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LANDING GROUNDS THE FIRST ESSENTIAL.

USE OF PLAYING FIELDS.

Everybody is writing to ask mo "Why doesn't some Briton do a fight to equal those of the Ameri- cans, the French, or the Italians, and raise the prestige of British aviation?" They suggest that we are behind, that we have not the maghines or the engines or the pilots.

I maintain that we are not be. hind, that we have the machines. pilots, and engines, and that if we really wish to push British flying forward a long non-stop flight is not necessarily the only way to it, writes Sir Alan Cobham, the famous airman, to London paper. The Americans have shown the possibilities of long- distance flying and inspired the youth of our nation to enthusia- stic emulation. But the best way to take advantage of the stimulus that the Americans have given us is not necessarily to try to beat their glorious record, but to set to work and make Britain a nation of airmen by giving youth the chance to fly.

Do our people realise the im- portance of aviation to the future welfare and prosperity of every Briton? I am not thinking of war flying but the development of civil avation.

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1927.

HEALTH VALUE OF DANCING.

WHY. BRITISH STYLE IS BEST.

NATURAL MOVEMENTS.

It..is a remarkable fact that ati the world's dancing championship held not very long ago in Paris the principal prizes fell to Eng- lish couples, writes "An Expert" in a London paper. From this it may be deduced that whereever 02 the Continent ballroom dancing- is treated at all seriously the Eng- lish style is considered aupreme..

Although it is true that prae- tically all our modern ballroom dancee come from the other side of the Atlantic, they reach us in a very raw state, and when we have moulded them into shape they are, except as to their original rhythm, essentially English.

The original foxtrot rhythm and the quaint steps with which it was accompanied certainly came from New York, but nothing could be more English than its ultim ate result, the slow or competition foxtrot of a 'few years ago which the Ancient Order of Foxtrotters is seeking to revive.

Example of the Greeks,

Nothing could be more nigger- American than the original Char- leston, but with the exception of "flat" the rhythm the modern variation of that dance is as English as was the slow foxtrot.

ancient Greek

England, indeed, seems to be One of the chief factors of our prosperity in the past has been the only country which has seri- the fact that we have always been busly attempted to teach modern nation of transporters. The ballroom dancing on scientific growth of the Empire was prim lices. Their teaching is based arily brought about by the pioneer entirely-as was spirit of our forefathers continu dancing on natural movement, ally opening up new paths of com- and for that reason modern dan- merce. Transporting merchan- cing properly learned and dise across the world, opening up rectly executed, apart from the trade routes, we built up our ship-pleasure it gives, is of physical ping industry, which in turn help value, cepecially to the middle ed to develop so many more of our aged. industries.

To-day it is more than ever We should be necessary that supreme in order to hold our in- terests together. The wide-flung Empire need be wide-flung no more with the coming of the great air transport routes.

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Ballroom dancing cannot, of course, be compared with exercise in the open air, but there are un- doubtedly thousands who are har red from the open air in the day- time who have found ballroom dancing in moderation of incalcul- able health value.

Unfortunately many crities of this form of exercise base their arguments not on correct bal- It is plain that the first essen-room dancing in which the mus- tail to air supremacy is to build cles are exercised on natural lines,

up a nation of flying men. How but on the ungainly shuffle in is that to be done? The natural which many frequenters of West opportunities for the development End dance rooms indulge. of internal air routes. in the British Isles are very poor. In the first place we already have Found guilty of the murder of one of the finest railway systems Mrs. Alice Bonati, whom he met in the world, and the time gained in a chance encounter nt Victoria by flying from one big centre to Station, John Robinson was sen- another is not sufficient to make tenced to death by Mr. Justice air transport profitable. Second Swift at the Old Bailey. Mrs. ly, the weather conditions of Bonati's dismembered body North-west Europe are possibly found in a trunk in the cloakroom the worst in the civilised world at Charing Cross Station. Robin- for carrying out regular air opera- son accepted the dread sentence |with the disciplined composure of tions.

How, then, are we going to a soldier on parade. His mouth develop a nation of airmen? Bywas firm, his hand steady, and natural, private unsubsidised his grey eyes looked unflinchingly development-the encouragment to his front. *

of the private owner.

Our youth has the right spirit.

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through their foresight the coming generation will have a landing ground close to the centre of the town.

Why are not aeroplanes to-day years. Several go-a-hend towns almost as popular as the private are already looking for sites, and motor-car? To my mind the "rca- son is nol, as many would suggest, the danger of flying, or the expense or difficulty it. involves, but the absence of recognised areodromes or landing grounds throughout the country.

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There may be lean years from a revenue point of view to start with, but as time goes on landing fees and garage charges shoul make an aerodrome profitable. Anyhow land should be a safe investment.

As soon as a man has bought an aeroplane and learnt to fly, wants to fly somewhere, and then he suddenly discovers that his field is limited by the fact that Another point. Why should not very few towns or villages have a the municipal aerodrome move- landing ground. He cannot go ment be combined with the play- For many and visit his friends on the farming fields movement?

in Herefordshire because there is years the majority of municipal no good landing ground to alight aerodromes could be playing fields on and get off from when he gets and aerodromes combined. All there. True, he might be able to that is required for a landing get down into a farmer's field in an ground are two good runways 100 emergency; but one must not make yards wide and 100 or 500 yards a practice of using somebody else's long, either in the form of a T or property for this purpose, because an L, thus making it possible for it may very often. interfere with the airman to land into the four the crops.

directions of the wind. If we had a piece of land 500 yards square, the ground not occupied by the 100-yards wide runways could be used as a playing field.

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I maintain that every city, town, and village throughout the British Isles should have its own munici- pal aerodrome or landing ground. I Given this, I would feel safe. in There would be no danger to prophesying that the boom in fly- the children, 'for, although, the ing would eclipse even motoring. flying runways would not be fenc- And, apart from the industry that ed off, they would be marked with would spring up, giving employ- heavy white lines, and regulations

A homing pigeon owned by Mr. ment to thousands, we should be posted up to the effect that people w. J. Brosker of Southampton- breeding a nation of airmen who must keep clear of the runways.street, Camberwell, S.E., arrived would go out across the world, After all, aeroplanes can be heard at its home loft from Bordea ix ready to develop commercial air approaching, and only land routes in those parts of the globe at a time, at a speed of about 30 9 hours 7 minutes, which is claimed to be a record. Nine where aerial transport is really to 40 miles per hour. This should other birds were checked home by worth while.

not be dangerous or exceptional, Mr. Bronker within the next three Municipal Aerodromes, for cara on the highways by the hours. The distance from Bor-

score dash along at this rate, and

one

deaux-London race was 12 to 13

I suggest municipal aerodromes all motorists know how wise is deaux, as flown by the pigeons, is of the Racing because I hold that it is the duty the child of to-day in crossing the about 500 miles. Colonel A. H.

Osman, editor of every town to provide its own road in between such traffic. The Pigeon, said to a Daily Mail re- aerodrome. Municipalities and child's intuition in calculating towns maintain at enormous extrafic speed is often far better porter laat night: "I believe the ponse magnificent highways and than their elders judgment in previous best time for the Bor- porta. The least that can be done similar circumstances. for the airman is to give him u The fact of landing ground and hours. The time of Mr. Brooker's level piece of ground to land on playing field combined would help birds make the race the most won- The far-sighted city, town, and to educate and familiarise the derful ever flown. The secretary district councils should give this child of the country in all matters of the National Flying Club said question their immediate attention concerning aviation, and at the that the birds were liberated at 6.30 a.m. Mr. Brooker's Arst bird and buy their land at a quarter of same time make the coming gen-being timed in at 2.37 p.m. what it will coat then in a few ération "airminded."

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