DONALD
GOOD TALKER, PAL!
BE A LOTTA COMPANY. TO YUH... WANTA
BUY HIM!
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Friday.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 13, 1941.
DUCK
[YEAH..!" LET'S HEAR HIM TALK!
LOOK, I'LL GUARANTEE HE'LL TALK WHEN YUH GET
HIM HOME...HE'S BASHFUL OUTDOORS!
TALKING
PARROT FOR SALE $10 GUARANTEED
YEAH? LET'S HAVE
THAT IN WRITING!
HERE'S YOUR GUARANTEE! BUT IF HE TALKS,
YUH GOTTA KEEP HIM!
OKAY. BUDDY, THAT'S FAIR!
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Match-Point Technique
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"WELCOME to an
Ancient and Tattered Airman," shouted one of the RAF men as the new trainer plane touched down on the airfield.
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suit, with helmet and thought was to win a
that could make only four
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everywhere
back and a good rowdy
RAF welcome.
At last, in desperation, and to the confusion of the unofficial reception com- mittee, the pilot pulled off his helmet.
The "Ancient and Tat- tered Airman" was a wo- man-and very far from
and
And as, to adventure- well, our job is to keep out of it.
When you are delivering a brand new plane worth several thousands of pounds, you don't dawdle about in the sky on the look-out for a Messersch- mitt.
Tattered Airmen "
You've got to get to your destination on time and leave the scraps with. the enemy to the R A. F.
On the other hand, fly- ing in wartime is a very different proposition from peacetime aviation.
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00000000 To-day the "Tele- graph" presents the first of an occasional series of articles entitled
being either ancient or Women Umg
tattered.
I should know, because she is one of my collea- gues, one of the first wo- men members of Air Tran- sport Auxiliary, recruited just over a year ago to help the men in this big -job-of-ferrying new air- craft from factories to RAF stations.
OTHERWISE A.T.A.
Don't blame the RAF for the title, "Ancient and Tattered
Airmen." The
men pilots of A.T.A. them- selves decided that this is what A.T.A. stands for.
The reason is that they are all airmen debarred from service with the RAF for reasons of health or age!
And the way to recog- nise a ferry pilot's sex has become an important part of the RAF's unofficial training.'
Wartime
written by women, but not necessarily for women. The articles will show the currents of thought and feeling of British women during this great war.
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By A Woman
Ferry Pilot
re-
We have none of the us- ual aids to navigation to help us. We can't pore over meteorological ports and postpone a flight. for a day or two if we don't fancy the weather.
Although the A.T.A. is still a purely civilian service, the R.A.F. needs the new planes that are pouring out just as quickly as it can get get them,
We were "delivering the goods" right through the winter of 1939-40. And that was one of the severest' win- ters for fifty years. one I gather there is infallible rule-wait till the pilot takes off his hel- met, and if it's a woman —even with a closely crop- ped head-she will shake her hair loose!
Although we are the only women in Britain whose war work takes them up into the air (even W.A.A.F. are still the earth-bound), we do not regard ourselves as heroi- nes and our lives are not one great adventure:
ADVENTURE?-NO!
Flying may sound very exciting, but long before the war most of us were earning a living in civil aviation, with the result that piloting a warplane is no more unusual to us than driving a car.
We have to keep an eye out for prohibited areas, balloon barrages and other devices, and it is advisable to make quite sure before touching down that we have been cognised and are expected!
re-
R.A.F. stations have their
own kind of welcome waiting for un-recognised planes in wartime....
· DAY'S ROUTINE
So far the women's unit of the A.T.A., which is attached to an aerodrome quite near London, ferries only trainer planes.
Spitares and Hurricanes, heavy bombers, and all the new planes now in production are still delivered by the men,
though we have hopes of pro- motion.
Every one of us is just longing to get at the controls big-bomber, or new
fighter, for no matter how
long you've been a pilot, there is no thrill in the world like flying faster than you have ever done before,
We report for duty every morning at ninc.. By that time Pauline Gower, chief of the women's unit, is already receiving instructions for the day's work from Central Con- trol.
Planes are waiting to be picked up from a factory in the north of Scotland, from another in the west of Eng- land. They have to be de- livered to, say, the Midlands or the South Coast. The Ferry Officer is busy working out the routes,
NIGHTMARE
Within a few minutes we are piling into one of the "ferry taxis"-a big plane that sets off every morning with a dozen or more pilots squatting on the floor and delivers them one by one to the factories where they arc to collect.
delivered Having
your plane to the R.A.F. station and got your delivery chit signed by the officer who re- ceives it, you may have to get yourself on to another fac- tory by train or car or you may be picked up later by the ferry taxi on its return jour- ney,
Do not imagine because we have all been flying for years that we did not need any training when we joined the AT.A.
Every member goes through a course, for the bigger the machine the more complicated are the controls.
When you first come across
you
the panel of an Anson or a Magister after the simple .dashboard of a Puss Moth; think you've walked straight into a nightmare.
Yet in a day or two you find you know all the knobs and and handles, the wheels and clocks and gauges more or less by heart.
There is nothing spectacular about an A.T.A. pilot's life.. The women do the same work as the men except that the planes they fly are smaller and easier to handle and the women's unit is just a small part of one big organisation. "WE GET AROUND”-
We certainly get around a bit-only the other day one of my colleagues found herself flying over her own home in the country.
To her annoyance she noticed that the people to whom she had let the house had left the garage door open. When she got back she tele- phoned them about it-they are still wondering how on carth she found out!
There is one thing of which we are justly proud. It is not the excitement and the glam- our but the simple fact that we have delivered hundreds of now planes to the RAF. In the last fifteen months-de- livered them safely and on time.
PEACEFUL LONDON—It's.nows to find a strest in Landon that. isn't ripped to pieces by bombs. This is scona in Regent Street. Quadrant as it appeared on May 7. It's unmarked by air raidors,
British Buying Agents Storming Washington
There is a sly saying in Washington these days that more British people are storming the United States capital now than on August 24, 1814, when Major-General Ross' 4000 redcoats took over the town.
It is a friendly observation, however; but one not entirely without merit, considering the numbers of Canadians, Britons and Australians coming and going on various missions to hasten food and munitions shipments to the United Kingdom under the $7,000,000,000 lend-lease law;
The boss of this business, He commonly is called a "super- called the "British Council of salesman in reverse," since he is buying. He gives orders_to_n_for- Supply in North America;"2-19 midable array of knights and briga Arthur B. Purvis, who was born diers with a brisk good humour and in England 50 years ago, but for relaxation flies to his home and who has been a business man in family in Montreal. Canada for the last 20.
U.S.
Government officials Bay Purvis, a short, thin and bright-eyed human dynamo, is just about the brainiest business man they over on- countered.
"Staff Of 1500
15
Purvis is using Canadians 'contact men because they "speak American" and obviate the neces- Rity of winning this country to the mannerisms of the Oxford- accent British officer and civil ser- Vant His lendoff contact men are Lesila They like him and he likes them. G. Chance, Ottawa civil servant, and mutual friends say; personally first, C. T. Baliintyne, Montreal lawyer. then professionally, to the tune of The bulk of the staff are Canadians, $2,700,000,000 of cash-und-carry war- although it includes many decorated planes, guns, tanks, ammunition and British war veterans, most of whom other supplies he has purchased dur-serve as guards. ing the inst 15 months.
Actually, the British staff Washington approximates 1500, with another 500 in New York.
in
NOEL COWARD Working For Country
British and American officials say the amount of supplies going
Britain
and
Allies will be almost
to
doubled during 1941-42 under the "I have felt very unhappy about lend-lease programme, de
the things that have been said about
Purvia will head it all up as chair-me," Mr Noel Coward stated ghortly man of the British council of nine after his arrival In England after men. His only superior. In America 18 months in several parts of the is Lord Halifax, the Ambassador, a world en various missions. member of the War Cabinet."
Super-Salesman
"I have no official capacity," ho said. "If you want to describo my The council Includes Morris WI-position just call me an Englishman con, deputy chairman, who la a per- at large. I have been working for ronal representative of Lord Beaver-this country since the first day of the brook. Wilson is president of the war, and I Intend to go on working Royal Bank of Canada at Montreal. for it till the last day, or beyond."
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