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FEBRUARY 2OTH, 1941. fiERE AND THERE "Flight" IndexT HE Flight index for July-December,1940, is now ready and may be ob- taijM^l from this office (Dorset -House,Sfeififord Street, London, S.E.i), price 7fd., post free, or, with cloth binding-case, 4s. 5d., post free. Readers' copies can be bound for them in the publishers'case at an inclusive charge of ios. gd. and will be returned post paid: Canada Follows Suit A SECOND case of a collision in mid-air•** resulting in the aeroplanes becoming locked together is reported, this timefrom Canada. This occurred at the Macleon S.F.T.S. A safe landing wasmade by the combination and the two Leading Aircraftman pilots were un-injured, though dazed and unable to give an account of the accident. The lowermachine was badly damaged. It will be remembered that the first case of sucha strange collision and landing occurred in Australia with two Avro Ansons inOctober last year. By Landplane from. U.S.A.M R. JUAN TRIPPE, president of PanAmerican Airways, has announced that the company will commence a non-stop service next year between the United States and Europe with landplanes.Flight expects that the intention is to use Boeing Stratoliners, but who knowswhat will be happening between the United States and Europe by next year?If things keep on going as they are at present, the service might be to England,not to Europe, as American aircraft might not be any too welcome on thatcontinent. " # Fleet Street Squadron OYS of 16 to 18 years employed in1 the newspaper offices of Fleet Street will, it is expected, form their ownsquadron of the Air Training Corps which is making such rapid progress allover the country. The '' Newspaper Squadron" will, if the efforts to raiseit are successful, be affiliated to the already formed Holbora Squadron. Itis hoped to enrol ioo boys—a full squad- ron—and applications for membershipshould be made to Mr. R. C. H. Dun bar, Kingsway Institute, Keeley Street, W.C.2. U.S. Accident Statistics 'THE accident rate for the air transport•*• services of the United States for the January-June periods of the years 1936to 1940 show an ever-mounting figure °f passenger-miles flown per passengerfatality and illustrate very effectively the great safety of air travel. Rounded°ff to the nearest million passenger-miles, the figures are as follows: 1936, 8miiiion per fatality; 1937, 11 million; '938, 13 million ; 1939, 39 million ; whiletf*e first half of 1940 shows an infinite number, since there were no fatal FREE FRENCH FLYING : The Caudron Gdeland twin-engined cabin monoplanewhich a French air-mechanic stole from an aerodrome in occupied France to fly to England. He landed near Tregantle Fort, in Cornwall. accidents in that period. The passengerfatalities for the periods were small in number, being: 1936, 27; 1937, 22;1938, 22; 1939, 9. Figures for the July- December periods are all comparable,but it is expected that when the last half of 1940 is analysed it will show a dropback owing to the two serious accidents which occurred. But the whole recordstill remains a magnificent one in which U.S.A. can take great pride. "Flight" at One ShillingF ROM next week the price of Flightwill be is., as announced last week, when the reasons for the increase wereexplained. We regret the necessity, but there is no escaping it. We fully realisethat the higher price will impose a real hardship in some cases, arid that manyof our regular readers will feel themselves unable to continue buying the journal.In such cases we would suggest that readers make a serious effort to get intotouch with another reader similarly placed, with a view to arranging copiesbeing passed on from one to the other. The First LiberatorT HE first of the Consolidated B-24 fleet, 26 of which are to be made available to Britain by U S.A., left the Consolidated factory at San Diego, Cali- fornia, on February 16 on its delivery flight, the first leg of which is across America. The B-24, also known by the firm's name of Model 32, has been christened the Liberator. Five Years Across the Pacific 'pHE 442nd flight across the Pacific by -*•• the flying boats of Pan American Airways, which was made in January, marked the completion of five years of operation. A total of 3,715,553 aircraft- miles have been flown and over 21 mil- lion passenger-miles completed. Carriage of mail totals 768,585 ton-miles and freight 396,632 ton-miles. The number of letters carried is estimated at 13^ million. These prosaic figures have con- cealed in them one of the most romantic stories in the world, a story of the con- quest of the largest ocean in the world by aircraft designers, factory hands, pilots, air crews, meteorologists and radio men. The mileage from U.S.A. to China is 8,746, the longest hop being from San Francisco to Honolulu (2,402 miles). The other .stops are at Midway, Wake, Guam, the Phillipines, with the terminus at Hong Kong. Institute of Aeronautical Sciences FRANK W. CALDWELL, director olresearch for United Aircraft Cor- poration, who has been connected withthe development of controllable-pitch and constant-speed airscrews, has beenelected president of the Institution oi Aeronautical Sciences for 1941. At thehonours night dinner on January 28th, Dr. H. L. Dryden, of the National Bureauof Standards, was presented with the Sylvanus Albert Reed Award for his con-tributions to the mechanics of boundary layer flow and his interpretations ofwind-tunnel experiments. "Down in the Forest . ." TWO Spitfires, to be named The NewForest and The King Rufus, are to be purchased for the R.A.F. with moneyraised by the New Forest Spitfire cam- paign. The Ministry of Aircraft Produc-tion has recently received a second instalment of ^5,929 from this fund. Bombay Fighter Fund NO less than the equivalent in rupeesof £7,500 was raised at a recent Government House " War-plane Ball,"held in Bombay for the purchase of fighters for the R.A.F. The Turf Clubthere decided to give rupee for rupee to the fund, so Bombay's contribution bythis latest effort now amounts to ^15-000. Incidentally, 100,000 rupees is calleda . " lakh " (pronounced "lack") and, as the present value of the rupee isis 6d., this represents the sum actually raised at the ball, and to refer to sucli amagnificent result as being "a lakh of rupees" sounds a little ungrateful—inEnglish. More Dominion Air Crews A 1RMEN from Australia, Canada and•il- New Zealand were inspected at an aerodrome near London recently whtnthe latest contingent of Dominion pilots and air crews to arrive in Englandwere welcomed by Lord Cranborne, the Dominions Secretary. Many of the Aus-tralians came direct from Down Under" and, except for operationalflights in this country, all the men are fully trained. Lord Cran borne was accompanied byMr. S. M. Bruce, Mr. Vincent Massey and Mr. W, J. Jordan, the High Com-missioners for Australia, Canada and New Zealand respectively.
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