Show Australia Land of Tomorrow j By William C. Courtney j Through special arrangement with Collier's Out in certain novelties of aviation greatly Interest Yank fighting birdmen who roost down between their walloping flights against the no-longer-so-cocky One of the first observations a Yank airman is likely to make at cocktail is that Aussie women are universally perhaps more so than their While at Aussie probably the first unusual thing to catch his eye is the omnipresent Aussie version of Here they add an for meaning Women's Auxiliary Australian Air What the famous Australian accent does to the is beyond me to reproduce The work right up in the advanced combat They've had Their commander is Wing Officer Clare a charming feminist practically run the whole ground show driving cars and folding handling all cipher and radio and even radio location and making engine and plane They live and mess exactly on the same basis as are permitted but one concession to their sex They wear Air Force Blue uniforms off blue overalls and berets on Stork Travels by The harshness and loneliness of Australia's frontier life is emphasized to interested Yanks by a service that is unique to Australia the renowned Australian Aerial Medical the Flying They have six bases in the more than two million square miles of or as it's variously Some principal homesteads have radio sets for which power Is generated by a contraption like a bicycle When a doctor Is a messenger may ride horseback as much as miles to a homestead with a From a call Is sent to the nearest Flying Doctor perhaps another miles Doc climbs into his plane with his pilot or flies himself if the pilot isn't handy as matter-of-factly as our country doctors used to climb into their buggies and whip up their The planes are single-motor with a stretcher in the The doctor lands as close as possible to the ailing He is prepared to or treat on the if or fly the patient to civilization and a the stork travels by air in Last these little-sung medical heroes flew nearly mercy Country With a For their nightly bull session at fields outside Port or a dozen secret rookeries thoughtful young Americans find boundless subjects for discussion in the special air-transportation chances that Australia The Big Dipper has seen more of mankind's purposeful comings and goings than the Southern So this island sidetracked from historic trade and expansion routes of the Northern will loom in the postwar world as a challenge to the potentialities of air With fewer inhabitants now than the state of New York or the city of in an area as large as the whole United Australia can be drawn closely by airway netting Into the international web of good Then watch her So imaginative Yank fliers say rubbing their planning splendid tomorrows and perceiving with awe for the first time the true capacity of the airplane as a gourmand of With the Yank airmen sec Australia only two or three days from home by instead of as by fastest prewar Already the route has been flown by our Generals Brett and Arnold in Today Australia is a five-city Adelaide and each is in its way a nostalgic bit of Behind them lies the wild continent largely More than half has scarcely got beyond the beaches of registering no more impression upon it than that made upon a polo field by half a dozen colonies of ants in the grass on its Rail and highway travel is still very with her immigration have held Australia her leaders |