... l„orous conditions found at high altitudes, [esearch has been divided into two parts ie plane itself, design of instruments, fuselage nd wings and adjustment of breathing and ressure conditions so that the crew can live nder such alien conditions. For the latter, pressure-cabin is provided which gives an tmosphere in which human beings can still reathe formally. In a commercial air-liner, it ...

... Two Special Sphere Drawings THE FLYING FIELD IN AN ADVANCED AREA OF THE EGYPTIAN DESERT: This is, very often, a rough-and-ready affair destined to serve one purpose j alone that of nutting fighter aircraft uo into the sky with a minimum of delay. There are no splendid hangars, runways, workshops, mess bungalows, and the other buildings which serve the R.A.F. elsewhere merely a flattish piece ...

... c/ r,pn i nwnnw sendin> Leuer to JO LV/HUvIi, Seaman in the Tropics WHEN you post a letter to your husband, son or sweetheart in the Navy, you need never worry about its safe arrival. Short of sinking at sea-- a 1,000,000-to-1 chance-- your letter will find him wherever he may be. That simple address-- H.M.S. Blank, c/o G.P.O., London, covers the world from Esquimalt to Auckland. It will see ...

... LEGAL AID FOR THE BRITISH ARMY The War Office Comes to the Assistance of the Harassed Soldier and A.T.S. and Settles Their Legal Problems Through the Medium of a New Section By CHARLES GRAVES QUITE unnoticed by the vast bulk of the civilian popu lation, the most intelligent and considerate scheme ever devised by the War Office to improve the fighting quality of our troops has been in progress ...

... THE COST OF BOMBING The Losses of Bomber Command During a Nine Months' Offensive 1,082 Aircraft The Secretary for Air has now made known to the House of Commons the number of British bombers lost over Germany and Northern Europe during the nine months ending with September 30. During this period, Bomber Command carried out raids on 79 days and 140 nights the losses incurred were 1,082 aircraft ...

... BLACK WHITE BLACK WHITE s i x yZp&rZw**'. T. s On the look-out i Those who recognise real character and flavour in Scotch Whisky are always on the look-out for Black White Its quality is of the highest, its flavour unexcelled. (jistfte Scotch ...

... A REVIEW of the U-BOAT WAR And the Tactics of the German Wolf-Packs in the Under-water Battle of the Atlantic By DOUGLAS GLEN IN 1917, when sinkings brought us peril ously near defeat, it was the convoy system that saved us. At the outbreak of the present war Germany possessed seventy submarines, and again, but for the con voys, our sea-borne supplies could not have been maintained. Now, after ...

... VETERANS OF THE ROYAL NAVY: C.-in-C. on His Own Quarter-Deck ADMIRAL SIR JOHN TOVEY, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE HOME FLEET, on his quarter-deck with a naval visitor, Vice-Admiral S. S. Bonham-Carter Sir John went to the Home Fleet as its Commander in 1940, after having served since 1938 as Rear-Admiral (D.) commanding the Destroyer Flotillas of the Mediterranean Fleet. Previously he had served, ...

... STALINGRAD TO-DAY A Picture from the Air of the Great Citv on the Volga Under Bombardment by the German Luftwaffe T^or the past few weeks the very hub of the World War has been Stalingrad, great City of Steel on the right bank of the Volga, which the Germans thought they would overrun within a few days. Until the outbreak of the present war, little of the actual city was known to the outside ...

... The AMERICAN 60-TON TANK The Problems Met in the Development of this New and Colossal Super-Weapon. Described by Brigadier-General G. M. Barnes (U.S. Army) THE armour carried by the tank makes it possible for the vehicle to live on the battlefield. Naturally, the designer would like to equip his tank with armour of such thickness that it would be impossible for any type of projectile to ...

... The BATTLE of BISCAY Coastal Command's Warfare on the U-Boats In the Bay Special Sphere Drawings and Diagram 'The diagram-drawing on the left has been prepared with the special object of emphasising one important part of the Prime Minister's recent speech to Parliament in which he outlined the new method of employ, ing our big aircraft-carriers in combination for a special object. Referring ...

... I HOV TO CROSS A RIVER BY MEANS OF AN IMPROVISED BRIDGE MADE UP OF ROPES Part of the 'tough training at the Army School of Physical Training. The soldier, it will be observed, s carrying full kit note the clever way in which he has employed wooden pegs to aid his passage and to prevent himself from falling into the water beneath THE EQUIPMENT CARRIED BY A BREN-GUN CARRIER The tools and ...