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March 15, 1940.

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THE NAVY THAT FLIES

THE Fleet Air Arm was once

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branch of the Royal Air Force. The Navy contributed three-quar- - ters of the pilots and all the observers; it was administered by the Air Force ashore, and by the Navy when it served afloat.

This arrangement worked very well because it worked on unbounded good- will; but it had certain disadvantages and in due course the Fleet Air Arm ceased to be a branch of the Royal Air Force. It is now a part of the Royal Navy, and it lives mostly in aircraft carriers and the larger men. of-war that carry aircraft,

Now in certain parts of the const there is a great deal of co-operation between the Air Force and the Navy.

If you remember they gave, a re- markable demonstration of this on Trafalgar Day, when a convoy escort. ed by the Navy was attacked by Ger- man bombers. The Air Force fighters came whistling out from the coast like

stream of machine-gun bullets in de- fence of the convoy. Twelve enemy machines took part in that attack. Only five returned to Germany.

At one of these points where the two services are in close touch, a squadron of Fleet Air Arm fighters on board an aircraft carrier recently got orders to fly off and take 'n spell ashore.

I think the iden was to give them a rest because they had had a lot of gruelling fights and possibly to give them opportunities for certain specialised training. Anyhow they cocked an eye to windward and gave a hitch to their trousers and did all the things sailors do when they are told to go somewhere and do something, and off they went-streaming up from the deck of their carrier one after the other like bees going up from the alighting bourd.

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WHEN I found them they had come to earth on a bleak headland with hangare and rows of huts, the only things that broke the skyline.

They agreed that one good thing they had in plenty. and that was fresh air. There is normally only one sound on an aerodrome-the roar of propellors as engines are warmed through and machines take off or alight. Whenever there was a lull in this one heard. the cry of gulls above the cliffs, and the faint grumble of the surf.

Working in conjunction with the news in the sky to chutward which Air Force they instituted a con- was reflected in the puddles. The tinuous naval patrol across a part cold wind blowing off the land, of the North Son from dawn to carrying silvery wisps of rain acroes dusk. One day was very like an- the aerodrome, smelt of heather and other except that sometimes the fog the hills.

camy rolling in from the sun and,

unless the visibility was too low for The engines were being warmed, spoke into it. The observer did the flying or they intercepted an enemy through that meant that the naval sume and they both laughed. They reconnaissance or bombing machine, fighting machines, drawn-up a little were-Anishing a conversation_they one patrol was very like another, to acaward of the ranks of I.A.F. started in the hut; In that rush of This aundron, of Fleet Air Arm machines, were roaring like all the air and uproar it was their secret.

We climbed up Into our cockpits.) fighters la carrying out, day after bulls of Bashan.

Each pilot and observer walked They were all two-seater fighters.

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day, what I shared with them for a few hours,

to their allotted machines. Two of

First of all a word about the kit. them stopped to exchange a remark Full flying kit consists of a com- drowned by the deafening roar of ONE observer was so obvious- bination suit like the skin of the engines in

the slip-stream,ly unfamiliar with the situation teddy bear. On top of that goes where normal speech is, of course, that a member of the mainten- wind-proof combination sult with a

an impossiblity.

ance personnel--a cheerful red-

high collar lined with fleece. Then

comes a life-saving waistcoat.

known.

The speaker reached out for the faced person with little drops of! This can be inflated in a few tube of the other's headphone and rain on his eyebrows-leant over momtale by the wearer, nad for some obscure reason is technically as a 'Mae West." The parachute harness buckles on over this. It is a cumbersome arrangement to walk about in, but it can be released in a second, and there are moments when it gives its wearer quite a lot of moral support.

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gloves, and fleece-lined flying bouts. World Affairs" and Other

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Hauntlet!

Now picture rows of wooden huts,

something like what one imagines,

a mining camp to be, rising out of a

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gramme-Gavetle, Leopold Stokow

the edge of the cockpit and de- monstrated n few ementials such as the stowage of the para-. chute, the switches of the wire-. less telephone that connected the machine with, the base, the re lense gear of the gun, how the strap clipped the observer into his sent.

After that he grinned and wished me a happy landing and disappear- ed. And then the roaring grow a little louder find the ground flowed bumpily awny beneath us, turned in n wide circle and receded,

It was quite far beneath us by the time I had finished fiddling about with my straps and switches and trays of machino-gun ammunition and looked over the edge to sec what syns happening.

It was doing funny things-- the earth wo had left behind- tilling on edge a bit, and a mare and her foal in a field and some sheep on the edge of a cliff seem- ed quite unconscious that they were grazing at a most impossi- ble' angle; and there was a rush- ing wind that sang in the wires and a rather queer feeling of Ughtness in the region of the tummy.

I screwed my head round and saw the other fighters, quite close to us. Their movement was like that of boats, rising and dipping slightly on the surface of an invisible sea. The real sea. was far beneath us. dark greenish grey, and then faded.

The observer in the next machine was blowing his nose on a pocket handkerchief. I rather envied him that packet handkerchief: I couldn't get at mine through all those layers of flying kit. Perhaps it didn't mat- ter, up there above the clouds. They stretched beneath us like an Arctic panorama, with little dark streaks which was the sen thousands of feet below showing through rifts in a white floor that looked like pack ice, and eloud mountains in the far distance catching the first rays of the rising sun.

Not only did handkerchiefs not matter, but nothing seemed to me to matter very much. because we had been climbing steadily for some time and the altitude produced a curious feeling of detachment. It seemed impossible to recapture any emotion: one was sure only of peace: a sort of Nirvana: and a rushing wind tearing through emnty space: blue sky above and a white light gleaming on the cloud flour beneath. A little voice spoke in my carphone-n buzzing mumble. It was the pilot speaking. 'Keep a good look-out'. That was what we were there for, of course. Somewhere out of the cloud mountains to the south-east, or out of the blue of space, a speck might appear, or a cluster of epecka, and we should be after them full split. And death would be abroad in that sunny emptiness. It was queer to think of death, up there in all that peace,

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ONE of the pilots-the youngest, aged twenty- said one evening that the hunt was grand. It was the kill that wasn't so funny.

He himself had intercepted a German bombing machine one afternoon and a grim game of touch-last began in a series of gigantic cloud valleys.

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The enemy dived and banked and dodged from one cloud cover to an other, and the relentless pursuit went on, 'until', said the midship- man, I nipped ahead to a cloud I thought he'd make for and I waited for him on the other side. Gosh, it was fun! I got him as he came through at 200 yards range. But. then, when you saw the poor devils apinning down nose first through the clouds, with smoke 'pouring from the engine, it wasn't so good. I hated that part of the business."

So that's how they feel about it. Occasionally disaster comes to one of our machines. This same pilot-I think he is the youngest lighting pliot in the Fleet Air Arm had engine trouble when ort patrol over the North Sea the other day. Down he came from ten thousand feet-planing down in the direction of a. trawler he remembered seeing earlier. Relay "World Delhi

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hony Orchestra of New York Local trawler's crow were below decks hurricane lamp, the fighting pilots

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1 SEEM to remember that in Weather Forecast and Announce from the Country, 2 The Man about Town, 3. The Man from the Sen,j the last war thero was a good 1.45. Chopin--Concerto No. 2 in F deal of rather feverish almost Minor, Op. 21-Arthur Rubinstein Light Symphony Orchestra cond. by of the macabre galety among the (Plano) and The London Symphony The Composer: Waltz In A Flat fighting pilots along the front. Orchestra conducted by John Bar They made jokes about death. 2.15. Close down.

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D'Eau, Alfred Cortot (Piano). I thought they all in this wor. looked soberly cheerful. Much the same expressions framed by the leather helmets and lit by the flame of the hurricane lamp as I could remil, on the faces in the changing room before

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The trawler's crew decided reasonably enough that they were being attacked by a Ger- man machine and stayed below. In the meanwhile the machine still noated. The pilot land his observer. climbed

Although out and

very shaken they managed to launch their collapsible dinghy; but that in some way became entangled with the tail of the machine, and the pilot in try- ing to free got his band ripped In the hinge of the rudder::

So there he was up to his waist in icy water, clamped by his wrist to a machine that at nny moment might cock up her tail and dive to the bottom.

The abserver realised the situation in the trawler and most gallantly decided to try to swim to her for help. So off he sel, supported by hin Mae West.

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olher Oghter was circling helplessly overhead: she must have. looked like a distracted mother pea- wit. However, her strange behaviour reassured the trawler's crew.

They came up on deck and finally sighted the wreckage of the plane. Building. Stoking for all they were worth they

camo rushing to the rescue and huuled the observer and the plot on board,

In a day or two they were as right as trivets and back on patrol again.

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