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Soviet Russia, by compulsory agreement of the type she has unsuccessfully sought to impose on Finland, has already gained several strategic Baltic naval

and air bases, and a Finnish capitulation which complete the Bolshevik hegemony in the in- land sea.

In one respect Russian ag- gression against the Baltic

States temporarily favours Ger- many, since it provides ice-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

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"And to think I complained about being encircled!"

The pilot they

all look up to

FIGHTER pilot friend

of mine, speaking of courage, said to me the day: "There's "other nothing to an air scrap, really. It's just a matter of getting your guns going first. The ox- eltement 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 dally job is to fling new and untried 400 m.p.h. planes about -the sky-in what appears to be a crazy effort to smash them to pieces. Fortunately with rare

success.

Nowadays the x Chasers- test pilots to you-are working overtime at aerodromes Some- where Throughout England. Most numerous are the "Ac- ceptance Test Pilots," who put every one of the dozens of fighters and bombers which are produced daily through rigorous trials before turning them over to the R.A.F.

Though their daily power- dives and aerobatics would scare the skins of you and me, these pilots have jobs which are mere routine compared with the

lives

the Hollywood-like

of

the giving to Russia of a foot- G.B.S. HAS

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 an the Baltic States should Anglo-Russian agreement be concluded. Russia's contention then was that unless such guar- antee wore imposed, Russin's position in that area could be: jeopardised by Germany,

HIS OWN

A.R.P.

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

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

One white coat, as a warning la motorists; and

One while walking stick,

"My warden has fixed me up with 2 Kus music at my Hertfordshire

Russia to-day evidently is home," he said, "but I find it a bit

on

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."

seeing to it that that position me.". will not be jeopardised even by Germany. The pressuro Finland, exercised by Soviet Russia, 1s so similar to the pres-

G. B. Bremembers the last war auro with which the Third Iteich well enough to know the danger of has disrupted other parts of falling shrapnel. I'm getting a hat

made, to keep the stuff out,” he mid,

Europe that it is possible even His new hat, is to be lined with a

form of bakelite.

the Scandinavian neutral block and wond

"They tell me it will be quite safe,"

by A. P. Luscombe Whyte

"type testers.

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RITAIN'S output of warplanes is now exceeding a thousand a month, and this, figure What happens before will soon be even greater,

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 le carried out behind the scenes by airmen whose exploits are as daring as any you have read of since this war began.

and

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"experimental "of speed; climb; turn; revs.—noting

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 teet) and submit to every nero- 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

have £100,000 may

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

At first he keeps to straight tests

dozens of dial 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 munœuvre.

war

Pilots call it the "Nine Gis" test, and it would kill most of us. Even the type testers-picked from un- 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. He is strapped rigidly into his soat.

Though he will have to climb into the intense cold-maybe as low as 30 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 aero- drome he levels out and pushes the plane's nose down into a vertical dive. Speed jumps from 200 m.p.h. to 280, 300, 350. The engine, full out, screams and the whole plane shudders,

Four hundred, 450, 500

....unt!! they are diving at "terminat speed" near 000 m.ph. The pilot opens his mouth and screams at the top his voice to tense his muscles and relieve the sudden pressure on his car drums.

Unless his plane is atted with self-registering dials, or with a cinema camera which films their readings, the pilot must keep on noting the jumping needles. For a third of a minute he plunges at a second, faster than a 000 feet a

from 30,000 to revolver bullet, 6,000 feet. Then, judging the time to a second, he pulls back with ali his strength on the

plane la a The the dive has been by the

a baracket high

me

turned into straight flight, and during these agonising seconds centrifugal force has been pulling the fuselage and the pilot's body downwards with a force nine times that of gravity. The pilot's appar ent weight increases to over half- a-ton, forcing him into his sent, dragging at his arms, draining blood from his head and eyes so that his sight goes black,...

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

Though aclentine design-with

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 Gs test, have suddenly folded upwards like a blown umbrella. leaving the naked fuselage to plunge to earth unchecked.

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

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

Civil test pilots make '—. and: earn-good salaries, especially in: America, where a first-rate man can ask £1,000 for putting one new

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plane through all its pacos.

Not so our

So our RAF. test pilots.. Most of them fola experimental stations for a year or two and y new, untried planes as part of their regular Jobs—or did in peace- time. Their reward is perhaps to be assigned to a world record at- tempt.

Now in war-time faster and faktor planes will be; coming from the factories. Rower dives may go- from 600 m.ph. to 700, to...

"Give me a scrap or a lonfiek raid

will soon have to reconsider its he continued. Moreover, it will "That boy ought to make a good husband for Daughter--I've been every time!" as my K.A.J. friend joint policy of neutrality. look nice, anit be very much lighter borrowin' money from him for six months and he still comes back!" | BAYI.

than the steel type."!..