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Before Health-Hawker Hauser has half a million Americans ripping out their plumbing to install sitz tubs, or warp themselves like pretzels to sit side-straddle in a bathtub, let me point out that physiotherapists have long advocated sitz baths. And there's nothing unorthodox about soaking your fanny and your feet at the same time...
...watchers got their money's worth as Britain's flyers showed their new wares with superb and sometimes reckless showmanship. The Supermarine Swift and the Hawker Hunter, R.A.F. interceptors, flashed past the stands 100 ft. off the ground at an official 715 m.p.h., only a shade below the speed of sound. Pilot Derry in his DH-110, which was later to crash, zoomed to 17,000 ft. in a vertical, barrel-rolling climb. All three planes dived at the field, bombarding the stands with shock waves that sounded like cannon fire...
Rockets & Autos. That sort of confidence was nothing new to 64-year-old Thomas Octave† Murdoch Sopwith. He is master of the Empire's biggest aircraft, engine and auto complex: the Hawker Siddeley Group. Its twenty-five divisions and 60,000 workers make everything from air frames for fighters and bombers to rockets, engines and luxury Siddeley automobiles for the dowager trade.* It has ?40 million in assets, 31 plants scattered throughout Britain and Canada, and last year netted ?2.6 million after taxes...
...spite of Hawker-Siddeley's size, Tom Sopwith runs it by remote control. He spends most of his time hunting, fishing and boating because he thinks better out in the open than behind a desk. Though he goes to the office only once or twice a month, and leaves most administrative details to Managing Director Sir Frank Spriggs, 57, Sopwith makes the big policy decisions himself, chewing over the problems while tramping the moors of his 20,000-acre estate, in Yorkshire...
...attraction was the cigar-shaped, swept-wing Hawker P-1067 interceptor-fighter, powered by a Rolls-Royce turbojet and touted as the "fastest fighter in the world." To show what the P-1067 can do, Hawker's chief test pilot, Neville Duke, opened the throttle and snapped his plane low over the runway at 15 m.p.h. faster than the official world record (670 m.p.h.), held by the U.S.'s F-86 Sabre. The whip-cracking sound of its passage hit the crowd like an explosion and knocked a microphone out of an announcer's hand...