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AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.

'BLIND" FLYING

IN THE R.A.F.

EVERY PILOT TO BE TRAINED.

LONG FLIGHTS IN CLOUD OR FOG NOW POSSIBLE,

Inclusion of a course of "blind" fying in the training of every pilot in the Royal Air Fores, revealed in an Air Ministry announcontent a few days ago, marks a new and vitally important stago in the con- quest of the airman's chief and most dreaded enemy.

Bad visibility, particularly of

'PLANE TOO FAST 6,000 MILES NON-

FOR ITS GUN.

TWO-SEATER FIGHTER

PROBLEM.

REDUCING SPEED TO

SHOOT,

Ti

Has the speed of some classes ofį war aeroplanes passed the limit of efficiency A problem with more than one serious sepret is raised by recent experience with a type of fast two cater Fighter undergo ing aquadron tests, during the past few portha

It is found that the gunner in

STOP.

LONDON TO THE CAPE IN

ONE HOP

AUTOMATIC PILOT IN NEW RECORD-BREAKING MONOPLANE.

Two Royal Air Force officers, assisted by a "robot" pilot of superhuman skill and officionay, are preparing for a fight which may terry them in one hop" nearly six thousand miles from Cranwell aerodrome, Lincolnshire, to South Africa. For three days and twoj

the extreme kind met in fog had the rear cockpit of very fast two nights they will sit in the pilots' compartment of a new big mono senters is unable to train his guaplane designed especially to test the the ilerrião pressure of the highing atendily from wintry cold to rapidly in any direction owing to

limits of attainable range, journey-|| velocity air stream. The gun on the heat of equatorial Africa, and, exposed to the rush of air and to summer run in--if the luck holds its mounting above the fuselago is finally, coming to rest beneath the the slip-stream from the propeller,

good-Cape Town. and can only be moved with great difficulty.

cloud, has caused numberless ac-

·cidents- to-all-classes of vehicles,---- on land and sen and in the air, Its worst manifestations bring all! surface transport to a standstill. Hasty thinking might end to the conclusion that the flying machine, unable to seek the iomparative safety of immobility, is in even worse case. But the facts declare otherwise; curiously mough the flying machine is the only vehicle which is attaining relative freedom from this misty, bondage...

In, the dense fags of last winter

||

Who can calenlate the course of 'bullets in that fierce blast? sud

when the machine is flying at high speed the gun is almost irresistibbiy, swept round, so that it points -

Every two hours they will send out from n tiny short wave radio

the machine will be set on her course. transmitter signal, indicating | whore, they dro, One at safe Keight

and the "robot" placed in charge, while the human crew busy them-

the air liners were frequently able tern and fres into the machine selves with navigation and the

to run to schedule across the Eng- lish Channel when all shipping was motionless and the busier ronds were crowded with crawling motor Cara Ubilising the elaborate wires

less apparatus Hinking them all through the journey with the terminal nerodromes and ingenious instruments devised to make up for

tail.

The experiment of the two-senter Fighter arose

from a reaction against the theory that the purely fighting machine should be a single- enter Fighter with fixed machine guna tiring through the airscrow, and in other positions firing directly

numerous tall-talo dials that record! the behaviour of the 530 h.p. motor droning its ceaseless song, before. them in the nose of the streamlined fuselage. Particularly will they watch for wind shifts which may

cause the machine to drift off the the course must be altered by the set course. Once drift is detected

"robot" deal with problems that involve reasoning; it is a machine, not a brain.

THE CHICAGO BIBLE.

TRANSLATED INTO "

** AMERICAN........

LORD'S PRAYER IN NEW FORM,

American, preachers and scholars are discussing the Chicago Bble, the work of a group of scholara, who have re-written the Bible into modern" American Bingunge,"

The opening verse. in Genesia illustrates the Chiesgo intention;

"When God began to create the heavens and the barth, the earth was a, desolate waste, with

darkness covering the abyss, and a tempestuous wind mging over the surface of the waters," Contrast this with the Authorised version :

t

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

And the earth was 'without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters,"

The Psalms.

AMERICAN WIVES OR BRITISH?

WOMAN CHAFFS AMERICAN HUSBANDS.

The spectacle of two English. authors outlining shoir views 011 American husbands and American

wives before an audiones largely composed of American women was the unusual entertainment provided

by the Lyceum Club last month ai a thanksgiving luncheon given by fa American, Cirole.

Mr. Bhano Leslie, whose Ameri can wife sat near him, said what he thought of the wonder of the United States.

The husbands were to have been described by Miss Yvonne Arnaud, who is married to an American. An attack of laryngitis, however, prevented her from appearing, and her place was taken by Miss Beatrice de Halthoir.

"I cannot speak from personu! experience of the subject," Miss av Holthoir said, "but I have had the honour to refuse the offers of several gentlemen who wanted to provide me with good examples of what an American husband is.

The Peakms are treated as poetry "There are millions of America i and the familiar opening of the first husbands, totally unlike each other palm is given as follows:

except that they all believe in cor- ow happy is the man who hastain hard and fast rules as to what not walked in the counsel of the an "American wife should be like. wicked,

and then marry an exception to thum.

Nor stood in the way of sinners, Nor sat in the sent of suffers ! But his delight is in, the law of

the Lord

#

"They could, however, be descrit fed in a few axioms. The first was

that an American husband

gues And in his law does be study day back to his house and wife, and

and night.

apes home to his office.

The last ten words transform the familiar sentenes, "and in his law

doth he meditate day and night,"

Give Us To-day

cago" scholars have substituted a Tá the New Testament the Chi-

Prayer:

Remarrying for the Batter.

As soon as an American woma na nishes with one bushand she in- varibly plunges, straight into ap other marriage. She looks on mur

the lack of a visible horizon by head. In this eluss of machine the which to steer, the plots of the big pilot is also the gunner, and his humán pilot: not yet can the modern translation of the Lord's riage us a sort of progress. Las machines felt their ways surely and attack is always delivered by flying swiftly to the destination. Experi-head-on towards his target, ence points unmistakeably indeed, to the conclusion that before many more. years have passed the genius. of inventors will make travel by air through the densest fog and cloud a safe and simple affair. #

Slow War Machines. During the war, however, there were many types of two-seater Fighter, and in these, the gunner

Brief Sleep Possible,

If things go well, the pilot off in the rear cockpit worked a ma- duty may snatch a brief sleep, in chine-gun on a movable mounting enabling him to aim in nearly all, the deck lounge chair just behind' directions, Those machines were the pilot's seat. At intervals the slow by comparision with the most

two men will eat of the store o recent types.

chicken, chocolate, fruit, milk tablets and similar concentrated

foods carried on board.

There have always been strong nd vocabes of the two-seater Fighter, claiming that one such machine s equal to three single-seaters, and that although the single-seater will still be needed the two-seater Figh ter wil; be increasingly importans, gun of the beautiful craft intend This claim, apparently, did noted for this marvellous endeavour, take into account conditions arising The big minchinë has adready down from the very greatly increased to Egypt and back to England in speed of modern military aireralt.

Reconnaissance Work.

[

The Distanca Record. The present world's record for distanco fewn by an aeroplane in

earth as it

husband should be better than the Jast. By the time her, son by her first marriage is 13 years old she is looking for a professor as a hus band, to superintend his education.

Our Father in Heaven!" Your name be revered! Your killigdom come! Your will be doner o

is in Heaven } Give us to-day bread tor the day And forgive us our debts na wo

have forgiven our debtors. And do not subject us to tempta-thought of giving boys new fathers

tion

This progressive change is type. cal of the American scientific/out- look. Over here we have, novēr

But save us from the evil one. every seven years.. Some of the New Testament

"All American women are devot- stories are preferred in the Chicago od mothers: They lock after their version to those of the Authorised.

or

Automatic Controls.

דוויי

Piloting Under the Hood, Blind" flying, in which the pilot, controls his aeroplane accord- ing to instruments without accing ground or sky, relieves the in- dividual fyer of anxiety in con- ditions of bad visibility. From the beginning of next year every ser-

St. Paul's arrest in Jerusalem is children and carry on Airtations a rice pilot in Great Britain will spend several hours aloft in

Final long distance trials have a new setting by the use of the same time and keep both enter

modern terms--such as "Colonel " blind" flying training plane which has a hood fitted to one cock

for "Chief Captain of the Band Prises going with equal efficiency." "American husbands are extreme.. pit. The hood is raised,, blanket

and "barracks" for "castle." ing all outward vision, and the

ly desirable things, and, if it wara papil piler is left to control the

not for the existence of the now machine with the aid of the flicker ing needles an the dashboard that The fast Day Bomber should be two stages with in intermediate produced an aeroplane of advanced restrictions against the dumping ... record certainly and instantly the able to protect itself against attack landing at Malta, and now design and great aerodynamicnl foreign luxuries in this country, attitude and course that the craft in the air, although ite function is work of getting the craft ready for the "lift" of the machine is high all the surplus husbands theg the efficienes. In the technical jargon, I should ask the Americans to send e following. The instructor sits not so much fighting a bombing. g the unhooded cockpit, ready It has a machine-gun mounted over

the great African fight in pro. and "drag low, which implien diways to correct mistakes made by the rear erckpit, but evidently its ceeding. The flyers will time their streamlining and the avoidance of Mr. Shane Leslie remarked that

011 approach to perfection in can spare." the linded" man.

defensive power is severely handi- departure to coincide with the full excrescences The first few hours of tuition, capped if the gunner is unable to

arrangements of it had been a a Thanksgiving even when the pupil is a pilot of train his gun with the rapidity de moon, which should help them mate- bracing wires which might increase Feast in America that he had be vast experience, are usually humor-manded by air-fighting.

rially during the first night oferistance to movement throath to come bagaged. Ever since he had aus. The papil, who has probably It was held that a formation of flying across Northern Africe,

air. Actually the only external looked upon the pumpkin as an bracing wires on the machine sup-symbol of romanCB;' learned to rely almost entirely on fart Day Bombers, nach armed with the "feel" of the machine, at first xed guns fring shend, and, in

port the tail fin. Even the land- There were some very subtle die- invariably distrusts instru-ddition, with 'ʼn povable gun la

ing wheels are enclosed in reum-tinctions between American and awenta. He contrives to put the the fuselage, was a formidable com-

lined cases

European wives. The former wore craft "into all kinds of attitudes,bination wall abin to take care of

not blessed with so much emotion always in the solems belief that he itself against any ordinary attach a straight line on one lead of fuel

na these on this Continent. They a doing his best to keep it on a by single-senters. Apparently this 3,011 miles-the distance from Leader Gayford and Flight-Liont.

The human pilots Squadron-had ideale instead.

"American women dress more level keel. Frequently the pupil is not by any means certain. puts the machine upside down or

New York to Constantinople-osiair Bett-intend to hand over control alike than those of any other nn.. solo a steep and dizzy spin before the instructor takes over gud cor-

lished a few months ago by two This British invention, which is used venture against other women, but to the robot" whenever possible,tion. In Euope, women dress as a But the difficulty gote further. American armen, Boardman and in routine flying by certain big Americans choose their clothes to rects his mistakes.

The high-speed machine developed primarily fur day-bombing has beet Polando. Ski Often Greator.

regala- twin-engined night bombing plance enable their husbands to boost." adapted also as fast Army Co- tions provide that a new official in the R.A.F., operaten the rudder Gradually the new art is acquir operation type and also for ro record must exceed the old by at ly-controlled pistons. The slightest

Sentrios az "Redskins,” and elevators through gyroscopical- ed, and, arvellous as it may seem,

One of the thief characterístics the skill of the pile is often wople usually act singly. To a least 100 k... and the British air deviation from the art course, so of American women, declared” Mrke greater when he is under the hood large extent its safety would depend men must at least, therefore, reach small that no human pilet would Leslie, was the ability to surprise. than when he flies visually. Final-upon its speed, but it was intended a point just south of Walfiali Bay, the automaton, which has the fully from aham around the notice it, is instantly corrected bri Seme time ago. he had conducted a Jy he is able to take off, stoer an Also that it should be able to de- accurate course neros quatry, and fand itself. In the light of recent in the South West African Protec- ther advantage of steering with sights of London. At the end, Bh perform aerobatic manaduvren with experiments, however, it appears torate.

equal ense in the thickest aloud bank said that she had been most pleased the hood up all the time. Fre that its defensive power is little,

and bright daylight. No matter by the redskins outside the City quently the pilot is able to ax-if any, greater than that of a

how long the craft remains in for HaIN tricate his naroplane from a spin single-seader.

specialty to Cranwell to see the or cloud the robot" will keep it. It was not until ont afterwards. more speedily blinded

" than

The Hart Day Bember, besides machine, which is a Fairey moneying level on its pre-determined that he accidentally discovered she when flying uphouded.

being the fastest of its class in the Pilots who have got through world, has the valuable quality plane equipped with a this training and have learned to a wide range of opeet. It can By Napier "Lion" Water-cooled on-} amplay to the full the ingenious as slow as sixty miles per hour, gine. As they negred the aerodrome tuned especially for economy. On The engins in a standard Lior" turn and bank indicators and the and flying at anything between sixty other instruments of precision on miles per hour and ninety miles the long range craft could be seen the test bench it has accomplished the dashboard are qualified to fly per bag the gunner in the rear flying in great circles, its wide with east a non-stop run of seventy ACTORS Country in weather thick cockpit fada little difficulty in silvery wings endowing it with re-hours in conditions restabling thos enough to konp the untrained managing his gun: On the other

that will prevail during the attack blind" flyer on the ground. hand, it would be a very serious markable, semblance to a big bird on the record. They no competent to take long disability to be compelled to throttle Those wings measure no less than Both pilots have had much experi- fights in cloud or fog without los-down and fly very slowly whenever 82 feet from tip to tip and, when tinent. In 1928 Gayford command duction in wages from January 1 ence of flying in the African can- Notices of an agreed national re- ing the way or imperilling the anonemy in the air was encounter- sfety of their aeroplanes and ed, although that would be better the monoplane begins the recorded the annual formation cruise of next, affecting the 130,000 workers passengers. Their genoral skill is than being unable to use the gun attempt they will be called on to RAF. bombers from Cairo to the in the British gas industry, will be enhanced by more intimate know- at all.

lift a load of no less than eight Caps and back, and the following posted shortly. lodge of navigational instrumenta At the moment the advocates of

year he made an extensive tour of For some weeks the Whitley than other aeroplane pilots possess.the single-water Fighter are inclintons, approximately half of this the British West African deven Council has been engaged in close For some months past the systemed to say, I told you so, although great weight being some 1,150 dencies, over some of which the lone nexctiations, and "considerable has formed part of the curriculum perhaps they did not exactly foresen

difficulties have had to be overcome. nt cirtain British flying schools; its the difficulty that has arisan. Cor. gallons of fuel...

A brominent member of the adoption by the service places the tainly designers bavo a nico_pro- Exhaustive wind channel tests of

council stated that he was unable Royal Air Force still further ahead blem to solve. But judging from models and much experiment have

to reveal the terms of the agreement, in flying technique. of all foreign their triumphs in the past they will

but it was considered to be air services...

Iprove equal to it.

(Continued, on sizi Ogluma.). Samson.

amicable.ons to both sides..

connaissage, and for such work it

International

Lagt week a party was taken

single

Cou750.

43

Economical Engine. ---

rance plane will fly on her way youth. Bott was one of the, nilots, in the 1987 Cairo-Cape Town cruise, when he flew under the com- hand of the late Air Commodore

had been referring to the sentries. s Buckingham Palace.

GAS WORKERS', WAGES CUT ACCORD.

130,000 MEN AFFECTED.

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