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Mines reported in the fairway.

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Storincock and Golden Gain.

It is vital to the safety of Britain that our fishermen should be willing in time of war to bring to the hazardous business of our defence the skill and endurance that give them a poor enough return in time of peace, and they have never been found wanting.

To-day their task is pursued without ceasing in the face of risks unknown before, for to the rage of winter storms and the menace of mine and torpedo is added the threat of attack from the air.

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The sailor knows, and the landsman can weli guess, what fortitude is needed for the work and what hardship it entails, yet [among all tho organisations for lightening the lot of this or that branch of tho services none deals with the crews of the coastal craft that are so often in our minda. At least the monotony. and anxiety of cramped quarters and constant perii can bo lightened by the provision of wireless sots and of facilities for auch games as can be played on board,

Ribbenflop: "The Fuehrer has just broken it to him that his medals must be melted down for munitions."

First time

in

up,

charge of

a bomber

by J. STUBBS-WALKER

LMOST every day now you hear about those far-away things that the men of the Royal Air Force are doing. Outlandish feats of courage and endurance in a world about which you

probably know little.

modern adventure which inges

There is, in the air, a splash of

the exploits of the war pilots with a glamour difficult to find in the mud-drenched fields of France and Germany.

Yet it is more than likely that many of them, twelve months ago, had never flown an acroplane.

***

ET me give you A „detailed picture of what is like to take over the controls of an aeroplane — a bomber for the first time.

We are not concerned now with actual bombing-merely the pilot- Ing of the machine.

Our learner has been training on the ground for weeks before he flies, and, if his hands and feet Iack "the necessary deliency of touch, his brain has at least grasped the elements of flying.

And these are not so difficult. The Arst time that you are taught to fly you'ro'shown just where everything is. In a primary train- ing machine, it is all surprisingly simple: feet on rudder pedals, right hand holding the joystick-gently and the left hovering near the control for the throttle.

So simple you think-that you' cannot go wrong. Until, after he. has explained it all, your instruc- tor tells you to take over the con- trol.

And then you begin really to learn how to dự....

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N that training plane

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in which you make your first mistakes- large dials, show your height and your speed. A smaller dial shows you the number of revolutions being minda per minute by the engine.

Lize Another reglators engine oil pressure.

Probably, too, there is a pale

tube of green

of glass, slightly curved and with.n a bubble Hosting in it. It ahows you when the machine `is level, laterally.

Compare the simplicity of that cockpit with the pilot's seat in a modern - twin-ongined⠀⠀ intchine.. Els controla A controls are very nearly the sathe a joystick (we call it's con-, trol-column these days) ......and... | Tudder pocais, KER SE

But before him is a board con- tainling the most impressive ArTRY of instruments imaginable. Any- thing from 20 to 30 dială register such obscuro "things/is engine" boost pressurO, oxygen supply.

position of the retractable under- carriage, angle of the variable pitch propellers,

Instead of the simple ratchet that controls the throttle, he has a gantry of arms in the centre of the cockpit-a miniature rallway- man's signal-box.

These control the pitch of the propeller, the mixture of the fuel, the speed of the engines, and, in some planes, the rows of bomb- racks beneath the plane.

On top of all that, he has con- trols for the wing dags which slow him down when he is landing, and for the wheels which he tucks away neatly when he is flying.

When he is on a bombing or re- connaissance flight, he has to think as well. Apart from the con- trul of his plane he is responsible for watching for enemy machines. Strapped to his mouth is the oxygen feed that is necessary at heights of more than 15,000 feet. Ho must remember to turn that on

and keep it at the right pressure, otherwise, and without warning. he is likely to collapse at his con- trols.

If he is bombing, it may be his responsibility to sight the target they are attacking, and either drop the bombs himself or give the

instructions to one of

'his crew.

guns.

If he is fighing, he must control his

forward-fring own sighting them through a ring-sight before his face, and remembering to manœuvre into every possible position to give his rear gunner a fre chance to get in bursts of whenever possible.

H

D must dodge anti- aircraft shells, never get lost, look for cloud ...cover that may shield him from attack, and last of all, in the event of disaster, he must give every member of his crew the chance to get away before he bio- acif leaps.

A job for a he-man; much more a job for a man of real Intelligence and cool reasoning.

A year ago, after he stepped from the simple plane in which he had made his first solo night, he probably told himself that, though ha had mastered the first step, he would never have the nerve to fly one of those vast £20,000-or-more death-carriera.

But he has.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

170

By Lichty

think the old bear is weakening!. He used to give me five

seconds to get out-now he gives ma tan!'”

NAVAL CONTROL

By Admiral Sir R. Bacon

NE of the most important

O factors in the successful

|waging of war is the exercise of common sense. Closely allied to this is the necessity for all services and individuals to sub- ordinate both personal and cor 1porate considerations to the

furtherance of the war.

During my period of command of the Dover Patrol in the Great War the advisability of concentrating all the coastal defences under one single head become Indelibly stamped on

my mind.

situation at Dover so far, ps. consin durence was concerned be...) come almost impossible. The gun defences were under military 'con- trol, the gunners had had no prac tical training in the recognition of the differences between our own and. enemy vessels. The fishermen who manned our trawlers and drifters

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were unaccustomed to paying meti- culous attention to written orders. so that it was more by good fortune than anything else that regrettable- Incidents were avoided.

QUOTE this old experience to show the evils of divided cont- mand. The common-sense solution

of

the impasse was to put the bat terles under my orders; not because | I was-an_Admiral, or wished to grab. units under the command of some other authority, but because I and. my chief of the staff were the only persons at Dover who possessed ac curate knowledge, as to when an enemy's vessel might or might not

also be expected, and

the general disposition of our own vessels,

So far as the air service was con- cerned, the whole of the air force at Dover and Dunkirk was under my command, with the result that

everything went like clockwork,

The acroplanes and scaplanes work- ed with the monitors when we bom- barded the dockyard at Ostend or the locks at Zeebrugge.

The pilots and their commanding officer came over to Dover when necessary, and I explained to them exactly what I proposed to do and- what I wished them to do. Conso- quently there was never any doubt on their part, nor had the orders to be transmitted through a third party, to the saving of staff work and the avoidance of

The

ace of possible errors and con- : usion... **me but, was a

question of supply and main........ tenance of the constal aircraft is a separate matter. To tamper with existing arrangements might well, In war-time, lead to confusion, but there can be no tactical reason why, es was the case at Dover, the coartal aircraft should not be under the con trol of the man who has direct. knowledge of the position and work. of the surface and submarino craft,

...

the present war coastal protec-. tion has been complicated by seaplanes. laying parachute mines.. This Intensifos the necessity for close relationship between the patrol ling aircraft and the minesweeping organisation. Lastly, the hour fast approaching when Germany will hurl a

a volcanic attack of aeroplanes, seaplanes, mining craft and surface.** craft In ong Intensive week of at- tempted destruction and demoralisa tion of our defences. Heaven" help. our coastal defence if it falls

bo.. tween

the stools of divided control, Obviously there can be no tactical: or strategical reason for divorcing the coastal aircraft from the naval; command.. If so, why do sot, I fear** It looks very like the old story of the amour, propre of one, portion of our armed forces being offended and ai {dislike of a ..command being

toffed.

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