FLYING FROM COPENHAGEN TO LONDON
Williams, Richard
Flying From Copenhagen to London Planes Carrying Eight Passengers Make Scheduled Trips; Use of Rubber Ear Plugs Obviates Ear Ringing Afterwards. By RICHARD WILLIAMS Our readers will recall a...
...Because of rather low clouds we had to fly at a low altitude in order to keep the ground and route in sight...
...The only other passenger in the bus was the Australian representative of a London banking firm who was on his way to Brussels...
...Again we were banking sharply, sweeping downward at a steep angle, and, in less time than it takes to write, had bumped upon the ground and taxied to the edge of the field, where we were met by the customs officers and asked for our declarations...
...Many of the birds shown in these old drawings have been extinct for centuries and it is probable that bird life has dwindled perceptibly in Egypt since the days of these early artists...
...THE CALVIN COLOR Flood control is clearly a national problem and water supply is a government problem, but every other possibility should be exhausted before the federal government becomes engaged in the power business.—Coolidge...
...And this does not include the drives where rabbits are run down by bands of farmers to ,save their crops and orchards...
...our passports were examined and we boarded a bus for the Victoria Hotel...
...Cows at pasture would turn their heads to look up at us in wonder, and horses, startled by the roar of the motors, would go galloping away in the fields...
...We quickly transferred to another plane which we filled to capacity, which was eight passengers, and after a brief word of instruction on the use of the life jackets on racks over our heads, in case we came down in the Channel, we took off...
...Although limited in available color, some of the long dead artists achieved masterful drawings of bird life...
...In a half hour or less the docks of Rotterdam lay below us and in a moment we were banking at a crazy angle and sweeping steeply down upon the field...
...About five o'clock I left Amsterdam in a Fokker plane of the Royal Dutch Airlines, along with two other passengers...
...He has gathered a surprising amount of data and discovered many, interesting features regarding early ornithology in the Valley of the Nile...
...but, when it finally appeared, it supplanted the primitive but effective butter-making methods" of the ancients...
...The views of the farming country and the picturesque villages were magnificent...
...Not far below us the wind wafted a bank of faintly rose-tinted, fleecy clouds over t&ward France and began to heap them up about the brow of the chalky cliff's...
...In the gathering twilight, the thatched cottages and the flocks of sheep grazing on the green slopes lent a romantic glamour to the scene which unrolled itself below us...
...This gives an idea of how enormous must be the rabbit population over the country...
...he is spending a year in travel with his bride...
...THE ORIGIN OF BUTTER LIKE many other substances*, much used by man, butter was invented or discovered quite by accident...
...You are going to hear a unanimous demand, by the $10,000,000,000 Power Trust lobby, at Washington, that Calvin Coolidge be "drafted" for another term...
...Although the Fokker planes with their one motor were much less noisy than the Junkers, I was very thankful that I had carried with me my rubber ear plugs, used in swimming...
...Not for a lone: time was the churn brought into use...
...Near the Danish cc-ast we passed over many fields which had been flooded by the incessant rains and in some of them the haycocks looked like islands...
...At Ostend we saw a number of land sj'ilboats, sort of buckboard platforms with sails, and wheels with pneumatic tires, which ran along the hard beach...
...Oddly enough, the very earliest work is the best...
...Some of the paintings brought to light by Professor Moreau are real works of art...
...my suitcase weighed exactly fifteen kilos, the limit allowed...
...This was a three-motor, all-mttal Junkers monoplane, built in Sweden and operated by the Swedish Airlines...
...ART IN EARLY EGYPT PROF...
...Farms in Holland WE LANDED at Amsterdam about half past four, having been delayed about two hours by the strong head winds...
...Crossing English Channel SOON after passing Calais we began to climb and at the same time to cross the Channel...
...We encountered strong head winds and continual gusts which gave the plane a good deal of tossing motion, and there were occasional air pockets...
...We flew almost exactly above the water and frequently waived to bathers and others on the beach...
...By RICHARD WILLIAMS Our readers will recall a very interesting account last January of an auto trip by two Cornell students through the Middle West in which they visited 60 of the most up-to-date dairy farms of the country...
...The greater speed of the Fokker over the Junkers plane could be readily noticed as we zoonred along over trees and farmhouses, hills and hedgerows...
...Once-we ran through a thunder storm and were forced to fly quite low—five or six hundred feet, in order to see...
...Three of these came in from other points, while one was a four motor Farman "Jabirn," belonging to the Danish company...
...The altimeter was visible through the door which separates the pilot's compartment f-om that of the passengers, and I followed it quite carefully and we never rose above one thousand feet and most of the time kept between six hundred and nine hundred feet...
...Before settling down to the serious business of farni...
...In the three years of its existence this company has carried over twenty-five thousand passengers and has not had a single accident involving injury to yx?rsons or goods...
...The paintings comprise scenes of varied description...
...I will admit that 1 felt a bit uncomfortable at times myself, but when I read a book or looked out of the window I was all right...
...Finally we passed over something of a shipping center and began to follow the Belgian coast, flying at an altitude of about six hundred feet...
...R. E. MOREAU, well known European scientist, has long been engaged in a study of the birds of ancient Egypt, as depicted in paintings on the walls of aged tombs...
...We passed over numerous picturesque villages, flying low enough to wave to people in the streets or along the roads, and in the fields I saw what appeared to be new dikes for the reclamation of additional land...
...The National Dairy Council has investigated the history of butter and learned that this product had a most unusual origin...
...One of the finest depicts a kingfisher protecting her young from an ancient Egyptian cat...
...It was a great experience...
...Down below us in the Channel the waves which broke incessantly appeared to have but two dimensions—it was as though horizontal jets of foam were being periodically opened and closed at the level of the water...
...C. L. BOUT eight in the morning I left Athe hotel for the aviation field in the A. B. Aerotransport bus...
...Near the border between Germany and Hoi-land we passed over vast areas of peat bog, from which great quantities of peat had been cut and the blocks piled in rows and mounds...
...The flight gave me a fine opportunity to observe the tremendous area of cultivation under glass in Holland...
...We had seen them at Lyngseidet on our cruise to the North Cape and they had with them a cunning Eskimo puppy which they had brought back from Spitzbergen...
...A powerful flood light was switched on, illuminating the field for us...
...A woman behind me was quite air-sick (paper bags are provided in pockets on the back of each seat), ana* I was much relieved to have her leave the plane on arrival at Hamburg, toward half past twelve...
...For many years, it was made by strapping skins of sour milk on horses and racing them about for hours...
...Richard Williams, the writer of that article, has since graduated from the agricultural course of Cornell University...
...At first, this butter was used as a salve or ointment...
...The only other woman was one who was traveling with her husband...
...The air, which had been fairly still along the coast, became increasingly calm as we ascended higher and higher, and before we had reached our greatest altitude, about eleven ffiousand feet, our flight was so smooth that I could write perfectly...
...On arrival at the aerodrome, passenger as well as luggage were weighed, to avoid danger of overloading...
...Williams.—B...
...Then it came into use as a food...
...With these I experienced no discomfort at any time from "singing in the ears," of which the Australian had complained...
...Finally towards nine o'clock we sighted the flashing signal lights which marked the Croyden Aerodrome and through the gathering darkness made out the big hangars at the edge of the field...
...A Fokker monoplane in which was traveling the Australian whom I have mentioned and which had left Copenhagen shortly after us, was already at Hamburg when we arrived...
...The heat and sway of the camels, on whose backs the goatskin containers were strapped, formed butter, much to the surprise of the Arabian merchants...
...This vivid description of the air trip is, we hope, the forerunner of other travel features by Mr...
...Shortly before our departure I took movies of some of the four planes which left about the same time...
...and Mrs...
...Plunge Through Thunder Storm AT HAMBURG wejstopped twenty minutes and our passports were examined as 3oon as we stepped out of the plane...
...I was glad to get a glass of milk and some sandwiches...
...The plane on which I had come carried five women and three men...
...Almost the last to arrive was the Malmo-Amsterdam plane, which I board;d...
...Many years ago, Arabian caravans were wont to carry sour milk across the deserts of Arabia...
...Passports were also examined...
...Tosses With Air Gusts WE TOOK OFF about half past nine, eight of the nine seats being occupied...
...He said lie did not fly because he enjoyed it, but because it saved so much time, and he complained especially of the noise of the motors, which he said left his ears ringing for hours afterwards...
...Next we sighted the English coast and in a few minutes had passed over Dover and were speeding inland above rolling English countryside...
...It is estimated that in a single shooting season hunters kill eight million rabbits in the states of Ohio, Illinois, Kansas and Oklahoma alone...
...Williams, who have been in Europe several months, began their tour with a visit to the land of the Midnight Sun, and will see Constantinople, Cairo and Palestine before returning home...
Vol. 20 • January 1928 • No. 1
