1953-10-24 — Page 11

Tropic Isles - Await Her Majesty

By JOHN LATHAM

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AGEANTRY blends sightseers' paradise. Palm trees,

The shore, mirror and the simple in the themselves in the calm bays within the protecting coral entertainments planned for rests. Beyond, the roaring the visits of the Queen and Preihe LYRINION ceaselessly these natural ram- Duke of Edinburgh to island inst colonies

during the Royal parts. Tour.

P with the picturesque fringing

Through a gap.

a pilot will proudly guide, the Queen's ship From Bermuda, the Queen's Into Suva harbour.

A leet of plane touches down al Montego the swift "fying" Fijian Bay, Jamaica, on November 25.

and yachts from Cunoeg

Lise

It was to this semi-tropie seaside "Royal Suva Yacht Club will resort that Sir Winston Churchill escort the Gothle, to her berth. earlieris year retreated for rest und relaxation, co

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takes motor drive

the

Royal party from Montego Bay's waying palm trees through the Jush Jamaica, countryside, There, they make their first stup for a

caneers

in

picnic luncheur; then Q11 Lo Spanish Town, hideout of buc-

parates and

The buand's swashbucking past.

But the Royal couple will find the romance of Janucu not on urely dead. From the fastnesses of ine Blue Mounthus, from unmapped inaccessible villages, will come representatives of the

Maroons.

the Sir

Matanlvauna, Fijian naster of ceremonies, will board Vessel with the Governor, Ronald GRITYCY and Lady Garvey. With him will be the eller chöstu 10 perform the traditional ceremony of invk.inj an honoured traveller to land.

Fiji tradition

Alalanivauna represents FijES He with superintend tradition. her day welcome. At the dances at Albert Park at night, he will sheet the telbearers for the evening drive, the massed choirs

at the fireworks display,

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An outdoor tea party stick Junchcon in a little Hatched collage

the country will only busima the al fresen spirit of autonomous sciely in the British the . Frangements.

These people, originally Jun-

slaves, Uway

arc

the

West Indies. In the old days,

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Torastan Is the nex æveral attempts by the Britta redcants to extract them from place-dor four days. their mountain

slopping And for retreats failed. the last time in its history, the And finally, the government island will Tontain two queens,

The second queen

In Salote, signed a treaty "confirming their

friendly caler at the Friendly freedom not only from slavery,

isirs. but from any form of alleri jurisdiction.

Self-governing

The Maroons have remained for over a century an indepen- dent self-governing body within the colony. They have held alouf from affairs outside their moun- taina. But they will come tes Kingston, Jamaica's capital, to 1900 the Queen and her hus band,

During her three-day stay on the island, the Queen will open the new Senate building of the University College of the West Indies. Military parades and rally

children, of school

a mayoral welcome and present- tions, a Government House din ner and reception appear on The effein programme.

The Duke of Edinburgh's in- terest in science and education

will not be overlooked. He will

of

meet, informally, members the University staff and others interested in these subjects,

Ther oil. across the wide Pacifle to Fiji. Fit

is

a

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

ATOMIC

RESEARCH BO ADMITTANCE

MORE

QUAKES

HUNDREDS

DEAD

**You see, Anstruther, we can't afford to rest on our laurels-nature's catching up on us all the time."

The highlight of the island's welcome in an ajarn sie feast at Mula Park, lastig one and 3 half hours.

Beforehand, the Royal couple with gifts. will be presented During the frost they will be entertained by Tongan dancers.

The day will be Sunday and Queen Salote, ilke her subjects,

Is a staunch Methodist, So she has ruled that the Sabbath be observed on the following day,

all are satisfied.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1953.

"CHERWELL JUST CAN'T MAKE HIM UNDERSTAND

THAT THIS IS A GREAT STEP FORWARD IN NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED PROPULSION"

POINTS OF VIEW AT WOOMERA

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Spotlighting the Speed

Speed Race in the Air:

BEYOND THE SOUND

BARRIER

LIES

THE HEAT BARRIER

T the moment the air

speed record resta

A with

the

American an F.4D Douglas

generally

By Eric Gillibrand

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They

Her Majesty and Prince Philip break. their return

not. journey to pay their first vish

thing. Or it may to the Enst African protectorate

do know that beyond the sound barrier lies a "heat barrier". of Uganda. There another full

which promises to be a far more the Royal plane. awaits programme

stubbor

in obstacle one, couple in Entebbe. A

There are 188 instruments on Karden

tighter the nippler.

X-3, and each one fact, that even the experts are 4,000 guests Skyray, at 753 mph, and higher operation "ceiling" and is party with about from all parts of Uganda, din everyone wants to know plane than the Sabre F80 used automatically records by radio doubtful about conquering,

But, meanwhile, It weighs about Its Andings on an oscilloscope In mer parties, receptions, investi- | where we go from there, in Korea, tures, leave little time for other Not very far probably, for 10.500 ib. of the Sabre.

with the 12,000 lb. compared

1 lest room far below the plenty to do. flashing plane. informal luncheon on the Gov-the present.

But the MIG was designed for Russin's 11 IN doubtful it the fine short-range work on British fighters, The Hunter borders, and pays for its light- and the Swift, have a sufflelentness by having queer Idiosyl

functions. But there is une

errument House terrace,

Nile dam

The outstanding occasion,ut course, will be when the Queen seis in operation the grent dam, hamessing the Nile near Victoria

Lake.

The dam 16 part of a £22-million hydro- électrle scheme fulfilling an old dream of Sir Winston Churchill for using the Nile to bring in- creased light und power to East Africa,

New Confidence

All the pilot has to do is to hy the plane.

The rest of his

ly high Mach number to beat chakies of flight and a tendency "crow", in the test is the real guldener to fall to pieces under the stress

A Sabre care of the rest. of an aerial dogfight. of climate is

the record. The Mach takes

differen

int Recount-it is the relation dependabic, sirong on British

armour,

heating,

and

they have

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Tudor Oyster Prince

room, take

They know at any moment the temperature of points--all over Owell of the speed of the plane to And if the Sabre is heavier, the plane, the ofr speed, the on this part and that, the spordi of sound. which the pilot gets the benent In pressure

whether the wheels and flops vorles (754 at 60 degrees, 797 better at 104 degrees).

cooling systems, sufficient to ore up or down, the position of Whyint Britain and America warm or refrigerate a street of the controls.

At the first sign of wing may have "in the bag in the houses, to keep him comfort-

or excessive vibration. For the man whose purse is modest, Butter why of

general feeling of faster machines which able, plus a

undetectable to the they do not care to pull out confidence in emergency, worth perhaps

pilat, the voice of the watcher a good deal. at present for the world to see is another matter. The Skyray,

For sheer speed, though, fan- speaks in his ear, calling him in for one thing, is a delto, and

tastic new planes are coming or telling him how to meet the Britain has been working on

along. Already there are rocket trouble. planes, such dettes for a long time,

Douglas Here is something that gives a Skyrocket, which at 1,238 mph pilot new confidence and, to is one of the fastest piloted air- ground research teams, a fresh

out of the sense of craft, but they are

responsibility.

The Royal couple will Also view native dances by the Acholi tribe, performed by men and women who are themselves of princely blooo. The dances are traditionally only

before royalty.

Next comes

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staged

to

Getting Hot

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But thinking for the mo record category because they trusts them and they know 19 ment just in terms of pro- have to fly at high altitudes, and watching the green lines Trip

duction-line lighters like the records must be made close to

Jight constantly moving on the Makerere, the only University Skyray and the Hunter, the the ground. And, of course, screens of the oscillographs. they college in East Africa,

Is getting hot for design they are very short-range. and poče colourful welcomes by His Highness the Kabaka and

number of leading Baganda and other native chiefs,

One dity hing been set aside for 疆 private visit to the national park, named after the Queen. It includes the foothills of the Mountains of the Moon, a "abryinth of extinct craters containing dark green lakes of salt water."

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Next

the

Like a Shark

share his excitement, his hopes and fears.

one lo como atong is

All the time the X-3 is in the American Sabre F100, It is when you see a plane hir, too, a skilled test pilot is on claimed as the first jet fighter like the Douglas X-3 that the watch in a Sabro, talking to the able to break the sound bar hair on the back of your neck man In the X-3, giving him rier in level flight. It is under feels queer. test at present, and promises

to be interesting.

MIG can climb

Army Revives Buying-out

me

By LES ARMOUR

in the

advlee, commenting an the plane's behaviour.

The Obstacle

So the

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The Douglas X-3 has a fleet ing resemblanco to a shark but Do not underrate the Sabre, has a hint of terrifying wicked- as many people do, having read ness about it that makes a shark hard things said about its per- look

That is most of all necessary amiable. The

nose is when the X-3 lands, for the formance in Korea. True, the sharp, the big tall high and design gives the pilot very little

faster, has

upswept, the wings small and view of the ground, and the life-like in their thinness, in plane lands at over 200 mph-

American even in a first-class racing car, the spirit of current design.

with

sturdy wheels, that is Power comts from two cracking pace, and in a plane on. enormous jet engines. Perhaps its small-size landing wheels, the most surprising thing is the more than tricky.

Sabre pilot

"talks size of the X-3-Imuch bigger than that of the average fighter, down" the X-3, flying alongside, London. apply within three months of Down

It has to guiding him lower foot by foot. fine print, and it is heavy, too. "Dig and buy

EAR Ma-Sell the Joining and, within that period, though, the Army has left fiself be strong for what it aims to do until the wheels touch, and the

discharge will be an hullemable some convenient loopholes,

-maintala fight beyond the weird looking plane goes tearing

along the eight-mile runway. Between the end of the first

of right.

sound. spred out..

One maiden fight it was Eight miles America certainly After that the process may three months of service and the It's three years since the still be dimeult

end of the third year, there will piloted by Bill Bridgeman, who has the natural assets for this put up that 1,238 mph figure crowded epuntries are at a kind of thing. Smaller, more mothers of Britain havo The Army reasons that it takes be no discharge by purchase

And, even if the man mentioned earlier, in a rocket found letters like that in a heap of money to train a

disadvantage. complete

And plane, and has also been up to yet, it is none too long for it may 79,494 feet. the morning mail. But next modern nighting man and that, technically elegible, there

purpose; it gives the X-3 pilot month the flood will start a man ducks out before he be more to it then selling the

Happily, science has moved up

of minutes has proved himself a paying in- pig and mortgaging the horse. again.

with rosearch methods as well. only a couple

such a speed, The Army can declare mna design. Dit you see the film vestment, he should make some rential" and stop the process "Sound Barrier, with the plot perta hope to find out how to With pianos like this, the ex-- The War Office has de- sort of reimbursement. cided to re-establish the But

an Army-trained ap right there.

Then, the purchase regula-machine at over 100 mph and at speed not the rocket type struggling with his theketing get useful, practical supersonic (who has ancient rules under which prentice

usually a irade useful in tins me suspended as soon as a the sub time trying to scream short-lived and extravagant a man can "buy out" of the acquired

civilian life) will have to cough man has been notified of an into a microphone his findings fuel. For that they need Army.

£120 10 get out. up

A skilled overens porting. Once abroad, on her behaviour? Did you ever know much note about the The Korean war forced their tradesman must pay £80, and he must stay put a year before wonder how a pilot ever manag- mysteries that He round suspension, and the touchy word soldier with four years behind he can apply,

ભા est to keep which on all those altuation delayed their re him will be charged 260,

Once out, he is denied the instruments when the average After 18 years, however, ha usual forcen transportation homa motorist duds two or three more New recruits National Ser- can apply for a "purchoso" dis- for himself and his amily, than enough? vicemuri barred-will get out at charge, but it won't cost tim à Maybe you better - Just keep Now it's all done from the a bargain price of R20. I they icent,

the pig, Ma....

establishment.

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of

to

sound barrier, and what they: mean in terms of plane design

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