... 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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... 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 ...

... BB9B1 ^/hile the English and Australian I players sweltered beneath the Queensland sun as the first post-war Test match got under way at Bris bane, thousands of Englishmen made 7 a.m. appointments at their wireless sets, and before setting off for work listened eagerly to the commentary on the play sent direct from Australia. What they heard at the end of the I first day was not too ...

... T o disarm and repatriate the powerful Japanese garrison in the Netherlands Indies, to rescue Allied prisoners of war and in ternees, and to occupy keypoints to ensure security, were the principal tasks facing the British Indian troops in Indonesia at the conclusion of the Pacific war, and they were additionally complicated by the emergence of a far-reaching Nationalist movement which ...

... The elaborately constructed cause way system at Scapa Flow which was built after the Royal Oak was sunk, early in the war, is rapidly deteriorating, and it may be aban doned because of the high cost of maintenance. The causeways were built by Italian prisoners of war and, besides their strategic purpose of sealing the entrances, they have proved a great boon to the islanders, who used them ...

... THE PROBLEMS OF GIANT AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION-- A COMPOSITE DRAWING OF THE BRABAZON AND THE HALF-SCALE MODEL CREATED FOR TEST PURPOSES: Building the Queen Mary of the air, the biggest aircraft ever designed in this country has produced novel problems, and to a certain extent shipbuilding methods of construction have been employed Drawing by Roland Davies Without building a half-scale model, it ...

... phe India talks in London, with Lord Wavell, Mr. Attlee, Mr Jinnah and Mr. Nehru in conclave, came and went with no tangible result. Mr. Nehru, as India's chief Minister returned to New Delhi for the opening of the Constituent Assembly, but the meeting of the Assembly had not the air of a great and significant occasion. The Hindus were there in force. The Muslims were absent. The emergence ...

... ate November and early December produced the usual crop of gales round Britain's coasts, and there were the usual stories of mountainous seas, waves 60 ft. high, and 100-m.p.h. gusts. The gales were particularly serious off the South Coast, and the vessels which received the biggest hammering in the prevailing conditions were the little tugs which went out to the rescue of the big ships or ...

... The grotto or manger at Bethlehem in which Christ was born has been cleaned. The Public Works Department of the Palestine Government have thoroughly overhauled the grotto, that historic under ground cavern in the great Church of the Nativity which, from as early as the second century, has been pointed out and accepted by the majority of scholars as the place of the Saviour's birth. They have ...

... THEY SANG TO THE KING AND QUEEN-- THE ROYAL CHOIR BOYS OF THE CHAPEL ROYAL, ST. JAMES'S, AS THEY SET OUT FOR BUCKINGHAM PALACE WITH THi REVEREND W. H. ELLIOTT Dressed in their traditional costume, with mortar boards above their gay uniforms, and lace collars at the neck, they were picturesque Christmas visitors to the Palace. The Chapel Royal has a great musical tradition. Dr. John Bull, ...

... f^hristmas 1946 has not completely cast off the spell of the war years. Prices are high and goods are not plentiful but London is gay, if unpainted, the licensed houses have their extensions, although the fare is limited, and the theatres and the cinemas are booming as never before. In Oxford Street the pavements have been thronged these three weeks past as hopeful shoppers have sought ...