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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1937.

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By

VISCOUNT FORBES

A fortnight's continuous train- ing is also required of each mem- ber once a year. At the moment there are reserve schools scatter- ed all over the country from Glasgow to Southampton; In- cluding, of course, London.

When a pilot passes his exam- ination in flying he is given a re- taining fee of £25 per annum by the Government. The medient standard required for the reserve is high..

If you are fit enough to get into the reserve you will be fit enough to get a commercial pilot's licence. At one reserve school on the coast thirty-two The best way to do that is to source, for there are always new candidates applied, two were con-

sidered unsuitable, the remaind be taught to fly. Go and see for situations suddenly arising.

You can learn to fly very easily went up for medical examina- yourself what it is like up there.

number of tion. Seven out of the thirty Flying is never dull even now. There are a Who is going to teach you to make money? If you want to though you travel hour after schemes to help the man of small were accepted. learn music you look round at hour in a perfectly steady sky. means. I learned to fly at once for a muste master with a There is always something going Brooklands with Captain Duncan good reputation, and you have on, if not around you, then below Davis. I had about fourteen no difficulty in linding one.

No such tutor exists to in-

you.

IF your spare time is limited or if you do not hours of flying instruction before wish to conform to the obliga- Recently I piloted a Lockheed I was given my "A" licence. It tions of the Royal Air Force Re- Straight, a rich and young Ame- ican who has become a British struct you in the money-making Twelve from Paris to London. cost me £25 per hour. The serve, perhaps Mr. Whitney This "A" certificate does not, citizen, has devised an attractive business. The only thing to do This Lockheed is a fast machine, teaching was excellent. is to find out how a number of It cruises at over 200 m.p.h.,

were made out of new in-

MOST fortunes

Hongkong Telegraph.ventions, such as motor-cars,

FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1937.

CONQUERING THE ATLANTIC

Caledonia and

radio, cement or artificial silk.

Five guincas a week provides

hire or reward. To become a Ramsgate airfield. There he has the great fortunes were acquired. taking only an hour from Le of course, entitle you to fly for scheme for flying instruction at

Bourget to Croydon.

crack commercial pilot you would built a camp with room for 300

young men. FLYING in such a 'plane have to learn a good deal more.

If you went to a civil aviation you get an idea of the ever-growing traffic in the air. school for that further instruc- These industries are now far On the night back to London I tion it might cost you £250. An you with a trial flying lesson, an too highly developed to allow passed the great Scylla of Im- airline pilot will earn anything air trip to France, some cross- lectures on aviation every even- much scope for a new man with perial Airways at Beauvals from £100 to £1,500 per annum. country flying as a passenger,

scene of R101's dreadful end. The average is £600.

However, even the "A" licence ing, as well as seven days' board

and lodging. No youngster Scylla was bringing forty pas- few resources.

opens up many prospects. You will get the opportunities there

sengers to Croydon.

can become an airplane salesman, Any young man of average that Henry Ford and Henry

A quarter of an hour later, able to demonstrate your ma- ability by paying $20 more for Courtauld had.

over the French coast, I felt the chines. You may enter the me- additional instruction could get Air France Wibbault behind me, chanical field, equipped with his "A" pilot's licence in a fort-

the

In-

real

cliffs at Hastings I overlook you may choose the managerial and then as I came near to the practical flying knowledge, or night. British Airways Lockheed Elec- side of the business. You

perience will help you enormous- tra, also heading for London.

Croydon Airport already ly in any branch. handles more passengers many a seaport.

than

SEVENTY

years ago

Horace Greeley, great American editor, advised the young

men of New York

n

However, you need not be pioneer of a new industry, deed, very few of the pioneers of industry have ever succeeded in gathering in the harvest. Now you should try to be that harvester. You want to reap where others have sown and be free from the worries of the poor pioneer who ploughs, sows, and watches the crop in daily ing in the field are becoming air- vice your flying instruction need West, and grow up

can stream of aircraft passing over your own time. fear that pest or rain will come conscious with the constant cost you nothing at all, except country!" und destroy it before he

The R.A.F. have just started a hend. bring it in.

volunteer reserve. To qualify a

Even the farm labourers toil-

IF you are willing to do who were looking about for Man! Go your country some ser- careers: "Young

with the

Experimental trans-Atlantic flights, with a view to establish- ing a regular aerial service, con- tinue to be made, with a welcome measure of success. The special Imperial Airways four-engined flying-boats, Cambria, have both taken part in the flights, as also has the Pan-American Clipper III, and alf the machines have flown to

Into the undeveloped West the time-table with clock-like regn

young men journeyed, and they larity. These experiments are

made it the Golden West. to continue with various types of machines for at least a year be-

HAVE you ever thought CHATER ROAD. fore the regular service is in!

of making money by

young man's game. sique and between the ages of 18

fit and 25. He must attend his looking at the future of flying augurated, this being considered the air? Here is a new industry But he needs to be a very a wise precaution in view of the in the early stages of develop young man if he is going to make local reserve airfield every alter- would give you this advice, a rich!-with the aircraft in- varying conditions which may ment. Soon it will be time to a first-rate pilot. Flying calls nate week-end for flying instruc. "Young Man! Go up, and get.

dustry." be encountered once the scheme reap the gain, so get to know the for steady nerves and quick de- tion and a night class once cisions. Also it requires re- week in his local town centre. is put on a definite footing. It is of interest at this juncture to look back and recall that the North Atlantic was crossed by aeroplane for the first time in 1919-about seven months after

HERE GOES MY GIRL

With GORDON JONES FRANK JENKS, RICHAND LANE, BRADLEY PAGE Directed by Bin Halmes. Prodyged by

Wilson Sistrosa.

AT

BORACIÓ Ove

SUNDAY QUEEN'S

THE

air.

FFICAL returns are re-i gularly published of road the casualties within

the signing of the Armistice that confines of the United Kingdom. ended the Great War. Two But we get no corresponding Engilshmen, Arthur Whitten figures which enable us to make Brown and John Alcock, started comparisons between this coun- from St. John's, Newfoundland, try and foreign ones.

and sixteen hours later landed at These @gures can only be dis- Clifden i Ireland, having flown covered from our own and foreign It embassies. The results are interest- about two thousand miles.

was a triumph of human skill and ing. I select four countries for this comparative census of road casual- endurance over tremendous

lies, choosing ns most comparable Germany, natural difenlties. Their aero- with ourselves U.S.A., plane, a Vickers "Vimy," was France and Italy.

the best of its day; but it seems

available Its latest

1934.

In that year motor accidents caused

to us now a small and flimsy It is not always possible, however, thing in which to take the hazard to obtain returns for last year. The through embassy of so great an adventure. cruising speed was only eighty sources in the case of U.S.A; are for miles an hour, though on this occasion favourable winds brought it up to a hundred and

navigation, twenty. For

as realisation of their great ambi- radio compasses were unknown,tion-a regular service of acro-

the Atlantic the airmen had to rely on a sex- planes tant, and at one time, in order until now carefully worked out to get their bearings, they had plans are being put into opera-

Run,

acros

Bach has 2

The

FLYING, of course, is a candidate must be of good phy- Now another wise old follow

IT HAPPENS EVERYWHERE

Mechanised peace is even deadlier than mechanised war. During the first six months of this year 3,018 persons were killed and 103,631 wero injured on the roads of Great Britain-worse than the corresponding figures of last year.

1030. The Italian Agure covers With a population of 43,000,000, Italy had 2,320 people killed on road ac- cidents and 31,351 Injured last year. These returns are peculiar in that the casualties are actually lower than the preceding year, when the figures were 3,304 killed and 45,308 injured. It the might be interesting to know

chute.

Our own road casualties, with a population of 45,000,000, taking the comparable year 1935, wero 6,502 kill- ed and 221,720 injured. In making comparisons, of course, due regard must be paid to the fact that here and in America, the two countries which have the worst records, the propor tion of vehicles to total population is much higher than in any of three other countries cited.

The grand total for all five coun- trics named works out at not far short of 80,000 dead on the roads every year and at least 550,000 Injured. This calculation leaves out America's toll of merely temporary injuries,

Allowing that these five countries

This article compares our road slaughter with that of other that every year at least 100,000 pro-

It is a safe assumption

Iny years.

that the

road casualties between them, which furnish 60 per cent, of the world's seems a very fale estimate, it appears ple are killed on the roads and about 200,000 injured.

These road casualties are not, like a wurtime battlefeld, Inter- those of a

mittent in human history. They are tor, and in almost all cases a steadily rking total.

axed and constantly recurring fac

countrics. For the purpose of these to climb about eleven thousand tion. feet to get a clear view of the experimental flights, a base has on the highways of America-where

For this great flight, the been established in Foynes, Ire even tramps run their own impre-casualty roll in U.S.A. has increased beginning of a new era in airland, and another at Botwood, in vised cars patched up from dump re- rather than declined in the intervena

lies a total of 30,000 deaths.

In the case of Germany, with a transport, Arthur Whitten Newfoundland.

In addition there were 105,000 per- Alcock were powerful radio station, in con- Brown and John

manent disabilities and 1,150,000 tem-population of 60,000,000, I obtained

It looks, therefore, as though the one completo porary disabilities. The population the figures for knighted by the King. Eighteen stant touch with the other,

run not nearly so deadly as its pure years have passed, and there flights so far made would appear of U.S.A. is about 127,000,000: The months ending with the September world's Jethal mechanism, specially have been frequent attempts to to hold great promise for the official estimate is that the total eco-quarter of 1930. There were 202,919 designed to destroy life, is in the long chinery. In fact, the motor claims for more "cannon fodder" than the repeat the flight. Some have future, and they certainly demon-nomic loss to the nation from these tools 8.89 people killed, ly civilian and non-milliant

For France, with a population of connor.. Mechanised pence is oven. been successful, others have end-strate the great progress which deaths and injuries, together with the and 171,019 Injured. ed in disaster; but all the time has been made since man first $80,000,000 dollars. Or roughly to 42,000,000, the 1935 Agures were 22,-deadlier than meclionised war.

J. H. Varwell the pioneers of aviation have essayed the hazardous crossing something well over £300,000,000 of 756 road accidents, 4,415 people kill- been moving slowly towards the of this great ocean.

property damage loss, amounted to 1.-

our money,

et, and just about 20,000 injured.

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