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BERNARD WICKSTEED

I'M FOR WAFTING

GREAT HUCKLOW,

Derbyshire,

-ULLO, you earthbound mortals! How would you like to fly like a bird? I don't mean dashing about at 300 miles I an hour in a noisy aeroplane. men dream flying-soaring above the earth in silent, effortless That's what Birdman case. Wicksteed has been doing.

Ever since man first envied the eagle he has longed for this power to escape from the earth.

It probably accounts

for the belief

angels have wings.

that

-Morir Tone Dietos

AND

THIS IS

The early ploneers ME DOING IT tried to join the angels

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1950."

I am being. encircles".

"I wrat Peace

Cummings

4:30M

all Your previous Gerstner felis you means certain

by putting on home-made thirt wings and jumping off death. towers and cliffs.

་

Ir Bes hadn't been obsessed with wings that tapped Fren saring We might have the birds for the past 4,080

Then there's a bang on the few rope is cast off, ad you are floating in the medium of the silent as they birds, free and ser.

The wind Blowing up the Alde years. Except for the Instru- of the hill carried us gently to ment panel there is nothing in a 666 feet, where we found an in-l boolean saltplane that couldn't visible

bubble of VVATIO

have been ride by the Auctent kinwen #erinal. Greek or the Egyptians.

Aeroplanes,

bull

parachute

were Mester

and

CIRCLING...

alr

answer. They are too noisy or AS you know, warm air rises too uncontrollable to give the atel, riveling complete illusion.

habite, we ruse, -

In the too, fill the Woated over a It's the glitter that has nadie plot

the the primeval dream reality, wed queen valley, where and Today yate can fly like a plot atand another current that lord in reasonable safey for 2d. took us over the hills and home a minute.

There's in American who han ard to a height of 16,100 11. ently seven mile, fle wed the same upward air current af the Rockies that the eagles have knows about all the tre.

SWOOPING.

Now there

ime. For nine glorio: minutes I soared, swooped, and floated over the

of Derbystien with no ather round but the swish of the

wind.

agrin.

A patenger, piles!, or naviga

I've pest motorly.

her in the ale, but those ning

we amething to remember Plates of frur no.th tie might

from late.

Just pasting Stalin's head over my prevar cartoons. Saves time!"

RESULTS

ENDURANCE

EW things are

tedious than waiting By TREVOR

WILLIAMS

ccupations---was pets when 13203,

:15

London Expives Servic

Look what we get- AN ARMY

OF BOYS

HAVE watched more than 15,000 boys come into the Army..... the 18-year-olds who have been fetched from their homes for a year-and-a-half's National Service.

The more I have seen of them, the more I realise that conscription is a mistake.

Suliahly ormed they con youngsters. I don't blame the form capably the semi-police duties of an occupation force in Western Ger-

FARANS

per-

But youths of 18 and 19 cannot possibly form the basis of an army fit to resist onslaught in the rat stages of madern war.

and tough men,

Such a force must consist of Regular troops, seasoned mentally and physically. They must possess the highest morale and be provided with Brst-class leadership only to be found among the professional soldiers.

tiny

of nucleus

sensorund

Today the Regulars is almost entirely absorbed in Britain with the business of watching the National welfare and the complicated Servicemen's administration.

An endless band of 18 months' routine has to be kept going at all costs while the Reguler Army is dying on its feet.

This is the time of year when the Army used to be out lighting on manoeuvres, swoop. moors, Salisbury the Yorkshire ing To Plain, the Sussex Downs.

HUMAN

TESTS

traditional the

Brigadier GERINCE

until recently Commandant

of one of Britain's targent training contras

July. August, and September They are seried

Ariny months their theories and artificers,

wire

Infest when the developments in ballie technique

out then for joba drivers, clerks.... butchers,

Fighting But they are still boys....and

or more they will stili

be boys when

were put to the test.

with five years hard training behind them stept they have ticked off the next their calendars

the open for weeks on end 10 months on

under ner-battle conditions.

and are ready to hustle home.

Into

But that was before the war.

They cannot Krow Then Britain had a number of highly trained Regular divistona soldiers on an 18-month diet of #rui fu utine gun dill, routine driving with high norate

of the same old vehicles round divcipline.

old asphalt tracks, initial rock the matte They stood the

of mental fatique but not to clusion that al temperatures of 1939 and provided the time constant week-ends out of camp

cven

The

effect i HI

exercises.

huts on

W. D.

Is ke trying to raise an orange juice

Slim's ideal

and

it. Most effective.

round old above 88 degrees Fahrenheit ne-neersary to build up a great and the odd 12-hour guard duty train the purely practical point curate work is an impersibility: my;

But not for five years has the property. for something to hap-

of a drug of view, is a dose

the most comclenfiuus

Army in Britain been through called amphetimite 3111 pen; so much so that when

before

teri:

army the worker begins to make many the higher training of full-resle the

the last

ruistakes. farm-the expected event at At Great Hucklow

what hap- oferver can maintain his initial

Today thousands of pampered Powdered milk. such

cannot be one and whole two physical Loure has been converted into a occurs it may be missed he

acetumcy over the borddrean's freding and drink-enuse of mental fatigue,

various oxenme by to

conveiens mental Jads with their eyes still fixed Owing книга. Tadar operators, are required to

an civilian homes and jobs are Α1 armant.

week-endis ing

The studien bob of a long watch for

periods for indesirable properties of the

effort.

expected to do as well. of them come and nest many

motionless Boat may escape weak signals which come only run, however, it is not suitable ther in caravens and tents.

Jaining "

nt group their the attention of the angler very occasionally and quite un- for regator use.

predictably.

Another way of combatting watching it. so Experiments were carefully drinking place, I learned that sitting the face of the earth is dotted.

dulled

may his vigilance devised to find the answer. For this kind of mental fatigue is in we called the late the observer's interest and crossed by the upward mir'

In this by letting him know the results Clock Test was set up. currents that make bird Bight become through the tedium exaph, what

of waiting.

the abserver being tested sits in of his work from time to time.

Another Important matter possible.

a room entirely alone in front of a large black pointer moving which has been aludled

For this experience in drbted to a road sign which said "To the Gilding" i came on it as I was pasting through Derby- shire nameti Desire.

the clue

I CLOUDS are the Following

113

to the presence presently found myself on top of

the earthbot car SKY-WATCHING

over #

sereen.

Although such slackening of alertness as time goes by

while

100 best clues is generally recognised, it is

moves in Jerks, Fointer

a complete re- af upward only comparatively recently jerks making 2 till in the antist of the annual currents. If there weren't one that its nature and causes volution.

Lilding to support thei in the nr the contests of the Britis

It was rather lkoloists wouldn't be there. So have been closely studied. Association. discovering

What else can you expect?

Their civvies

Marshal Sir

Although all there experi- The barracks are empty at HEN Field ments were devised primarily week-ends. The young soldiers William Stin became Chief

questions, are to answer wartime

not out on manoeuvres, of the Imperial General Staff, it he luat set his their peacetime importance to They are on the roads, thumb was sold that

mind on the creation of at least to each brigade une Regular instry is obvious. They clear- lifts home 1 show that no person can be

Army command in Britain. expected to keep concentrated watch for more than 30 minutes

These Regular soldiers would at the

without a break; nor can any- time is the effect on

borly be expected to do accurate 7HEN they tumble out of the have set the tone and standards The same

Arst day at of what the British Army ought mental work both

and work in surroundings where the lorries on their

they feel to be. They would have formed incult

climatic temperature exceeds degrees the training centre

18 the essential expeditionary force Physical-of

waste extreme Fahrenheit. conditions, such as

they are going to

in time of war. heat. Again an unexpectedly

are not un-months of their life. Such conditions

The Treasury would not or precise result was obtained.

industry, Concen- Known in

They go to the quartermaster's Two hours Experiments showed that at trated attention is, for example, stare fer their uniforms that first could not find the money-sa

And they send home their this iden was cull-born. a standard humidity the critical often necessary in of are burden are for ever looking Details of an experimental a colony

High civvies in a brown-paper parcel. But without more professional birds in the midst of the nesting at the, sks and assessing its study, carried out by Dr N.

CCASIONALLY, however, the temperature in this respect is ment making industries.

interview soldiers the British Army wit HI, Mackworth In the air were a dozen pluding paremalities.

the O

They go for their wazon.

pointer moves forward double from 83 to 88 degrees Fahrenheit temperatures may be counter-

without lendership. sailplanes, circling like semnulls

really gets Medical Research Council of the distance. When he notices (about 31 degrees centigrade). e sol merely in many factories during the first week to the man soon be

They Quick promotion among Nà- the lower of these situated in the tropies, but also power selection panels. at the edge of a cliff, and on the

have now been Dis double movemeni, the Up

neither mental in such places bs vidps boiler it a blzycle pump torether, do a tonal Servicemen shows up the ground scores of bird men and them they can't see a landscape Lunion,

painting without thinking of alr

made public, and reveal observer has to press a switch temperatures

physical work is inuch rooms and be retort houses of simple arithmetle rum, perhaps

higher, gasworks. Above the

ft u jigsaw affected. birds, currents, were friendly

Fields of standing curn are some interesting and unex- to indicate the fact so that his Hor initiate eager to

two however, cfliciency falls sharply. time I was Rond source of air tabbles, pected facts. In no terested.

the groundi | 4211 strapped into a two-water glider

some- * you can called a T21 and heaved into the

the times som

of corn air.

zova towards the ernire und the sway out again.

women. They

Anyone in-

1 have to confess that the fest few moments of the towed take-

off were terrifying to a 125334

Instead of being rareri

If the

When the fever

the sign of a bubble going up.

for

War-prompted

score can be recorded.

Each Clock Test lasted hours. Although individuals - naturally varied considerably,...

the general trend of the results was both unmistakable and un- observers expected.

The

The boundary

S surprising as the sharpness

THIESE experiments were pro That is mid by practical probirans which arose during World War

One type of question which ciency always began, to fall

el after the first half-hour-a eleienty and inefficiency is the

Well, I must now say tweet

MARTA.

of the boundary between

used in the sound of tweet. Im going to look for athen hart to be stowered-urprisingly short time. For fact that

connection with some peacetime, in a typical example work,

ground, as in power flight, war shoot straight at angle

His call breaks

-London Express Service)

BRUSSELS. eruption

has to be

answered

also In

rule a family

descended

GLIMPSED Belgium's Belgium: he spent his boyhood will benefit

instance,

temperature

known

it Bes at the same for every kind of whether it is mental with 25 cadets of the Royal Air Force, the percentage of missed work like decoding a message,

or heavy marwal labour. Sigeals during the first half-

Typical of the tests carried hour was only IG percent; fur

was that each of the remaining three put in this research

the Wireless half-hour perlod: however, about 27 percent of the signals Telegraphy Reception Test. In this, experienced radio operators were missed.

Beenuse of the particular im- hnd to do their normal work of writing down messages, but t portance of radar observers a abnormally high temperatures,

perial synthetic radar lest was

Their efficiency was measured vised to reproduce as nearly in terms of the number of faulty as possible the effects which

recorded. messages rees night be noted on an anti- submarine patrol. O11 nsereen

In a typical experiment 18 upon forgive the past. And Baudouin in front of the subject appeared percent of messages were faulty

degrees from from the strom irregularly a pipoint of light, #2,

politien) such as that which an actual Fahrenheit (about

in Lacken dire felt by all

future king on the day of rogal recluso

Tatter. 2015 adolescence on leaders to restore the monarchy submarine contact would caure, centigrade), and 33 percen! or

Leopold's return

with toreiz soil.

his two sons from his six years of exile.

A palace official had open- ed the door of a sitting room in Lacken Palace à few inches to see if the King was ready to receive a party of foreign journalists.

As he did so I cought sight of the royal trio lined up as though on parade, ench with .his chest thrown out, each glaring fixedly into the middle distance, in a comle imitation of olicial dignity. Then all three burst into laughter-which only died away when die Arst of their visitors led into the room.

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