THE FLYING EGG

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 13092, 13 February 1937, Page 10

THE FLYING EGG

BOMBER,, FIGHTER,

INTERCEPTOR

.Tn 1915 a young Dutchman changed tho world’s ideas of war in the air, writes Victor Burnett, in the “Sunday Express.”

110 invented a device that enabled a machine gun to ho fired through tho propeller. The day he invented it, real air warfare began. Round his device small, manocuvreable, high-speed single-seaters were built. Tho young Dutchman’s name was Anthony Fokker. The idea he brought stood unchanged through the years. Fighters' were faster, more efficient, more expensive—but in principle they were the- same. Last week the entire aviation world saw that its ideas had to be changed. Anthony Fokker’s Infest warplane was the cause. For the second time the Dutchman had changed military ideas.

The machine is called 'die Scythe. And it- is the most deadly instrument that ever florv.

It looks like a sharp ended winged egg, with two fuselages supporting tho tail. An engine is on each wing. Its wheels fold up into the engine cases when it is flying. Hidden in its streamlined body are 1000 pounds of bombs. The pointed tail is a battleship gun turret, worked with tho gun able to fire at any angle.

And in its rounded nose are two quickfirers, with magazines of 100 explosive shells. Just one of these shells would blast an aircraft to pieces. Above those* canon are two machine-guns. There is room in tho fuselage for a complete radio equipment and photographic apparatus. The crew consists o’-' a. pilot and -gunner. The) speed is 300 miles an hour. The range exceeds 1000 miles The Scytlio is an air battle cruiser. It can do anything. Instead ol a scries of fast fighters, with short ranges, lading sent up at intervals to intercept a laid, squadrons of these machines can patrol over segments of a circle, at varying heights. It is a real interceptor. In Paris, at the aviation exhibition, c-vcrvone was asking which air force the. Scythe was intended for. 1 can answer that question. The Royal Dutch Air Force will be or nipped with them first.

•CHOCOLATE TRIFLE Take -Jib. chocolate roll, If pints milk, loz. almonds, 1 dessertspoon cocoa. l.Voz. sugar. 1 gill cream custard ’powder to thicken. Out chocolate roll in slices Jin. thick and -arrange in glass dish. Boil half-pint of milk wild use as- much as necessary to soak the cake. Mix cocoa and custard powder together and mix to a smooth paste- with a little milk. Put remainder of milk in a saucepan with sugar and when boiling add cocoa c-tc. stirring well. Blanch ami chop almonds and. sprinkle half over roll. Pour chocolate custard over and leave until cold. Whip cream and put cn top of trifle and sprinkle remainder of nuts.

The system of financing hospitals in New South Wales by means (;t S; ate lotteries, was praised by the Mayor of One Tree Hill, Mr. I. J. Goldstinc, who has returned after spending six weeks in Sydney and Melbourne. “The hospital system < f New South Wales is quite different from ours, as it is supported InState lotteries,” Mr. Goldstinc said. “The funds go into th.te Consolidated Fund, and the Government supports the hospitals. There is to hospital levy on local bodies, tin* system being a national instead of a local one, and one which I consider should he in operation in Now /10.1Ir.nd. .rather than that which exists at present. Under our system, on'/ the landowner is taxed, and the man who. derives his income from other sources escapes the hospital levy.”