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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1961.

Men who guide

the destinies of the world

wear Rolex watches

YOU KNOW their names as you know your own. You know their faces from a thousand newspaper photographs, their life stories from a hundred magazine articles. You have seen them and heard their voices on newsreels and on your television screen. Their actions and deci- mans anßuence the pattern of our lives

We cannot mention their names, or slow pictures of them. It would not be fitting to do so, for they include royalty, the heads of states, great service commanders. But we invite you to look carefully at the next pictures that you see of them, at their wrists as well as their faces and clothes. You will notice that in almost every case they wear a wrist-watch. That watch will most likely have been made by Rolex of Geneva.

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AT THE VERY TOP

Anne Burns

DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST

AND HOLDER

OF FOUR WORLD

GLIDING RECORDS

by DONALD GOMERY

She flies into storms, a detective

SHE

was five years old when she saw the plane crash. It was still a time when people ran to their windows to watch any plane go over,

But this plane did not pass over It paused, as though de- Eberately, unmediately above the small cluster of houses, then slowly sans its nose for the death dive.

The little Curl watched, i pribed, * 1 exploded just Gutsid, her home.

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I today is a typical Gay the fe of Anne Barns, soon as she arrives at the Royal Auerat, Establishem at Farnborough she will by un the

lephone to the met. people.

"Have you any

weather to terest us Sortay shy will ask

bc.

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Well, the answer may "you're in luck, We have pretty Interesting jet stream off the cast coast of Scotland.

In minutes, Anne Burns will

be in a Canberra bomber head- that the ing for the

weathe

indicated

The

is

Auc

no man has

roming she wiil spend at 35,000rt as the Canberra buffeted by the turbulen! currents over the Scottish cust ior she may be over the Allan-

e).

iler eyes never leave the long panel of instruments that inter-

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THE

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GONE

WEEKEND

Barry Appl

MIDNIGHT

New

YEARS

Eve PARTY

probing

the terrors

of the air

pret for her just what stress the plane is suffering.

She will be back for lunch. Back in the mess

Farn- borough with her fellow- scientists, talking of everyday things.

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Fatigue

The afternoon she will spend her calculations. From that Canberra flight she wil discover what effect that parli- ular weather would have on ohet rraf - the super- suni marliners of today Andi the 1,000-mile-an-hour fighters.

She explains to rue that is the gusts and bumps met in the air that are the principal causes of "[aligue"

wireraft that deadly enemy that can send ㄩˋ gian! plane crashing withou warning.

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On the causes of such fatigue, Mrs Anny Bums is one of the foremost experts in the work.

Discovery

"

You may remember Nevil Shute's novel No Highway. The hero was a scientist who warned that an airliner would crash at a certain moment be- Cause of "fatigue" in port of its structure. At that time it was a new word, a new discovery.

Shute himself. like his here, worked at Farnborough on air- craft stresses: work that Anne Burns continues.

a rc-

He is a South African, search engineer who came to Britain before the war. and most mornings they drive work together by scooter with Anne on the pillion, preferring this to the car.

shc

holds 10 British

ing, which she liked a lot. Most an hour. The world record of important, she came under the 120 miles at 49 miles an hour. influence of Sir Richard South. And weil Professor of Engineering records. Science, and with him she did her first war work. which was testing the stresses of the Bai- ley Bridge. And so lo Farn- borough for research от Britain's warplanes.

She learned Lo By: Tiger Moths, Magisters. The air over Farnborough was full of scien- lists at that imme.

Flying

instructor

10

"One

harl A nervous breakdown trying teach them," said Denis Burns, "Then ↓ skinflint from the Treasury came down one day and asked: 'Why are all these They met at one

scientists flying around? And of Farn that was the borough's social occasions.

of that. A The

pity, because Rugby learn.

a good was playing the thing that the chaps in the lab hockey team-a!

should know just what it was like up there in the sky."

a omen's cricket.

vas umpiring. saldi Denis Burns, and I gave Anne out- jeg belor, wicket. She gave me a bit of dirty look, so I went round afterwards to apologise after all, you can't give pretty girl out bw, without apolugis- ing, can you?" In 1947 they married.

Courage

end

It was

After the war Anne Burns helped to investigate the early Tudor crashes still working on

the demon fatigue," the mysteries and errors of Bul her most important work came with the crashing of the Comets.

Her husband ton is a world among champion glider pilot

men

Storm

"No, there is no time to be afraid when gliding," said Anne, Said Denis: "It looks easy from below, perhaps, but there are times when you sweat blood as

Flier

you're going over bad terrain.

It's you, alone, against the elements."

"Once I was deânitely afraid, though," Raid Anne. It Vas during her height record, in South Africa "At 30,000ft. 1 hit an electrical storm my feet were, thrown off the controls by the shock. I thought I wouldn't get through."

There is Annie Burns, house- wife, too. It is not an important part of her life. Soon they will be moving into а new, all- electric house automatic cook- ing, healing, dish-washing. "Everything press-button," said Anne. "Thank goodness."

"What I like to do in the evening," said Anne, "is to pet the charts out on the floor."

The charts will be out agnin tonight as Anne, a woman ពព top of the world, plans battle against the air.

a new

NEXT WEEK

John Creasey

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(London Express Service).

for hire

THE Flying Fortress first limped home

low

over the Hertfordshire At a public inquiry into the hills, spewing from un-

disasters, tribute

By

was paid to der its wings a wicked HERBERT

the "astonishing bravery" of 20 scientists who helped to solve spiral of black smoke as the riddle of the Comet crashes, thick as midnight.

to discover ard

Denis Burns pointed 10 or.c of the prints on the wall, and, Forty times Anne Burns and Down on the airfield at speaking of his wife.

an said: 19 men went up in

un-Bovingdon a small convoy of "That's where ale

her pressurised Comet gels courage from, and her disci- how fast, and how trigh, pline of

of mind." The print is of how long it could fly without Admiral Edward Pellew, later bursting into pieces. Lord Exmouth, who fought be-

was

side Nelson at Trafalgar. "He great-grandfather," my said Anne Burns. "Or was great-great-grandfather?"

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Aane Burne's father. who

car "to see

'Bends'

Any moment

death

might

KRETZMER

ambulances and fire engines Crewdson himself is a kind darted purposefully across the of throwback to the days when icy istmac as the Fortress Britain bred buccaneers and touched down, panting hot air other hell-raising varieties of like a tired dog.

masculinity.

All this adventurous derring- do took place recently.

Too young to see action in the war (he is 35), Crewdabr bay been trying to compensate for The landing, the danger, the that disappointment ever since, smoke had been an elaborate Trained as a pilot he quit B.E.A. fake undertaken for a new film when he discovered that "I Always called "The War Lover," with wasn't the kind of person who

the assistance of an alarming could work for anybody else." Briton named Captain John Crewdson, of Horley, Surrey.

un-

RESTLESS

HIS CHANCE

It was the movie business that gave Crewdson his chance

A restless Englishman with at real adventure, real money.

was an Amy man, taught her have come as they pushed the

plane to its utmost, to play cricket on the back

Anne was there, studying her lawn. She hunted. She was a

instruments, in what was call- tomboy Most of all the mop-

ed at the inquiry "one haired little girl liked crawling most remarkable pieces of de- of the

under her father's

tective work ever achieved." how it worked."

Anne Burns and the others At school in Reading she got "the bends" in that But there is nothing of the captained the cricket team. pressurised plane. She also got excentric about Anne Burns. "We played boys half our age the Queen's Commendation. You would not even guess that and size--and always lost," she she is a scientist (aero-dyna- said. At Oxford she won her There is too Anne Burns, the the burly body and semi-bashed It started with Hitchcock's "To mrrist

the exact tern). She blue for hockey

and half-blue world champion. She and her nose of a successful heavy- Catch a Thief," in which, aloft in forties, pretty, for squash She would also husband used Early

to go mouin-weight, Crewdson is the founder, a helicopter, Crewdson chased a slight of figure, and soft of burst through the streets of taineering in the Alps, tackling boss, and chief employee of a speeding car along the road to speech when she does speak Oxford driving ari ancient the toughest peaks. Then they unique British business enter Monte Carlo. for she is extraordinarily shy sports car at tremendous speed took up gliding now she holds prise. loo, and at home it was her and with such awful noise that four world records, busband Denis who did most the proctors took it away from of the talking about her work. her and locked it up.

They live in a converted cuachhouse Ave miles from the Aircraft Establishment.

is in her

GAMBOLS.

YOU MUST HAVE LOST IT AT

THE PARTY

A.M.

PRAPS IT FELL DOWN THE SIDE OF THE CHAIR

NO

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Since then he has figured in Crewdson and his company more than 80 alas, The world gain-of-height work for the movie business. récord-30,000ft. The world They are available to strafe

For "Lawrence of Arabla" she read go-and-return record too,

271 desert armies, crash Spitfires, do he mocked up a facsimile of a of mathematics, which she did not miles. The world closed-circult anything that requires getting German fighter of the First particularly like. And engineer- record of 200 miles at 42 miles off the ground.

At Oxford,

by Barry Appleby

IT ISNT

UNDER THE

TABLE

WAKE UP

GEORGE ÖR YOU'LL BE LATE FOR WORK

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World War era, had a high time machine-gunning both the Bedouins and Mr Péter O'Toole on the hot candy of Jordan,

For his biggest assignment yet "The War Lover"- Crewdson, discovered three B-17s (Flying Fortresses) in an Arizone graveyard."

He souped them up, hired two other pilots to help him fly the old veterans to Britain. One of the planes caught fire near Lisbon. They barely made it to Hertfordshire,

SCARED

Crewdson fees anything. be. tween £25 and 300 per hour lives in a rumbling, house in Horley with his wife Joan and four children, whom he some- times takes by helicopter to picnics on the South Downs.

South

The other week he saw some Alm shata of a Flying Fortress he had flown across Bovingdon at full spoed at the height of no more than a dozen feet from the ground

Nobody in the preview theatre was more impressed than Crewdson himself. He told me the other day* Looking at those. pictures scared me hulf to death I really terrify myself some tumes

he laughed "What the hellita living. Of all Britain's Fo-getters I nominate Captain John Crewdson as the go-Kettinget

*(London Express Berušov).

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