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the greatest names of the R. N. A. S. is that of Lieutenant Colonel Raymond Colli- shaw, a Canadian ace who is still flying and who ranks with sixty victories next to the famous Colonel Billy Bishop ex-R. F. C. ace of seventy-two victories. Some R. N. A. S. squadrons were the most famous, being Collishaw's outfit, a flight of dull- black Sopwith triplanes. Contrary to common belief the R. F. C. served elsewhere than just the Western Front. A squadron was situated on Imros Island in the Mediterranean. Squadrons aided Allenby in Palestine and Mesopo- tamia and the famous Lawrence of Arabia had a few machines at his disposal, one of his pilots being a well-known Ottawa chir- opractor. At the end of the war the R. A. F. lost some of its finest pilots when they returned to their peace-time jobs. However, those remaining continued to make aerial history. In 1919 John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown, both R. A. F. men liew non-stop from St. Johns, Newfoundland to Ireland fpreviously the American naval seaplane N. C.4 had crossed by successive steps using the Azores as a stepping stone.J The machine Alcock and Brown used was a Vickers Vimy, Rolls-Royce powered aero- plane, which had been designed as a, heavy bomber for use against Berlin but which had arrived too late to enter the arena of war. Alcock and Brown were both knighted for their feat, but unfortunately Alcock was killed in a crash at Rouen, France, later in December. In 1919 the British dirigible the R. 34 also crossed the Atlantic and re- turned under its own power. The officer commanding was Major G. H. Scott who was to lose his life in the crash of the R. 101 in 1931. In November 1919, the Australian crew of Captain Ross Smith, his brother Keith, and Sergeants Sheirs and Bennet flew to Australia in successive steps, a iiight of 11,924 flying miles. They used the same type of machine as Alcock and Brown, some of the parts of the latter's ship being used in the new craft. Up through the twenties, as wo1nen's clothes became more daring, so did the achievements of the R. A. F. Many fine records in height and distance were set up by these intrepid young men. In 1912, a Frenchman, Jacques Schneider offered a magnificient trophy for the highest speed set by a seaplane over a triangular Left-A Westland Lysander in Flight
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course 150 miles long. The 'drst race in 1912 was won by a French Deperdussin racer which attained the phenomenal speed of 45.75 m. p. h. However, in 1931 Great Britain, with a team from the Special High Speed Squadron of the R. A. F. consisting of Orlebar, Boothman, Hope, Long and Leech, Strainforth and Snaith won perma- ment possession of the trophy. Boothman and Strainforth were the lucky officers to pilot the fast machine in successive flights. The R. A. F. had developed it stations in the near and far East by that time and when revolution broke out in Afghanistan, the service was responsible for saving many foreigners from the capital, Kabul. Need- less to say the R. A. F. machines have been of inestimable value on the North-west Frontier, supressing the turbulent tribes- men of that region. By 1935 the Royal Air Force was using many obsolete machines. True, the Hawker Super-Fury was at the peak of its form, but many other types should have been discarded years before. Thus when Mus- solini played his hand in Ethiopia, the British were forced to say pass , although the Navy was strongly assembled in the Mediterranean Qwith scarcely enough am- munition to fire a single salvo per ship.J Since then Great Britain has been wide awake and looks with grave concern at the pre- parations of her cousin in the North and former friend in the South. Her armaments are being rapidly increased and the R. A. F. is not the last in preparing for trouble. Aircraft factories have sprung up all over England and are being worked day and night to bring Britain's air strength up to that of Germany's. Germany has a great number of aircraft but their equipment is mediocre. General Goering himself says there is no use putting a lot of money into expensive machines because most of them will be destroyed in the first few months of the war. This is contrary to Britain's policy and by the time we have reached Germany's might in num- bers we will double their strength by the efficiency of our equipment. Many cities, however, believe too much stress is being laid on speed. In a special test a few Weeks ago a fast modern machine was ordered to fight a duel with a 1918 Sopwith Camel . After the scrap the films in the camera guns were developed and it was discovered that the modern machine was theoretically shot down while the 1918 Camel did not have a bullet hole in it. Reason?-The modern ship took one-quarter to half a mile to turn whereas the Sopwith Camel could turn on the proverbial dime. Page 20 Now we are sitting on a powder magazine with the powder trail already laid and the spark waiting to be struck. If it should come to war, the R. A. F. will again do its part as it did in 1914 and the winged war- riors will fly again as they did in those happy-go-lucky-days of twenty years ago- no not quite! This time they will ily faster and in larger groups, but I doubt if this new way will appeal to the gallant lads who flew out so recklessly those autumn days of 19143 theirs was the last great frontier and theirs, too, the motto they helped to form with their blood, Per ardua ad Astra - Through difliculty to the stars . 20221412 A Song of the Sea Over the sea the dawn is breaking, Over the sea the birds awaking, Over the sea the ships are making Their solitary way. Over the sea the gulls are screaming, Over the sea the cormorants winging, Over the sea a breeze is singing To the sailing ships. In the sea the trout are drowsing, In the sea the salmon browsing, In the sea the shrimp is rousing From contented sleep. Over the sea we two are flying, On the sea our faces vying, In the sea to view the striving Of the luckless cod. E. LESUEUR. Sk if wk How to Write EEP practising the use of words, making them say what you want them to say-as a Violinist keeps practising his instrument. Words are your instrument. If you use them to say what you really mean when you speak and when- ever you write, you have learned the secret of Literature. Get your instrument ready. Keep it in tune. Learn to say simple things well to give the true sense of them. From Laboratory of English by JEANETTE LEE. LUX GLEBANA
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