HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1947-11-12, Page 6Speed and Height
Puts Pilot on Spot
With potential airplane speeds
steadily mounting toward the su-
per^sonic, one little problem in
connection with the successful em-
ployment of speeds already attained
has not yet been mastered by
science. That problem is bow to
get a pilot out of a plane if same -
thing goes wrong as it hurtles
through the upper air -40,000 feet
high or more—at a speed around
400 miles per hour.
No has yet managed to ac-
complished such a feat, says the
Sault Daily Star. What happens
to the pilot when in such a case
he gets rid of the transparent bub-
ble canopy over his pressurized
cockpit is described by Hanson
W. Baldwin in the New York
Times Magazine: "When your
cover goes off you are subjected
to what the doctors call 'explosive
decompression', .. The gas and
air in your lungs and belly and
muscles must escape and expand.
They go out of you in a great
whoosh; your lips flutter,.. and
your body feels as if it were 'get-
ting a great thrust from all direc-
tions'"
* * *
Human bodies, surprisingly
enough, can take such a wracking.
But the real problem is how tine
pilot is to get out of the cockpit.
He can't climb out. At 600 miles
per hour the wind simply plasters
him to his seat.
For some time, in both Britain
and the United States, experiments
have been conducted with a con-
traption for literally shooting the
pilot out into the sky—scat and
all, of course. A cartridge or shell
provides the propulsion. But the
seat must be shot ant fast enough
to clear the plane, and not so hard
that the sudden acceleration will
Injure the pilot's spine or break
his hip -bones.
Apparently this is p o s s f h l e.
Ground experiments have shown,
according to Baldwin, that a man
•can take a sudden jolt of this kind
20 times the force of gravity.
* * *
At such an altitude, the pilot who
bales out cannot breathe. An oxy-
gen bottle may answer this, het
stilt another problems remains. His
parachute's "opening shock"•in the
rare atmosphere is too great to
risk. It is safer to fall into denser
air before the parachute is opened,
ae gadgets have been developed to
accomplish this at the proper al-
titude whether the pilot is consci-
ous or not.
That a pilot's chance of surviv-
ing a mishap is based on the per-
fect working of so many contrap-
tions is an indication of the perils
involved in man's conquest of
heights and speeds undreamed of a
few years ago,
The Aurora Australis is the
Antarctic counterpart of the Au-
rora Borealis.
Incomprehensible
The small boy went into the
lounge to see a visitor who was
with his father.
"Well, my little man," said his
father's friend, "why are you look-
ing at me so hard?"
"Why, replied the boy. Daddy
fold me you were a self-made
man, and I wanted to see what
you look like."
"Quite right," said the gratified
guest. "I am a self-made man."
"But why did you make yourself
like that?" asked the boy, with
surprise.
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The Dog and
Has Master
By
FERN ALIBLE
The dog stood emotionless, soft
brown eyes riveted on the small
figure lying face down: Sobs racked
the thin young shoulders as the
boy's clenched fist pounded the
hard earth.
Slowly, the dog moved toward
the boy until he stood over him.
Tentatively then, be nuzzled the
youngster gently.
Thad Lacey lay motionless for a
moment and then, slowly, almost
fearfully, he rolled his head to one
side and stared up at the dog
standing over him. For a space,
time stood still as boy and dog
took each other's measure. Then,
the dog lowered his head and with
a flick of his tongue on the boy's
tear -stained cheek, lay down on
tate ground beside hint, Isis nose
buried between his forepaws.
Thad raised himself an one el-
bow and stretched out a grubby
brown hand.
"Ate, gee," be breathed .softly
"Gee, where'd you eotne from, boy?"
Thad's fingers gently fondled the
silky cars. "You're just about the
most handsomest dog I ever seen."
Only a hint of the storm of tears
lingered.
Then in a floodtide of rennin.
brance, his eyes filled once more
and he rubbed his knuckles into
them angrily, His voice roughened
as he said, 'Spot wasn't nearly as
pretty as you, but I loved him
anyway. Old man Benton needn't
have .shot him. Spot never hurt
his sheep. Spot never hurt nuthin'
less it was rabbits or 'possums or
varmints of some such kind."
* * *
A Twig snapped in the under-
brush. Thad jumped to his feet
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and the dog rose quickly, a low,
warning note deep in his throat.
The man's quick eye noted the
tears -streaked face and then dropp-
ed to the clenched hands. "Hi, son-
ny," he said in a friendly voice.
"Don't think I've seen you around
here before, have I?"
"Guess not, Mister. Dad and me.
just moved here a couple of months
ago. And Spot," he added forlorn-
ly.
"Spot? He your dog?" Tlsc man's
voice was pleasantly interested.
Thad's head came up and lie
made no effort to hide the heart-
ache in Isis eyes as he said O?ith
a sisaking, indrawn breath, "Uh-
hub, He was my dog. Old man
Benton shot hint yesterday. Said
Spot was runnin' his sheep." Chin
not quite under control, he con-
tinued, "Spot never run nothin'
but varmints. I trained hiss my-
self an' I know," He stared de-
fiantly at the man who gazed back
at him with troubled eyes.
Typewriter Prints
90,000 Characters
Canadian stenographers who
have been bothered with typewrit-
ers that do not spell very well
might shudder at the thought of
operating a new Chinese typewrit-
er, invented by Dr. Lin Yutang,
the distinguished philosopher and
author. This machine can print
90,000 Chinese characters by the
use of various combinations of
its 72 symbol keys and eight
printing keys. What scope for
typographical errors1, exclaims
The Edmonton Journal,
The typewriter, product of 30
years' work by Dr. Lin, measures
only 14 by 18 by nine inches and
weighs little more than 50 pounds.
It is ,an enormous improvement
on earlier efforts in the way of
Chinese typewriters, one of which
resembled a pipe organ in size and
was sharply limited in the num-
ber of Chinese characters that it
could print.
Dr. Lin's machine has 36 upper
"That's too bad, son. I'm sorry and 28 lower keys, representing
you lost your dog. Mr. Benton the upper and lower parts of a
was probably too hasty, but Chinese character, The pressing
there've been a number of sheep of an upper and lower key brings
killed around here lately and the into printing position a unit of
farmers are pretty touchy." eight words in the same category.
"I know, but Spot didn't hurt The typist sees these eight words
his old sheep none. Not ever." in the magic eye of the machine
* * * and chooses the one he wants by
The man was silent for a nso- pressing one of the eight printing
meat, watching the boy fondle the keys.
hound. I've never seen Becky with Chinese language and literature
such an idiotically happy look experts are enthusiastic over the
about him, he thought. possibilities of the machine, which
SeddenIy, he made his decision will be mass-produced in .the Unh-
and looking hard at the boy said, ed States.
"Look here, son. You've lost your Chinese documents and letters
dog through a mistaken notion at present are all written manual -
on the part of Mr. Benton, It looks ly. Their books and newspapers
like you and Bucky there unders are set by hand, and they must
stand each other pretty web. depend on a numerical code for
"You 'take Burley for your ot(nt sending telegrams, so enormous is
dog. if boy steeds a doh and all the number of Chinese characters.
dogs teed a boy for their master. The new typewriter opens the
You and Bucky belong together." way for a great advance in Chi.
He stopped, ambling at the light nese 'writing, printing, filing and
in Thad's gray eyes and before he other associated fields.
could repent of his offer, turned
on his heel and started rapidly
across the field.
Thad looked after him word-
lessly. He sprang to his feet and
rated after the man, Buciry loping
at his heels.
"Hey, misted" Thad's voice
reached the man as be walked with
downbont head. He stopped and'
turned slowly,
"Hey, what's ,your name, mister?
•I never seen vote' before neither,"
There was a note of apology in
the man's voice. "My name's Law-
rence Benton." Not waiting for a
reply he turned and strode on,
Harvest Help
The British Army and the Royal
Air Force are to lend all available
trucks to help the overburdened:
German transport to move the har-
vest in the British zone of Ger-
many,
The Army also agreed, during
the harvest period from the begin-
ning of October until the middle
of December, to Curtail drastic-
ally their hiring of German freight
vehicles which would be switched
to harvest work,.
Sold by all Drngetets-25r,
Ste (tuba), SOt sad 0.00
Canadian Woollens
Canadians are now using 14
yards of woollen and worsted
cloth for every 10 yards that were
used in an average pre)var year,
says Textiles. This increase in
consumption is equal to 11 000,0(11)
yards, and has been trade possible
by increased production by Ca-
nadian mills. Since the war year's
Canada has become more self suf.
ficicnt in the production of textiles
than ever before.
Fair Question
A young man named Cholmondeley
Gdlquhoun
Once kept, as a pet, a babolguhoun.
His mother said: "Cholmondeley,
Do you think it quite colmondetey,
To feed your babolquhoun with a
spolquhoun?".
It May Be Necessary
To Curb Rainmakers
Alost people figure that right
now there are too many laws
against too many different things
--but obviously there wilt have to
Ise a few more. Take, for instance,
this recently developed business
of rain-snaking—or call it recently
improved, if yon figure that some
of Ilse old formulas were effective.
At least, they were jealously
guarded secrets. Now it's getting
so that anyone who is really inter-
ested in prodacing.a rainstorm can
hire an airplane, scatter a few
pounds of dry ice into a rain
cloud and get results almost im-
mediately. According to the Sault
Daily Star, all the props Ise needs
are in the rain cloud, the dry ice
and the plane.
* s *
It's easy to forecast the diffi-
culties which may develop if rain-
making becomes as simple—and
as universally practised—as turn-
ing on the sprinkler every time the
lawn looks t•o dry. Ope farmer,
for instance might figure his cons
in need of rain. But if when Ise
turned on the water his neighbor
happened to be haying, strained
relations very likely would de-
velop.
As a matter of fact, there has
been trouble already. Out in Ok-
lahoma recently, residents of
Chickasha hired a dry -icer to go
up and make them a little moist-
ure. But a wind came up with
nice timing, and Chickasha's rain
all fell in nearby Anadarko, which
hadn't wanted to be drenched at
all.
* * *
One case of legal action has de-
veloped. The manager of the Tian-
sas State Fair not long ago asked
for an injunction to restrain a po-
tential rainmaker from. making
things oist while the fair was in
progress.m
Obviously, something will have
to be done before ail this goes too
far. If a law isn't passed, the only
alternative open to any area whose
'residents don't want to get wet
will be to set up anti-aircraft de-
fence systems.
It Makes Sense
In tnidsummer we took my four-
year-old niece with 00 to the movies.
Onr summer heat is such that not
even an air-cooling system reaches
all parts of the theatre. Diana
squirmed and wriggled, During the
intermission I asked her what was
the mailer. She said; "I'm hot. I
wish I had a sweater on."
"Why on earth a sweater?" I was
surprised into asking,
"So I could take it off," she an-
swered.
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