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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1955.

THIS IS THE PRICE OF SPEED!

..

pictures from Britain showing the strain jet-age airmen must submit to

A SUPER merry-go-round built to find out just how much punish- " ment the jet-age airman can take while still staying in control of his plane was put into action a Farnborough, Hants, yesterday. TWO CABINS like miniature space-ships hang from the ends of a 62ft. rotating arm which will whirl men round until they experience devastating strains up to ten times the force of gravity.".

HOW THE MONSTER MERRY-GO-ROUND WORKS

THIS is the mighty strutted arm of the world's finest Ruman Centrifuge -- the gjant machine built at the RAF's In- stitute of Aviation Medicine to simulate the terrilir forces imposed by jet-age wilight

On the left is a tiny kil in which the pliot kita. On the right is one of the operators who report th the control room.

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by CHAPMAN PINCHER.

UE Erst man to dare

speed Suddenly its

race: watching robot pens grace out fantastic accideration. a running record of Fitzsimmons' the forces which simu. With

The cabin swivelled out until it reactions during his ordeal. late the toughest

Charts showed the exact rate was almost horizontal. For tive physical stress imposed on long seconds the control room at which blood was drained #5 G's"-ve from his face and just how his pilots in jel-age combat was dial registered

times the normal force of heart had tried to wing the

battle against increasing G's.

Fitzsimons and other sagging." RAF doctors of the Farn- caprot borough team, led by Group Dimcult to Captain William K. Stewart

Flight-Lieutenant James gravity.

Fitzsimons, an RAF doctor-

scientist.

"My cheeks are

Scon

HY Fitzsimons caled. I saw him strapped alone move my arms now. in the green-lit cabin slung takk," Then faintly: "I am will be "Tisking the rigours from the arm of the Human greying out."

·Centrifuge, as the giant merry-go-round is called.

and blood-pressure.

THE

Greying out

THEN the

huge concrete arena housing the £350,000 machine was cleared,

2

his head

Standing in the routrol room I heard Fitzsimons voice over the loudspeaker give the signal "Ready to start, Controller."

Switches were thrown, and the 2,200 horse-power motor In a quiet recording began to spin the strutted arm

doctors hard

to 10 G's. of up

The cabins will be fitted with dummy controls so that the pilot's reaction time-the delay before his muscles begin to obey brain--can be measured his under G's severest stresses.

Д

Redding out

to

to

-WATCH

"AS IT TAKES A PILOT !

INTO ITS GRIP ...

THIS is what happens at the moment when an airman feels the lightening grip of his insidious enemy, G---the force of gravity. The loose skin of his face is pulled downwards, his eyes begin to burn, his eyelids feel dry and gritty. As blood drains from his eyes his vision is blurred and he "greys out."

As the G force increases, his teeth are bered like those of a snarling dog. His blood as heavy as molten iron when the stress reaches six '-runs to his legs and blinds him by robbing his eyes of their oxygen supply. He "blacks out."

Under the stress of still more G's, his heart is beaten in its efforts to pump the heavy blood to his brain and he becomes unconscious.

Those Teen Age Frenzies-True Or False?

OME. away, dear,"

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An Investigation By ANTHONY HUNTER

the stage microphone. The singer. earning more than Cambridge Drive Lee, S.E. She awering fan fever is earning £20,000 a year. Even Britain goes to college to learn short him a reputed £150,000 a year, has Dickie Valentine, who, hand and typing. She is quiet,

11 Fitzsimons' seat had been fixed to a spring balance at that moment it would have registered His only protection won his weight as nearly half a ton. an anti-G (for Gravity- His-lungs stomach, and in

terrai organs felt as though suit. Electric leads were

they were being dragged from attached to him to measure their moorings. his heart-beat, bruin-waves, His blood had become

will, even be momentarily as heavy as Mol- THE doctors

down upside ten iron.

Rushing away from whirled to his legs, it had measure the effects of "edding starved his eyes of their blood out"-the painful pressure supply so that all looked grey caused by blood rushing to the

Only the self-inflating rubber brain in power dive. balloons of his anti-G

sult It is the violent changes of

said the short- pressing

on his legs and stomach speed in the twists and dives

sighted old lady. stopped him blacking out com- of supersonic fight which sub- pletsy.

ject pilot

savage "It must be a fight."- the Then came the comment: "I stresses of G-not the speed It was worse than that- am ali right. now." as the itself.

it was a riot. From machine slowed down.

their findings the

From a safe distance doctors hope to develop room RAF been more effective anti-G devices. I watched 500 sobbing, swooning, shrieking teenage girls fighting literally to scale the vertical sides

Vying for the title of the the London Palladium. singer teenagers most want to tear to pieces is Frankie Laine, "Above their heads

a stim, whose "hoxy (foghorn to older passable-looking chap

tars) voice brings

in about and mopped his brow waved £120,000 per arnum. He, too, wanly. He had just climbed is met with fighting and hysteria hurriedly to the poi to avoid at the airport. Giris chase him the risk of being torn to picces to his hotel room and tear off signal" swooners placed strate-

This is fan-fever. The hunted his coat. They howl and roar gically in the audience? man was Johnnie Ray, Ameri- at his performances, almost loud can crooner and idol of bobby- enough to drown that "hex" There was only one way to

His voice has voice

fnd out. soxers' dreams.

I went to see ten of bein compared to a "buzz-saw"

Then there is Frank Sinatra, Jonnie Ray's fans picked at and a "siren.

who pioneered the swoons of random. He is not the only one. He young female audiences, and My Arst Тап was Janette

present the reigning Eddie Fisher, who regularly Robertson, at "Nabob of Sch” to weep, tear loses his shirt to fans and is, head of 17, who lives in a most his hair, and gesticulate Uver therefore, an up-and-coming respectable suburban home in

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FRANKIE LAINE

They Were Afraid

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despite his modest £11,000 a * year, can raise a very noisy swoon from 4,500 crazy fans.

well-spoken.

I would look after him, I be- lieve every word he is singing."

A well-known hypnotist thinks fan fever is simple: "Just 'masa hynotism, it's all done with the hands."

Josephine Jannawoy," aged 18, at And

Anerity Road, Upper Nor- wood, railed up her eyes and cried. "On, oh, Johnnie this is for life. I can't look away from him. I'm spellbound, I've

Her grey-green eyes sparkled as we spoke of Johnnie Ray: "The moment he comes on the only got to listen to his records

and I'm off again" What is this fan-fever? Is it

I scream. stage

It's such & a real emotion? Or is it just relief to see him,"

she said.

Ako 18, Fam Jessett, of a rowdy outing for hoydens and

Good heavens, Kingstake "Marry him? Teddy

Street, Walworth, Do the bobby- no. But when he sings, I migh: S.B., said: "It's his actions. Teddy-girls? soxers really worship these

do anything.

terrific. When he comes on the stage, heart-string ballooers" they whipped up by sweating

or are personality."

I scream and scream. When he

men publicity

clubs (more and "profes- Miss Robertson organises tan starts to sing and holds out his hands, I'm deaf to everything than 1,000 full

except his voice." men bers) in her spare time and "all for love."

an attractive rod-

It's his

"Just hysteria," that in how a doctor described Sinatra sWOON. es, They don't care tuppence for him really."

WORSHIPS HIM

What have all these girls in common? Average age 17, all sensible, likable Margaret Downey, a tailor's respectable,

Hello girls on any subject but their cutter of Roman Way,

and considered to be Johnnie." All have been to see way

Johnnie's No. 1 fan, caught her him a dozen times

all wear breath:

"I would throw my

my "I Love Johnnie" sweaters,

AB have rings. self into the Thames if he

•rew scarves, or fused to see me in his dressing-

Jobinie scrapbooks," pin- ing

To Vote

TOOM,

By JOHN MCKENNA

before October of last year was

ALL AGREE

buig-

Shirley

"she sobbed. By the look ups and a compitte record in her tear-filled eye, I I believe album, All joined Johnnie clubs she might "But he always does of their own accord after see invite us in," she added. "He's ing him. so kind and natural to his fans."

All agree on one thing (the The newspaper columnist said:

first thing they say when you "It's just sex gone mad." London, of Lambeth did not vote because himself in improving race rela-

Jean Ebdon, 18, who lives at plumb the "ooohs and smash- ings): "It's his sincerity, be tions in his borough,

Wishart Road, Eldbrooke, is OREIGN correspondents they dared not.

of Johnnie's really means what he sings." who covered the Gen-

The fact that British citizens typist (30 percent It had nothing to do with had, however much their

As I sat talking to own fans are). "He's quite different eral Election here marvelled colour bar or facial prejudice, fault, bsen deprived of a vote from a boy friend, I want to Oliver of Woodlands Lane, South openly at the singular lack Any of them who had arrived was bad enough. What was mother him, he's so boyish. He Oxhey, Hertfordshire, and Silviz bald just makes me go sort of mad Borrell, Theobalds Lane. Hol- of fuss which attended it, entitled to a vote, and the great really alarming was the

born, both aged 19, Shirley Some of them even appear- majority of Lambeh locals would confirmation of often expressed and want to rush at him

mass influx of

spoke for all the fans; "When ed before the TV cameras to have liked to see them exercise fears that a

he erles, he really cries, and you colonial immigrants could perpe- their right as British Citizens. tell viewers that the British

tuate and create slum conditions,

feel so sorry for him that you General Election Was a They did not vote because, in So far Her Majesty's Govern

Jean Smith, of Alexander cry too." many cases, they were scared ment has been wary of any raise Drive, Norwood, is 20 and has Then she spoke for half of "I wouldn't no boy triends. "How could I the fans I saw: greater the grossly overcrowded rooms issue.

where they live.

the immigrants, as British citi said. "I worship him. When he to be married next month.

come sings it's just him and me. I feel Silvia spoke for the other They had never been listed as zer, have every right to

to halfe "Oh, dear, if only I had voters because

to Britain, and once in the coun- get-rich-quick

pies

but I like him too much the chance." the TV studio in the Strand landlords-in most cases immi- try cannot be identided as otra as if I want to tear him -in fact, just across

What is fan fever? Is It sex- than ordinary citizens. the grants too-bad refused

Constitutionally, and morally,

Jillian Brown,

rowdyism, A brunette,

mad, degrading Thames in Lambethan divulge the number of tenants

was paying them rent. The landlords the argument is irreproachable aged 17, of Belmont Park, Lewi hypnotism, or what?,

Jessett's aspect of the election

father, knew that

it they listed every But it does not offer any solu-sham, S.E. "He is such a little revealed which redounded to tenant as a voter,. local health on to a worsening problem Boy: It brings out all my landlorá of the Two Eagles, no one's credit.

authority inspectors would swoop which might in time become ex- motherly instinct, When I see have the last word: "All girls they're him I want to rush up and bite are a bit crazy when investigate obvious over- plosive. to Many of the. Idur thousand crowding.

Some time in the life of the kím. Then I feel all week.” young. I'd rather Pam was coloured colonial immigrants- These facts were confirmed by new Parliament the problem is

Sheila Mew, Asylum Road, Johnnie fan than a Teddy-girl. mainly from the West Indies the Mayor of Lambeth, Herbert going to have to be faced and Walworth, aged 16: "He is the Only Johanie Ray suffers who live in the Brixton district N. White, who has not spared an answer found.

type who wants looking after. he's paid to do it.”

model for other countries. that they might be evicted from 'ing of the colonial immigra with Johnnie needing me," she marry him if I could. I'm going

And, so, for the part, it was...

But a short bus ride from

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