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 ...hough, fortunately, one with fewer embarrassing
moments than is normal in Hollywood renderings of service life.The young bride (June Allyson), for example, does not collapse
hysterically when husband James Stewart is whisked off for 21months of active duty at the critical moment of his very lucrative
career as a baseball player. One is almost prepared to overlookthe winsome audacity with which she...
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 ...t of his bowler hat
and toasting Olde English Muffins on
the ferrule of his tightly furled umbrella.
"Gad sir," he declares, "we must get
help, don't you know."
He picks up the telephone and asks
for James Stewart. "I say Jimmy old
boy, I wonder if you would be a fright-
fully decent chap and win the Battle of
Britain for us, eh what?"
James Stewart, strong, rugged, all-
purpose American, picks up...
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 ...Midland Gliding Club. Long Mynd, April 12-16; Norfolk and
Noiw'ch Gliding Club, Swanton Morley, April 12-21; London
Gliding Club, Dunstable, July 27 to August 5.
EAA Biplane Model A-1, designed by James Stewart and built by the
students of St Rita's High School, Chicago, is owned by the Experimental
Aircraft Association. As reported on this page, constructional plans for
the type are now ava...
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 ...cost $512,500,000,
which is roughly ^128,000,000.
Contrast this with the 350 aircraft
operated by U.S. commercial airlines
before the war.
Fighting Film Star C
INEMA-GOING admirers of film-star
James Stewart will be interested to
know that he is now Major Stewart,
U.S.A.A.F., and, until a recent transfer
to^fhe post of Group Operations Officer,
as a squadron commander in the 8th
Air For...
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 ...
August 1911, Hamel's
Bleriot)
FRIDAY a s:ster plane of the Spirit of St Louis will
re-create Charles Lindbergh's historic take-off half a
century a 20. The plane, which was previously flown,
by James Stewart and Lindbergh in the movie
about the hero, will be cranked by hand and then
take-off for a commemorative spin.
Above: Daily Mail, May 18
Left: Curtis Jenny drops in on Coney Island, ...
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 ...ley Burbury, Maurice Clive Pascce, Arthur John Lloyd Hughes,Edward John George, Frederick Walter Hick Hall, and George
Valentine Thorpe Thomson; F/O.'s John Wilmot Bateman, RogerBrammer Brown, George James Stewart Chatterton, Montagu Victor
Murray Clube, Alan James McDougall, John Rlackwell SinclairMonypenny, Douglas Griffith Morris, Maurice Robert Desmond
Trewby, Leonard John Crosbie, Ronald Hans...
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 ...archioness of Tweeddale and
Lady Cooper-Key.
Flying Officer LESLIE HAMILTON, D.F.C., R.A.F., was
married on July 2 to BARBARA, only daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. A. W. WEBBER, Maidenhead, Berks.
Major WM. JAMES STEWART LOCKYER, M.A., Ph.D. (late
R.A.F.), son of the late Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S.,
was married on July 7 at St. Mathias' Church, to KATE
IRENE, widow of WILLIAM SHAW WRIGHT and daug...
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 ...peared in an extensive flyingdisplay, which included Treble One Squadron and the USAF's
Skyblazers, Chance Vought Crusaders and McDonnell Demonsof the US Navy.
Before the display, it is reported. Gen James Stewart (alias JamesStewart, film star) sent his best wishes to the participants through
Paramount Films. He did this to coincide with the release inBarcelona of the Alfred Hitchcock production ...
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 ...cts of publica-
tion work, and visits are arranged to
FIRST AND FOREMOST: America's first
woman pilot was Mrs. Blanche Stuart Scott,
seen here chatting with one of her country's
foremost film actors, James Stewart. Mrs.
Scott first flew an aeroplane on September
2nd, 1910, an event she is probably recalling
for Jimmy's benefit—he himself being dressed
for the part of Lindbergh in the film "The
Spi...
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 ...e intermission followed the appearance of the Blue
Angels, and during this time the Phillips 66 Orchestra playedspasms of popular tunes while prominent guests were introduced
to the crowd. Movie star James Stewart put in his appearance andguest-announced most of the S.A.C. pan in the flying display.
Jimmy also professed his undying love for the Boeing B-36 when-ever he could.
The Air Force had pla...
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 ...st-class story produced by a man who knows his subject
That it would make a fine film undoubtedly occurred tohundreds of readers of the book; and now a film has, in fact,
been made. Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart, Glynis Johnsand Jack Hawkins star in this Twentieth Century-Fox produc-
tion, which was made at Denham, and a good deal of whichwas shot actually within the security-sacrosanct precinct...
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 ...592
Fokker opens US spares store
E-SYSTEMS has been contracted to
operate the new spare-parts store to
be opened in the United States by
Fokker. Named Fokker Spare Parts
Support USA, the centre ...
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 ...i copter is conducting feasi
bility studies on military
applications for the MDX no-
tail-rotor eight-seat civilian heli
copter, which is scheduled to
make its maiden flight in Sep
tember 1992.
James Stewart, MDX project
manager, says: "There appears to
be significant potential for mili
tary MDX variants. The aircraft
will be excellent for all light
utility missions, and could even
be ...
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 ...her
control surfaces to 'weird' posi
tions. It did exactly what it was
supposed to do, but we saw
examples where all surfaces
would fail due to hydraulic
failure," says NASA project
manager Dr James Stewart.
"Even with hydraulic failure,
you still have the thrust of the
engines available to you and
that's what we started looking
at. Most of those involved
thought it was impossible to ...
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 ...h site at Edwards
AFB, California.
Once at Dryden, where the
aircraft is scheduled to arrive at
the end of June, the propulsion
system will be modified with
the P&W vectoring nozzle.
NASA's Dr James Stewart, pro
ject manager of the F-15 per-
Global claims Huey distance record
Global Helicopter is claim ing a world distance re
cord for the Huey 800, a Bell
UH-1 re-engined with the
LHTEC...
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 ... director for
government affairs and also
served for 24 years in the US
Army, retiring in 1985 with
the rank of colonel.
• LEARJET
Bombardier subsidiary Learjet, of
Wichita, Kansas, has named
James Stewart vice-president for
finance and chief financial officer.
He was most recently controller
for the Bombardier regional-air
craft division, based in Toronto,
Canada. Robert Agostino is ...
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 ...e stuck in traffic on the way to the next Farnborough air show, here's
a way to pass the time. Spot the place where veteran British actor Jack Hawkins
stopped to offer a lift to American movie star James Stewart in the 1951 film No
Highway in the Sky. For nephews and nieces none the wiser, the film was based
on No Highway, a 1948 book by Nevil Shute which dealt with the virtually
unknown phen...
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 ...re
Honey, the absent-minded, eccentric research worker at the Royal
Aircraft Establishment, who has been turned into a Rhodes
scholar, in order, we presume, to explain away the "folksy"
accent of Mr. James Stewart in the part. No effort is made to
explain the change in Mr. Honey's physical appearance which, if
our memory serves correctly, Mr. Shute summed up as "little" and
"frog-like." Even if Mr...
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 ...asinghe
David Allen Wickins
Jack Perkins Hey
Alan Glanville Tipper
Richard Henry Tretheway
Patrick Dale Wood
Samuel Morris
Bryan Leonard Earl Irvine
Colin Douglas Stewart
John Derek Euman Renshaw ...
James Stewart Readdie Salmond
Kenneth Levi Hirst
Matthew Young ...
Ivor Arthur Simmons
Alan John Selwood
James Hadley
Francis Lincoln Welford
Stanley Leslie Aitken
Edwin WildGeoffrey Arthur Henry
Cole...
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 ... —
31 December — because you obviously
looked it up)
79 12; 8 2pts
Miscellaneous
80 Squirrel; lion cub; rainbow; toucan 4pts
81 An-38, Tu-334, An-70, Su-35, Mig-31,
11-103 6pt
82 Kenneth More, James Stewart, Laurence
Olivier, Gregory Peck, Ralph Richardson 5pts
83 Antoine de St Exupery, Ernest K Gann,
Capt W E Johns, Arthur Hailey
84 Slush hydrogen, casing head gas (waste
oil-rig gas),...
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