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STORMS AROUND CLEM ATTLEE

By ERNEST THURTLE, M. P. MANTLEE

R ATTLEE has been having rough treatment

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Attacked outright or damned with faint praise, he may well recall Macaulay'a definition of political authority as a closely watched slavery mocked with the name of power."

Storms threatening his leadership aro new experience for him. Hitherto he has aur- vived them all, as he will doubtless survive the present one, by placidly pursuing his course: Our captain's great nation, when sailing the ocean, Is merely to tinkle his bell.

This time, I think, something more vigorous and dynamic is required, for it appears that no small number of the crew are in mutinous mood.

LABOUR, however, must really make up its

mind as to the sort of lender or Minister it wants.

Prime

Does it, as a democratic party, want a leader who is first among equals? Or is it hankering after the Fuehrer concept, which makes of a lendor a virtual dictator?

Years ago, after the Ramsay MacDonald affair, the world went forth that the party wanted no more leaders of the aloof, quasi- dictator type, but rather, those close to the rank and file, and responsive to majority opinion.

Is the fashion changing again I a Cabinet wonder. We can have head who "collects the velces" of his colleagues, and sets accordingly,

A REALISTIC POLICY

FOR AIRWAYS

IR services are built from the ground up. This is a simple basic truth of com- mercial aviation; but it is one which is being forgotten. ·

By CHARLES GARDNER

BBC Air Correspondent

I happen to know

Or we can have (perhaps), a vir tual dictator, who impuses his in- dividual will. What we cannot have is both brands of leadership at the same time.

for

He voted against the Suppiles and Services B, and, Incidentally, at- tacked the Attorney-General with great vigour..

Blackburn, who is only 32, though he looks older, is a barrister with an excellent war record.

that BOAC, HAYMOND BLACKBURN, cio-

Labour member which, because of a war inheritance,

quent had so long been encumbered by un-King's Norton, has been developing economic aircraft of military origin, a defiant mood towards his party, is now making a big drive to put Its Empire routes back on a sound footing with ecmomle if unspecta- calar aircraft. It was announced recently that specifications for an the size and o'rcraft of roughly

Greatly disturbed about the pre- performance of my "theoretical" one, had been put out, and that several sent position and prospects of Bri

expression to critical views. Those over-optimistic pro-

the whole artificially bolstered intermediate halt can be found be. British manufacturers were consider- tain, he does not hesitate to give Of his sincerity I have no doubt. phets who talk about 1,000 dustry.

tween Nairobi and Johannesburg. ing the design.

if BOAC have this aircraft in re-But I would not say the same of the mile-an-hour airliners in 1957

World civil aviation cannot con- Actually It is proposed to lengthen

le should, however, be forgiven are forgetting it. So are the tinue to run on an overdraft.

The the runways at a place called N'Dola llable everyday "bread and butter" soundness of his political judgment. people who predict 800-ton, whole bubble is already getting ripe in Northern Rhodesia (roughly half use by 1952-55 they will, in my landplanes girdling the earth in for a burst because too much "puff" way), and assuming this is done, the opinion, have done a service to world much for his courage, which is of

But the men has been put into it, and not enough next longest stage the next decade. who do not and cannot forget this first principle are the plan. ners of the great air routes- the "back-room boys" of civil aviation.

Working at their desks with slide rules, charts and dividers, scientists these unpublicised know from bitter experience that it is the airport, and the facilities installed there which govern air travel. To tell one of these men, after he has spent all day working out how

substance.

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is not

be

a rare kind.

To vole against the party on an Is Khartoum commercial flying. Scientifle pro-

rushed and the important issue is a serious offence. next gress cannot be

likely to Natrobl 1,456 miles. The

jet-giant age is

Blackburn. Aircraft To Fit longest is Malta-Cairo (1,189) which before 1955. Even then it will de-and some may want to discipline

is over sea and cannot be cut down. "The maximum number of people, The aircraft, therefore, must have pend upon states and countries all landing bases in time. Another al at the greatest speed, and with pro-

n sale range of 1,200 to 1,500 miles over the world providing adequate actual stiil air ternative, of course, is the flying-boat AL." What dots this really mean? which means an

but even boats must have proper to fit range (allowing for diversions, head- It means designing aircraft

of about 2,500 miles.

terminl existing routes and available airfields winds, etc.)

and making those aircraft econo- This means about 10,000 ibs, weight mic ones whose payload will more of petrol. than recoup the cost of running.

Application of known formulac This last item alone rules out, for will now show that an aircraft of the moment, the staggering speeds 05,000 lbs. all-up weight, which has 10,000 lbs. of petrol, will being bandied about by the unin to carry formed. As Sir Frederick Handley have a payload of roughly 10,000 lbs. Page sali: "Speed is expensive." approximately 38 day passengers Pad the Immediate chances of a plus mall, a 35-ton Hermes IV can operate 600-mile-an-hour airliner which will from a 2,000-yard runway Africa that, by 1955, the Bri- tish Commonwealth will be served by 100-ton 100-seaters, and you are likely to get a rude

answer.

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The truth of the inatter is that, unless there is a big and expensive programme of building or extending airports at places like Maita, Cairo, Khartoum, Nairobi, Singapore, Hong kong, Sourabaya and we like, then to operale It is almost impossible eflelently even the aircraft which are

available today.

Let us do a bit are grubbing back to first principles. One of our great war leaders said that when. ever he was in doubt he always re- ferred to an elementary textbook- not an advanced one. It won't hurt us lesser mortals to do the same.

What does 'an airkne exist for be it nationalised or privately run?

Efficiency & Comfort

the maximum It exists to carry

ond efficiently number of people comfortably from A to Bas cheaply and as quickly as is posable with safety and with prot.

carry enough load at reasonable fare to repay its operating expenses is pretty remote. Until such aircraft are paying propositions, serious com- mercial aviation can only cripple it self by using them. Only on the North Atlantic route is there even an opening for such a machine,

To prove

my point about the solid step-by-step planning on which route flying, ho alone can proper founded, let us become "back room boys" for British Overseas Airways Corporation and examine one of their most important services-Lon- don-Johannesburg. Let us see from our study what kind of aircraft is needed on this route.

are

there.

avallabic,

Operating Cost

We now have a pretty good idea of our aircraft-excepting for the im- portant point of its speed- which really means its engine power, and therefore its operating cost.

These things, however, are limited by the fact that there are only 30 passengers and 1,000 lbs. or so of mail to pay for the running cost. A balance now has to be struck be- tween the economic fare which these 36 people are willing to pay, and the speed which that aircraft can give them for the money. It works out at much more than 300 miles on hour I would be very surprised

20,000 feet.

CERTAINLY 'the Lord Chancellor,

who is said to fill his great office with distinction, is no rabld partisan.

Notable in this connection was his There is much work to be done before we can shoot across con- lukewarm defence of the Supplies tinents at 600 inph at 50,000 feet. and Services Bill, for which the There is, indeed, still much work Government fought so vigorously in

actually Lord Jowitt

told

his before we can dit at 300 mph at the Commons.

in his opinion. fellow peers that,

Was · unnecessary. measure I think BOAC get full marks for this

since others thought dif- reminding us all of this, by pegging but,

the

before issue was the ferently, its 1952 Empire airliner to realistic, but often overlooked limita- them.

blessed, the Bill Thus faintly tions of ground organisation and to

through their Lordships' but essential pounds, passad unromantic

House unopposed, shillings and pence.

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

TODAY, had I the mind, I shall thinks I see my Jaca, where the could insult all you gadgets house of Constancia Mur has waited

too long to welcome me back. Your quaver- with impunity. ing complaints would not reach Souvenir

us back a mountain," 1. me, for by the time you read "PING

hear you cry in chorus. By the The above, then, is the only basic this I shall be in the mountains,

Bonaparte set sail for Egypt in 1738. from commonsense. commercial and sound in a place so savage that the way, would you believe it? As way of planning line operation only mule-track within twelve the frivolous Josephine cried The actual planning detail varles-

The route --London-Marseilles "hops."

(611). Colro (053 miles); Malin (1,189), Khartoum (1,805). Nairobi (1,450), Johannesburg (1,800-the figures in brackets being the malleage between the stops.

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who

you

First Things First First things come Brst. We will

send me a little obelisk": as at the intermediate stopping places

should say: "Just a tiny little one for which there is a traffle demand sometimes various available engines miles is closed for eight months the quay: "If you go to Thebes, calculations: of the year. are made a basis for

desir- No radio, no post, no papers, 0 for a paperweight," and in the gay and then see what size airfields sometimes an economically

Remember that

as spirit in which the loiterer outside to cut down passenzerlanding-grounds, nothing on wheels, ablo spied people want to go to all these places, fatigue on a long stage-but always The wine is rough, black, and,

as a Percheron horse. The lhe inn at Uxbridge shouted to the the Arst

ere airfields, strong

ald mah on the canal barge: "Bring essentials

and longest | songs are profoundly melancholy, us back a parrot." and that aviation exists to take them

passenger potential

but without any of your dirty pagan despair in them. In my right hand Advice to the reader

understudy In other words. aircraft must be is my great staff Durandal, and on TREAT my

finitive, report him to the Society of designed for the route, and not the my head the Cattle-Hat of Clonmel. treat me. If he splits an in- other way round. Luckily, two of:

Women Writers. If he ends a sen- British Overseas Airways Corpora- Mirage

Pyrences this' lence with a preposition, write to the For the moment let us assume the

time; but the memory of them will Editor a dignified letter saying you safely, efficiency and comfort, and

A quick survey of the runway problems of airfield and range the will not be my

A joke which you do look at the business of carrying the lengths and strengths at these places South African run, and that to Ausbaunt rac as I go on my way under propose to give up the paper. "If he

will show us that modern aircraft tralla and the Far East,

to see the understand, tell him it isn't funny, maximum number of people at the

way, I shall expect greatest speed-with proft,

of above 85,000 lbs, all-up weight stop North Atlantic schedule how less tangical skies. At every turn of makes

of Aragon,

and try not to look so stupid.. cannot fand at most of them. Even over, calls for at entirely different the west and many torrent Meanwhile, work my nume in wool,

Tail-piece All over the world airlines today, this size of inachine (20/35 seater) type of machine. There are no air-will borrow, the voice are in the red-and I suggest that can only operate if certain enlarge deld headaches-but, to offset this, that noble river, as he plunges down wherd this is so because they have ignored ment work, or even some new air- still air range of about 5,000 miles by the ancient ruins of Santa Crin-

Ich speedstina, and by Los Aranones, for their own "silde rule kings" and fields at Malta, Cairo, Khartoum and must be allowed

and big sizes may be obtainable you bleep on the floor among the departed from these basle laws of Nairobi are pressed on with,

economically en this route, if the muleteers, and down again to Can- They have operation. economic

the nirframe franc, where Marraco pours for you So now we know that we are structure weight of over-concentrated in speed (or size,

alreraft-and can be kept down enough to allow the wine that restores you to your or comfort, or cheapness) and the 'mited to a 35-ton

be able to fly, of a high payload If not, refuelling first youth. And at the end of every Tezult has been that they are run- also, that it must

valley, far, away in the distance, I

·wing, at serlous loss, breatening 1,880 miles non-stop-unless in thin the air may come into its own.

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