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The Seaforth News, 1941-09-04, Page 7• THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1941 FLYING OVER ONTARIO WITH AUSTRALIAN STUDENT OBSERVERS By Hugh Tetuplin I sat in the secretary's office- at the No. 1 Air Observer School at Mallon and wondered what would happen next. Things always seemed to turn out that way when arrange- ments bad been made for me to fly in an R.C,A.F. plane, If there wasn't a thunder storm, there was some- thing else. 'The day's thunder storm had already passed and the sky was clear, but orders had' become mixed up. On the other side of his desk J. A. Munroe, secretary -treasurer of tite school, was keeping the telephone busy and now and then someone came hurrying in with a• correspond- ence file or other information. It was obvious enough what had happened. ,A phone call from the Training Gourmand at Toronto had informed me that all arrangements were made. Meanwhile, a sudden call had taken the manager of the Melton School to Montreal and no one else knew anything about the arrange ments. As we waited for word from Toronto, the big Avro Ansons out mi the runway roared away. It was two o'clock, and time for them to go out on their afternoon "exercises." Flying Officer *McLeod tried to be consoling. It was a rough day, he said and I wouldn't enjoy it, He re- membered one newspaper man who went ftp in a plane on just such a day. He wasn't up five minutes till he was sick, and his trip was a total loss—and so was his lunch. Besides, the exercise for that day wasn't the most interesting kind. The student observers would be trying to make out a course as though they were flying blind, above the clouds. An- other day would be more interesting and would provide better flying conditions, There seethed to hp nothing else to be done. It was a quartet' after two now and I hadn't heard 8 plane go for five minutes. The night. flight wouldn't leave till nine o'clock and might not return till two in the morning and I would have 60 miles to drive home after that. I had work to do the next morning and two members of the family waiting for me in the city. There seemed to he nothing left to rio but to conte back again. Suddenly things began to happen. Flying Officer McLeod had gone out hat lin came hurrying back. THE SEAFORTH NEWS 1'lvervthhtg'.s 0. E. We'll have to hurry, 1itongil." We trotted acrose the road toward the hangar. On the way he explained that one plane was delayed by engine trouble. Spark plugs. I might get to it in time. A quick trip to the pilot's room, where I was fitted with parachute harness --two straps over my shoul- ders and one around each leg, all locked together in front of my stom- ach. The day was trot, so I left my coat behind and went in my shirt sleeves. Another dash across the runway to the place where the twin engines of Avro Anson No, 6037 were turning over smoothly and noisily now. The pilot was already in his seat. Hasty introductions to the two student ob- servers, K. Arlin and R. Evrltt, both of Melbourne, Australia. That was interesting. Two fine young fellows. I shook bands with them. "It's hot!" I said just by way of leaking conversation. It was a stupid thing to say because so obvious. The thermometer said 96 degrees. "We like It," one of them replied, rather surprisingly. They were in shirt -sleeves too, with the same kind of parachute harness. Later, Pilot 3ocelin sald:' "The Australians just eat up this kind of weather." A little door was open up on the side of the plans, and I climbed up. One of the Australians fastened my safety strap, a quick -release type that was new to me. Aliht took his seat beside the pilot and Evritt in the seat behind the pilot. I was in the back seat, opposite the door, The plane began to move at, once, down the broad runway. We passed a silvery Trans -Canada plane, just coming 10 and turned into the wind and iu a few seconds were off the ground, heading westward into a 29 - mile wind. One of the Austrnllalts had re- peated the warning that the flight might be a rough ono, but 1 did not find it so, particuarly after we had climbed above a thousand feet. These large planes fly much more steadily than the small open -cockpit planes in which most of my previous flying had been done, 1'p in front, an the left. sat Pilot' me the difference'' 1 i t Jac'elinn, two 01' three rows of in- struments in front of 11101, holding on to a.wheel tint lacked like the steer- ing wheel of an automobile with parts of it cut away. Beside hint sat ane oI the ,young Attstrolians. In front of hits. 11111101• the dash. was a !tole into which he crawled front time to time so that he could lis lint on his s.toenteh i11 the 1103,8 of the plane and reed the drift indieat:1r, showing how much the plane was being blown off its course by the wind. Directly behind that pilot sat the other Australian student. Hee .was doing his "exercise" for the day. On a table in front al him lay a neap with no towns, roads, or landmarks, except the outlines of the Great Lakes and here and there, circles, with an arrow marking the compass variations,'—not muchI help that to a visitor from the other side of the world, On the table Iay his simple instruments, a triangular ruler. a few pencils, a circular card with rows of figures and the name, Some- body's Rapid Calculator. Beside him was a compass and up in front two dials, one indicating the engine speed and the other' the altitude above sea level. I sat 111 the rear seat, directly be- hind t11e student with the exercise. but with my view to the front partly cut off by the wireless instruments, working by remote control from the pilot's seat. Occasionally, I saw the dials turn and the wavelength indi- cators change, but of the messages which passed through them I knew nothing. In front of me was a table, on which I was able to write in my notebook. The Avro Anson is noted for its visibility. There are windows all around. It has even been likened to a flying greenhouse. The rear seat was opposite the huge wing, but it was easy to see the landscape Below and behind. The sky held many clouds and the shadows mottled the landscape be- low. The air was hazy and ten miles was about the limit of visibility. 1 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1941 LIGHTNING FIGHTER FOR BRITAIN'S ROYAL AIR FORCE Shown in flight is the Lockheed P-18 Interceptor -Pursuit, claimed to be the fastest aircraft in the world, of which, it is stated, the British R. A. F. have ordered a alightly modified version known as the Lockheed Lightning. Of revolutionary design, and embodying all the modern principles of aerodynamics, the P-38 is said to have a speed "In excess fo 400 m.p.h. with an exceedingly high rate 01 climb". It is already in production for the U.S. Army Corps, and the R. A. F. now. The Australians had been six weeks at Marton. Another six and they would go to Jarvis to learn bombing and gunnery with practice bombs and real machine guns. It wouldn't be long till they were flying over' Germany. 'BLITZED' ROYAL AUTOGRAPHS Made Readable Again by London's Police Chemists - Signature, , iiia; 1{fasere 1'i: and l t t cit \l 1andra in a '>•,.�4c re- ,lnet: inceli.liary After the climbed to 4500 feet, we h-omS , cr ncen trunk 111 1,111 t,un were up in the lower layer of clouds. by a n,., chenucal 1,1,00,4, disc.,.lir,i. Occasionally one would drift past al- •)y- rt czr,'h chemists ,>f London'• most close enough to touch. The t\irtr,,polinln Police Laboratory. heavier` clouds, ]folding a hint of Thr autographs were critter 111thunder, were higher. Two or three 11 8,83, when the 11 .1 ti pair were tines we ran into rain but I couldn't Prince and Prince., ..i \V .l,- , in :In see It out on the wing. Only the odd lth,itor.' ',one: of the t it. ,>1 L,mdon singing of the propellors and the Colne which steer 1'+-1s has beet: drops on the front windows slowed 'tvi1 -nt5mc a•ntu:; to 1 ,,,m, j Duplicate Monthly :3tatements We can save you money on Bit! and Charge Forms. standard sires t:.r fit Ledgers, white or colors. It will pay you to see our samples. Also best quality Metal Waged Sec, Bonet Post Binders and Index - rhe ea ort News PHONE 84 The World's News Seen Through THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR. 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Acres of green- next in vtne,l prenr,c: .0111..411 houses shone In the light as we circled over Brampton, gaining ever' t meet n tr•i, c , height I imagine it would make The n t,.1 t 1 n:,: a i its arc r - wonderful target, day or night. If I had been able to lay my hands on a 1 -,- stone, I could hardly have resisted the temptation to drop it overboard on these glass roofs. We headed west after that, and the Credit river, dirty even from that height, was the next landmark. Then a little village that worried me until I decided its mill ponds were like these at Alton. Then came Orange- ville. I was nearer home now and knew most of the landmarks. The provincial highway to Arthur, straight as a ruler, gleaned in the sun - for miles till it grossed the Grand river. The lovely Hoektey Valley lay ahead. The hill looked al- most flat. but the road by the river was plain enough. By that time. I had the road map out of my brief cage and from then on was never lost. We passed south . of Carap Borden, over ,great Holland marsh and the tip of Lake Simteoe. and down beside Tonge street to King. then in a bee -line for Malton. There, the students changed places ' and we went around another circle, slightly farther east, but in sight of - Brampton; Caledou Lake, Orange- ville, Aurora. and down to the shore of Lake Ontario near Malvern. A turn to the west brought us over the eastern suburbs of Toronto. The flight over Toronto was inter- esting. Out to the left was the Wood- 1 1)1115 race track. then the harbour with a freight boat steaming across the Bay. The skyscrapers looked like tall toy buildings, To the north, the reservoir :shone as all the other ponds had done. We parallelled Dun - dos street out to West Toronto, I saw, a mile below me, the school - yard where I once tried to teach a girl to skate. All large buildings were easily seen. Ie took about six minutes to cross Toronto, from the eastern suburbs to the Humber river at Weston. We circled the great Melton air- port slowly, watching other planes coming in and finally, with a clear runway, came down to earth without a bump, From the delightful coolness .of the upper air, we stepped out into the heat again. The students checked their maps with Pilot Jocelin, and I submitted mine. It was just two rough pencil marks on a road map but he seemed surprised that I had been so close to the real route. Most people, he said, got completely lost in - the air unless they had soma train- ing. There was time for conversation ' sent La' ,rat•,.", ,t n.re CI; `,caring the 'Royal •igttatures was treated with chloral hydrate in a ?5 per cent. alcoholic solution and dried at oft degrees ,Centigrade. .toter re- peating this Several times, a mass of chloral hydrate Cry;tel, formed 0.11 the stir:a e, and at this stage a similar sol- ation, containing 10) 1,,-r cent. glycer- ite, a'a• 417411i0d anal the paper dried a yore. 1, a.r, then I)1wtorap hecl, and the result was excellent. The pro - (40_, 80111012 /wed, n, ecial aµ>aa:- -1,, pro,.ing 4rea1 val Ie where int , ,rtaot document, in ink, type - ,'nit ')y etTr911y THREE U.S.A. PRESIDENTS - Have Their Footshapes in a Lan- don Basement Woodeli models of the feet of many of the most prominent sitizels of the British Empire lie in a Lon- don basement as yet unharmed by Nazi raids. Bombs have fallen all around. but these 20,mm hoot and shoe fans. from which footwear con- tinues to be shipped to the world he ycud Europe, remain a miotic lib- rary of the feet of t11, greni tool wealthy. The craftsmen who have built up this collection of foot it ap.•s found - p(1 exactly, 1 i0 Fears ago. have been 1451111111g their repel.,eralive 0501' seas since I SOP. Alntnst every year since then these piottueritt bow - makers makers haves visited the United States and studied the footwear kilos syncrasies of three Presidents, as well as of such noted characters as the late Price Collier, Payne Whit- ney,- August Belmont, Gouverneur Morris (who referred to the makers in his writings), John Drew and the Barrynlores, Foxhall Keene. Govern- or Beecham, General Pershing. Clam - 011(15 Moore, Jay Gould. General Andra; Brewster and many others. Every graduate from West Point dur- ing the last 20 years has been inter- viewed for the supply of his boots. Although Kings. Princes and Pra- sidrnts do visit headquarters. many clients have (15yer even seen En • land. They rely upon the reputation for workmanship and the good opin- ion of the great. One single order from an Indian prince was for 107 pair of boote and sloes, each hair different and provided with a leather box. The invoice was justsantalong in the usual way. \ yomig ➢ cit ut: R 55 walking through to-- perk with ht, girl. They hnnlp•:d into hi, sergeant, floss is tut sister, exp1,l;tt,»1 the private. bashfully. 'That's all right,- the sergeant t-llli'.1 111111,y. '.lir used to be 1211tae." Notes- N ; Creditors. e wks. fur $2.50 French River and Devil's Gap Lure Visitors Acottage on the shore of a tree -lined lake with oppor- tunities for fishing, boating, swimming and other warm weather recreation provides the kind of summer holiday which is essentially Canadian. But life in a cottage sometimes means a lot of work owing to the lack of city conveniences, which is the reason for the great popularity of such resorts as Devil's Gap alld French River where visitors live in cottages which are as well ser- viced as hotel suites. The simple life, with all the informality and ease which the expression implies, is the watch- word at these two famous Cana- dian Pacific resorts. Mother is relieved of the cooking, daughter of the dish -washing and sonny of the lawn -mowing, while father dresses in his oldest and most comfortable clothes to pursue his own peculiar ideas of summer life. There is a strong family re- semblance between Devil's Gap Lodge, near ]:iennra, and French River Chalet Bungalow Camp, on the Canadian Pacific Toronto - Sudbury line. Itt a beautiful section of lakes and forests, they offer endless possibilities for re- creation. No part of Canada has better fishing, and there are facilities for tennis, golf and similar sports. Great expanses of water and wooded country make exploring a pleasure, by canoe, motorboat, automobile, horse or on foot. Individual bungalows or cot- tages, self-contained and cosily furnished, have electric lights; running water and maid service. The central chalet or lodge is the uerve centre of the community because it is there that visitors have their meals and enjoy dan- cing and other amusements in the evenings. .Although there are amuse- ments for every member of the family, the most popular sport at these resorts is fishing. That is because the fishing is so good. Pickerel, pike, sturgeon, plus those scrappiest game -fish of the Canadian water -world, the mus- calunge and the small -mouth biack bass are found in abundan- ce. Both districts have produced record fish, the most outstanding of which was the sixty and one- half pound muscalunge 'caught by J. J. Coleman, of Evansville, Indiana, in Eagle Lake, east of Devil's Gap, itt 1939. That one holds the world's record.