. Probably the certain when exactly

and whisky as The

invention,

two of the ΟΙ century,

shortly after take off. chief cause of the distinc- we know it was first produced. centur tions between different The reason for this is that

that brought some originally the пате "aqua production of whisky, whiskies lies in the water vitae, water of life, covered all still spirits are used for gin and

As he climbs used in their preparation. distillations, whatever raw ma- for various industrial purposes. Variations

terials were used. Much of It As whisky they are only con- of technique, teri

was distilled, of course. from sumed after being blended with the true

When an airliner is in full even in the design of the wine made of grapes, and was, about an equal quantity of the still prefers the Pits richer, flight the pilot has time and but not quite-on to the run- plant, and climatic condi- in fact, brandy, although often real article harley by the old

the spirit produced more brandy-like quality: Pocts height on his side if anything tione, also have their effect. flavoured with herbs.

and prose writers have sung its goes wrong. style pot-still.

There

is a selection During the last century a dis-

Most of the whiskies consume from their

At a certain height, usually praises.

an in- But imagine the case of A tillery opened in the great

tributes in

the human ed today are blends containing

when book "Scotch pilot

goes about 100, feet, little

something whisky country of Speyside, in

of different

teresting variety

factor must take control: look- There seems to have been a a

Whisky

Marshall Robb, wrong as he Is

off. dalding the north of Scotland, produced

by The considerable amount of distill liquors. Blending is the work Wh a very popular brand.

ed and that gives, moreover

way, in tearing rain, climbing should see the funnel of runway owner, wishing to increase his ing practised in Ireland about a of experts, men who can Iden- that has recently been publish- Imagine him, just off the run- ing up at this point, the pilot

lights directly ahead of him. second dis- thousand years ago, and disill-tity a whisky by the smell, and

many details of distilling and into swirling cloud. output, opened tillery a little further down the lers from that country establish- gauge its maturity and charac- same watercourse. To his sur- ed themselves in Wales during for and whether it will marry" the licensing laws. prise the whisky produced proved the reign of Henry VIII in the with another.

Bath 16th be quite different,

and also in the century. whiskies are still on the mar- southwest of Scotland,

Dicast But there is at ket, but they are recognised ap

earlier reference to distilling in

whiskies The pure pot-still quite distinct.

Scotland, in the Scottish Ex- fall into three main types. The

Rolls

for 1494, which majority

the Highland chequer refers to "eight boils of malt to whiskies, of which about half Friar John Cor wherewith to are produced in or about the make aquavithe," The Friar Johm mentioned must undoubt Valley of the Spoy, the home of

Glenlivet edly have been distilling what the

them are included the Orkney which is wh we now call whisky

whiskles and the whisky pro- from malted barley. duced at Tallaker, in the Isle word whisky equally im- of Skye, #water of life, for it

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These systems, then, work hands weather-provided that the kap gradually between cloud and ground f

All engines, are at maximum And whisky remains, and is Ilkely long to remain, one of the power, the 90,000lb. of metal perfectly even in very bad mort celebrated products of which he directs with

and feet Is only Scotland.

Perfectly sober in 105 minutes

By JAMES C. GRANT San Francisca.

then

mixed the powder" in

sufficient to allow for tho vital seconds in which a pilo: must judge and make transfer from air to

ground.

the

It cannot work if thick aloud is actually lying on the ground. That is to say, it cannot work || in fog...

Saved by “Fido'

Undoubtedly, "automatio strument 'controlled

In 10th century times find it rendered "usque- the island of Istay. These are baugh," but gradually the less generally heavier in type than A potentially powerful weapon paper cup full of water and gave will eventually

developed for airling used the fight the malt prepared in

against acute it to the mea. formidable variant, whisky, be the others,

There were no immediate Lesa alcoholism is being tested here. fres of pure peat. came the

Already It hair been done ex over was by this

This weapon is a white, taste effects. Approximately 25 min- renowned are the various Low time already highly prized in and distilleries.

less powder which sobers an utes later, the second dose was perimentally and unger perfect

Shortly

after conditions. Selenists havs: the England, yet, most of the dis- By low whisky

must mature alcoholic in less than two hours administered.

began to quiet answer, and it is to be hoped. It Ion-

pine wards, the men bees followed that it win no quickly p tling was done on the wrong for three although

was developed after years,

Los down...

#per side of the law. It was a long ger period is preferable heavy a chemist, Haig K. and, when it had gone to work, fected,

research by

the men were shaky, but: Meanwhile there exista a do- time before the licenslag laws types of whisky really require Angeles and the Excise men were able to at least seven years to mellow Bunspart

Sap Francisco's Alcoholic sober as they had been in some get the

trade upon regular Ideally, whisky should be ma-

Lvico called “Tido"." which con- footing.

tured in sharry casks, although | Clinic decided to ask for ans. Bonapart, pointed out, ?" "sists of two trencher Alled with nowadays it is often necessary on-the-spot" test.

before

was exactly the job his powder petrol, one an nach: "gide of a Shortly

the was p.m.. Kegs In Pulpit & to replace the effect of the

sherry by the addition of sugar black maria prowled the local was supposed to do. Normally runway.

would have "kid row" under orders to these alcoholics The oldest distillery in Scot- in caramel form.

"wince."

taken 48 hours to sober up. Now, Irish whiskey Land, the Highland Park, In the

usually pick-up 1010-all in various within an hour and 45 minutes, differs from ang Orkney Islands, claims-descent with

were that it is generally stages of Inebriety were col their wine-clouded minds were

cleared. went to an clear from a celebrated licit sill run Sootch in

the wagons malt, but lected, made not from pure by one Magtiis Exson in 18th century. Despite, or more from malt with the addition of emergency hospital The men Bonapart's powder is going to

hospitals barley

Itals undergo more tests. One of these ог other staggered into the of his chief oc- unmelted ukely Magnus Eunson was

waiting room.

will long

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Today Scotch whisky forma Several were belligerent. One

be controlled, two-month

Ignited, they bum away the fog, forming a

clear tunnel above the runway which thế nirling plot may “approach, on the "talk-down" system.(*****)

"Fido' ved hundreds

anold, well-tried "dovico. of went to sitop on the tile floor. Hes Cliniment at the Alcoho-bombers during the war. It part important

for the Like The rest mumbled in the inco No promises are made

but it may become a But herd is a terrible fact He found his official job very Britain's expert trade. useful to his unofficial one, and the wines of France, it has a herent speech of the typical powder:

potent weapon, for San Fran- High cost of operation, has beel a cisco makeя 40,000 arrests for

allowed to stand in the way oỷ habitually used the pulpit as a unique quality which makes it alcoholic. hiding-place for bis kegs of inimitable: not necessarily whisity. On one occasion, hear- better drink than any other, Ing that the Excise men were but a different drink.

highly

cupation, pected

character, and

was the local church officer.

д Very

FERDINAND

Planissiπιο

The group was herded to

ward where they were examin- drunkenness yearly at a cost of ed by a physician. Bonopart $1,800,000,-United Press.

By Mik

its installation for emergency commercial une

At the moment, only Mar ston, an RAF field in Kent has "Fido" in working, order}}}

The last word.

On all Hides 1

naking why, on that ratela the Viking pulotk