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T54 AUGUST 22, 1940 WELL MET1 The American Clipper of Pan American Airways arrives at Auckland, New Zealand, after its flight from California. Already moored is the British Trans- Tasman flying boat Awarua, which carries the mail on to Australia. Capt. Balfour's Trip AMONG the passengers on the BritishOverseas Airways flying boat Clare, which arrived in Canada on August 15,from the United Kingdom en route for New York was Captain H. H. Balfour,M.C., M.P., Under-Secretary of State for Air. Captain Balfour, who is accom-panied by his Parliamentary Private Secretary, Fit. Lt. W. W. Wakefield,M.P., is visiting Canada to discuss various matters in connection with theEmpire Air Training Scheme. - Mounting Ever Higher PUBLIC subscriptions to buy aircraftfor the Royal Air Force are increas- ing with every day that passes, and thetotal has now reached the impressive figure of ,£3,652,841, it is announced bythe Ministry of Aircraft Production. If a Spitfire or a Hurricane costs about£5,000 or ^6,ooo, this amount is enough to buy a fleet of five or six hundred.Used for bombers at say, £25,000 to £30,000 each, it would provide between120 and 150. One of the latest gifts is ^5,000 fromthe small village of Michaelston-le-Pit in South Wales. "Freely Give"M ANY towns and villages up anddown the country are arranging exhibitions of aeronautical photographsand drawings in connection with special collection weeks to raise funds for thepurchase of fighter and bomber aircraft. This spontaneous gesture on the part ofthe public has much to commend it, and large sums have already been raised. The exhibition organised by Croydon'sFighter Fund, at "The Crown," North End, Croydon, was an entire success, andthe Croydon fighter is already on the way. An actual example of a Gypsytrainer aircraft was on view, together with a number of Flight photographicenlargements, sectional drawings of air- craft, and the Flight identification chartsof British, German, German troop- carrying and Italian aircraft. The AirMinistry also lent photographs. Coun- cillor T. H. Brain, the honorary secre-tary of the fund, tells us that a damaged Messerschmitt is to be exhibited at theFairfield Car Park this week. Next week a similar aeronautical exhi-bition is being arranged by His Worship The Mayor of Shoreditch in connectionwith the Shoreditch effort, while another notified to us is that at Sutton Coldfieldon September 9th. Here an exhibition of Flight photographic and other material is being arranged by Mr. Edward H. Reeves, the Midland advertising con- sultant. War PhotographsS OME fine examples of air photographyunder wartime conditions are to be seen at the Exhibition of Royal AirForce War Photographs which opens on Friday (August 23) at the BuildingCentre, 158, New Bond Street, London, W.i. The exhibition, which has beenorganised in conjunction with the Ministry of Information, illustrates. almost every phase of life and work in the Royal Air Force. One series of pic-tures shows bombers carrying out the various stages of their task. Anotherseries shows how Fighter pilots < repel enemv raiders. HERE andTHERE Sections are devoted to the work ofthe Coastal Command, the Balloon Barrage, Army Co-operation andactivities in the Dominions. The expan- sion cf aircraft production in thiscountry is the subject of some striking pictures, and others illustrate the variousstages in the training of pilots, air gunners, observers and aircraftmen. On both sides a large amount ofphotographic reconnaissance has been carried out during the present war, butunlike the Germans, whose photographs, many of them faked, have been profuselydistributed over the neutral world, we have been modest in publicising thevaluable results of our camera work. The Exhibition is a welcome indicationthat this shyness is gradually being overcome. It should prove extremelypopular among the public. The Exhibition will be open each day(excluding Sunday) from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission free. Blind Flying Hood. ReleaseT HE U.S. Army Air Corps have de- veloped a blind flying hood which automatically folds back at air speeds outside the range of 130 to 230 m.p.h. The hood operates by the withdrawal of a latch by an electrical solenoid, so allowing the elastic members of the hood to fold it back out of the way. Such a hood is designed to increase the pupil's confidence, as he knows that in a stall or a dive it will open by itself. I.O.D.E. PRESENTATIONS: A Bristol Bolingbroke given to the Royal Canadian Air Force by the Imperial Order of Daughters of the Empire was recently handed over at Ottowa. Present at the ceremony, and seen from left to right in the photo- graph, are Wing Cdr. McLeod ; Princess Alice ; Mrs. W. B. Horkins, I.O.D.E. President ; the Earl of Athlone, Governor-General of Canada ; and Air Comdre. L. S. Breadner, Chief of Air Staff, R.C.A.F. The Bolingbroke, it will be remembered, is a Canadian variant of the long-nosed Bristol Blenheim. Like the Blenheim it is powered with two Mercury VIII engines and has a top speed of nearly 300 m.p.h. at 15,000 ft. The armament consists of one forward-firing gun mounted in the port wing and one free gun in a retractable power-operated turret situated mid-way on top of the fuselage.
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