1941-01-24 — Page 19

DONALD DUCK

OH, BOY!

SAVED BLAZING PLANE, GETS V.C.

"THE plane was on fire and by the timo my whiskers were singed it looked as if it would blow up. We made for our parachutes, but when I got mine I found it was on fire too."

This is part of a letter

home in which Sergeant

John Hannah,

an

R.A.F.

wireless operator, tells how he won the V.C.

Hannah, who is only 18, is the boungent recipient of the V.C. nince the war began.

Bingle-handed, be extinguished are when the plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire over Antwerp, où September 10, after the rear- runner and navigator had baled OUL

The pilot, who brought the machine safely home. has already been awarded the D.F.C.

I am really lucky to be alive," anys Bergeant Hannalta letter.

"The plane was a blazing-mass, find a terrifle target for the Ack

ck.

Quick Thinking

"I did some quick thinking and started throwing out the daming

mass.

"During this time ammunition

SERGEANT J. HANNAN

The official account of Sergeant

on the kite was going off 10 aHannah's work says he forced hin

penny and the heat was terrific.

"Finally I got the Are out and we limped home and landed at bur base.

"I hear that AA, chiefs and R.A.P, officers hayo been having The kite photographed from all angles, and I have had so many visits from the big shots that I am beginning to feel quite a big shot inside the aircraft myself.

extinguishers, way through the flames to get two with which ho fought the Are for 10 minutes.

When these were empty be continued to beat out the flames with his log book.

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werd exploding

Heat from the fire was so intensa

I have been congratulated on that all the alumlalum sheet metal conduct. It seems to have been the on the floor of the cockpit wa first time a fire has been put out melled away, leaving only the In the air."

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·January 24, 1941.

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Birth of

of The SPITFIRE

Britain's "Spitfire" figh- ter was really born 15- years ago! It began its amazing career in 1925 as Supermarine $4 mono- plane, designed and built to take part in the Schnei- der Trophy race off Balti- more, U.S.A., and piloted by H. C. Baird. The 'plane, after setting up a record of 226 m.p.h., crash- ed in a test flight before the contest.

Two years later the Air Ministry took up the Schneider Trophy chal- lenge through the Royal Air Force. In the contest off Venice Flight-Lieuten- ant Webster won the Trophy for Britain in Supermarine $5 with a speed of 281.65 m.p.h.

Flying Officer Waghorn, R.A.F., won the Trophy agnin in 1929 in an improved Super- marine So at a speed of 328.63 m.p.h.

During the same year

I watched Squadron Lender Orlebar, now Director-General of Training at the Air Minis- try, create a world record of 357.7 m.p.h. with the same machine.

Came 1931-the last of the Schneider contests when Bri- tain won the Trophy out- right, with three successive wing.

☆

The day of the great raee arrived, September 12. But what a day! Visibility was reduced to about a mile with blinding rain and mist, and the wind howled half a gale. A more unfriendly day for high speed racing could not be imagined. The rules provid- ed for unfavourable weather, and the international racing officials abandoned the rice till next day.

Sunday, September 13-un- lucky number to the super- stitious, but the luckiest, day in British aviation-dawned a magnificent day, «un-flooded and with a visibility of over 15 miles. Hugo crowds of spectators lined the shores of South Hampshire and the northern coast of the Isle of Wight.

In the testing area off Cal

the speed course of seven rounds totalling 217 miles.

What appeared to be a sliver bird dancing in the sunlight - was the seaplane banking round the first pylon off Bembridge. Across the open sea it dashed to West Witter.

Arthur

by

the age of 11 sold newspapers on the streets of his home town.

✡

The "Spitfire" was evolved by the late Mr R. G. Mitchell, chief engineer and designer of the Supermarine Aviation Works, Southampton.

Only 30 years old when he designed the first Super- marine S4, he laboured un-.

Lamsley ceasingly with undaunted

ing, off Chichester Harbour, rose higher, swooped down round the next pylon and' on along the 14 miles' leg of the course fringing Southsen and Portsmouth towards the pylon in the Solent.

Lieutenant Boothman flew His machine was superbly. steady as it hurtled through the air at 343 miles an hour! He shattered the world's lap record in this first round.

Round after round he'flash- ed by the spectators, flying so low that his figure, could be seen crouching in the cockpit. The crowd could never have. realised fraction of the

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colossal strain on the pilot in this dash through the air, faster than any man had ever flown in a distance flight,

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In exactly 38 minutes 22 seconds, at an average speed of 340 m.p.h. Flight Lieuten- ant Boothman won the Schneider-Trophy-for Great Britain, and presaged the "Spitire" fighter. days later Flight Lieutenant George Stainforth in the same winning monoplane created the world's record of 407.5 m.p.h., in a series of dive tests from a height of 15,000ft, into. a measured mile in Spithead.

The "Spitfire" had arrived! All the experience gained in these Schneider Trophy con- tests was embodied in the pro- duction of the single-seater fighter which was to become the wartime terror of the air. It was powered with Rolls- Royce engines designed by the Inte Sir Henry Royce, who al

courage against failing health, for a dozen years during which he successfully re- designed his first creation and made it possible for a British machine to attain n world record with a speed of 407 m.p.h.

It was a great blow to British aviation when he died suddenly, at the early age of 42, a few months before the delivery of the first fighter Squadron of Spitfires to the Air Ministry in July, 1938.

Designer Mitchell, although born at Stoke, made his homa in Hampshire, and the "Spit- fire" is a Hampshire machine, created, perfected and pro- duced in the works on the northern shores of South- ampton Water.

Over 1,000 years ago King Alfred founded and built the first British Navy on this sume bit of Hampshire coast.

Alfred's ships cleaned up the invading Danes in a West established the beginning of Solent battle in 897 A.D.and.

British sca power. "Spit- fire" fighters, arriving 1,043 years after, are to-day shoot- ing down invading German bombers in the skies over these same historic English waters.

Recently over Spithead and the Solent it might almost have been a repetition of the Schneider Trophy races when squadrons of "Spitfires" were hurtling through the air after German bombers, sinking one every minute with the fire from eight machine guns.

History repeats itself to those who invade Britain's shores.

Some New War Means

Are Old To Magicians

AGICIANS have moro

shot Castle in Southampton Mstartling tricks than

Water a small silver sen- plane waited near the start- ing line, rising and falling un- easily on the short, choppy waves. One o'clock came. A gun. boomed! A dull roar followed immediately, and a great splash of spray told that Flight Lieutenant Boothman, R.A.F., England's first choice of pilot, had taken the air In Supermarine S-GB.

His mighty engine, sensitive to the touch of his fingers, roared as the seaplane took off, circling at about 150ft, thon landing gracefully, skim- ming the shimmering blue water like a great gull. It was a magic moment. The crowds within sight gasped as they watched the seaplano again rise suddenly when Lieutenant Boothman opened his engine full throttle and flashed the starting-line into

ever this season, but without a single exception they are based on known physical foundations that can be 'mas- tered by anyone with a proper training in legerdemain, nc- cording to Mrs. Harry Hou- dinl, who has just returned to her home in Los Angeles from `a round of conventions of the Pacific Coast Association of Magicians.

IF

"It is a mistake to teach children superstitions about supernatural phenomena,' says the widow of the man who was world famous for his illusions, and who spent much of his lifetime exposing and debunking the so-called "su- pernatural."

"Master 'magicians with few ox- ceptions are franker to-day than they've ever been in admitting that even their most mystifying per- formancen have natural explana- tions, and that all forms of alleged.

psychle phenomena are without foundation," Mrs Houdini says.

Magicians

*spent considerable time at the conventions discussing the extent to which nations at war are now using some of the most spectacular tricks of the trade.

Mrs Houdini says it was her. husband who taught the inventor of the rip-cord parachute how to fold

huge pieces of alik into a small package, a trick firat demonstrated on the stage of the Hippodrome Theatro, in New York.

Prior to the World War, Houdini himself gave to the Navy Depart ment a diving suit which he per- fected for one of his acts,

For

of

a number of years, magi- cinas have startled their audiences with "devil fire," harmless looking bits

paper that suddenly burit Into flames, a device reported to have been scattered in large quan- titles by war planes In Europe

go is but a large scale adaptation of principles known and practiced by maglelans for cen- turies, according to Mra Houdini, and aven recent stories of new "invisible paint" applied to aero- plane aro "old stuff" to profes- alonal prestigitators,

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