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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1937.

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The deaths due to some techi- other surfaces are still in the ex- of experienced pilots, had they

Air Force airplanes and to cal cauac, such as engine failure, civilian airplanes in Britain are few. Some pilots have been caught in bad weather, or flown this year.

into ice-forming cloud.. The number of R.A.F. men Itilled-118 in 62 crashes-is the Steps are being taken to avoid highest total for any year since these disasters. De-feing equip the war ended,

ment is coming steadily into use. In civil aviation there has Biplanes-more subject to ice been, to date, 45 deaths in 29 ac are being superseded by mono- cidents. Last year there were, planes. R.AF.

pilota have in all, 61 deaths in 32 accidents, hitherto had less training than and the figure was substantially air liner pilots, in receiving bear lower in all previous years. ings by wireless in cloud or fog, Is flying becoming more dan and so reaching an air-field gerous?

where it is safe to land. This The evidence is against any omission is being made good. such conclusion.

Moreover, all R.A.F. flyers The number of deaths in must now wear a parachute. No Tel. 27778-9 R.A.F. accidents had climbed less than 169 lives have been

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1937.

CHAMPION OF PEACE

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* What of civil aviation?

air routes in Great Britain.

have

perimental stage.

been securely strapped in they The airplane was ADH 86 would have weathered the ex- biplane fitted with four Gipsy tremely bumpy conditions. 200 h.p. air-cooled motors.

==

Lately another flying boat. Courtier, crashed on a calm sea Among all the other civil at Phaleron Bay, in Greece. aircraft crashes, whose record It is well known that to judge I have examined, I find that height over water for alighting about 90 per cent. of them are, is a more delicate matter than as with R.A.F. nccidents, due to to judge it over land. Pilots are an error of judgment by a pilot inclined to think they are nearer of liniited experience. the water than they are.

One notable case occurred More experience at handling recently near Donington, when flying boats will safeguard us three people were killed in against this kind of accident. a B.A, Eagle cabin mono- plane fitted with A Gipsy air-cooled motor. The pilot, who What accidents have there was searching for somewhere to been in civil flying in Britain? land, had only 80 hours solo There was the "Daily Express" experience. airplane, a D.H. biplane with twa Amy Johnson flew to Aus- engines, which crashed in Wig- tralia alone on 80 hours' ex- townshire in February, with the perience. It is enough for

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Air Ministry school has been or- Flying is actually becoming ganised to train Air Traffic Con- safer each year. trol Officers.

This year we shall have de- don for giving wireless bearings greater use.

The system employed' at Croy- icing equipment coming into British Airways to air liner pilots, and for guid- already have it on all their air and cloud, is to be extended to ing airplanes home through fog liners.

The three-wheel landing gear provincial centres will be opened nilot to put his airplane down the whole country. The first is coming. This will enable a at Manchester, Portsmouth, and much more easily and in the Glasgow shortly. air races.

event of a forced landing to pull Then there are accidents in up quickly.

But in the same time the num ber of.R.A.F. aircraft hos jump- The term "civil aviation" is too loss of four men. She had lost cross-country lights, even when ed from five or six hundred to wide. We must distinguish be- her way in bad weather over the weather conditions are not of 1,550 first-line airplanes, not to tween the amateur pilot who hills. speak of hundreds of training crashes while flying solo, and

the best. But it is not enough Measures have been taken to justify a pilot trying to land airplanes in use in schools and the professional pilot to whose against the recurrence of auch in unfamiliar country in a field

enre the passengers of an air disasters.

which is not a proper landing- What is more, much fuller us liner are committed.

Twenty wireless stations have ground. is being made of these aircraft.

been built and are in operation Three years ago, financial strin There has not been this year a all over the British Isles. An gency limited the amount of single death among passengers training given to military pilots, or crew of any air liner flying on

To-day the R.A.F. is engaged Three Imperial Airways liners In a tremendous effort to train have crashed abroad.

Capricornus, one of the new Young R.A.F. pilots are being Empire flying boats, ran into a given all the flying they can un- blizzard over France while on dertake, by day and night, and her maiden voyage to Egypt in in all weathers.

March. Five of the six on board perished. We are building up a highly turned back rather than risk fly

Here the pilot should

To-day millions of people are such as we never

organised and efficient air force, ing through such weather.

From America is coming a had before. remembering with a stab of pain | We have to pay the price of "air

Two people were killed while new "ground trainer," by which + 4

taking part in an air race at pilots can, without leaving the and bitterness, perhaps, the admiralty," both in fuel and in Another Imperial Airways Hanworth on Empire Day. They round, learn to "fly blind." Armistice which ended a

lives. car-

airplane fell and was burned out, were flying a Percival Vega Gull The Air Ministry have ordered nage in Europe. It seems fit-

also in March, near Cologne. monoplane fitted with a Gipsy about 60 for the R.A.F. British ting that a thought be spared in Europe, but actually hadf

Three persons were killed, all engine. They stalled in turning Airways have also ordered one. for one of those who fought sogalled nations to the point of

sharply on the course as soon members of the crew.

Cases of structural failure are courageously for peace; who so armed retaliation.

It is more than likely that as they left the ground. This rare in aircraft these days. Only There is hated war that he was willing to much of truth in his belief. pilot ran into ice-forming cloud, could never happen to an air about two crashes this

We have yet to fit our air lines liner.

appear to have been caused by sacrifice to end it, his career, his / Unable to remove the jealousy with suitable de-icing equipment,

and rivalry which were

In the King's Cup Air Race, failing motora, and the evidence position, his friends, and prob. causes of alliances, he strove and to protect vital instruments two NAF officers flying a was not conclusive even in these. ably his life-Ramsay Mac-break away from the whole iden from snow or from freezing. Miles Falcon three-seater cabin Most important of all, Donald. He must have suffered of pacts, for he had great faith have just been issued, and will motor, were killed at Castle experience and in the quality of Regulations on the latter point monoplane, fitted with Gipsy pilots are steadily gaining in a form of crucifixion for his in the League of Nations and protect air travellers this win- Hill, Scarborough. They had to judgment which eliminates the ideals. His life, like the late was one of its champions. Ile Lord Snowden's, must have been had hopes, too, in the Disarma- De-icers for wings and fly low and turn in a notoriously human factor in alr accidents. filled with pain so

ment Conference and recognised that even the virtue in a system of trade those who most detested his without tariff barriers. He was attitude felt pity for the lonely, not afraid to tread new paths in abandoned figure-still the his quest for peace, which was idealist-in 1931 after his fall the motivating force behind the from power. But in spite of majority of his actions, and in disappointments and It dis-1920 crossed the Atlantic to dis- heartening record of failure in cuss with the American Presi

the

ter.

FOOLING THE

conflicting opinions,

the House of Commons as Prime dent, Mr. Herbert Hoover, men-Tare

even amongst thoughtful people. The Daily Diet

But

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conslated in the fact that for some days no word was heard of her, and she was out of touch with the world. That was a condition common to every vessel that salied steamed the seven seas before the invention of wireless, and was solely due to the fact that Endeavour I carried no wireless equipment,

Minister, Mr. MacDonald was sures for the reduction of navall us to the influence of the popular still the servant of his country. armaments. Не had already Press, Richard Le Gallienne,

poet, His quality was

once asserted that to talk recognised, slashed British naval construc-about newspapers influencing public moreover, by the very mention. The outcome of his visit opinion was like trying to coax an whom he had fought so bitterly to Washington was the Five earthquake with a penny bun, in politics, and he remained in Power Naval Conference, which

that lively simile may be

The Fleet Street Inndlubbers pic- the so-called Nationalist Govern-led to an understanding between accepted as a poet's licensed exagger- By "AN OLD STAGER"

tured this tlay racing yacht strug- ment, though without the power United States, Japan and Bri-ation, The Press undoubtedly can

and does Influence popular senti

gling in the Inamenalty of the Atlan- he once commanded, until the tain. That was an accomplishment, though furtunnicly that in-s

worked up their end. He could never have been ment.

varies in degree with the urgent necessity to be for ever in-c Ocean, and

sensationalism from

that basla. and not the creasing the dose, Intellectual stondlord a popular man with the masses,

Actually every year racing yachts There is one episode, which widespread circulation of the news- If there is nothing really exciting as small us and smaller than En- for he left too great a chasm stands out in his life, and serves papers concerned. I am certain, or sensational to record, then the deavour 1, manned by nothing like from fairly conclusive observation [between himself and his former to answer many of his critics.nd experience, that what Cockney venting something. Its seare head. cxpert and seasoned a crew, cross

Labour allies when he joined the He did not believe in war.

the Aliantle Occan without adver- He journalists

call

"local" Journals National Cabinet which the pre-hated it, and the thought of kill-exercise far more influence than do 2169 reproduce dally the drama ofisement or sensation. Yachtsmen, the tile india-rubber plg. One who saw the absurdity of the stunt sent Lord Baldwin led. And ing. But he was not afraid of Fleet Street's stunt journals with moment it is puffed up enormously Press's attitude, knew that a racing there were always thousands death or injury or pain.. When million circulations.

their deceptive and high artincial

beyond its true dimensions, and the yacht of her dimensions, and bullt who could never forgive his war broke out he immediately

next it is expiring miserably with ta to stand the heavy strains of racing, pacifism as long as he lived, or enlisted as an ambulance worker our patriotic ideals, that the view

It must be hoped, for the sake of pathetic squeak,

wan perfectly able to encounter ony

stunt Press must needs set about in-

forget that he had outspokenly with a British unit and was sent have expressed is a correct one. One is moved to these perhaps storm that the Atlantic might pin-

allowed

most

usuce.

by the re- opposed the constant laying of to Belgium. He was arrested by Because our British people would rather dull reflections

Moreover, not qulis 400 years ago wreaths on the graves of "Un-order of a British officini on the assuredly soon lose those qualities markable episode of Endeavour 1. known Soldiers." But on this ground that he was an undesir-associated

racing yacht, a Devon sailor called Francis Drake and traditionally That hundred-ton most honourably

with our raee if Fleet whilst crossing the Atlantic on her circumnavigated the globe. He was day they should forget their pre-able person to be

Voyanc under normal the first Englishman to do so, and iudices, those who did not like serve in any capacity at

to Street's stunt journalism actually homeword the moulded their character and minds. sailing rig. parted her tow-rope in he and his squadron were away. Mr. MacDonald, and remember front. But Lord Kitchener was We have still a name throughout the a store. Forthwith the Fleet Street without a word, for over three years. world for sang-froid. We are cre- nitwils scized on her as a heaven Though Drake was knighted at Dept- that all he sought was the very angry and gave Mr. Mac-dited with opacity to keep our sent dramatic sensation. Quite un- ford on the decit of his Golden Hind eradication of the hatred which Donald a pass to British Head-hends in time of trouble and excite-justable alarm war worked up about Elizabeth, his return outlived a war he could not pre-quarters and during his visit ment. And

we certainly demon- to her possible fate, and finally caused a great deal lens !vent. He wanted people to for-there he had an opportunity to strated

some sterting heritage of when Endeavour I. turned up safe Fleet Street sensationalists trica is

Insular quality, not, and sound, after mudding excellent erente on the arrival of the Endea that ancient get the blood lust of 1914-1918 show his courage when, under only during the ordeal of the Great daily sailings under her jury the, a

vour I the other day. Yet Drake's and the preaching of mass mur terrific shell-fire. he preserved War. but more recently when we host of newspaper and photographic flagship, Golden Hind, was of exact- der. He wanted them to forget the utmost calm and walked un- experienced

set forth to ly the mme tonnage as Endeavour aeroplanes dramatic tugs and their "Unknown Soldiers," "in

meet her, greatly to the astonish- | I, and his second ship, the Elizabeth, hesitatingly the sense of forgetting old in- burst about him and explosions Scaremongers' Dilemma

where shrapnel monarchical change."

ment and somewhat to the disgust of was of 20 tons less-00 as against her capable skipper and his sturdy 100. juries and grievances. Never blasted the ground on all sides.

seargen crow. A A proposal to enter- by word or deed did he ever show

He made few friends. Lord of sound and unexcited judgment, of turned down emphatically by these

This quality of level-headedness, tain them to a special banquet was Mountains Out of Molehills disrespect for the men who had Thomson, who was killed in the unhysterical and undistorted per sane-eyed sailormen. In

so doing served their country and died R-101 disaster, was one of his pective, is one worth preserving most they acted like wortlity upholders of for its cause.

closest and most sympathetic fostered by the grotesque sensation our ancient sen and sang-fraid tradi-variably do, was in thinking of the Mr. MacDonald wanted to comrades. That loss was just allem and unintelligent hyperbole of tion. abandon the policy of ententes one of the many sorrows which the up-to-date stunt Fleet Street Drake's Ships and alliances which had so long, followed this weary figure, one Press. The latter is in fact in a What

and obvious dilemma. It is dally in his view, proved not only of the most misunderstood of the dilemmn of the habitual drug- ascertainable

are the actual and easily lucie? The whole worthless as defensive measures England's statesmen.

talcer, and implies the constant and alleged sen drama of Endeavour I.

Jealously,

But it certainly is not

Where the Landen scribes und

sunters went wrong, ns they in-

Atlantic solely in terms, of Queen Marys and Normandles, and 60,000- ton modern liners. The difference. is that, whereas in Drake's day men!: were giants, now ships ore, it is a. subtle difference, and Fleet Strcol's.

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