THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULÝ 17, 1854.
BILL WATERTON begins his dramatic story today
TEN YEARS AS A TEST PILOT, LIVING BEYOND THE SOUND BARRIER – THIS IS THE LIFE THAT BILL WATERTON LED... FLYING INTO DANGER
HE WAS THE FIRST MAN TO TAKE UP A NEW PLANE - A 'FLYING QUESTION MARK'- AND THE FIRST MAN TO CRASH-LAND IT. :: IN FLAMES
THE FIGHTER SHUDDERED-
I COULDN'T SEE A THING.....
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Y name ін BI
Waterton. I am n test pilot. 1 have spent the last 10 years testing pinnes at high Clupeale) speeds.
TYLALA
WIR the firm man to fly trum Paris to London in 20
I was the minutes, who took the famous "paper lart" plane, the Javelin, into the air for the first time.
Suddenly there was a loud buzzing, and then....
New planes are like unbroken
You never
know how horse
ranter, they are going to trol, Gloster llop, or buck until you get up there in the saddle and le them.
I was also the first ning to crash-land it. Does that
me
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For instance, a sudden change can of speed and air-pressure conjure
out of the mobster
that will take o stratosphere plane in 115 grip, butter li und destroy it
On paper
TAKE the case of that famous
plane the Closter Javelin I know this plane.
I saw it Truper in chief designer
an ent high- George Carter's offer
ham, Gloucester, in 1017 | sow
bullt there too. And in Now ember 1151 I took it up for its fest flight
I do not know whether it bus
in my job that helped
grown-up T started
cavalryfman, send learned the mean atine is a dangeronts hard, bruising, and aching way
when job? No.
what happens to you If a Job with
you ignore the warring Sigh* hazards, worries, et frux-
That both Jurseflesh. und tration 1
il vot
jpe!ew] planes give your Things are going wrong. In either cake YOU cropper if you ignore them
ort wit With wild hot ves DOW plates you devel seventh, and very spreml, sense ot preparing for the unexported
il
Jo let it.
just of the me you have been
a chied test telot in a neat whe Botndy makes some Wri
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test lighters but then has agunt and sell them, soa
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Free of 10 +21 Braus 11 1 ara et loan old age
For love
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TOPRS are long and pay is an airline Than pilut i necen earned me than £2,000 year, and by the time the ruts had done with me
I averaged about 1.100
The future at the average test
plot alter he has got beyond
ingh-speed flying age)
usually
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我
concern
not
many the aircraft companies
for whom be
works- possibly
beegcase they do not consitler he
bas auch future
So you fly for love And when
love copies Into a job danger does to mailer,
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BANG
Nothing quite like af had ever Even Hs shape own betale
An was mit of a future world. unknown. high-flying. Bugh speed Bubter
And they handed at t in ter dy for the first time
near by. In cuse you have to descend in a hurry: and, 1 thought, was not a bad idea to show the Americans that we
han new aircraft with a new shape and tew possibilities.
When แ Javelin's Sapphire belted and engines are that was what I was doing with begin them time and distance to contract fast,
The moment
NATURE'S
POISON
PUNCHES
THE LANCERS
By IVAN T. SANDERSON Explorer, Naturalist, Author
Anatives
can
*
be
ofte
If
GROUP of local edge on the hind or inner cige. mapped against h a
been They can be
the courally bony side of the ishing in the lagoon body like a pair of juws, and from a large sailing canoe. then grip with frightful tena. The small jetties and the city. Up in the angle between wharf of the little port were and body is a needle-shar"
spike, bony
porforated ke crowded with schooners und
hypodermic. From this pore
polsun large motorboats, so the milky-white for hended cance
the squirted to distance of
This poison kills
jarge foreshore foot.
even shallow, muddy
frogs by the dozer, seafront beyond the open
only squirted into a bucket of brought her in. And went back
water. Its effect when injected market
monkey's to write a report that kicked up
six-pound As it grounded, a youth into hell with the designers,
<xford I spw
overboard and Anger was afrost instantaneous That Arst flight showed up ahead began to throttle buck, jumped
I once spent a year in Wen. the Javelin because that meant that, started wading ashore, the death.
Africa About the bunit of the tit alas evinced fue that bere did not. I would be over London muddy water not even up to
Tow minutes later teven was, poirnbally, A great
his knees. Suddenly he let Cross River in the Cameroons. being though I was still more than 40 eralt.
oat a servum of agony that One of my reasons for
ecimen miles ahead).
there was to obtain whole water- brought the
that lives of a tiny whale I started a climbing turn
stop. He fell that river, and ents only vogel- Every-front to head me back to base,
the water, able food. thing was well so far. Another writhing fust run and some acrobatics, screaming again and again. and I could put her down and pronounce her fit for the show.
I headed her back over American bases (and though my speed is still wcret. I can assure you tha! it was fast).
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And It kep workshops
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1 wanted the per- feet aircraft We had not got it
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He could dust do his gemmere! tests with Tapes, enga controls.
Then he took the plane the grotend not for an actual
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the staminn of a earthouse
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A revolutionary plane. Heavier WHA
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Wellington bomber from World War 11. and faster than the speed of sound
ARTIST ROBB interprets the moment of crisis in a
cockpit at high speed.
gave me proved
tyy - Flying Mark. It took it from the un way on its first flight as sincethly as a greyhound af era rubbe and then,
itsas Teet a tuw alve the around, began to act IN 11 it had been stung by
I shuddered and shock.
As the speed Increased shaking and hanging worsened. thought something might break up.
1
Blut pulled the speed down, probed the plane out on a few Tentative manoeuvres, and then
RENE MacCOLL winds up in Moscow after his second tour of Russia
DRY
BREAD AND
wh
what Suscled like some if you are supremely boring chore -- yel round a place another museum to see, another right
FOUTIE
CIRCUSES
going to be Laken You are taken ankl it
K
camp
MOSCOW, my heart sunk over the prospert rather dernarding affairs is that wishes of the Kharkov pements' BAVE always dist
circuses, like! horrel concerts,
and palace al Culture to be gene nonsense, detested visiting factories, over. So how has MacColl been spending much of his time here in the Sovie! Union?
These varionis refections have fuct been touched off by the that I found myself sitting in a circus at Kiry the other even- Once or twice on such oC-
tee cream.
In no bruken away-- ing eating And yet not once in retrospevt ensions I have
Always or tried to--without inspecting other country in the world enn have 1 registted going. there's something to be gained every last nook and cranny. But I possibly imagine myself going from the experience, some little the officials have always looked to the circus alone--but there I extra tile to be itted into the so shocked at this that i alsrbung mosaic that makes up realised that I was committing the Soviet Union.
a piece of reprehensible
So now it is the whole MacColl. works every time for
DRINKING
By the 100 Grammes
THE Soviet Union has no bars
tractive.
Although the diplomats have of vodka" nice flat, long-playing gramo Georgian wine No. 3** phone records--and the Soviet
rude-
There WDS a characteristk
this when I of example went out tự a proneers' ca
other day.
1
was
with
The phoneers Me
com-
to
was
BOWING
By smiling order
and
a
Ukrainian
the only small point of differenco
The target
THEN pilots took it up and and its reported its virtues
But Haws, I was not satiseher. ducing the winter we progressed We showed quide (avourably That the Javelin watki do what
was designed to do,
an
F we were shooting al umportant farget. This was still a sein-serrel pinne, and few knew it potentialities,
In June 1952 there was to be inetical conference of RAF Fighter Command at West Kyttan No. folk. The air- crait industry was putting on a
of its newest fighters f
Juniors Command.
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A
rat
Fighter
to
in
n
A dozen of us rushed to hir
I asked every native I met t ashore, ak and dragged him
Nothing right go and catch me one. Blood poured from its the
when ankle. He had been lanced by a happened watii ano duy
large party of triumphant primitive type of fish known 05
in men came singing and stagger- asting ray. He was taken
wila door loaded to a doctor who, luckily, resided ing to
wanted. within 300 yards of the water what they thought I
no whale Look
Alis, it was front where
event place. By then the boy was out much more amazing discovery
un enormTIQUN ray th over ten cold with excruciating pain.
wus feet a total length, and with which The ray's fance,
nineteen-inch poison had u harpoon,
A 3,000 feet 1 was level and The engines were almost open. Speed was rieng more slowly
I could feel the wall
nir building compressed!
like the thend of the Javelin bow wave of a ship.
Bumps
of
p
barbed
broken off
WAS reminded once more, as every high-speed pilot is when i he starts briting Jakk atrernit that There was ones
man named Doeloe Mach.
H
N
Doctor Mach is
ver
AMC of an Austrian physicist fighter plane. tu who established the relation- D1, flown by the file Julin ship between the compressibil
Would be there and it of air and the speed of although we had an R.A.F. em sound, In air experts' Langu-
deliver Javelin, know the de Havilland people would use every trick in the tag speed of stund.
fract
to sow us up.
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A dew days before the show
our plane was due to begin, the star plane of the show-was still on the ground undergoing inspection and modifications.
Dress rehearsal
MIME was creeping up
us.
That was why it was a San- doy afternoon when took tha Javelin Lp for
"dress rehearsal for the all-important show the following day.
вежда
The day was hot and sunuy, and at 3.900 feet one could see the big America mutes arields at Fairford and Brize Norton, for instance,
Muse
1 pointed the Javelin's that way to test nying
it is always mandy to have an alrileld
chy
Mach 1 note međng the
Do you remember what I suid about 4 horse suddenly shy- ang at a ratllemake? That war how this happened,
True, a few small bumps had reurred; not violent but nouce- able and unusual. I put them down to aight local air tur- bulence. norinal on a hot day. Nothing to worry about.
ils f
saw.
Suddenly there was a loud buzzing in my ears, as grating
circular
1 looked down at the Instrument panel und could not see it. I could
because not see anything
We were shuddering so much.
And then BANG!
3
MONDAY: Trapped
in the blazing cockpit
WHEN D-O-G SPELLS
DANGEROUS
By ANDREW HOPE
B
like
the
his ankle,
had pierced it to a depth
my
but
spine
and sticking out
from the top
of
of the tail best.
two-and-one-half inches, Krz
This spine, when dried, split
ing two bones, splitting another, along its kngth four ways and and dislocuting others. The leg opened out like a great flower,
clear, purple within two revealing a
crystalline was violent
turu within. This in the pain was so ipear minutes, and awful that he gave but a single cracked up into small nugget scream
unted the which almply vaporised in the which sale to the
range, moist atmosphere, supersonic
The stingray, with poisonous lance protruding from tall,
stores enough poison to kill a herd of elephants.
and then faded, along with the
poor fellow's senses.
I
I have since been told by fish this substance is exports that
tit
have attended a number of pure poison and, thus, if operations and, perforce, had to effects of similar smaller spine. narine rays are any self on one occasion, but I have criterion, is owner must have
conclude an appendectomy my of the
ever witnessed anything com- been capable of killing a herd, pared to the surgery that was of elephants. needed to extract, that poisoned
barb.
glands situated at
or
The
410
thes
reverso
stmy rays are, in fact, The poor doctor was nol one of the most dangerous creatures in the sea, and they surgeon nor equipped for sur-
common-post gical practice; we had to devise are incredibly everything, .even to the tively
swarming off shallow anaesthetic which my wife ad- coasts with mud or sand bot- ministored. Finally, we had to toms. There la a nice, but burr the spino out literally. wholly ise, beller that if you Why -- by going to cir-
with the krilves scraping on shuffle
feet along 100 chuffle your cuses, listening to concerts,
bone.
such bottom while wading
these menaces wiji and visiting factories.
The sting rays are not by any water mein away over means the only fish that can politely How
explain this tu
and beast. poison man
Most bottom before you, while if you get in
tread fish have ons supported by bony inadvertently
direckly paradox?
MANY people are asking: long as he can
clevate spines or rays. In several types upon them they will "What is wrong with quick nip low down, were dashing Cossack It is an odd feature of
other of those spines is their spines and jab you in the THERE
horsamen who played the the Queen's pet corgis?" The Welsh corgi la class- one life among the Soviets-but
that virulent poisons from cuncertina upside down as they First, one of them bites the ed in the dog world with grooved or even perforated, so cole. This is complete nonsense. Actually, the ray's comman one which nearly all visiting
some miles out of Kharkoy the or pubs as we know them. tys and girls aged seven to 14, hung from their saddles, tight-leg of the man who winds such breeds as the Alsatian, special
walkers int
to mother of defence or perhaps Westerners are aware of.
There are some beer halls in and they spend a
in rope Inth
weightlifter
fter the royal clocks. Now, one the bull mastiff, and the near their bases may flow
offence to glide forward a Here in the capital it. is Moscow, but 1 And there umat-
national dress, a hliday camp every summer.
who sweated manifully to great of them nips a Guardsman's boxer. Welsh corgis are their points.
little way and then come charg- called "Moscow malaise.“
who ankle family
ing backwards at full this applause,
he stamps as escorted round
on looked on as working dogs,
The effects of a ciab from spend with its Innce protruding, Every time I go to the theatre One thing you can't get in the
committee of five trotted up and down a dadder
heroically
at Buckingham with a bit of fire in them. bone
the sentry-go upon or ballet here in Moscow i can Soviet Union is a quick drink, cump by a
The Alsntlunke the ch spines are various, rang- and its whiplash tail trailing flattened, diamond- ing from nothing much mtu
feet of
worso under ita father, the Palace. a restaurant, ut adults, but very much in take a safe bet on encountering You go
WISH the camp director, upturned
watched boxer is a favourite dog than a bee sting, to death. The shaped body.. I have Finally
the mand many familiar faces from arong down and wall.
a zonking great Amazon of a anchorman.
But what else do people for police and Army train-effect of
do this in clear water, comparable them some is waitress shows up wid
you the Western embussics.
personality order "one hundred
grammes woman
The circus and its ways are expect? Although the little ing. The bull thastiff comes only to that of the venent of and it is a terrifying sight completely international I'd say: Welsh corgis are only about from the kind of fighting the most deadly fish, like the job from even a match.
cobras and pit vipers. Some of because the effects of a direct- or "a bottle of
a small ray can I spotted was that the ring 12 inches high they are not dogs that baited lions in uger fish of the South Pacife, be quite terrible. master, in white lie and talls, toy dogs like the Pekingese the Roman arenas.
are exquisitely beautiful both Considering, however,
umber was the arbiter on taking bows.
of people who swim in Can such dogs be dangerous? in colour and form. As a breed they have
waters of the world Perhaps the ugliest, and one the wild breed. The big dogs! Not as n The convention was, that the
every day and the number of porformers would start to trot scampered over the Welsh that frighten so many people of the most deadly, is it litt eve
of Ash that can sting. It is sur She qu
FF we went to the sleeping off at the end of their acts, only hills for a thousand years, by their apparent derceness are catfish, found in the rivers
Gulanas, only about six prising that so few people aro more dangerous than the the quarters. I duly polted my to run
ringmaster working with herders and no
inches
Injured. Nevertheless, long at the most. It over little corgis. to round up head into one of the dormitories smilingly blocking their exit and drovers
res lurks in slow-flowing,
wading, muddy whenever you do go Breeds with the most aggres- After that you may get the and admired the neat, if rather, indicating that they must turn cattle and mountain ponies, sive family history make fine streams among needs, and feeds and especially in muddy watche
back for another cheer.
domestla pets.
on Bitla things. Yet it has or
contal in drink in 15 minutes or maybe crowded roomful of beds.
Teffible half an hour or possibly 40
weapons in Lis "arm- tropics, 18 de well to be as swaro They have kept those P.S-A form of
Any dog with courage, how
ckas. because That would have done as far
as you posibly minules. And K you yearn for
will snap into activity plis," concerned but oh that I really cannot abide is a bigger animals on the move ever, I was
The fus startled A Welsh
behind its head, come of nature's most polsatus One of them put it to ore for the road you'll be there We like
me,
no. I was donr
cere.. puppet show,
And so where is by nipping their heels. Size corgieven when It lives in a kisown as pectorals, are
solid panches are delivered beneath this: "After all, till midnight.
moniously escorted to overy MacColl off to tonight?
does not scare a corgi, so polace is no exception,
scythes of bobe with a cutting the waves. our stay in the Soviet Union
dormitory-20 of them and all a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
identical-in the girls' wing. You feel that you must make
And then ditto the boys', And of overy last minute of your
If any of you can think of some if you feel here. Even
novel and sprightly comment to orbestod at the end of the
make when you are looking at day's work you just have to
No nil In all MacColl finds your 20th empty, dormitory I'd out and see or do something,
himself casting about for be grateful to know what it is. participate in the lite
forms of amuse- are more exotic
The camp spered admirably healthy Young Pioneers' Camps or even, rum and the children heaven help us, a full scale wall and cheery. And before I left I copped my second bouquet of wonderful Soviet tour,
records Ofe excellent — and
She
Блук
"To
cat?"
You
DORMITORIES
plenty to read, it is rare indeed reply: "Nothing, thanks Where And twenty o` them to And them curling up with a
upon she says: "Why are you good book for an evening unwell?" You say: "o, never
felt better in my life."
home.
SINKING With all this culture
WHY?
time
place. Otherwise you
haunted by the
opportunity mited,"
ret
shakes her head and withdraws.
AMUSING?
Not the tractors!
of the
of ment such as imotor factorios or
Another Western diplomat is way run by children one of the few exceptions to
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this rule. He said to me: "1 I think perhaps the all-time this never dreds of going to see a something-or-other was repched affair of wild flowers plbkod by factory at home; so why should in Petropavlovsk in Northem a group of the children while I
ei trall round them here?" AN Maxuddhistan the other day where was on my rounds.
I was all Bot. to visit the local
A
amall bespectacled manager became Repped sinarily forward, htstandin
Woll, I thick perhaps he is slothterhouse. At the last makna, a mistake fikrnik, 1-car moment the
a afirill little speech
tell you from my own, ex- sick and the date was scrubbeded 31 to me and then delivered periences there have been, many DECANOEinde 1) arrived here By the way, what fomicon usere she beked cane do trvey, bo
Into the
amusement
JOHNNY HAZARD
THE PLANK BEARING JOHNNY AND NOONAN BITS DOWN OUTBIDE DIJONI
the
BEST YOU STAY HERE AN' GUARD THE PAINTINGS LI'L JANNAH'LL GO ON TO
FONICKY'S ALONET! quinimi
when it is
„OKAY, LOW-NOON... I'M TOO COMFORTABLE
RIGHT HERE TO GO,
· ANYHOW!
By Frank Robbins
this situation
calls for a
San Miguel
tho
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