... Much valuable information with regard to Alpine flying has been obtained from the experience of glider and sail plane pilots. It is necessary for them to make use of thermal up-currents to obtain height, and it is these currents and their corresponding down- currents and air-pockets that are the cause of many of the hazards of Alpine flying. Recently, Swiss sailplane pilots were catapulted ...

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... PARIS IN WINTER'S GRIP Snowbound motorists struggling to extricate themselves after the recent big fall of snow in the French capital. It was the heaviest fall Paris has known since 1879, and in some places 16 ins. was recorded. The jeep on the right was able to use its extra power with advantage in helping to extricate the larger car. To add to the city's troubles there has been a big 'flu ...

... One thing that has particularly struck American corre spondents during Mr. Churchill's visit to the United States has been his deep knowledge of American history, and it is quite understandable that he should have expressed such a keen desire to seen Williamsburg, where many of the most important pages in the social and political history of Virginia were written in the days when it was the ...

... mswwi mMH The Mohne Dam, where the late Wing-Commander Guy Gibson and his men achieved their dramatic bombing exploit in 1943, unleashing at one blow the waters of the Mohne See, is now a favourite resort of members of the British Army of Occupation, and during the summer months troops will be flocking there for brief spells of leave from the great garrison towns of the Westphalian Plain. The ...

... ()ne of the latest and most important developments in rotating wing aircraft is being made by the Fairey Aviation Company with its Fairey Gyrodyne, a machine possess ing some features in common with the autogiro and some in common with the helicopter. The Gyrodyne has an air screw at the tail and a rotor above the cockpit, the long blades of the latter providing vertical lift as they rotate ...

... CAIRO STUDENTS MAKE THEIR PRESENCE FELT Police and armoured cars line a street leading from the University of Fuad Awal to the centre of the city when checking an anti-British demonstration. The demonstrations started on November 18 and continued over a week CAIRO STUDENTS OVERTURN A TRAMCAR A typical incident during the week and more of rioting which was large y concentrated in the area of ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. U.S. Elections.--The worst feature of the U.S. General Election is that when the tumult and the shouting die, the nation will not return to normal. On the contrary, election fever or party feeling can only be stimulated by the result. And that may prove a poor look-out for U.N.O. and for American influence in world affairs. The result is well known now. It was ...

... ^PMlT*ifT] I iM iV; ^b*j C unday, November 10, was the first Remembrance Day in Great Britain and the Common wealth Remembrance Day for two World Wars and just before the Two Minutes' Silence the King unveiled the new inscrip tions on the Cenotaph in White hall, thereby dedicating the memorial also to those who died in 1939-45. The deeply impressive ceremony was witnessed by a crowd at least 5 ...

... T1 o-day Czechoslovakia stands at the cross-roads of European affairs. She is essentially the link between Soviet Russia and the demo cracies of the West, and fittingly enough she has a Coalition Ministry largely consisting of Communists and the Christian Democrats and Social National ists who represent Liberal opinion in the country. Since Mr. Klemmens Gottwald, the Communist Prime Minister, ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Frustration All Round.-- It is not merely the poisoned dart aimed at the Labour Government, but a much more widely-held opinion which is daily voiced that the nation is suffering from frustration and is becoming unnaturally apathetic and cynical. Nothing works. The machine, if it can be so called, stutters and breaks down everywhere in every department of life. You ...

... The Luftwaffe in a few nights transformed the face of Step ney, and now the London County Council, taking advantage of the blitzed area, intends to make a newer and better Stepney, with spacious parks and recreation- grounds occupying what once was slum property. Happily, historic St. Dunstan's Church still remains to give continuity to the history of this part of London's East End STEPNEY ...