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Learning How to Fly a Plane
|Without Leaving the Ground
Fifth of a Heries X>f Articles on the
Royal Canadian Air Force, Writ
ten Specially for
Papers of Ontario
the Weekly
Dy Hugh Templin
the
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charge of
Snell and
a fishing
Mr. Mel-
Mr. Ulric
trip to
15 YEARS AGO
Wm, Pearce, Hensail, hag pur
chased the residence of Mrs, A.
Cottle, on Ann St., and he will move
here next week.
Miss Dorothyf D.inney, of Loudon,
is spending the week here, the guest
of Miss Madeline Hearing,
Mr, W. R. Goulding has purch
ased the residence on Main Street
south of Mr. F, A. May’s and re
cently erected by Mr. J. W. Hern.
Mr; and Mrs. J. G. StaHbury are
on4 a motor trip this week, the law
office being in
ville Gladman.
Mr. 'William
Snell enjoyed
Owen Sound the latter part of the
week.
Messrs. Edward ^Aldworth and
Eugene Howey were in Thedford ’
Sunday, taking in the morning
evening services.
Mr, and Mrs; W. C. Robinson
two daughters spent the week-end
visiting Mrs.
Lily May
iting )t.n
them.'
Messrs,
SeidOn were winners of 1 the 4th
prize in the Scotch doubles bowl
ing tournament of the London Row
ing Club, They won all their games
but their „plus scotfe was lower.
In a dancing -contest for all held
at Grand Bend Casino, the winners
foi* the fox trot were Miss Dorothy
Welsh
sail.
last
and
and
S. /Passmore, Miss
Snell who has been vis-
Detroit, returned With
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R. N. Creech and R. G.
and, Mr. Laird Mickle,^Hen-
25 YEARS AGO
Trustee Board of James St.
Clark,
The
Church has engaged. Prof,
of Kincardine, as organist, and choir
leader.
The Ross Taylor company 'had a
25 horsepower motor installed in
their planing mill.
Miss Jean Seldon and Cecil Pick
ard are to be congratulated on their,
passing their , examinations for en
trance to Normal School,
Mr. Well Johns, representing thg
Exeter encampment of Oddfellows,
and Mr. Wilbur Martin, represent
ing tlie Subordinate Lodge, are in
Chatham this week attending, the ' Grand Meetings of*the two organiza
tions, ...
Miss, Fanny' Bowey, of London,
spent the holiday here.
Mrs. ^Ferguson, of Winnipeg, and
Miss Smith, of .London, who have
been visiting with Mrs. Chas. Bir
ney, left on Monday to visit with re
latives in Belgrave.
St *
» JAMES—JOHNSON•
On Monday afternoon, at Trinity*
- Anglican Church, Mitchell, the mar
riage was quietly solemnized of
Lulu Gertrude, daughter df , the late
Mr. and Mrg. Cornelius Johnson, of
Port Burwell, to Canon R. W. James,
of Kirktott; Rev. C. L. Langford,
M.A., rural dean of Per|h, officiat
ed. The bride, who was unattend
ed, wore a navy blue triple sheer
ensemble with white accessories.
After the ceremony, Canon and
Mrs. James left for a’Short trip-to
Goderich. They will reside, at the
rectory, Kirkton?—Mitchell Advo
cate.
TWO PHEASANT SHOOTS
ON PELEE THie SEASON
OfD. J. Taylor, Deputy Minister’
Game and Fisheries, has announced
that there Will be two two-day
pheasant shoots on Pelee island this
year. The dates are Qctohei* 30' and *31 and November 7 and 8» \
Pimples Kill
Many a Romance
The Hvas of many ycwuig peopki
ase mde miserable by the breaking
o®t'of jdsstplos On. the face.
,Th6 trouble is not ®o much phyed-
etd pain, but it is the mental Buffer*
ing caused* by the embarrassing dis
figurement of the face which very
often makefl the sufferer ashamed to
* go ottt id company.
The quickest way to get rid of
pimples is to improve the general
health by a thorough cleansing of
th® blood of its Impurities.
Burdock * "Blood Bittern cleanses
and purifies the blood-‘- Get rid of
your pimples by taking B.B.B.
Th® T* MUbnta Oo-» Ltd., Toronto, OnL
■ During the last war, it was
pleasant custom to give a pilot some
fifty hours or so in the air? and then
sent*, him to the front,, reafiy to
fight. This Is a different kind of
war (as has been pointed out by
thousands of other writers already)
and planes are vastly different, The
period of training now takes at
least six months and nothing is left
to chance.
There is no actual flying at the.
‘Initial Training School, at Toronto*
The buildings are situated in the
city;, with no room for a flying fibid
'or hangars, but the future pilots get
their* first lessons in the Link train
er, a plane with miniature wings,
firmly anchored to the ground.
I saw the Link trainers wherever
I went
schools.
bd fliers gb back to them occasional
ly to check up any faults which may
have developed or to ■ learn more
about flying at night or by instru
ments.
Leaiming' to Fly on/ the Ground
The Link Trainer, in its simpler
forms, looks like a . small training
plane, but with ..the body and Wings
shortened, so tliat it takes UP less,
space than a full-sized plane, ’ The
cockpit and controls are of normal
size, The “stick” which regulates
the elevators and movable portions
of-the wings, and the pedals to oper
ate the tail, are like this in.a Cub
or other, small plane. The instru-
rqent board has the five or six in
struments needed for ordinary, fly
ing—a compass, altitude meter, en
gine speed indicator and so on. Out
in front is, a, half-circle of celluloid
or some similar material which
looks like a whirling propellor.
There are several -models' of Link
trainers. It is said that the machine
was invented by the son of a pipe
organ manufacturer, which accounts
for the fact that the trainer actual
ly rides on air inside a leather bag
or bellows.' The trainers are made
in .Gananoque, Ontario.
There are many stories about the
development of this trainer, and it is
hard to set forth the truth,
version . is that the inventor was
a Canadian who tried to' sell his
model to the United States Army,
but the officials thought it was just
a toy and rejected it. The thing ap
peared next in amusement parks,
and that is where I first saw one.
Compared to present-day Link
trainers, it really wasn’t much moi’e
than a toy, though, the principle re
mained thA same. In wartime, the'
^trainer is worth its weight in gold.
It is hard to see how pilots of 300-
mile-an-hotir planes could be taught
in six months without such help,
.1 have spoken in previous articles
about the unfailing courtesy of the
officers I met at the various camps
and.schools. 'They gave me their
valuable time so that readers of the
weekly papers of Ontarip could read
about the Air • Training Plan, but
they went much farthei* than mere
ly answering questions. They let
me do many of the things the stu
dents do. '
Flying is no novelty to" me, but 1
never had a “ride” in a Link train
er, One day; at Camp Borden, the
Governor-General was making a
tom* of inspection and he Was given
a try-out in one of these machines.
He seemed to enjoy being whirled
around and bumped about and as he
climbed from the cockpit, I heard
him remark: “We do Some funny
things sometimes.” At that 'mo
ment, I envied ,a governor-general
for the first and only time.
‘ An Ambition, Gratified
. The urge to pilot one of
machines came back again
stood and watched
in operation (at the
School at Eglinton,
advanced trainers?
more
hood
ot So
dents
years
ful faces I ’had Seen at all the other
schools. Enquiry showed that they
were “bush pilots” and other exper
ienced fliers qualifying to become in
structors on these same machines.
I asked my guide
my hand, in one of
strictly against the
and besides, these
only for advanced
wouldn’t enjoy the experience much.
But he suggested that I take my re
quest to Flying Officer Bishop.
I did? and mot much the same
answer? but I thought the Flying
Officer winked? when' he said:
“Come with me.”
We passed down the aisle between
structures that looked like huge
vats, and opened the door into pne
of them., There, In the centre o£ a
circular room, stood a bright blue
Dink' trainer with gray wings, as
to ( the various ■ training
Even the most experienc-
handsome a machine of its kind as
I ever saw, The setting was unique,,
too. Murals had been painted around
the walls—mountains, lakes, towns,
and on one side, a gray bank of
clouds,
This is where the beginners learn
how to fly. z 5
I climbed up a few steps and into the cockpit. I put a pair of head
phones on my ears and listened to
the instructions that the Flyiifg
Officer was giving me, as he tur.ned
on the power. He told me how to
get' the plane off the ground, bow
to hold the stick and how my feet
should be placed on the pedals." He
told me how to tui*n to the right and
the little plane began to swing
around in that direction, while the
lakes and rivers crept past.
“Press down hardqr on that right
foot,” he said, and I pressed too
hard add went out of control*
Down with your left foot and
the stick to the left,!” and again I
over did it, but that was probably
the intention.
‘‘We’ll try a little dual instruction
now, to give you a better idea how
to use the controls.” , *
To my surprise the stick sudden
ly stiffened in my hands and went
where it ought to go
turns and banks,
It wasn’t long before
around without much
At a .double wedding ceremony
performed by Bev, J, e* J. Millyard,
at his home on Windsor avenue,
London, the marriages were solem
nised of Jeanette Louise, daughter
of Mr. Jack steeper and the late
Mrs, steeper, of Windsor, to Orland
Thompson Webb, sou of Mrs* Webb
and the late John Webb, London,
and of Evelyn Gertrude Tweddle,
youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs.,
William Tweddle, of Alisa Craig, to
Stanley Mac steeper, son of Alex
Steeper and the late Mrs. Steeper,
of Parkhill. There were no. at
tendants, Following the wedding
the couples left for Toronto, Niag
ara Falls, and elsewhere.. Mri and
Mrs, Webb will make their home in
London and Mr. and Mrs. Steeper
will Jiye in Parkhill.—Parkhill Ga
zette.0
on
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dis*
pa*,
and'
<lis-
One
those
as I
thema row of
Initial Training
These were the
With twenty or
instruments on the dash and a
that fitted down over the pil-
that he was .“blind,” The Stu-
seemed to be forty or fifty
old, a contrast to the youth*
if I might, try
them. It was
titles!, he said,
trainers .were
pilots and I
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I was flying
* difficulty—
and feeling pretty big about it,
And all the time I marvelled at
mitoh like actual flying it really
Rough Weather Ahead,
“Now we are flying on a bumpy
day,” the .instructor told me, as he
i*eached down and pulled another
lever somewhere out Of sight. The
.change was, immediate,
became hard to control.’
too.
how
felt,
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traffic OFFICER is
transferred
The transfer of Provincial Traf
fic Officer Joe Coffey, formerly
stationed at Lucan, to the regular
force at Haileybury, to take‘effect
Immediately, was announced
Friday by District Inspector
A. Jordon,
Constable Coffey came to the
trlct several months ago, after
trolling on No. 3 Highway
was well-known in the Lucan
trict. A month ago he suffered in
juries in a crash as he escorted a
convoy of army vehicles north of
Loftdon on No. 4 Highway,
Inspector* Jordon said that there
will be. no Immediate replacement
of Constable Coffey in the traffic
'division, but that his former patrol
will be covered by
the district. It is
of the patrol work
Traffic
sisted
Lemon.
Officer A.
by Traffic
other officers ip
understood most
will be done by
E. MaHin? as*
Officer Harry
LARKIN—DEWEY
A quiet Wedding was solemnized
at St. Christopher’s Chu.rch, in For-1
est by Rev. Father Kelly, when Miss
Monica Mane Dewey, twin daugh
ter of Mr, and Mrs. 'Wilbert Dewey,
of Grand Bend, became the bride of
L.Cpl. Martin Joseph Larkin, of No.
11 Provost Company, stationed at
Kitchener, son*of Mrs, John Lar
kin* of Farkhill. The bride was at
tended by Miss Mary Larkin, sis
ter of the groom, and the groom was
attended by Mr. Donald Dewey,
brother of the bride. After the
wedding, a dainty lunch Was Serv
ed at the home of the bride’s par
ents.
ANTDAmcmW -OWN
TO DE DISPLAYED AT EX,
OTTAWA—The first made-in-
Canada anti-aircraft gun, produced
more than two months ahead of
schedule, will he one of the features
of the Department of Munitions and
Supply exhibit in the Electrical and
Engineering Building of the- Can
adian National Exhibition, which
opens August 22,
The gun, the famous 40 MM Be
fore, is the first of many which
will xiome off the assembly line in
an Ontario factory in. the next,
few weeks. This plant, which man-
ufactures elevators in peace time,
already han turned out several
thousand 40MM anti-aircraft gun
barrels and has been tooling
some months for production
complete gun.
The Bofors gun is "capable
ing 120 shells per minute,
rarely operated at such a rate be
cause an airplane travels so fast
that it is in range for only a few
seconds* Because of the high fire
power, anti-aircraft gun barrels are
worn out aftei* a feW hundred
rounds. The worn barrels may be.
removed and new ones/fitted in
place in a matter of seconds, if
the occasion demands, The Bofors
is most effective against aircraft
flying at altitudes df less than 10,-
000* feet, and the storm of steel
hurled into the sky by hundreds of
these guns in Britain has virtually
eliminated low-altitude bombing by
the enemy,
The Bofors gun is mounted on a
special mobile carriage,
but is
Marie: “How did you learn about
this new lipstick?”
Cora: “Oh, it’s been getting quite
a lot of mouth-to-mouth advertis- 4-n ft *
Confederation.
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F. J. DELBRIQGE,
Representative?
EXETER
Kuwasm
“I want a reliable truck driver
who will not take any risks. I’ll
pay well to the right man.” “I am
the man you want, sir, Please give
me my first month’s salary in ad
vance.”
The plane
Memories
of actual rides on bumpy days came
hack vividly.
How long my lesson lasted I could
only guess. I was too interested to
watch the time. It might have been
20 or 30 minutes. Whatever it was,
I was sorhy that I wouldn’t be hav
ing- another one every day,
Certain spots on the scenery
around the wall are marked with
letters. The student may be asked,
to keep the trainer on that mark
and fly toward it in the bumpy air.
Scales which hang down, from all
four corners of the machine show
quite definitely how successful the
the lesson has been. If the student
lacks coordination or has other .de
finite faults, his instructors know
it before- he ever gdes up in a real
plane. :
The advanced Link trainers have
much more complicated systems of
indicating how well the student is
doing. The instructor sits at a table,
with instrument^ -and a chart in
front of ‘him. The instruments
show how fast , the plane is suppos
ed to be going, the altitude and
whether it is climbing or descend
ing. A " three-wheeled indicator
moves over a, chart of ruled paper—
/the crab”, I think they Gp.ll it, but
it reminded me of a ouija board. Un
der the pressure «of the tips of the
fingers, a heart-shaped board sup
ported on three legs, moved over a
table and spelled out words. In the
trainer, one leg has a small, rubber-
tired wheel, which draws red lines
on the paper to show how .-well the
pilot is doing and where he is fly
ing* - ,
The. course at the Initial* Training:
School takes eight weeks, with lec
tures,5 drills, mediOal tests and the
Link trainer giving the students I
plenty to do. From here, they go
to Elementary Flying Training
Schools and * their first actual fly
ing.
■Next Week-Mount Hope.
WAR SCARCITY OF DOCTORS 1
Flora has no dentist now, though
it has about 1,200 population, and
a- good many more counting Salem.
Fergus has .two instead of three, SO
that in the two towns combined,
there are now only two-dentists. Ar
thur has only one doctor left in a
village of Some 1,100 persons, since
tile sudden death of Dr. John Rus
sell, Flora has two, but we un
derstand that one is leaving. In
Tottenham, .there is no doctor for
a village of 600 persons. The near
est doctor is 10 miles away—Fergus
NewS-'ReCord.
$400^000,0001 CONVOY
MAKES TRIP OVERSEAS
WITHOUT ONE SCRATCH
. ■ $
One of the biggest'"1-convoys to
cross the Atlantic has arrived in
Britain without ' torpedo or bomb
scraWh bn a single ship, it was dis
closed Friday.
,This -convoy arrived at about the
same- time "as -troopships harrying
the Canadian 3rd Division to Britain,
and brought planes, guns, muni
tions and food estimated by The
Daily Mail to be worth around $400,-
000,000, An officer of one of the
escort vessels said the only incident
was the dropping of one lot of depth
charges, “just in case”.
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Xt is also vitally important that you reduce
the use of domestic and commercial fuel oil.
" REMEMBER i The slower you drive,
the More you save!
THE PLEDGE
Let Your* Car. Wear Proudly This Patriotic Sticher !
your friendly neighbourhood service
or your local garageman today. A
He has changed. He
station
surprise awaits you.
will be as courteous and thoughtful as ever
—glad to see you—anxious to do anything
,cmd everything he can to help you. But he
is no longer a gasoline salesman. He is a
gasoline SAVER. He will urge you to buy
less instead of more. He will point out ways
and means of saving gasoline.
. He will tell you all about the ”50/50“ Pledge
to cut your gas consumption by fifty per cent
He will invite you to sign. This proud and
patriotic sticker for your car will mark you
as a member of the wise and thoughtful band .
of car owners co-operating with the Govern
ment to save gasoline.
This, is entirely a voluntary movement. It is
not .rationing. This the Government hopes to
avert. But we are faced with a critical sKort-
age of gasoline due to the, diversion of tankers
for overseas service and to the growing needs
of our Fighting Forces,
There is no call for panic—no need for alarm
—btit this war is being fought with gasoline
and we are fighting for oUr very lives. Sign
the Pledge today and continue to Stive fifty
per cent of your gasoline consumption.
IZeasy ways towards a
(Approved by Automobile Experts)
f 4Reduce driving Speed from 60 to 40 on the open road.
Avoid jack-rccbbit'^tarts.
Avoid useless or non-essential driving.
Turn motor off when not in use; do not leave idling.
Don't race youp engine; let it ’warm up slowly.
Don't strain your engine; change gears.
Keep carburetor cleaned ahd properly adjusted*
Tune up motor, timing, etc.
Keep spark plugs and valves clean.
Check cooling system; overheating wastes gasoline.
Maintain tires at righUpressure*
Lubricate efficiently; worn engines waste gasoline.
’ Drive: in groups to and from work,
using cars alternate days,
For golf, picnics and other outings,
use one car instead of four. . *
Take those short shopping trips ON FOOT
and carry parcels home,
< Walk to and from the movies.
Boat owners, too. Can help by reducing speed.
Your regular service station manwill gladly explain
these and other tvays of sailing gasoline. Consult him.
GO SO/SO WITH OUR FIGHTING FORCES
The Government of the
DOMINION OF CANADA
Acting througji
THE HONOURABLE 43. D. HOWE,
Minister of Munitions and Supply
G. & COTTRELLS,
Oil Controller for Canada
E C T O'K V' i
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