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TO-DAY.

(March 31.5

Annual Meeting of Green Island) Cement Co., Exchango Building, 12

noon.

Annual · Meeting of the Hong Kong & Whampon Dock Co., Ltd.; 1 ani?

Annual Meeting of Members, Hong Kong Club, 3.30: pixi.

Annual Meeting of the Institu- tipu of Engineers and Shipbuilders,

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AIRMEN WHO GAMBLE

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SPEED FLIGHTS WITH NEW AEROPLANES.

TEST THAT TRIES EVEN AN IRON

NERVE.

BY MAJOR C. C. TURNER,

" DAILY TELEGRAPH” AVIATION CORRESPONDENT.

Alone in the vast space between of pressure.

blue sky and an ocean of cloud I could give the names of four which hides the earth, test pilotor five pilots who are doing this is flying a new type. !

sort of thing at the present time;

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Annual Meeting of Hong Kong Lawn Tennis Association, 6 p.m."

Helena May Institute, Concert,

Four miles below a man in a field but the list, would be incomplete. 5.30 p.m. •

Lammert's Salo of Valuable hears the distant muru of on-The maximum velocity dive is a Postage Stamps, Sales Room, 5.15gine, looks up, sees nothing. test of the moment, for besides our In solitute the pilot about to new Fighters and Day Bombers, re- Hong Kong Cricket Club Tennis dive the aeroplane at highest placements of the Day and Night Tournament-Open Singles: 8. Aastainable speed in order to find Fighter class are being propárod. Ramjahn J. A. E. Caseumbhoy out if any part of it has a tonttency Fistand court).

to "Butter," or it at this tremen-

p.m.

a Co-ed."

Contral Theatre: Naver."

Queon's Theatre: "Alibi.", King's Theatre: Confessions of

"To-night or

Say It With

"Springtime

Star Theatre: Songs.

World Theatre (Chinese fim).

Tea Dances at King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Poiusula Hotel and King's Rai taurant; Police" Recreation Club: Bance at Lane, Crawford's Rentaur- Fant, 8 p.m.

FRIDAY. (April 1)

J

Charity Concert in Aid of Shang- hai Relief Fund, St. Paul's College :9 p..

CRITICAL ORDEAL. The parachute has made. the test doua speed the control will fane pilot's task, safer, but at the a tion. If anything goes wrong he time it has made it possible for may have to leave by parachute,him habitually to carry out testa which is not always easy".

which a few years ago made heavier demands upon him. In a word; it has hastened progress.

Before he starts be makes sure his parachute harness is all right, rapidly looks në his doren different! instruments, and gives a turn to the roll writing pad strapped to his # neee.

400 MILES AN HOUR.

A slight push of the joystick and asure touch on lever and far, and the machine is heading vertically down, the pilot holding it true,

Scream of wires and roar of air. over wings rise to a prolonged yell. The hand of the airspeed indica- tor moves rapidly band the dial until it shows more than 400 miles per hour.

The pilot's hand on the "stick"

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Still, the first fight of a new type of a high performance aircraft is even to-day a somewhat critical affair, and there are designers who simply cannot bear to witness it. After the first few control-feeling tests, and when maximum speed, diving speed, and spinning tasts bo- gin, anxiety continues,

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The problem of wing or tail. "Autter" has beset design at every stage from 80 m.p.h. to the Schneider racer's 400,

"Flutter" has undoubtedly killed many a pilot, not in all cases through structural collapse, but by

Painting Exhibition in St Paul's College, 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.

St. Paul's College Annual Ath- letic Sports, Caroline Hill, 1.30 3.

Friday Morning Meeting atị Helena May Institute, 10.30 am

Hong Kong Cricket Club Tennis and foot on rudderbar are sensits violence incapacitating mind Tournament :-Open Singles E. Otive to the slightest ign of trouble, Fincher 2. Eo Ka Lau (stand court): Open Doubles: S. and for if, that occur of such a speed H. D. Rumjahn v. Chiu Chun Chiu the machine may brak up. and W. C. Kung.

Hockey Club "A" Borderers, King's Park, 5.18 p.m.

King's Theatre: Confessions of

White

& Co-ed."

Queen's Theatre: "Alibi.": Central Theatre: "Seod.". World Theatre Shadows."

Star Theatre: "Say It With Songs."

Tea Dances at King's Restaurant und Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Peninsula Hotel and King's Res

·taurant; H. M. S. Cumberland Dance nt Wellington Barracks.

European Mail:-Outward: Europe vin Siberia (Pres. Madison)

6. p.m.

and body. And throughout thẹ his- tory of dying pilots have gone up' deliberately to provoke it

Two miles plumb and the needle The pilots, backed up, by the Loadics, Time to stop the dive; scientista; have won, and although and the pilot easie off with ex- "utter will continue to manifest trema care. It wold be a simple itself with every big stage in speed, matter at such a speed, by the there is no type adopted for ser- slightest abruptness, to impose too

vice now which is subject to it heavy a strain on t controls.

With scarcely anydiminution of speed the machine ispraught off the vertical and still far above the clouds, its path becques less steep. |

Recently a R.A.F. test pilot was stendily flying along when, appar ently without cause, this tail of the machine began violently to oscil late.

Gradually futting out, the The pilot tried in vain to retain: pilot adjusts throte lover and control, but the machine turned potrol and oil-feed, bd then coolly

and rapidly writes. Presently ho right over, a fortunate thing, en- is deafened by the udden change (Continued on Page 2.)

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