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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY,

DECEMBER 23,

1937.

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Store fronts in Madrid, besieged capital of Spain, barricaded with protective sandbags against the crashing shocks of Insurgent air bombs and artillery shelling. While in centre of the picture is the Broadway cafe-bar, the sign "Joyerin" next door has nothing to do with a night club, but is Spanish for a jeweller's shop.

The Price of Progress

Ev

¿VERY time a pilot is killed in vir- racing, or trying to put up a new record, a number of people cry out | in protest. Is it any use, they ask, sacrificing lives like this. in

mad helter-skelter dashes about the skies, in an endeavour to put a mile or two on the speed record over a Kiven course?

Test Pilots Must and canvas. Any one of them night

Face Risks

By Captain 11. C. Llard

theories put into wire, steel, wood,

have hurled me tu destruction-R good many tried to.

I am just an ordinary test pilot. There are dozens like me, who earn their daily bread by facing risks on new designs.

There are others who have had bad American have blueprinted a hun-luck and got killed, racing, testing," There is only one answer:-Racingdred-tonner. The biggest machine in or just quietly flying about, But not must go on: lives must be given so commercial service now fs. I belleve, one life was wasted. Each death that the quiet, everyday passengers about 10 tons.

helped the designers to being greater who, want to use Dir services for I have tested hundreds of new safely into public and private air- business and pleasure shall keep their | designs, things tlant were Incre craft. lives and their safely.

I was flying in 1911 when the top speed in the air was between 40 and 50 mph. In those days, all pilots were enlled louis ond potential suicides.

Perhaps they were. I know we

came Ropping down often enough!

If the wind blew, down we came We tried to get about at night, down we came; if anything upset our balance in the air, causing a simple sideslip, a loop, or a spin-down we

came!

I came down a few times myself, Once the man who is now Air Chief Marshal Sir John Saimond crashed a machine that I was due to fly as soon as he stepped out of it.

Lessons Learned

Once Lord Trenchard came down heavily when I was his passenger, The ground knocked off most of the undercarriage and shook the life out of the rest of the machine-and near jy out of us but what was learned from that flight was of invaluable service to the designers,

Tragic. Golf Stories-And Others

To the casual observer the rules as meaning "ong club of a kind unly." which govern the game of golf, But what a feld here for legal argu-

ment! especially in the various champion- these laws must be as stringent as hard ik happened to two golfers ships, may seem unduly strict, but Another peculiar case of extreme those of the Medus and Persians.in One can recall a few curious inci- waiting their turn to play off

Glasgow competition. While dents when a momentary lapse by amused themselves by hitting a golf they the competitor was fraught with ball from one to the other some dir- serious consequences,

tenes from the first tee. The out- of a few weeks ago, when a noted friend, sliced his ball a

The most recent incident was that ward man, while driving back to his little. It player, practically assured of victory, struck a tree and rebounded on lo thoughtlessly dropped his ball on the one of the greens. The ball was Im- green for a practice shot while wait-mediately retrieved, and they gave ing for his opponent to play, and was the matter no further thought.

disqualified.

The incident, however, had been

at ones

that

of the

A very hard luck case, again, was observed by some sharp eye and re- that of Roger Weatherhead during ported, and when the two competi play in the Open Championship at tors returned with the best score of St. Andrews. In the course of the the day they were informed game his bait lay a few feet from they were disqualified, as the club the hole, and he prepared to putt. rules, while allowing practice on the He walked towards the hole to note fairways, forbade the use I have tested hundreds of machines the lie of the ground, and in step- #reens. and flown in dozens of big races-ping backwardy his licet came into King's Cup.

Schneider Trophy, and contact with his ball, and he was Many Excuses many others.

penalised a stroke. He tied with In one King's Cup Race, my pro-Hutcheson for Best pince, and lost peller flew off, chawed up the solitary on the replay, engine, broke, hit me on the head,

The Broken Club and, stunned me for a second or two --and then fell exnetly between two boys playing in a backyard. They were delighted!..

Some queer things, too, not so well known, happen in club competitions. I was over Newcastle at the time I wonder how the majority of golfers --and it looks Jolly spiky from he would solve the following problem:-

tlr.

I got down somehow on the only The club competition was a "one open space for miles a factory slag-club only" game-that is, the com- heap.

petitors could select one club and On another occasion, I crashed a one club only, to play throughout the Schneider racer going that out. We match. One contestant armed with hit the sea at 300 m.p.h. and the the popular cholce, a mid-iron, had machine flew to bits like a bomb. the misfortune half-way through the wasn't nice. But an improvement game to break his weapon, where in the design of that machine-the upon he borrowed another and fin- old S. 4-is now incorporated in many ished the course, returning the best essentials in all private and public

ublic score of the aircraft in this country.

Bert

It

Hinkler was my pal. He put up a lot of records and then got killed In the Alps, trying to make one more. Again, the industry learned some thing.

Improving Design

The machine that won the Aug- tralia race was a racer

pure and simple. But now machines of a similar type-only four times as big are Rying the Atlantic, ready for next summer's mall and passenger service to America,

In the inst King's Cup race the "scratch" man's machine was built by students who will be our designers of the future. What they learn now from successes and failures, from crashes and arrivals, wij serve the air-going passengers of to-marrow.

We are miles behind America and Germany now in the performances! of our civil aircraft. Our machines are much slower, and no safer. We need races to Improve design and add swiftness and staying power,

I say "hats off" to the pilots who give their lives to the game! Wel have never lneked them. We flew the Atlantic first. We won the Schneider Trophy "for keeps.". We won the Australia race.

Since I began flying at Hendon In 1911, I have seen the speed record. put up to more than five times what) it was. The altitude record has gone up almost nn much. Safety in the air has gone up about

a hundred times as much.

In those days we carried one or twa passengern at our peri-and theirs! Now I have flown a machine capable of carrying 149 passengers. it was, a midget beside machines whose blueprints are already in the

He

day.

A somewhat similar ense occurred during a club competition at Lu- ness. Two members while waiting their turn started quite innocently to practise pulting on the last green. They awoke to the stern realities of the situation when they were prompt- ¡y debarred from taking any further Part in the competition.

To finish In less tragle vein one might recall the farewell speech of a certain Mr. "D" of Glasgow, who at the age of 80 resigned his club membership at a dinner given in his honour.

said, amid the hilarious laughter of "It has pained me to discover," be an appriciative it somewhat con- actence-stricken audience, "that any Opponent I I happened to beat these was promptly objected to on the grounds that he had broken the afflicted for that day only either with last few months has invariably been one club" rule by actually using lumbago, neuralgia, spinal meningitis two clubs. The matter was referred sleepy sickness, the botts, or house- to the Club Committee for decision, muld's knee, and f refuse to be shy and it was eventually deelded, I longer associated with such a set of think rightly, that the expression decrepit invalids," "one club only" might be construed

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4 The first tragedy managed to do this to the ten little nigger boys (8).

8 Solitary, and mostly so behind-

hand (8).

0 Kind of Scots cap (8).

10 The car that is this is not a

going concern (8).

11 Not bed case (10).

10 One casts this with us in sport

(4).

18 Men smelt it to their advantage

(3).

13 Share mostly sounding sugges-

tive of Cockney grief (7).

21 Precious stones make this part

of England (3).

22 The heart greets, and all is not

lost (5).

23 One who may help to adorn the

stars (7),

20 Sheller for a backward fish (3). 28 The turn of the tide in the

Mediterranean (4).

20 It has safely on one side, peril

on the other (10).

33 Making a record, but not in a

particular note (0).

35 This playa when it works (8).

30 Ever and over (8).

37 Where dates are found (8).

DOWN

1 In Rusala. this girl is Idenilijed with current "movements (4). 2 Spurs were not worn in this

part of a warship (7).

The Ash possessed a plant (7). 4 This is no credit to anyone 5). 6 Even the poorest can keep his

head above this (0).

Evidently one of two members of the family has "gone native" (8).

7 A double humorist (5). 10 A did about the altitude is

suggested (0).

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12 The weight to beat (5).

13 What is tried could be made

to detest (0),

14 Men more readily anagram of this in wor time to this request (0).

15 Coming to the point, both halves may be binding (8).

10 Compelled to proceed (0),

17 This would be beneath a M.F.H.

of course (8).

20 This has never gone out of

fashion with artists (5).

24 And this is to come in again

(7).

25 Standing successfully for Fur- Ilament is a necessary prelude to this (7).

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27 A small commission, no doubt

(0).

30 The cold may not leave one the

nense to notice this (5).

31 This painting depicts ordinary

life (5).

32 A neighbour of the magple (5). 34 Seeds of sorts (4),

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