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Your leap

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THE chart shown here, matim, experi Dr F. M. F.

based on the combined Ballop. evidence of acientinta, enln which have arious effects It is contaminated with chemi-

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average human life-span has increased since the time

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HUGH DUNDAS, D.S.O. D.§.Q

EVENTEEN days ago the curcan tell on a three-act drama-the drama of The "Whistling Boomerangs"-and at the end of the third act, as in the other two. a young man died.

Here is the story.

On the evening of September 27, 1946. a. weird-looking little silver plane, tailless and with awept-back wings, streaked down the Thames Estuary,

In the cockpit was Geoffrey de Havil. hand, test pilot son of the plane's manufac- turer.

He was making a final trial in prepara- tion for an attempt to put the world's abso- hto speed record up into a figure which exceeded the speed of sound.

He was dying into the un- stratosphere, then put in inlo a known that evening, deliberate

ly selling out to discover what would happen when he pushed his plane, in level fight, up to supersonic speed.

'SHOCK WAVE'

AND IN THE

met disaster,

unknown he

Geoffrey de Havilland

There

is

year

the

nothing of dive and held it as the airspeed daredevil about the average teat indientor circled towards

The Filot.

More often than not be danger mark.

is quiet, ostentatious man.

He reached the peed of sound, A MODEST MAN

passed it, and survived to sli scientists exactly what had hap- pered.

I

But he has tested more proto- types than any other man in Britain.

There are many others, per- haps 100 in all, family men whore dally jab takes them into the shallow of death, and who return in the evening to wife and children in suburban home or country cottage.

PUPPY DEAFNESS

ALL PUPPIES are born blind, but dirl you know they Fad not re ako born deaf? Neither did the experts at the Kennel Club or any of the veter inary surgeons I have consulted,

senvelty, volg populations candle denly incrense to plague propor tions

FACING COLD

THE ARGUMENT whether southerners who move north over become acclimatised or not has been to the cold finally settled by experiments Cambridge

The canals leading from the carried outside pus to the cardrums are University. tightly clanrd until the puppy 1 about 18 says old. selentles report. So the newly born pup must be at least as hard of hear ing as you are when you put you fingers in your ears.

RHEUMATISM DRUG

A POSSIBLE answer to the tragte shortage of Compound -the drug which can clear un the symptoms of the worst forms of rheumalham-hns been di- covered by a Swedish doctor.

wit

Tesia on Ex young sailors. who volunteered to live in a room kept near treezing-point, showed that some arel matisa- on occura within three days. The blood thickens, and Ita ̋rate of flow through the skin speeds up considerably.

of the

EYE MEASURE

THE EXACT size living human eye has just been measured by a new X-ray device, reports Lenden Mye

Professor HAMILTON

The body will produes its own expert Compount E if rufficiently 'mu. HARTRIDGE. In his fascinating NO FAT SALARIESted by a pea-sized gland called "Colours And How We

the pituitary, which is located Them" (nell 155.). You might think they not far underneath the brain.

salaries for their

You would be wrong.

work

The mont experienced test pilot in Britain in paid £1,200 a year and a Service pension

The highest

alary paid by £3,000 a ny Bem is

year Others vary between £800 und

€2,000.

It goes without say that

Ser

The device throws out a pin- point beam of X-rays, which the eye's Gratung small pieces of enlt fights up the retina,

sensitive screen, just as the tuitary into the legs of rheu

the same electric beam. Inside a televi- alle patients hos

the viewing salt claims Dr GUNNAR ED- sion set lights up STROM, of the Lund Arthritis

Measurements of many Cri- Clinic,

eyeball of tous show that the back at ever the most Innocently wide-

eyed wernan

lightly Ing then Onc inch acron. The width of bendiest eye has three-quartern of an inch.

Six Car of nine patients be treated th's way ure

the Ministry of Supply pues work after three months of com I than anyone else, Most Blete freedom from severe

who fly t Ministry.

for

type racket

2

RF-

screen.

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RAIN HATERS

Jake-

of their lot pilots are servingthritic symptoms. H. A. F. officers, seconded

Third ManTM Meanwhile special duties.

in ACTI. another They are no better rewarded drug as effective as Compound than men of the sun and almost as searce, le flourish A THREE-MONTH

::l:lr Watch on a beaver tick in the Airing in America.

family has produced a surpris-

about these A crude and highly dangerous ing fact A senior company test pitof

talled waterproof in America gets about £8,000 ACTH extract is being said un a year-and he is not acited to der the chernist's counter to doc- they hate rain.

tors, reports Guy's Hospital theu- do the dirly work.

knowledge and +x-

arc

reckoned too

11i

GIVE

i example, you. Novele Duke. Probably The Swallows were handled no one of his ngo he is not

perience over to the Ministry of Supply's get 29-has wider ving ex valable to be tort, so worl Tre violent "shark wave." testing establishnerst ot Farm perit nce. During the war 4 which involven the unknown which builds up round a plans borough There he drama was ravelling at certain speeds played out.

dashed him

engulfed him nud Into the dark muddats below.

Before his death Geoffrey de Movillanci made many

coveries

experi-

PARACHUTE JUMP

ree Orhter pilot of the Desert 20 he destroyed Air Force, encny machines.

for I know him well then, handi d arquadron in my

such a spinning and diviny"

new prototype, trials on carried out by specialist free lance test plłowy,

ON

011

imagine

more

of these, Vance Breese

corned more that

in the little

wing, and it would be in- BEST AND SAFEST mental place, ́nicknamed

AN FEBRUARY 15, 1950, 0 wible to "Whis Ling Boomerang" and Squadron-Leader J. S. R. modest man. known officially its the

D.H. Muller-Rowland, 20-year-old Now he is an assistant test Swallow.

test pilot, was killed.

pilot at Hawker's; when he is £10.000 in three weeks work carrying อน! specia And

even up to the very And on May 1 Squadron not setting

up point-to-point while

trials on

the Lockheed Light- moment of death his courage Lender G. E. C. Genders jumped

delivery Alch bore fruit for special instri from the last of the three planes ord the

RCTOSH

world in Fury in aghter.

He used to eam on average ments recorded Exactly what as it broke up in High; but he fighter he does development

of £50,000 a year, survived all the plane had been doing when hit the ground before his para work in a new jet plane.

the dongers, and rellred # catastrophe overwhelmed it

Two more Swallows existed, chute had fully opened.

Such a death is the cominon What does he do when the rich man. and trials continued.

He drives of test pilots. Theirs is the day's work is done?

like any other bread SPEED OF SOUND most dangerous of all profes- Dif,

sions.

winner, in a little family car, Seventer of them have been back to his wife and home. JOHN CUNNINGHAM,

Scilled in Dritain since the end of the war.

THEIR DAILY JOB

wh

had won three D.S.O.r anf two D.F.C. as a worlime night Dghter, took

Geoffrey Havilland's job.

on

de

What sort of people are they,

Paddle- creatures--

-(London Express Service)

THE ROMANS HURLED

THESE STONES

the the mantelpiece in saloon bar of one of the old-

Stephen, and is the second inn on the alle

tat inns in Britain, the Rose and

When the doors of the public Crown in Fletching, near finy- ward's Heath, Sussex, are two and saloon bars were lowered to. tune balls mounted on wooden charge the building, colns and other articles and a large plece >edestals.

of the original building were They are ballista stones, hur- found. ed by Ruman mobile catapulta No such

n AD 43, when the leg'ong of rewards wait for our British text pilota, What, Claudius launched their

borne attack on Southern Eng- then, is the spur?

and.

21-

Among the coins is one bear- ing the head of the Emperor Diocletian (AD 213 to 913) who persecuted the Christiang.

Other coins include King Alfred.

onc

of

Merely the knowledge that, thanks to their work, British are the best and #croplanin soft in all the world.

When

batch the next Kive

Aghters come into, the R.A.F. has Summer, Service pilots

will fly them coins, including many which, he the countryside in carte and cold wave, prove that the first inn was for a few genco (bellove it or

The stones were dug up just outside the Jun.

The licensee, Mr J. G. Moon,

At one time the inn brewed its remarkable collection of own beer. This was taken around

choco hay deliberately ANOTHER, Cumple su

Ilis principal assistant was a choose to hazardous a way of murried man in hla middle life? twenties, named John Derry,

climbed

you: chief test pilt of Vicker

as i natter of course,

The present building dates not) per gallon. from 1150, during the reign

can answer the first part of In appearance he is a middle every day at supersonle spre built in AD 204. On September 8, 1048, Derry the ques fon; the second often aged business man: in fact,

Swallow into the has me wondering.

Soup Loop.

NANCY

RESTAURANT

WHAT'S SO INTERESTIN'?

MR. FUZZY'S MOUSTACHE

he is a 45-vear-old groodfather.

I WANT TO SEE WHAT HE DOES WHEN HE EATS SOUP

Landon Express Service)

By Ernie Bushmiller

LOOK..

HE TIED A KNOT

IN IT

of

bif

INSELY SPRAY

WITH DOT

-London Express Service)

When there's bif

Ineedn't use my fist!

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