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"Not in the widest sense. Wilkins. will accept that Cindorolla's Fairy Godmother was in any way an engineer.'

Continuing The New Everest Adventure:

NOW THE

THEN

Edwards Air Force Base, alreraft

in the Mojave Desert,

W

an

involved, aut estimate of the domage that

have

done been

had would HAT is the heat the lake not been available for barrier? The emergency landings, Of course,

we can't reckon the value

Despite the hazards of super-

command-

ing general here, lives saved,

J. S. Holtoner, in this most sonic flying, fatalities at Ed

advanced of aircraft test

centres, has no specific de

finition.

London Express Service

HEAT BARRIER,

WHAT?

DON IDDON'S DIARY

of

predict controls

Peter

Everest himself has exactly how a plane's

of are going to react at piloted 110 different kinds

of planes in 13 years of flying.

manoruvres

warde average only two a year all speeds and in all kinds

and a tremendous He is not frightened to talk captain Glen Edwards,

named after

-the baso WHA

allitudes.

"We can design plane accessories which

"Outside I know that the javelin-shaped skyrocket, how-

air pressure is low enough to

ever.

has the vivid touch liko make my blood boll. Eighty Major Murray. thousand still climbing -- and

ваук Bridgeman

"Eighty here's the burn-out, My thousand Ivet It 1# L- fuel is gone and inertia hurls tensely bright outside; the con- me upward. At 83,035ft. I pass trast of the dark shadows of the the world altitude record, and cockpit is extreme and strange.

moon It is so

cock- now I am closer to the

dark lower in the than man has ever been before. pit that cannot read the

"I begin to feel

sunk low on the weightless Instruments and I am flying so fast that my panel. The dials on top

Falling upward

about accidents. "We've lots killed

most parts of accidents;

of them here in 1948-but there are

4sc

Beem forced landings that the plots instruments cannot keep up. The chief

forced test pilot, many narrow escapes,

on the ground, but walk away from. landings. Frank Lieut Colonel

fires, explosions, and foolproof

the only way you can tell how

"It's better to have them here near-misses. Everest, talks vaguely of

they will operate in flight is to here There is every facility

in later on the game. We've got the facilities for it." the upper sky, but Major for testing planes-24 aeroplane try them out, and that's where

the test pilots come in." Arthur Murray, one of the manufacturers,

ment agencies, and

Some of the pilots not particularly eloquent about the inst horizon. They representer!.

Five

four Govern- the three

rocket-ship test tean, has branches of the Services are ali Family man

five

pe

three

than

is

are

seem

across

light

arc vividly

in tho

There seems to be no rullection *

Д

It is all black or white, apparent or non-apparent. No half-tones. immaculate mure, world here. Sho levels off tiny

"The plane that carries and I are one and alone".

a

me

QUDDENLY the rocket ship yaws hard left, pitches,

I need all the muscular silently. I roll to the right and rolls. co-ordination I can command at there it is. Out of the this moment as I plunge into window slits there is the earth

wiped clean of civilisation, to the controllability envelope the most vivid description:

with papier vast relle map: knows how

percent of

think ittio of supersonic speed a wing drops and then It comes. "Nobody

the work THE test pilot today is not a

mache mountains and mirrored Ninety- wild boy who roars into the Major Yeager says: "The main I sp. wildly, supersonically out aeroplane will act up there. consists of test flights.

that the of control. am falling up- lakes and scan... it is as it to "wild blue yonder" and lives it way you can tell is percent

devoted What unpredictable dangers

am the only living thing con- plane has

different ward, tumbling crnally and perfecting the up at week-ends. developing

a slightly

at more wait for the first man

He is usually a quiet family feel as you approach the speed the sky

than 1,400 nected to this totally strange, to descendunts of the experimental

miles uninhabited planet 15 feel of sound. You

this and miles an hour. man, aged between 25 and 35. cross the threshold to outer planes.

below me. While I Everest himself has Muroc is never still.

you go past it and figure you

"Earth and sky whirl in a space.

have been here plane after children, and most of the other must be through sound speed." The air is so this you'll boll planc has

more blur as the deadly shock-waves been taking

Major Murray off, test pilots are family men living

He has written: "I hammer my rocket ship with like a ten-kettle No cold,

Firemen in asbestos sulle stand quiet, sober lives in their little graphic.

I hang on would thermometer

team of Explorers unleashed fury... mercury

um part of by in their trucks, pilots stroll houses on the base. freeze; cosmic radiation,

whiz-

Everest, as chief test pilot and punching their way higher and and ride it out until anally, across the tarmac swinging their zing meteoritos, and weird helmets, climb into their jets, bors of the 30-man test team higher above the deep blanket sink back into heavier air down weightlessness."

hert receives and roar away.

only $8,000 a of air surrounding the earth. near 70,000."

Colonel Everest does not talk Colonel

ancestor with

whole fleet of mother ships year. Although A

silent cold where the mercury or write like that. His great Robert C. Deputy Com- is always lined up, and because was Sir George Everest, he rep into the last frontier in the

of Edwards,

himself อย known of the ideal weather it is not gards

riend hangs at ar below zero Führen- predecessor, Bill Bridgeman, one when

His closest friend, hereabouts as Muroc,

(After the deep freeze of America's foremost experl- necessary to house them in the Virginian. overhead plane

crashed

through

mental test pilots, who flew the the hangars

first man to fly

comes the furnace-blast heat.) There was the

Major Charles ve developed sound barrier.

Muroc sound barrier, The great mission of sharp explosion and Colonel is

fool for the delicate cracker's to try out in practice what (Chuck), Yeager, is also a West Caldwell said: "There goes the the aclentists and engineers Virginian.

pressure controls. I am in free barrier."

have worked out on their charts I am told here that the main fight, in command now

i was

mander

1

D

his

the

Bate.

them

I asked him: "Is there any and Jaboratory benches in qualification for a test pilot am heavy with fuel, but I pull noise or explosion when the theory.

is an unusual combination of smoothly away from the chase hent barrier

planes always is crashed?" And

(chase One engineer told me: "There aptitude and temperamenta plane Colonel Caldwell replied: "The

is an inevitable disparity be unique knack for handling air escort the rockets to guide only noise probably comes from tween theory and fact, and, re- craft and an ardent scientific in emergencies and detect flaws) the pilot himself yelling in op member, machinery is fallible. curiosity that extends to sisk- I am travelling like a bullet prehension.

70,0001 now, faster, faster We can calculate basle aero- taking but not recklessness. dynamics on the ground

Vast experience is necessary of sky under me. The controls considerable accuracy, but there before you can take a rocket feel sluggish. I

THE

Ideal site

HE heat, or thermal, barrier, the last frontier, defies de- finition, but the offers and men

at this base ore penetrating it more and more deeply each day. Led

they by Colonel Everest, are conquering the upper space. This base is Ideally suited to laurich the invasion of the lonely sky and break down the heat barrier.

is no engineer alive who

with

move

thesh

can ship into the upper sky.

cautiously with tout muscles,

No darling

I

As for Colonel Everest, he just says: "It is flying-dif- challenging, ferent,

strange, perhaps, but all flying."

it's the same (coffee, but it's

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By DAVID DEVONPÒRT

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