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1940 - 1921.PDF
JULY 4, 1940 HERE and THERE R.Ae.S. Officers, 1940-41M R. GRIFFITH BREWER, Hon.- F.R.Ae.S., has been elected Presi- dent of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and Lt.-Col. J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon and Professor Leonard Bairstow, Vice- Presidents, for the year 1940-41. A BoappointmentB RITISH AIRWAYS CORPORATION announces that Mr. J. R. Glorney Bolton has resigned his post as Press Officer to the Corporation. Mr. Kenneth Adam has been appointed to take his place. Recently Mr. Adam has been acting as an observer on the home front for the Empire services of the B.B.C. S.B.A.C. Scholarships •^T^HE Royal Aeronautical Society an- -»- nounces that the Scholarship Selec- tion Committee of the S.B.A.C. and R.Ae.S. have awarded scholarships to the following: Charles Anthony Chap- man, Joseph Charles Goodwin, Peter Leland Bertram Graham, Hilary John Silvanus Pinsent, Geoffrey Donovan Poole, and Peter William Wreford-Bush. i Air Vice-Marshal Croil E Commonwealth Air Training Plan is under way and air crews are now leaving Canada monthly, according to a statement of James S. Duncan, acting Deputy Minister of National Defence at Ottawa. Air Vice-Marshal G. M. Croil has been appointed Inspector- General of the Royal Canadian Air Force, and Air Commodore Lloyd S. Breadner has been promoted to his former position of Chief of the Air Staff. : Volunteer Instructors '"TRANS-CANADA AIR LINES cap- •*- tains and first officers have offered to serve as instructors of Royal Canadian Air Force recruits during their rest days. Mr. Barclay, president of the Canadian Airline Pilots Association, said approxi- mately 50 pilots would give this service at the three terminals where they spend their days off, Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver, at no cost to the Dominion Government. In the Association are some 80 fully-qualified pilots, 40 of them.- bearing the rank of captain. Empire Air Mail A ONCE-WEEKLY air service with -**• limited accommodation for mails having been established between Durban and Sydney, the Postmaster General announces that air mail correspondence for Australia, Burma, Ceylon, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Iraq, Kenya, Malaya, New Zealand, Palestine, Sudan, Tan- \;ganyika and Uganda, prepaid at the rate "of is. 3d. per half ounce (postcards 7d.), "will be forwarded by surface route to South Africa and thence by air within jj the limits of the available aircraft 25 accommodation. As the correspondence afwill be forwarded by steamer to South j Africa, 'the acceleration which will foe t afforded over transmission by ordinary Royal Canadian Air Force photograph. TO WELCOME THE AMERICAN TECHNICAL MISSION: Air Commodore G. C. Pirie, M.C., D.F.C., Air Attache at the British Embassy in Washington, flew to Ottawa, where he is seen (left) with Mr. H. A. Jones, Civil Liaison Officer, Group Captain Banting, and Air Commodore W. R. Kenny, Air Attache at the Canadian Legation, Washington. The visit of the American Technical Mission to Canada was referred to in last week's issue. mail is not likely to be as considerable as formerly. ."•>.. A Diesel Approved AN engine known as the GuibersonAero-Diesel has been granted a type certificate by the Civil Aeronautics Authority in U.S.A. The particulars given are as follows: Guiberson Aero- Diesel a-1020, 9-cylinder radial air- cooled, 310 h.p. at 2,140 r.p.m. at sea le_vel pressure altitude. Airscrew Cuffs SOME Curtiss airscrews are now beingfitted with " cuffs " of aluminium- alloy sheet around that part of the blade near the hub which is of circular section. The '' cuff '' helps to retain the aerofoil section right up to the hub and so aids engine cooling by giving better air How 'h light" photourapfi ITALO BALBO, whose death in a crash in somewhat mysterious cir- cumstances occurred last week. ovei the cylinders. It is also said to reduce blade drag and increase take-off thrust. Douglas D.C.4 OrderT HE recent order placed by United Airlines with the Douglas company for the new Douglas DC4 (of smaller size than the original DC4 which has since been sold to Japan) has been increased from ten to twenty. In addition, the airline company has also placed an order for ten Douglas DC3S. The total of these orders is reported to be over 8J million dollars. No Isle of Man Service HTHE Dublin-Isle of Man service of Aei J- Lingus Teoranta will not be re- opened this year, and it will not be possible for the company to operate a Sunday service from Dublin to Liver- pool. The total number of passengers carried on the Dublin-Liverpool route from October 23, 1939, to date is over 4,600, according to an official of the company (Mr. S. M. O'Connell) in a recent address to the Dublin Rotary Club on '' The Development of Air Transport in Eire." Lockheed High-altitude Research T OCKHEED research on the problems J—' of high-altitude flight continues with structural work on a large fuselage shell over 11ft. diameter and 20ft. long. This is approximately the size of the fuselage of • the four-engined Lockheed Excalibur. The test section has three types of riveting and testing consists in subjecting the shell to internal pressure up to 6 lb./sq. in. and then applying bending loads so that the behaviour of the riveted joints and the wrinkling of the sheet-metal panels may be observed. The initial tests have been made on the cylinder without any openings cut in it, but it is intended now to cut holes for windows and doors to study the effect of these, and also the problems.of sealing them against pressure.
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