1955-02-12 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1955.

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The

at

A young man's log of a young man's adventures

RICHARD WILSON 2 6.

A

grammar

school boy who went to Oxford on an ex-Service grant after doing National Service. Ton months at a university in California was followed by a world tour on an initial capital of £15. Watch for more extracts from his travel notebook.

come from

Eskimo

63-hour week, labourers,

Many travel who spend most of their and the Eskimos

to Alaska from the States, and Red lives below freezing point, Indians were almost fainting

their their jobs

villages. on the goldfield where i was working. Some of them gave up in despair and flew back to their of Arctic villages.

My stay in Alaska accidental,

The name Indians some.

WIH

WIN

but it was the most fruitful stage of journey round the

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world

that cost me £15.

I had won

a scholarship to America under the ful- bright scheme, and had spent a year doing research at the University of Cali- formin, with

expenses patd.

A joke

WAN

quantity of Scotch that was being consumed I realised that it was my duty to sup- port the export drive rather than sit in a corner.

11 month

[

tightened. If a man is not' allowed to land at the ship's ports of call, he has to stay on board as a charge on the ship, for the captain hardly let him starve.

The

FARNBOROUGH MEN

OF YESTERDAY

W

By J. W. TAYLOR

HEN next you hear sight of the week. It was won the scream of the by a pilot who flow 47 miles. faster than – sound Hla crude machine was actually bui, capable of going farther jets of today, give a thought after "working the levers" for those brave pioneers 90 minutes, the plot's legs and who helped make it possible arms became too tired to permit -the "Farnborough Men of him to carry on. Yesterday."

to

The altman who really hit the headlines for speed purred along, with the aid of a follow- ing wind, at 45 mph to

British record by mash the 04 mph.

They caused 2 torrific sensation at England's first flying week at Blackpool, from October 18 to 26, 1909, and had a hundred thousand Another pliot had to be people massed on the "shouted down" for his oWR Squires Gate drome, now an flow in a 28 mph wind after enfoty. This here of the day Important Northwest air other "aeroplanista" had de- port, gasping at the daring clarod that it was too danger- of a pilot in bringing down ous to leave the ground.

Crowd Gasped

This primitive machine low over them at an estimated speed of 70 mph. Appalled friends, fearful for hiB safety, called him a fool for into the wind. Then he turned He managed slowly to climb thus risking his neck.

and buzzed downwind ut 70 mph. Actually he was only From this stle, where doing 42 mph, the wind help- present-day test pilots put the ing with the rest of the speed. latest faster-than-sound juts He had the huge crowd gasp- through their paces at 80,000 ft Ing. then screaming with and more, the flying week delight. planes failed to reach twice

119

the modest height of the re- But friends feared for sort's famous Tower,

round safety, muttering what a fool which today's "ten-bob-a-lip" he was. In sheer desperation, trippers arė down at air they cupped their hands as the speeds thought "absolutely im- plane zoomed past them 80 M. presible" by onlookers there above their heads and shouted

years ago.

to the pliot: "Come down, come down"

A

Only Twenty

to

This flying week was staged when there were unly 20 real caning men is the whole world -13 of them British-and Blackpool it seemed that the world and his wife were bent on watching the astonishing ex- ploita of these daredevil pioneers of fight.

One fellow travelled be- tween Europe and Pakistan for months before the

and let him off. officials at one port relented

In the queue

a

at

Tho Intrepid young flyer, however, came down In his own good time. Friends who hurried ward to scold him were un-

moniously swept aside spectators Intent greeting

an undoubted Enthusiastic writers the pilot's effort as the marvels of aviation."

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described "one of

Yet all that now remains of P historic They took dreadful risks In

flying week aro their machines

memorica and the ocki souvenir, built of wood like the illustrated paper sur- and fabric, braced by wires and

40 vietto now powered by 20-30 hp engines. County Archivist, Mr R. Sharpe

hold by Yet their models were the last France. It has the week's word in piano design for those amort

the

were the days when the public gramme printed on. It botulla had known for only five years for men who served the causs ears of "appointments with danger" that machines really could fy or British aviation by thats when a fight across the daring and enthusiasm, spurred Channel was stil being scribed as

dating by an abiding "heroic,"

na possibilities of future fight. when a pilot was being referred to as an "acroplanist, “

The resort such big and

P

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had never

excited crowdis

faith la

Stuck In Mud

the

as gathered for the aeronautical The Famborough of our jet

until

Another poor devil waa trapped for months in I think I earned many Hongkong ferryboat be times causes confusion. One dollars for Britain that cause he could not land

the foreign students 1 night, and even persuaded either end. mot at the university-he nome of

my companions from Bombay ad- that it was a pity America dressed a meeting once in a did not stay in the Com- small California town, monwealth. Afterwards

# puzzled When my visa expired American asked him where ] went to Canada with he was from.

800 dollars (£300) saved "From India."

the from 14 weeks' work. For ANOTHER change is the

better organised reply.

sea- displays. -

Public was in the men's unions. Many times I mained

housed 're- age all but effaces the mem- open beuatiful city of Vancouver, could not get a job in a ship was of flying" Princes, prio cigarette as he buzzed along at midnight, aries of the days when a plot and always the "Gee," said the American, set among majestic moun- because a qualified seaman

conversation could be seen smoking "You mean they have tains.

cessos, dukes, duchesses was available. This is fair, commoner alike, rubbed should- mph; when on certain days of

and a leisurely air speed of Indians there, too?"

Canada is expanding fast, but it makes things difficult ers and scanned the sky for a I dug for goll in the Land and there are line oppor- for us world-circlera.

the lying circus planes would glimpse in the murky weather be caught by gusts of wind of the Midnight Sun, and tunities and good pay there

of the flying machines.

they werd taking off and spent the evenings, in the for Englishmen with Once

abruptly forced down, eventual- local saloon, drinking beer technical skills. But my needed a second cook

This all-star cast of the air ly to be dragged away to the out of time and whisky out intention was to work my the unlon could not produce such British records then exist landing

comprised airinen who held repair sheds; when the turf of the bottle. The Eskimo passage in a ship to Japan. one, so the job was thrown

beight 1,200 feet; because of the rain machines word for whisky is "tangak,

being Working a sen passage is open. The man in the queue distance, 112 miles; duration of in taking off suddenly

ahead of me got it.

fight, 3 hr. 4 min, and speed stopped on their wheels stuck the only way an impecunious

a rip-roaring 37 miles an hour. In a patch of mud; when globe-trotter can travel from

machines "looked like These men were badly

birds one continent to another,

need of capital to finance their their pilots tried to lift them hopping about the ground" CUS enterprises, and with a 20,000 off the sticky turf to the prize pool floating around it couraging shouts of spectators, was a question of "ay or bust."

The most sought after prize Well and truly did these £2,000 for the longest man "reach for the stars,"

AMERICAN students are, and that was the only word if anything, alightly I had to learn to get on with crazier than English under- them. graduates, A favourite

practical joke of their On American indepen- and in the old days it was fraternity boys was to take dence Day I joined the easy. Now it is hard to do.

FA Canadian ship

and

ing

If I had stayed in Van- couver long enough I think I should have got a work- ing passage, but time was

а саг to pieces and re- celebrations with some mis- For one thing, the immi- short and I finally sailed as assemble it in someone's givings, but when I saw the gration laws have

room.

It is quite a shock to come back after a party, climb the stairs and find an enormous Bulck sitting 0}] your bedroom carpet, all ready to go!

I glanced at the atlas one day and realised I was half way round the world from London. Why not complete the circle?

I asked the Americans about holiday work, for many of the students there pay their way through college by working part- time during term and full- time in holidays,

"Go to Alaska," they said. ""That's where the money

i8,"

In Alaska

So when I had 'finish- ed at the university I went north and took Д job on # goldfield at Låvengood" (permanent population: six souls) · just outside the Arctic Circle, in the dead centre of Alaska. "It is frozen up in winter, and high wages must be bald to get people to travel thers Just for mamander work. We were working

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