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548 FLIGHT. JUNE 2, 1938. THE FOUR WINDS ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL QUARTERS HTHE RT. HON. SIR KINGSLEY -*- WOOD, Secretary of State for Air, has appointed Mr. F. H. Sandford to be his principal private secretary and Mr. R. C. Chilver to be his assistant private secretary. Sir Edward T. Campbell has been appointed Parliamentary private secretary. Capt. Harold Balfour, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Air, has appointed Mr. F. R. Howard to be his private secretary. Capt. Ugo D'Annunzio was arrested at the Seversky Field, Long Island, and charged with "assault" after his aero- plane ran away while he was trying to start it unaided. A woman was pinned against her car and severely injured. The Canadian Car and Foundry Com- pany of Montreal is to manufacture in Mexico, for the Mexican Government, 40 Grumman machines and 10 Trainers during the next two years. Machinery is being removed from Montreal to Mexico to start the factories. Twenty-three Fairchild high-wing cabin monoplanes (145 h.p. Warner Super Scarab engine) have been pur- chased by the U.S. Bureau of Air Com- merce. Typewriters, brief cases and files will be built-in, and all machines will have blind-flying and radio equipment. The Danish Government has purchased a Dornier Wai flying boat that has been used for several years on the Lufthansa South Atlantic mail service. This machine, which has two water-cooled B.M.W.s rated at 1,300 h.p. together, will be used for an arctic expedition con- ducted by the famous Danish explorer, Dr. Lauge Kock. A suggestion that Eire should have an aircraft factory was made by Col. Charles Russell, President of the Irish Junior Aviation Club, when speaking at a meet- ing of the Club in Dublin. He said that rn had an offer from one of the largest British aircraft manufacturers to provide the necessary technical direction to manufacture aircraft under licence. HOME AGAIN : Sqn. Ldr. K- B. Lloyd (right) and Wing Cdr. Feather, of No. 204 Squadron, on their return from the Australia cruise, the completion of which is recorded on p. 554. The Lockheed Co. has identified a wheel, found off .the coast Burma last May, as belonging to the Altair of the late Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. The new soaring site at Colley Hill, Reigate, is to open with a meet- ing, from to-morrow until Monday. Details from Miss Ann Edmonds, London Gliding Club, Dunstable. During the afternoon of June 4 commentaries on the London-Isle of Man Air Race will be broadcast in the B.B.C. Northern programme from Spekc Airport, St. Bee's Head and Ronaldway Aerodrome, while on Whit Monday afternoon there will be commentaries on the Manx Air Derby and Tynwald Air Race. An American firm—the E. G. Budd Manufacturing Company—has built an all-stainless-steel wing for the new 300 m.p.h. Seversky pursuit machine. It is said to be a few pounds lighter and to have four times the rigidity of its alu- minium alloy prototype. The new Seversky Super Clippers, described in Flight of March 31, will be built of stain- less steel. Thirteen Canadian aircraft companies have indicated their readiness to supply British aircraft demands. France may also call on Canada to supply extra air- craft. Has anyone found out (a) who first discovered the windsock, and (b) which aerodrome was the first to use one ? Imperial Airways are trying to find its origin. The Aircraft Engineers' Association is holding its first lecture on Friday, June io, at 7 p.m., in the library of the R.Ae.S., when Mr. Messiter, of the Sperry Company, will speak on the Gyropilot. Tickets are obtainable through members. Michel Detroyat, the French test pilot, accompanied by M. Henri Guillaumet, chief pilot of Air France, have been making an American tour and have in- spected, among other things, the Doug- las DC-4, which, incidentally, has re- cently undergone its static tests.' A clock has been erected on the new Cricklewood buildings of Smith's English Clocks, Ltd. It has four dials, each 1 oft. square, and each pair of hands is 5ft. long. The chaplets and hands will be brilliantly illuminated by white neon lighting, giving Greenwich time and pro- viding a distinctive air beacon. Following nautical " crossing the line " ceremonies, passengers passing over zero latitude in Imperial Airways' flying boats will from now on receive " an elaborate certificate of con- temporary travel." Imperial flying boats cross the Equator over Lake Vic- toria, and on the Australian route at Lingga Archipelago, south of Singapore. DRAWING-POWER : Enlarged and coloured reproductions of Max Millar's cut- away Flight drawings of modern aircraft are proving one of the biggest attractions ever staged in the windows of the R.A.F. recruiting depot in Kingsway.
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