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THESE ARE

Most of 'em speak English."

London Express Service

They give their lives to wrest for Britain the secrets of the air

THE NEW ELIZABETHANS

N London we have a others were broken when he

IN

Club called the Saints bailed out) they

would

and Sinners which is guarantee safe conduct to By Beverley Baxter

On the occasion of the dinner there are white and red carnations in the foyer and each of us can choose "which we are red-for- sinner and white for saint. It is to the credit of human nature that most of them choose the red carnation. On balance they are quite right.

plane.

It

A FAITH

£1 was

THE Englishmen is always dimcult to explain, and I de- :berately use the word "Eng- ishman" because he has shown oir

a peculiar genius. for the

the sen.

نسبت

was called the static

It was interesting to see a fet passenger plane already bearing the colours of the CPR, as well as one for an American com- pany.

HUMAN DRAMA

"I don't know what to think," he answered. For once this lord of language could And o

words.

how fast a plane could travel changes on it. The public, how- In a downward flight before ever, were still fascinated by the pilot experienced a black, the human rivalry of John Derry out-in other words, that tem- and Neville Luke.

tell

porary loss of sight which is On the Saturday I went out lo nature's protest. Remorselessly the country efter lunch to play he experimented on himself as his own guinea pig, ending at golf. Half way round the courge stubhouse to. me that there what angle his body could messenger came out from the achieve the maximum of resis-had been a a terrible disaster". at tance to the black-out.

Farnborough. I did not need to be told the nature of the as- cident. In my bonesjI felt that the air had taken its revenge on caher Derry or Duke.

on

the

DOUBLE BANG

to

SHOW GOES ON

at once exclusive yet the uninhibited. Its membership chivalrous gesture-but (we number about fifty) in there has always been a had given us the leadership of forwards a few yards and then cludes judges, barristers, measure of chivalry in the the air. Admittedly not every- be zoomed into the air by two

think was ; to be shown, for explosions that gave it an enor there at a secret 1st, but mous thrust. We saw plane editors, actors, bookmakers, air, comedians and even a peer

a great white moth thai there would be enough to daz like As a prisoner Bader showed zle the eye and stagger human flew upwards vertically And So, from his tent, he watch or two. We lunch once a

h's gratitude by putting on credulity;

disappeared as if the laws of ed Neville. Duke take off. month, and usually there his new legs and promptly es-

aeronautics were of no con- have a look at the sky in or

or caught. It was a windy, cloudy day cern. We saw fighters race by der to determine whether are a few guests, but there caping, but he was

not the faster-than-Bound flight is an annual dinner when Today he dies great distances when my ex-Air Force son and at six or seven hundred miles

Farnborough, an hour.

could, be made. It was a cold, windy day,

chilled and we guests number three or four and has a handicap of four at I set out for

golf. I mention this part of which is in the region of Bic-

above hundred.

while Duke sauntered the story, which reached its loy. It was Thursday and on

the clouds in search of fun climax a few weeks after they that day the President of the

S you know, it was John opening. had been the guests of

the Society had been good enough

Derry. He had flown a new to here comfort, refresh- A jets were waiting their turn, yo invite us to his special en- ND all the time the other Saints and Sinners.

from the da Then came the announcer's machine fresh

had factory. loudspeaker. Havilland ment and visibility would be the engines giving out that

11. He'll crashed through "He's going to do

the barrier of at hand, Something like fifty strange, cerle high pitched be starting any moment now. air resistance and was swooping thousand spectators crowded!

sound like something between a Duke falled yesterday to make over the

when the ma the side lines and lined up to hostin's whistle and the wind explos on, but today he is chine disintegrated. Derry made inspect the various planes In the wires on a frosty night. determined to do it." Three one last desperate attempt, not which were on view in what "Well," I said to Brabazon, minutes went by and suddenly to save himself, but to lumn the

display

"you started something. What

come the words: "Duke hus plane away from the

crowds. do you think of it all?"

started."

But it could not be done. The Gaming cigines

weighing a ton just as he hns for

each, hurled themselves at a The genius of the Scot is mora

terrifying speed into a hillside earth-bound, and none the less

crowded with people. Death The Scot It was in July of this valuable for that.

I have not the space to de- year that we, branched out wants to make two blades of

WE could see nothing and hear and mutilation took their dram-

atic As in everything, however, nothing for he had gone where one grew scribe the miracles which were

toll. a bit and gave an aviation grass grow

minerals

Twenty-seven men. women before, to wrest the luncheon to which we in- from the soll. to harness the designed for peace or war, ac the human drama

cording to their purpose, but all else. Neville Duke, ong of into a dive which had reach

edu speed that left sound and children lay dead and

while the of the famous waterfall and build the factory the cumulative

was the two champen test. pilota,

wound- vited some

Silence...silence.... ma

mangled, The instinct of the Englishman staggering in its immensity. was tue lo make a supersonic

жете all about. Am- then! BANG....BANG. ed ploneers both in the making search for something lost But what we were all waiting fight in which.

travelling The barrier had been broken were rushed to the spot. More doors, and nurses and the flying of aeroplanes behind the ranger, to explore for was the actual dying dis- faster than sound, he would on a perfectly calculated route as well as veterans of the now spheres and, above all, to play, which was to begin a break through the resistance

Nevlie barrier of the air. Perhaps and we heard the double ex- were to die in hospital

In the pilo.'s Battle of Britain and one or get off the island.

tent plosion not only perfectly but this deserves a word of ex- om nous; What kind of man Duke had been watching, and two test pilot aces.

Primarily he is an inventor

AT THE BIRTH planation.

and what kind of machine so had John Derry's wife. The and, even more, an impro-

could challenge the massed an crowd thought that the rest of start viser. Give him enough things

His plan was to

the display would be cancelled, found myself eight or nine

and CE of the air and pay, no to fiddle with, and in time ho

miles up

but waited for the decision. will produce a miracle. He has NCE more. I

sitting with Brabazon and descend at a speed faster than

Instead, the that transcends all a faith

out of the and 800 miles an hour.

The raced past us about 60 feet above tent. "I'm going up, he said. ONE of the guests was doubt and common sense. That Handley Page, these men who sound, something between 700

and assumption is that the plano the runway and then zoomed and The trembling volca of the on- Lord Brabazon, who was is why two mad Englishmen had been at the birth of it all.

Perhaps drives the air forward until it weaved his way about the skies nouncer told the crowd that tvas strangely silent. 1151 the first Englishman to be named Alcock and Brown took Brabazon looked puzzled off from Newfoundland in

like many oth

other granted a pilot's certificate, ordinary twin-engine.

whether this centrated solidity

that the bring himself or his mount to the night. As he took off for his

It, dull earth.. The in conquering of the last untomed plane must break through "Inadequate element had been for good or causing an immense double or

"These explosions," said fact he was elected captain the first ever to do it, of St Andrew's this year, that there was a time-

when evil, However, he could have treble explosion. down, but had nothing but praise for the plane is pointing directly to bland voice of the announcer, the wounded and drove a mighty ball they flew upside

helicopters which modestly wards. the aerodrome the ex- "sounded to me like two volumes tents. when he performed the his- the two Holls engines kept on

in the flat above." and they reached Ireland. It opened the programme.

the people there. toric function of playing only they had the at least is one machine which he cannot be heard by of the Oxford Dictionary dropped himself in as captain.

British soon forgot about them, does not roar like the fury of the gods, one machine which although these men blazed the would not frighten the most Sir Frederick Handley way for Lindberg and all the morous of, maiden cunts. Page, one of the early mad thousands to follow.

FIRST PILOT

bomber

effect

soon as lunch was over,

transcends

at

behind.

and

tall?

With an exultant swoop Duke Grimly. Doko www went on

Nor is he an old man. In and flew the North Atlantic-was wonderingosophers he masses in a wall of such con as though he could not bear to Duke would now do the same

men

·

struments were so

with who flirted bankruptcy by manufactur

carlier.

A

NO SURPRISE

was

1310

the

and

Unless

GUINEA PIG..

the

hia pretty

the

starting place; in the sky, stretcher bearers were entrying 1 the hospital

LAST TRIBUTE

cided that he would not accept "DUKE

UKE has started,!! :-- said

But watching from the pilot's tent was John Demy. He de-..

DISASTER

up

Duko's view, and

over

announcer. There WOE A triple bang-bang- It hovers in the air as if it the previous day the this equalisation of the core

most famous test pilot of and took his de Havilland

and and made the same flight, but, bang,

plane could settle down for an after all, John Derry, had accomplish we did not hear the explosiona swept into

*or

ed this feat, and Neville Duke noon nap. It can move up -ing planes, delivered a

come down with no apparent had failed. Therefore, it was and therefore it did not count, the runway. Then 'he banked spot where the de Havilland where it is. Duke's determination to achieve He was probably a fraction off and dipped his wings over the no, effort, ur stay

sullen his course. swashbuckler's speech which THEREFORE, it

surprise

had disintegrated—his lost to find not Obviously, it is the answer to it on this day if the showed what a good pirate

the the elly-to-city light; in other ckles would only give him long

that

Brabazon stood up and stretch- tribute to his friend and rival. ago

Journey gambler's chance. Derzy and

John Derry was the twentieth he would have made if he very were far

British

ahead in words, the shorter

only friends ed his arms: "My God!!" he said, had lived a century or two the miracle of the Jet. Gone because there will be no need Duke were not

British test pilot to be killed. since the new to use the aerodrome stationed but, rivals, and beyond the "I must have a drink,"

war.

They gave their was the propeller:

youth, thoir Immortality, that snub-nosed Jet needed no such miles away from the centre of personal aspect was their loyal- alde. Fantastic population. Soon now the hell-ty to the rival firms that em-

the air should yield its fart secret to man. And in every particularly lively adventitious

ployed them. speeds were set up, and you copter will take off from speech came from Douglas will remember that a British former festival centre on the

the Saturday the show was case there were new pilots to Bader, who lost both his Jet hopped over to Newfound South Bank in London

found come down in some spot near wife who had watched it from thrown open to the public, take their place. lege in a crash; in 1939, but land and back in little

four the heart of Paris. Thus it will the pilot's tent) were particus In, the previous days the public "These are the new Eliza-

sue could only staid outside the con- bethans!" That war the triumph got two artificial limbs and Americans to play two rounds be a friend to man in peace, larly pleased at Derry's

that followed stoned fines of the aerodrome, because ant of the cons because it portly. continued to shoot down of golf-but then American and will be a succour

golfers have always allowed wounded in war. The helicop for the fragody six years ago the displays of types were kept Derry's death. There was grief

was no dirge. Germans as a fighter pilot.

Lime to encroach upon etemi- ter has no wings, but it is an when Geoffrey de Havilland, clear for visitors and buyers, but there

son of the head of the firm many from overseas. More than young widow wept, but she angel among devils.

which made the machine, want a hundred thousand people made knew that her dead pilot hus- When he himself was shot ty. ·

st. the to his death in the same at you The programme For all theso reasons down over enemy territory

display was tempt and in an earlier mate their way to Farnborough, but band could not have lived any. by that time the newspapers other life. Neville Duke went At three of the the Gormans were so, struck can Imagine the cumulative ox- Farnborough

plane which die were getting tired of the story back to the Hawker factory on citement when this verra an-macbly managed. Ten full-colour platce, more than 70 other illustrationsby his bravery that they nual display of the Society of minuta Intervals planes" integrated in the air,

For five days this mipersoplo Monday because there were sont word to the RAF that British Aircraft Constructors took off, each of different de

personality. We with the cool, methodical rivalry lind been going on, and now types ready to join in the round., Now we were to sign und if they would fly over a new como to the area of the world would we a bugu bomber, al mind of a scientist John Der even the resources of the skilled battle. pair of "·"legs for him (the the full achievement which most the sise of a ship, rose ry had studied the problend of reporter could not ring any more. It is the now Elizabethen age

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