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but it does not affect The Leek.
Aerial Board of Control
Official Report: Lights
Week ending Dec. 18th.
No changes in England Inland lights this week.
CAPE VERDE--Verde inclined guide-light changes from
1st proximo to triple flash--green white green--in place of
occulting red as heretofore. The warning light for
Harmatan winds will be continuous vertical glare (white)
on all oases of trans-Saharan N.E. by E. Main Routes.
INVERCARGIL (N.Z.)--From 1st prox.: extreme southerly
light (double red) will exhibit white beam inclined 45
degrees on approach of Southerly Buster. Traffic flies high
off this coast between April and October.
TABLE BAY--Devil's Peak Glare removed to Simonsberg.
Traffic making Table Mountain coastwise keep all lights
from Three Anchor Bay at least 2,000 feet under, and do
not round to till East of E. shoulder Devil's Peak.
SANDHEADS LIGHT--Green triple vertical marks new
private landing-stage for Bay and Burma traffic only.
SNAEFELL JOKUL--White occulting light withdrawn for
winter.
PATAGONIA--No summer light south Cape Pilar. This
includes Staten Island and Port Stanley.
C. NAVARIN--Quadruple fog flash (white), one minute
intervals (new).
EAST CAPE--Fog flash: single white with single bomb, 30
sec. intervals (new).
MALAYAN ARCHIPELAGO--Lights unreliable owing
eruptions. Lay from Cape Somerset to Singapore direct,
keeping highest levels.
"Our planet's overlighted if anything," says Captain Purnall at the wheel, as
Cardiff-Bristol slides under. "I remember the old common white verticals that
showed maybe 300 feet up in a mist, if you knew where to look. One could get
lost coming home then, an' have some fun. Now, it's like driving down
Piccadilly."
He points to the pillars of light where the cloud-breakers bore through the
cloud-floor. We see nothing of England's outlines: only a white pavement pierced
in all directions by these manholes of variously-colored fire--Holy Island's
white and red--St. Bee's interrupted white, etc. as far as the eye can reach.
Blessed be Sargent, Ahrens, and the Dubois brothers, who invented the
cloud-breakers whereby we travel in security!
"Are you going to lift for The Shamrock?" asks Captain Hodgson. Cork Light
(green, fixed) enlarges as we rush to it. Captain Purnall nods. There is heavy
traffic hereabouts--the cloud-bank beneath us is streaked with running fissures
of flame where the Atlantic boats are hurrying Londonward just clear of the
fluff. Under Conference rules, the 5,000-foot lanes are reserved for
mail-packets, but hurried foreigners often take liberties with English air. "No.
162" lifts to a long-drawn wail of the breeze in the fore-flange of the rudder
and we make Valencia (white, green, white) at a safe 7,000 feet, dipping our