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ENGLAND-AFRICA 66 And

AIR SERVICE

Proposed Extension

To Include Lagos

DIFFICULTIES "IN

NAVIGATION

Britain's air transport service

has been

Sudden

Death"

(Continued from yesterday)

to West Africa, which worked regularly since February

way swings out at high Last between Khartoum and Kano,

The automobile is treacherous, other Nigeria, is this month to be ex- tended to Lagos. Later develop-just as a cat is. It is tragically dif-speed. At the lust moment each ficult to realize that it can become tries get into line again, but the As the cars in As enthu

gaps are closed. B.ents will bring Accra and Tako-

the deadliest missile. airmail network: rudi into the eventually the whole of the vast siasts tell you, it makes 65 feel like tarie are forced into the ditch to capsize or chash fences, the passers West African zone will be criss-. nothing at all. But 65 an hour is

and its 100 feet a second, a speed which meet. almost head on, in a swirl- crossed with air routes

puts a viciously unjustified re-ing, grinding smash that sends most remote villages will be near- er in travel time to London thahsponsibility on brakes and human them caroming obliquely into the

can instantly turn ethers. Was Edinburgh or "Dublin little reflexes, and

this docile luxury into a mad bull more than a century ago.

elephant "Much work has been done dur- ing the past twelve months to it the route for regular working

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MODERN SPEED IMPACTS 17

the

deca.pl- Continuing with

going off the tation motir, road into a pet-and-rall fence can put you beyond worrying about other injuries immediately rall comes through the windshield and tears off your head when a

end-Do

Collision, turnover or sideswipe, esch, type of accident produces

direction Hundreds of workmen have tolled either a shattering dead stop or a to prepare aerodromes. Meteora crashing change of logical and radio stations have and, since the occupant-meaning been laid down. Peculiar to air-you-continues in the old direction, at the original speed, every sur- way operation in large regions of

face and angle of the gar's interior need to Africa is the

Immediately becomes a battering. vicinity of aerodromes of fever- carrying mosquitoes. Yellow fever tearing, projectile, aimed squarely at you inescapable. There is o the flying terrible scourge;

bracing yourself against these im- range of the mosquito which car- ries it is about ane mile and with-perative laws of momentum.

It's like going over Niagara Falls in that radius of each aerodrome

in a steel barrel full of railroad and other every stagnant pool

The best thing that can possible breeding places must be spikes:

International happen to you-and one of the sterilized. Further,

rarer things to be thrown out regulations to prevent spread "or disease enforce the establishment as the doors spring open, so you have only the ground to reckon of aerodromes at more than s Axed minimum distance from In- with. True, you strike with

much force as if you had been at some habited buildings, and

thrown from the Twentieth Cen- new aerodromes paints entirely

tury at top speed. But at least have been laid down to

you are spared the lethal array of with them.

gleaming metal knobs, and edges and glass inside the car.

with its splintery free the

comply

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that

LUCKY ESCAPES Anything can happen in split second of crash, even those lucky escapes you read about. Peo-

neat a job but thoroughly efficient, shoes off and their feet all broken Bodies are often found with their out of shape. The shoes are back on the floor of the car, empty and with their laces still neatly tied. That is the kind of impact produced by modern speeds,

But all that is routine in every American community. To be re- membered individually by doctors and policemen, you have to do as the. as grotesque something

windshield burst the lady who with her head. splashing splinters all over the other occupants of the car the car, and then, as rolled uver. rolled with it down the edge of the windshield frame and cut her throat from ear to

ear.

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Essential to etficient working an air transport service is provi ston and supply of fuel and oil of and not the least high quality.

pavement too Or park on the Important part of the preparatory

near a curve at night and stand work has engaged technical ex

in front of the rall Eght as you of the Shell company.ple have dived through wind-

the spare perts

lyra-which with only take of Recently Mr. W K. Brett, of the shields and come out company's stan. has completed a superficial scratches. They have will immortalize you in some tour of inspection of airports and run cars together head on, reduc- body's memory as the fellow who' was mushed three feet broad and emergency landing grounds sche- ing both to twisted junk, and been

two inches thick by the impact of duled for use on the West African found unhurt and arguing bitter- But

a heavy duty truck against the ly two minutes afterward. death was there just the same--he rear of his own car.

Or be as original as the pair was only exercising his privilege

thrown out 01 youths who were of being erratic.

run.

This spring a wrecking crew pri-

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of an open roadster this spring-

ed the door of a car which had thrown clear--but each broke a been overturned down an embank-windshield post with his head ment and out stepped the driver in passing and the whole top of with only a scratch on his chek, each skull, down to the eyebrows.

was missing. But his mother was still inside, a splinter of wood from the top eri-Or snap off a nine-inch tree and ven four inches into her brains as

get yourself impaled by a ragged a result of her son taking a greasy branch. curve a little too fast. No blood- no horribly twisted bones-just a gray-haired corpse still clutching

SCARE-FICTION

Mr. Brett was obliged' by exi- and climate route, gencies of

to official regulations Carry a

and large

heterogeneous load. For the flight over French desert

between

and territory.

Abeche Port-Lamy, the aeroplane had to carry, as a minimum, enough fuel to enable it to cover the whole Journey between those two points against a head wind of 25 m.p.h. For each 250 miles of the journey feiuelling points, the between machine had to be equipped with

None of all that is scare-fiction; sumcient emergency rations to support the personnel for two her pocketbook in her lap as-she it is just the horrible raw mate- days and nearly 1 gallons of had clutched it when she felt therial of the year's statistics as seen in the ordinary course of, duty by water per head. Other compal-car leave the road.

two included

same curve On the equipment sory smoke bönids, signalling pistol and later, a light touring sar crashed fiares, mooring gear, and a firearm into a tree. In the middle of the and twenty cartridges.

front seat they found a

It's hard to find a surviving ac- months-old baby surrounded by

TO broken glass and yet absolutely un-ddent victim who

can bear hurt. A fine practical joke on talk. After you come to, the gnaw- death-but spoiled by the baby'sing, searing pain throughout your parents, still sitting on each side of body is accounted for by learning him. Instantly killed by shattering that you have their skulls on the dashboard.

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DEATH'S TARGET

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a month policemen and doctors" picked at random. The surprising thing is that there is so little dissimilarity nine-to the stores they tell.

both collarbones smashed. both shoulder blades splintered. you right arm broken

in the limit of the aeroplane's holds together it ruptures his from the ground to the stretcher

.. The water container, to hold three gallons, was made of light metal to fit the curved back of the pilot's seat, to which it was attached by four bolts with but terfly nuts. Mr. Brett comments that the curved container might have proves convenient for fitting to the pilot's back "I the Fates

If you customarily pass without in three places and three ribs had decided that be should have

clear vision a long was ahead, cracked with every chance of bad Internal ruptures. But the pain a long desert tramp after a forced.

make sure that every member of landing." When all of the ing-

Identification can't distract you, as the "shock the party carries gage and gear had been installed. and tankage provided for nity papers--it's difficult to identify begins to wear off, from realizing You can't forget that. gallons of fuel and three gallons body with its whole face bashed in that you are probably on your of oll, only 200 lb, remained with- or torn off. The driver is death's way out.

target. If the steering wheel not even when they shift you ribs bits into your broken liver or spleen so he bleeds to death and internally.

Or, if the steering your lungs and the sharp ends of wheel breaks off, the matter is set your collarbones slide over to stab into each side of your tled instantly by the steering co- deep

his screaming throat. through plunging

airworthiness certiăcate for A passenger and his kit.

Mr. Brett reports that his fuel consumption averaged ten gallons, and oil consumption less than one

pint an hour. His average speed, in spite of extremely heavy head winds and terrific. storms over much or the way, was 120 miles. an hour.

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When you've stopped screaming. all bead-on it all comes back-you're dying By no means do

The and you hate yourself for it. collisions occur on curves. modern death-trap is likely to be'a That Fan't fiction either. It's what straight stretch with three lanes of it actually feels like to be one of He experienced the full force of traffic-like the notorious Astor, that 36,000.

And every time you pass on a tropical African weather. Fre Flats on the Albany Post, Road quent delays were caused in the where there have been as many blind curve, every time you hit it

the north by harmattan wind, as 28 fatalities in one summer up on a slippery road, every time: which brought up great clouds month. This sudden vision of you step on it harder than your: will safely take, every of dust and sand and made it broad, straight road tempts many reflexes impossible to see tar enough for an ordinarily sensible driver into time you drive with your reac safe aying. "At other times,"" says Mr. Brett, "when it was just passing the man ahead, Simul- tions slowed down by a drink or a driver coming the two. every time you follow the taneously

man ahead too closely, you're possible to fly, navigation when

gambling a few second against nying into the sun could only be done by looking backwards. In Dahomey, the Gaboon, and else arriving there it was found that this kind of blood and agony and Take a look at yourself as the where tornados of much violence the electrical disturbances were sudden death. were experienced. Indeed, when so strong that all telegraph and arriving at Cotonou (on the coast telephone lines were out of action. man in the white jacket makes of Dahomey) it was found impos-Again at Libreville two days had his head over you, tells the boys sible to land at that point, owing to be spent on the ground while with the stretcher not to brother to a tornado, and it was necessary it thundered and flashed with and turn away to somebody else to return nearly twenty miles to a lightning as only in tropical re-who isn't quite dead yet. And

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