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1941 - 0504.PDF
FEBRUARY 27TH, 1941. SALVAGED : British Overseas Airways' flying boat, Clyde, which dragged hermoorings and sank in the Tagus during a recent storm at Lisbon, has been success- fully raised. She is reported to have sustained such heavy damage, however, thatit is doubtful if she will be repaired and recommissioned. • Rhodesian Pilots Arrive THE first contingent of SouthernRhodesian pilots, trained in their own Dominion, recently arrived in England for service with the R.A.F. They will operate together when Rhodesian squadrons are formed. Help from. US. Airlines I N order to meet their own country'snational defence needs and to permit immediate despatch of four-engined bombers to Great Britain, certain sched- uled U.S. airlines have agreed to the 1 elease of aircraft and engines to the value of something like $7,500,000 v.Inch they had on order for 1941. Air Crew Volunteers from Overseas BRITISH subjects are coming homefrom all parts of the world to volun- teer for air-crew, duties under the Over-seas Recruiting Scheme and, according to a recent statement by the aeronauticalcorrespondent of The Times, more than 80 per cent, of them have been acceptedfor training as pilots. Under this scheme such volunteers areprovided with their passage home, and they are coming from the Bahamas, Hon-duras, Venezuela, Cuba and from British Colonies such as the Leeward Islands,Bermuda, Trinidad, the Seychelles Islands and Mauritius. One youngScotsman living in Patagonia is reported to have ridden several hundred miles onhorseback to catch a boat from Buenos Aires. Aircraft Production THE March issue of Aircraft Production,published yesterday, contains as its chief features the final instalment of thearticle describing the production of the "shadow" Blenheim at the Rootes fac-tory, and, under the title of " Airscrew Assembly." an article describing theingenious and unusual application of conveyor and rail track systems at theRotor works; also an article devoted to the machining and installation of Plexi-glas, the American transparent covering produced from plastic sheet for turritsblisters and noses. The importance at- tached to the problem of standardisationin aircraft manufacture is shown by three pages devotod to an importantseries of discussions in America. Also included in the issue are illustrateddescriptions of the four-engined Boeing and the Curtis Tomahawk, whilst there are the usual reviews of modern machine tools and shop equipment. Aircraft Production is the journal of the aircraft manufacturing industry and costs is. 6d. Keep Up the Quality STRESS was laid on the need forquality as well as quantity in the production of aircraft by Rear Admiral John H. Towers, chief of the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, in his annual report. A recent issue of American Aviation quotes him as saying, "Im- portant as is the necessity for accelerating production, we must not fail to realise that, while we are catching up with for- eign nations in productive capacity, there is danger that lack of emphasis on development and experimentation may lenve us with inferior aircraft to those of H.R.H. Group-Captain the Duke of Kentvisited the Rotol airscrew factory re- cently. He is here seen with Mr. R. H.Coverley, the controller of the company. HERE AND THERE foreign countries which are able to con-centrate on this phase. It is essential that increases in facilities and funds forexperiments and developments be "fgp- vided and that there be no "diminution^effort in this important field." Memorial to Amy JohnsonA FLYING scholarship is to befounded by the Women's Engineer- ing Association as a memorial to itsformer president, Miss Amy Johnson, \ who lost her life a few weeks ago in theThames Estuarjr. Tunnel Expert for M.A.P. T^ESIGNER of the Mersey tunnel and-L' the Rotterdam-Amsterdam tunnel, Mr. Brian H. Colquhoun has just beenappointed director" of aircraft production factories under the Minister for AircraftProduction. Mr. Colquhoun, who is thirty-sevenyears of age, hails from Appleton, Cheshire. The Rotterdam-Amsterdamtunnel, incidentally, was built in record time, and was said to have employed thebiggest number of workers of any en- gineering undertaking in Europe. A.T.C. Still Expanding ADDITIONAL lists of newly formed-**• squadrons and flights of the Air •• Training Corps, issued by the Air -Ministry during the past week, have ;: brought the total of registered units tono fewer than 588. Of 145 names on the fourth list, for , -;example, 133 were of new squadrons in England, nine in Scotland and three inWales. The fifth list, issued three days later, was confined entirely to new schoolsquadrons and contained an additional 101 names, divided between Engk/id . '(79), Scotland (13), Wales (7), and o^~ . each in Northern Ireland and the Isle of •-.Man. Since then another 86 local units have been duly registered, of which 72are in England, nine in Scotland and five in Wales, Incidentally, questions affecting A.T.C.school -squadrons in Scotland will in future pass through the hands of Mr.Harry Bell, Rector of Dollar Academy, : Clackmannanshire, who has been ap-pointed adviser to Mr. Wolfenden, the Director of Pre-entry Training at the AirMinistry, for this special purpose. Mr. Bell, who is also secretary of the Scot-tish Headmasters' Association, will re- main Rector of Dollar Academy as thework involved by his A.T.C. appoint- ment will be part-time only, and anycommunications for Mr. Bell should be addressed to him at the academy. Concurrently with the launching of theA.T.C. scheme, the Air Defence Cadet Corps Gazette has changed its title toAir Training Corps Gazette. The first issue is on sale at bookstalls to-day *(price 6d.), and contains special articles by Air Commodore Chamier and Mr.Wolfenden, in addition to many other features of interest to the A.T.C.
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