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THE CHINA MAIL,

FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1960.

AIR REPORTER PETER WOON

FLIES IN THE SKY-BUS'

THE WORLD BEATER

It's faster than jets on short journeys

BRITAIN'S fatest, biggest airliner, the Vanguard, sped into Le Bourget Airport last wook a king-size successor to the famous Viscount and one that can become the sky-bus of the world.

is fast, large, com- The red-winger Vanguard fortable and cheap to fly -- a plane to inspire a vision of an age of mass air travel.

So low, say Vickers, fler running costs are low. the makers, that she could slash European fares by up to half.

B.E.A. will introduce the projjel Vanguard on the in July, minimum night return London-Paris route IIKSIGO.

As the first to dy in her, I can report:-

SPEED: Just 56 minutes (London-Le Bourget), long-range Britannin. The centre cabin of the three in And on the colossal power of her four outsize Rolls-Royce Tynes, the most advanced prop-jets in the the Vanguard is alone as large ns a Viscount's fuselage.

Fill her up in London, take on 100 passengers, and world, she "motors" beautifully and astonishingly she will call ut Frankfort and Vienna on the way to quietly. Prague without another drop.

with our speed deliberately cut well below its 425 miles an hour maximuin.

Faster

"COMFORT: For six-abrenst, aky-bus senting, this

Aonte

is the most spacious airliner I have seen. It is only just difficulties. Only 40 have been bought so far 20 for

a little short of luxurious.

High over the French fields I walked on to light deck-itself n pilot's dream-and talked to Vickers chief test pilot, Jock Bryce,

But on the manufacturing side there are

B.E.A. und 20 for Trans-Canada Airlines,

the

the

That in nine minutes faster than the scheduled service by the rival French Caravelle jet.

The 50-minute trip, I am told, is the sort of time B.E.A. will be putting into their Vanguard schedules,

For on short routes the jet-prop's point-to-point operation can be quicker than the faster pure-jet which is forced to climb much higher.

Not for several years are the pure jets to be able SIZE: The Vanguard can

carry 139

passengers AND 8,000 1. of freight in her double-bubble fuselage. Neatly he summed up his airliner's appeal: "She's to match the Vanguard type of economy on short-haul

This is a bigger capacity than even that of the a very good air charabanc,” he said:

HOW SCIENCE IS HELPING THE SPY...

IT happened in neutral Geneva. Diplomats by the dozen had moved in for a conference on the Far East. The suite in the Hotel Beau Rivage for many years the favourite lodge of the British-was as plush, ornate and befitting a foreign secretary, as ever. The year: peace-time, 1954.

Then the security men went to work. The lesson they gave is described by Sir Anthony Eden in his memoirs like this: "Peeping Toms and flapping ears have gadgets never thought of when I was in Geneva before.

"I was soon warned of this and told that if I proposed to hold meetings in my sitting- room, as 1 bad always done, I nast expert our decussions to be overherret."

old

Walls

have cart, the war-time posters warned. Today, almost anything has

One Uny component, uftex_no bigger than a match-hrad, has created paraule for the spy and caused revolution in security

planning.

It is transistor. Although it was discovered 10 years ago recently have scientists only perfected ways to make it do all the Jubs of a valve., das fraction of the space.

BEAMED

1

A radio transmitter now goes

BY PETER FAIRLEY

box" simply absorbs and stores to five hours. It has the usual rome of it, Uke a cat's whisker piny-back and re-wind buttons, and crystal in reverse,

and the wrist-watch attachment can be used either as a "mike" or loudspeaker,

Not

Such instruments have short range. But a pocket transmitter, with a thin aerial running down I sat in on a round-table con- the trouser leg, com brondeant ference of six executives, clear conversations for more than a quarter of a mile. The BBC uses them. So does Prince Philip, for TV. Cost?--between £25 and £150. Nothing to

spy.

The microphone is no longer recornimble. It is made into a watch, bullon-hole flower, an ash-ray or a light-fitting.

Its tell-thic wires are gos

Into a matchbox, or a packet of mer-ikin, invisible to all but

20 cigarettes. A simple suction the most suspicious. They con cap will hold it in place under be threaded

a chair or desk.

through clothing.

one pressed that. any of these devices WCTC being nard, although every word was being heard in the next room, and going on to hair-thin tape in my suit pocket.

The recorder costs £75. The Gestapo bullt its prototype.

TV CAMERA

WATCHES HAVE

EARS ...

• A wristwatch microphone at work: it broad- casts clear COR- versations for Мого than a quarter of a mile ---or records them In the breast.

pocket.

The power

How can we protect ourselves come listeners. But he adds: "As a result, we must have from all these terrifying in "The only trouble was that been easy to hear in the more Remember those old thriller conspicuous "Big Brothers?" while I was attentive to this Important moments and only

the where the eyes of

was not to inaudible when it did not became ab- matter."

wrapped around plants or ima tucked li the floorboard crneka

A inlcrophone, fronted by watch that netually works, can be bought for £8 10s over the

counter.

portrait on the wall suddenly Sir moved? They do today with a was

Anthony Eden says he advice at first, I told to thump the con- forget it when I

Or leave It on a table, with a fow matches showing for au- thenticity, and it will tranni

TV monitoring cantera behind. ference table to confuse unwel- sorbed in discussion, for a whole day, on one battery

across, and can be remotely It measures a little as 3in. The latter are how being made to shirt-button size.

controlled, focused, moved, or The latest technique dispensiës - So can A miniatume tape switched to close-up, from any with batteries altogether. Power recorder, something no spy distance away. to work the devlee can be lody would be without.

Banks trans into the breast-pocket of a mult beamed from a bigger mitter elsewhere. The "match- and will record perfectly for up

It fits

A new face means

a new life for 200

Detroit, Michigan.

have started to use larger versions to compare the signature ола cheque with specimens held in a central pool at head office. So have gold- mines, to prevent pilfering of precious dust.

The camera, too, can be made

to fit a buttoit-hole, although a more elaborate version is need- ed for work on documents or secret fles,

Same Idea of the mastery which even the peacetime spy

dramatle

PLASTIC surgeons have given new faces to 200 has of photographic techniques

chme

convicts in the Detroit House of Correction suddenness In September last to help them make a new start in life after their year. release.

in a

car

Some of the inmates who was badly scarred were given "second faces" had accident. The plantie aurgeon been habitual criminals But erased "dozens of scars" from only six of them have got into his face and the mat has be- fresh trouble since their change come

of faces.

dreamed," said Dr

Floch, chief of rehabilitation

the prison.

again.

law-abiding citizen

The Home Office deported Jerzy Florczykowski, a 22-year- old Folish student at Imperial College for passing information through the Iron Curtain microdots messages reduced to full-stop alze, which can be sent In an innocent letter and enlarged clearly later.

In

has

The results have been more

ever • A woman with a Bat nose encouraging than anyone

criminal becauso The Maurice became

telephone-topper people Jaughed

at her. Har Httle fear of discovery, either. nose is being, re-shaped along The old days of fadling with "Brigitte Bardot ilnes," and she the function boxes down in the reports: "Every time I look at basement are over. my nose I feel good. For the first time in my life I'm not mad at anyone anymore,"

Have

Scarred

"We find that appearances do aticate effect on per sonulity. th day cides the correction of defects changi the inmsto's entire outlook on

life."

•

For example

A man had suddenly turned

to a He of crime after his caro

Now he can attach a three- inch square box to any part of All operations are performed the system, or just simply place In the fully-equipped theatre of magnetic

pick-up" within

the prison. The surgeons wheree feat of the line, The mag create the now faces are all

volunteers, and receive no fees.

-(London Express Seruiou),

nalle

current Kot up

by

that fur," and with it comes the

conversation,

Clectricity in the wires "carries

囑

-(Losin' Expresă Service).

More orders are urgently needed.. The makers say the biggest need now is for cheap-flying-in fact, a sky- bus.

routes.

-(London Expreza Service),

SCHOOLBOYS HELP MAJOR RESEARCH

SPHAEROMA SERRATA is half an inch long.

Blaberus Cranifer measures two inches. The first is a water-louse, the second a cockroach. Nasty, insignificant creatures? Yes. But both are creating unusual interest-often excitemENB—–—– under microscopes at two London schools:

And they are just two of a Sorldly come in.. They put M host of original research pro- Screen in touch with D V B jects starting up ini schools Wigglesworth, Professor .or across the whole of Britain. Biology ot Cambridge. No So worthy is this enthusiasm supplies of cockroaches, plus Tamong musters and pupils, that advice, strive regularly at

the august Royal Society is Eltham from the university.. uncking with more than HK$32,000 a year.

It

Under stones The love is the "pat" of Mr M. C. Jacobs, of Hackney Downs School. On a day trip to the east coast near Flatford Mill. his party found speci- mens under stones in brackish water.

Mr Screen told me: These cockroaches grow in a series of jerks. We are trying to and out how their organs develop during this process, Hardly anything has been published on them.

Both projects, and thase at 40 other schools, are now getting grants from the society to buy apparatus.

Winchester is studying mess; Books told them little. So Marlborough, enzymes! Ston-

burgh School the research began.

it Watford Louse after louse is being vitamin B 12 in our diet; South- expertly dissected, and 12 alb County Grammar, repro- Tonbridge, digestive system and feeding duction of reptiles; habits studied, For Mr Jacobs expansion of plastics; St John's, believes he may be on to a Leatherhead radioactive Isotopes. Mr C. A. Runan, secretary of "missing link" bers of the crustacean family- the society's special

research the lobsters, crabs and shrimps. on

between mem-

"It is a job touring the boys explained: away from the microscope," he work of

Бау.

commolltes

in schools, "We consider this immense value. it and

vitalises solence- teaching

Blaberus Cranifer is nearly pupil's interest. It may have a recruiting three times bigger than the long-term 'effect on usual cockroach. Its young are selence masters.

instead of From time to time I shall born alive,, too, hatching from eggs. It was just report details of these projects. this strange difference which For out of little beginning big attracted Mr PH. Screen, of truths often emerge. And what happens in a school scls the Eltham College, to ft.

But the breed is found only tempo for what happens in a

nation. in the tropics.

That was where the Royal

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