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JULY id, 1940 53- sum of £1,000 to be used towards thepurchase of an aeroplane which would represent their country. Obeying the Call AFTER several years of civil life, Mr.Kenneth Shenstone, managing director of Henry Rossell and Co., Ltd., of Sheffield, has returned to the service as a pilot in the R.A.F. V.R. Mr. Shenstone served for three years in the Cambridge University Air Squadron and was seven years in the R.A.F.O. Back to the Melting Pot SOME months ago the Handley PageH.P.42 Heracles of Imperial Air- ways turned itself over on an aerodrome while workers were busy on board. No one was hurt except the aeroplane, so that even after more than i£ million miles the machine lived up to its repu- tation until the last. The remnants of the wreck have now been handed over to the Ministry of Aircraft, following Lord Beaverbrook's appeal for scrap. Orville Wright Now Licensed ! /^ONGRESS has authorised the *—' issue to Orville Wright of honorary aircraft pilot's licence No. i in recogni- tion of his outstanding service rendered to the science of aeronautics. The bill will become a law when it is given the signature of President Roose- velt. It was introduced by U.S. Senator Claude Pepper last year, at the sugges- tion of Dr. Ralph N. Greene, director of Eastern Air Lines' aero-medical de- partment in Miami. Dr. Greene is him- self a pioneer pilot. Swiss and Vatican Mails '"THE Postmaster General announces •*• that letters and other postal packets, except parcels, insured letters and insured boxes, may again be posted for trans- mission to Switzerland and the Vatican City State; but the mails are liable to censorship by the enemy and senders should accordingly exercise the utmost discretion, as to what they send or write. Air mail correspondence should be pre- paid at the European rate of 5d. for the first ounce and 3d. for each additional ounce (postcards 2jd.), and will be for- warded from this country by air for onward transmission as may be neces- sary by surface transport. Mails for Finland also are liable to enemy inter- ception. East India Flight Fund ON May 22 the committee of the EastIndia Fund for British war services forwarded to the Air Ministry from Calcutta a cheque for ^30,000, with an intimation that they were desirous of contributing as much as possible towards the cost of providing a flight of fighter aircraft which they hoped might be given a special title indicating its association with the East India Fund. The initial equipment of such a flight comprises eight machines and the cost amounts to some £88,000. This generous gift was gratefully ack- nowledged by the Air Council, and the committee were informed that arrange- ments would be made for the flight of Spitfire aircraft which they were hoping to provide to be named The East India SOMETHING NEW? The Vickers test pilots'studying plans of further geodesy.Left to right : Fit. Lt. John Summers, Maurice Hare and Maurice Summers. Both the Summers brothers are members of the Caterpillar Club. Fund Flight, and that this designation would be inscribed on the aircraft of the flight. On June 16 the committee forwarded a further gift of £10,000; and they have now contributed another £15,000, mak- ing £55,000 in all, towards the cost of the initial equipment of aircraft for the East India Fund Flight. The Air Ministry are greatly encour- aged by this evidence of the warm inter- est which the citizens of Calcutta and other parts of Eastern India, both British and Indian, take in the activities and achievements of- the Royal Air Force, and they have sent most grate- ful acknowledgments. Record Savings DURING June the number of NationalSavings Certificates issued to Dunlop employees was almost as high as the complete total for the preceding five months: 8,376 as against 8,432, or a total of 16,808 for the six months. C.A.A. Changes /"^HANGES which have occurred subse-V-^ quent to the transfer of the Civil Aeronautics Authority to the control ofthe Department of Commerce, include the resignation of the administrator, Clin-ton Hester, to enter private law practice in Washington. A graduate in arts andlaw of two universities, Hester has served in different government depart-ments for 22 years. He retires at the age of 45. His successor will be Col. Donald M.Connolly, of the U.S. Corps of Engineers, a man previously unknown in aviation. Another change is the appointment ofJerome Lederer as head of the Safety Bureau of the Civil Aeronautics Boardas the Authority is now called. Thomas O. Hardin vacates the correspondingoffice which was abolished by the re- organisation. Lederer is well known aschief engineer for Aero Insurance Under- writers, which position he has held since1929. He is a graduate in engineering of New York University, and after a year as assistant in the department of aero-nautical engineering, received an M.E. degree in 1925. The former secretary, Paul Frizzell,has also resigned and will be succeeded by Thomas G. Early as acting secretaryat a considerably lower salary. Tasman Fare Reduction A REDUCTION has been made byTasman Empire Airways in the fare across the Tasman Sea from Sydney toAuckland. Formerly £A3o single, it is now £A25. Hong Kong to Bangkok '"PHIS section of the British Overseas-*- Airways route was stopped at the time when all overseas flying stopped be-cause of the Italian declaration of war. Operation of the section has now beenresumed twice weekly. Bangkok is the junction with the main Empire route toAustralia. A Good Example A T the Second Annual Summer Meeting•f*- of the American Institute of the Aero- nautical Sciences at Pasadena, California,Major Lester Gardner announced that an endowment of 50,000 dollars has beenprovided by Mr. Paul Kollsman for the founding of an aeronautical lendinglibrary. Major Gardner said that the Institute would establish a library fromwhich books could be borrowed by aero- nautical engineers, pilots, Army andNavy officers, and others interested. There would be available at once 2,000titles, as well as more than 100,000 books on general engineering. In ad-dition the Institute would provide a reference library of more than 10,000aeronautical books. The idea might be taken up in thiscountry. During the war it is difficult for aeronautical engineers to travel toLondon in order to consult books in the library of the Royal AeronauticalSociety.
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