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The flying'scoute

THE CHINA "MAIL,

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1959.

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Bart Reavis, builder of the flying scooter, taking a spin around the hangar.

From OUR OWN

CORRESPONDENT

New York..

WO revolutionary

Tachine

scooter and a flying saucer were unveiled re cently.

The unveiling cere- mony was held at Prince- ton University's James Research Forre tal Centre.

Both machines are the pro- duel of restarch and engineer- ing teams headed by Professor Courtland D. Perkins, Chairman of Princeton's Aeronautical En- gineering Department.

The now flying scooter has a

bleyelaneat and handlebars

above a circular base.

Operated by a five-horse- power engine. It is guided by The rider's body in the same manner as a bicycle. The way the rider leans is the the machine will turn,

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Floating

"Voila, messieurs! My bomb has worked, and here we are at the Summit

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on Air ASSIGNMENT

rises and moves by forcing air against the runway, the vehicle

through ents.

A 45 h.p. engine glves Initial lift and 25 miles an hour for

by ward speed

driving air through the vents around the saucer's edge.

Revived hint

The airflow is controlled by n stick and the vents are for alt to go down for lift and back for forward night.

A tuil engine gives left-right control.

The saucer is the produci of two young inen-engineer Barry WAY NIXO:

und designer Tom Sweeney.

The senoler and saucer are the result of research on the prin- ciple of VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) machines.

The engine power;

small propeiler mounted on the scooter at right angles to the ground

Air cushion

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The propeller forces air at a

miles

hour speed of 30 through a duct and into the buse of the vehicle. From there it is

and shot fummelled down through a slot that circles

Goter's base.

The slot is angled

ou

the

toward

the centre so thai the escap- ing air forms column to provide lift,

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The secoler's top speed is 15 miles an hour, and, so far.

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has gone only four inches off the ground.

Made of aluminium and fabric the 120-pound machine can carry three persons and at a four-inch

altitude hus six-ilmes the lifting

power of a helicopter.

The new flying suucer is

which

20-foul diameter saucer

During VTOL experiments old aerodynamic principle was rediscovered.

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When a stream of air from a vehicle is

downward deflected

will rise.

The air forced down exeris pressure not only against the runway but against the base of the vehicle itself.

The upward pressure flouts the machlar

friction-free cushion of air.

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Designs based on this prin- elple are called ground-effect machines or GFMs.

The machines may be true dises like Princeton's or elony. ated designs like Britain's flov:rerat, which recently crossed the Channel using principle.

his

this

Barry Nixon, who will pilot Bauer, expects to have the machine in the air in the next few weeks.

The saucer has an aluminium. and steel frame with a cunvas skin and tan. The pilot sits in a special compartment Iront.

Boxers test pill

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to beat bruises

In

British

NEW chemical is to be tested on boxers in the hope that it will reduce their bruises and heal cuts quickly. If trials are success- ful ALL British boxers will be advised: "Take one pill before entering the ring."

UPERT

Here It Is!

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obtainable from

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HONGKONG

The drug dissolves blood clots. Until recently. it was only available in liquid farm and given mostly to road accident victims.

It was injected near the wounds with good results.

'Guinea pigs'

Twenty amateurs from Bat- tersea Boxing Club will try the drug in pl form at a club tournament this month. Twenty more will eat dummy pills,

AFRICA!

Nairobi.

It is true that there is a pro- portion of Blimp and old senocl

AFRICA is a continent in explosion. Roaring the types up there and tenne

excitedly but bemusedly out of her Stone Age suppore many of us shed tears sleep, her people everywhere mainly interested in two things nationalism and independence.

uver the characters who decided to duck post-war austerity in Britain for the sake of a place In the sub.

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This move has created the

Colonial Governor's fuil dress Unfortunately, the two often

And in their heart of hearts uniform these days, Those And there is utmost fury and dismay among add up to trouble.

think thai even the

most plumes and that pompous, out- "Whlie Highlanders" plenty of that in Africa today- the

1900 backs to the woll of them dated tunic. actual and potential.

see themselves s brutally and ellously betrayed, with solemn Knows that this is the clock you pledges cynicalty broken.

Practically wherever you care to glance the possibilities for bad news are numerous and daunting.

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That

for goes

the hitherto British territories the same elsewhere.

Gt1

The big question now is: Can we once again turn the trick of bestowing Independence people who come to largely literate polically and often given to hysteria?

Not easy

answer.

Blimps

can't turn back.

But aside from the Highlands

what is the general outlook?

Emotion

Cummings

London Exprem Service.

MACCOLL

ECHINA MAIL;

What Tom wants and he says It

clear- loud and Independence. Saya be on the touchy rece question: "I reject s raulti-racialism as a solution to our problems because 1 reject everything short of full demo- cracy founded оп equality. Sir Patrick Renison, the

One man one vote," However, Renison is reputedly brand-new Governor-I flew out a nun of energy and good-will;

And Mbaya adds: "We do Many of them have worked with him from London the other but he must be well aware that not

demand that everything am not a one of the extremely hard to make their day-aunounces: "I

Train frustrations should happen, overnight but fermis paying propositions, and stranger to frustrations and dis- looming right in his path as he we may that any change that is and man's strives to handle this country of inade must be in the direction if they really think that values ?ppointments are going to drop soon through humanity to man.

people (including of fulf democracy. I will 100,000 negotiate but not unless the Aalons) is a glisteningly hand- people on the other side agree some, bulton-bright and vain on the ultimate objective." little chap named Tom Mboya.

no fault of their own It is a tough outlook,

Good will

In

6,000,000 30,000

whites

and

direction

It was significant, though, to come across a while farmer who

"But I shall never believe Tantalising Tom is splendid A sentiment which seems to revealed divisions smong the that the Commonwealth pur speaker, can hom it up with the have slight overtones of Hitler's Highlanders thanselves,

Sway pose is impossible of achieve- best of them and

an method of "negoliating." He was

emotional African crowd a rough and reasy ment here in Kenya."

in Well, when Mr Macleod gets Nobody knows the

type who had no use at all for Sir Patrick is a good-looking practically any

he here he is going to like, the he makes g "gentleman

good wants to. And I don't think Sir scenery and the climate. What farmers who type and although of course everyone the hopes for the best. It is to try lounge around in suede shoes impression. But even as he was Patrick la going to get very far he will make of that "ultimate to discover what may be the and tell other people how to do speaking 1 was reflecting how with

*Commonwealth" objective" is another matter.

-London Exprea Seroles). answer that a stream of high- the work." level visitors, led by Britain's Dew Colonial Secretary, Mr Jain Macleod, is expected in this part of the world very soon.

But their job is not going to be easy..

Just to the west of here, fr Uganda, there is bad trouble. There K Freddie wants to take hij kinyɖogrmo! Buganda and "go alon

Dovn south-more trouble. this time in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyesalend.

Dr Hastings Banda (educated in London, Scolland, und Chicago) at present under lock Nyasaland out of the federation,

Injuries after the tourna ment--4t Nine Elm Baths and key, is determined to take whil be compared by a leem

doctors led by Dr J. Blon- to protect Africans from the stein, racdical adviser to the threat of apartheid" policies British Amateur Boxing Asso-

imported by the whites of the clation.

Rhodesias from the Union South Africa,

Dr Blorstein said: "We |believe those who take the real pill will suffer far less bruising. The drug should prevent swellings over the eye, and cauliflower ears, and help cuta lo heal much more quickly.

Two more tests

"If it works, we shall try it

at two more tournaments and

then

Flowers

of

And right here in Kenya there is trouble-big troubic,

I took a look at these now disputed "White Highlands" the other day and-considerably travelled though I am I can probably advise boxersuasure you that I have rarely seen such gloriously captivating throughout. Britain to use 1." country.

The pill-about the size of an aspirin-has to be taken four hours before a fight, and three times daily for three days alter warda. It acia, through the "stomach and is absorbed, into The land was like a flower the bloodstream.

⚫show-rimm lilles, roses, the

With colleague Donald Wise miles into the heart of the moun- I drove past Lake Naivashя. 70 taina, 8,000ft. up.

How do........the. Battersea. mauve. blossomingjacaranda "guines-piga" | feel about it? trees, bougainvillaca, olcanders,

They are very, keen," sald Dr almond trees in full bloom. Blonstein,

"We think the drug has no KOWLOON

ble | side effects and is perfectly

artless."

Landon Exprema Service),

Well, by the terms of the, new proposal, certain to become law. these glorious Highlands sro in be made available to non-white LAIKIOTS,

that

anachronistic absurdly

the angle with Tom.

JAK TRIES FISHING

Why, don't you like. Waguor?”.