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...Tickety Boo." After Lord Louis got his three different ranks someone suggested that he alternate in Army, Navy, R.A.F. uniforms. Lord Louis stuck to his braided Navy blue. Londoners often see him at about 9:30 each morning, driving himself to work in his four-seater Ford (Priority No. 14). Nowadays, he has almost no club or social life. Often, he lunches on sandwiches in his headquarters office. "All tickety boo," he says when everything is as he likes it, in apple pie order...
Wind Up. By last week the R.A.F. began to lose about as many planes as it bagged, for the Luftwaffe was returning in force from Russia. Among the new opposition which the R.A.F. met was a souped-up model of the old single-seater Messerschmitt 109. The new job, Me 109F, called "Meph" by the British, had been sighted several times, flying on ultra-high reconnaissance. But not until last fortnight, when one pancaked in Kent nearly undamaged, had the British a chance to examine a "Meph" carefully. It had the markings of Hermann Goring's Yellow Nose Squadron...
...Germans and carried off top honors in the fighting over Dunkirk-one place where R. A. F. gained local command of the air. Report was that the Defiants were found wanting after all, their manufacture discontinued. Germany was reported to have a fast new Heinkel 113 single-motored one-seater ready for the finals, specially equipped for night work and with extra-wide under carriage designed for rough landings. Guba and Mercenaries. Busy little Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Aircraft Production, kept his show in the headlines by buying .New York Oil Tycoon Richard Archbold's 14-ton Consolidated flying...
...custom and usage" he was under the Navy thumb. Replied Al Williams: "I tender my resignation quietly and without publication. . . . My services will always be at the command of the U. S. Marine Corps. And in case of emergency I shall bring with me my two standard single-seater fighting planes . . . and they shall be donated without cost to the Marine Corps or to the United States Government...
...release of aerial photographs emphasizing military objectives in British ports. Such photographs were lately released in quantity by German censors (see cut). As though anticipating raids by Nazi bombers guarded by Me-110s, Britain last week announced she was coming up with a new all-metal, two-seater Boulton-Paul intercepter plane, faster and more potent than her Hurricanes and Spitfires...