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Soviet Russia, by compulsory agreement of the type she has unsuccessfully sought to impose

on Finland, has already gained several strategit Baltic _naval. and air bases, and a Finnish capitulation which complete the Bolshevik hegemony in the in- 'land sea.

In one respect Russian 'ag- Baltic gression against the States temporarily favours Ger- many, since it provides lcc-free ports through which Russian trade can pass to the Reich, thus improving the route through which war supplies can be provided.

But the price at which the Third Reich acquires this minor advantage appears to be very high indeed. It is no less than the giving to Russia of a foot- hold which may well lead to a complete Russian hegemony in the entire Baltic region.

This was obviously the aim

of the Russians when they were angling with London for the right to impose guarantees on the Baltic States should an Anglo-Russian agreement be concluded. Russia's contention then was that unless such guar- antees were imposed, Russin's position in that area could be jeopardised by Germany.

LITHUANIA LATVIA

ESTONIA FINLAND

WHITE RUSSIA

UKRAINE

A

ADOLF:

"And to think I complained about being encircled!"

The pilot they

all look up to

FIGHTER pilot friend

of mine, speaking of courage, sald to me the other day: There's nothing to an air scrap, really. It's Just a matter of getting your guns going first. The ex- citement stops you worrying. Not like the jobs our 'X Chasers' do every day. Now, they take guts!

X Chasers.. dealers in the "unknown quantity." A fine nickname for the men whose daily job is to fling new and untrled 400 m.p.h. planes about the sky in what appears to be-a. crazy effort to smash them to pleces: Fortunately with rare success.

Nowadays the X Chasers- test pilots to you-are working overtime at aerodromes Some- where

England. Throughout Most numerous are the "Ac- ceptance Test Pilots," who put of every one of the dozens nghters and bombers which are produced dally through rigorous trials before turning them over to the RA.F.

Though their dally power- dives and acrobatics would scare the skins off you and me, these pilots have Jobs which are mere routine compared with the Hollywood-like lives of the

G.B.S. HAS

HIS OWN

A.R.P.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW does not carry a gas-musk .. but he has devised his own A.R.P., and has come up to London to pince orders for

One hat, lined to safeguard the Shavian skull against shrapnel;

One while coat, as a warning to motorists; and One white walking siick.

"My warden has fixed me up with agus mosk at my Hertfordshire home," he said, "but I find it a bit of n nuisance to carry about with THE BEARD IS O.K, "What about the beard?" "Oh, that," he laughed. "The war-

den managed to fix it up quite com- fortably, thanks."

Russin to-day, evidently is sceing to it that that position me." will not be jeopardised oven by Germany. The pressure on Finland, exercised by Soviet Russia, is so similar to the pres- sure with which the Third Reich has disrupted other parts of Europe, that it is possible oven the Scandinavian neutral bloc

will soon have to reconalder its joint policy of neutrality.

G. B. S. remembers the last war well enough to know the danger of falling shrapnel. "I'm getting a hat made to keep the stuff out," he said. He now fat Is to be lined with a fórm of bakelite.

"They tell me it will be quite safe,”

by A. P. Luscombe Whyte

type

BR

TOW

RITAIN'S output of warplanes is exceeding a thousand a month, and this figure

will

200л be even greater. What happens before these brand new machines are sent out to take their place in the R.A.F.'s "front line "?

This article tells you of the heroic work that is carried out behind the scenes by airmen whose . exploits are as daring as any you have read of since this

war began.

"

and

"experimental"

testers.

The type tester's mount is the first and untried model of a new design, which he must take up' (not knowing that it will not nose-dive suddenly at. 1,000 feet) and submit to every aero- nautical torture. On his report depends the future of the new type big-scale production, modification, or scrapping.

Since hundreds of men may have worked for months, and £100,000

havo may

been spent on this one small plane, it is an anxious group of de- officials signers, technicians, and Air Ministry men which gathers on the aerodromo tar- mac while the type tester case It gently into the air.

At first he keeps to straight tests

of speed, climb, turn","revanoting dozens of dini readings on the pad strapped to his knee. Then comes the real ultimate trial of the plane's strength, and of its ability to withstand any possible war manœuvre.

Pilots call it the "Nine Cs" test, and it would kill most of us. Even the type teaters-picked from hun- dreds for their hardiness--frankly hate it.

Before taking off, the pilot's body and limbs are tightly bound around with bandages to keep his organs In place under the tremendous strain. His cars are plugged with wool. Ho is strapped rigidly into his seat.

Though he will have to climb into the intense cold-maybe as low us 80 below zero-at 30,000 ft. he cannot wear bulky clothing. He must be free to jump quickly in emergency from the small cockpit.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Nearly six miles above the acro- drome he levels out and pushes the plane's nose down into a vertical dive, Speed jumps from 200 mp.h. to 250, 300, 350. The engine, full out, screams and the whole plane shudders.

++

Four hundred, 450, 500

... until they are diving at terminai speed" near 600 m.p.h. The plot opens his mouth and screams at the top of his voice to tense his -muscles and relieve the sudden

on his car drums.

Da plane is fitted with

with a

self-registering dials, or

Dims their cinema camera which readings, the pilot must keep on noting the jumping needles. For a minute he third of a

plunges at 990 feet a Becond. faster than a

from 30,000 to revolver bullet, 0.000 feet. Then, judging the time to a sec

second, he pu

puils back with all. his is a bare 1,500 feet high

strength on the stick. The plane a

by the time

the

dive

has been turned into straight fight, and during ferce has been pulling these agonising_seconds centrifugal the f

fuselage and the pliot's

a force

nine downwards with that of gravity. The pilot's appar

timės

ent weight increases to over half- a-ton, forcing him into his

seat, dragging at his arma, draining blood from his head and eyes so that his sight goes black....

No wonder the watchers below gasp with rallel as the plane shoots upward in a half-mile zoom back Into the sky.

Though scientific design-with Its wind tunnels and models-now produces almost fool-proof planes, there have been times when the wings of a new type, bearing the weight of nine planes during the Nine as test, have suddenly folded upwards like a blown umbrella, leaving the naked fuselage plunge to earth unchecked.

One type tester survived such a crash. His wings sheared off at the bottom of a dive and the fuselage crashed, burying its engine 12 feat in the earth. Yet the pilot is still flying to-day. ...

to

And here is one danger the test plot dreads. For when a broken. wing folds down over his cockpit there can be no escape.

one now

Civil test pilots make -- and carn-good salaries, especially in America, where first-rate man- can ask £1,000 for putting plano through all its paces.

Not so our

RAF

test pilota. Most of them join experimental stations for your or two and fly new, untried planes as part of their regular jobs-or did in peace- time. Their toward is perhaps to be assigned to a world record at- tempt.

Now in war-time faster and faster planes will be coming from the factories. Power divos May go from 000 m.p.h. to 700, to ...

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he continued. "Moreover, it will "That boy ought to make a good husband for Daughter-I've been every time!" as my R.A.B. friend look nice, and be very much lighter, borrowin' money from him for six months and he still comes back!"* | **YL.

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