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1941
1941 - 1054.PDF
328 MAY 8TH, 1941. A A Mr. C. P. Robertson, O.B.E., nowappointed Deputy Director of Public Relations, will continue to be respon-sible for Press and Publicity arrange- ments at the Air Ministry. D.A.S.R.S. A NEW joint Air Ministry andAdmiralty directorate has been set up to deal with and co-ordinate theservices already in existence for rescuing the crews of aircraft and ships. The newdirectorate bears the title Directorate of Air/Sea Rescue Services, and the firstdirector is Air Commodore L. G. le B. Croke, R.A.F. Capt. C. L. Howe,R.N., is deputy director. Over Oceans and ContinentsT HE Pan American Airways routeacross the Pacific to New Zealand from the United States joins SanFrancisco, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Canton Island, Noumea and Auckland.The journey across the States to New York can be accomplished in four hops,with stops at Salt Lake City, Cheyenne, Omaha and Chicago. So it is nowpossible to travel between New Zealand and New York with only nine stops, orbetween Australia and New York with only ten. Omni-directional Radio Range A PAPER given by David G. C. Luck,of the R.C.A. Manufacturing Com- pany, at the annual meeting of'the Insti-tute of Aeronautical Sciences described a« "omni-directional radio range."Radio guidance for aircraft may be oi three main types: directional beamtransmitters on the ground, referred to in America as radio ranges; direction-finding receivers on the ground; and direction-finding receivers carried by air-craft and known as radio compasses. Radio ranges are the mainstay of navi-gation in the United States, as ground direction-finders suffer from the disabilityof being able to deal with only one aero- plane at a time. The radio compass, ofnecessity not as elaborate as the ground d.f. station because it has to be light andof small volume, yields results of not such an accurate character. HERE AND THERE The R.C.A. typo of ground trans-mitter supplies to each aircraft tuned to it a direct indication of its bearing fromthat transmitter and this is done auto- matically and continuously. It is alsopossible for the aircraft to be given a magnified indication of its deviation fromany chosen azimuth. These indications are independent of the aircraft's heading,and any number of aircraft may be served at once with no transmission Iromthem to cause interference or reveal their position. The system works on ultra-high frequency and only requires norm- ally good receiving equipment aboardthe aircraft. John G. Winant T ITTLE has been heard of the pastJ—' performances of Mr. John G. Winant, U.S. Ambassador to this country, andit will come as a surprise to many to know that he was an airman during thelast war. Enlisting in Paris in 1917, he was commissioned in January, 1918, asa First Lieutenant, and later was pro- moted to Captain in the U.S. Air Ser-vice, in command of the 8th Aero Squadron. He returned to the Statesearly in 1919. Quantas Empire Pilot QANTAS EMPIRE AIRWAYS hasseveral of its flying-boat captains with flying time totalling over tenthousand hours. Capt. R. S. Adair is one of them, having started his flyingwith No. 1 Squadron of the Australian Flying Corps in 1915 and rising to therank of Flight Lieutenant. After the war he " barnstormed " round Australiawith an Avro 504K and obtained several ground engineer's licences, later found-ing the company Aircrafts Pty. Ltd., which still operates in the district outfrom Brisbane. The year 1927 took him to the United States, and then in 1936he joined Qantas to fly DH86s between Brisbane and Singapore. He became a flying-boat captain in July, 1938, and has logged 11,500 hours in* the air. Britain Bombs by Day A SURE indication of the risingstrength of our air-power is pro- vided by the increasing depth of R.A.F.penetrations into German \erritory on daylight raids. For some time ourbombers have been making successful sweeps along and over the Continentalshores and delivering damaging blows at enemy shipping creeping along theFrench coast, but recently a successful daylight attack was made on the power-station at Ibbenburen, near Osnabruck, which lies some TOO miles inland in north-west Germany. Such daylight pene- tration is a reassuring pointer to thegrowing power of the R.A.F.'s counter- offensive arm. New Ground Trainer \ NEW "on the ground" trainer de-** signed for teaching novice pilots how to co-ordinate flight controls is describedin the March issue of Aviation. Con sisting of a seat mounted on a semi-hemispherical base and attached to a i2in. power-driven airscrew, the machine isbalanced so delicately that moving the stick forward or back lowers or lifts the"nose," while movement from side to side (which affects the balance of aweight beneath the seat) changes the horizontal axis. The plane of the airscrew is controlled'by the rudder-bar in such a way that the application of, say, left rudder,causes the pull of the airscrew to swing the "nose" to the left. Students aretaught to manoeuvre by aiming a tiny spotlight at a wood panel on which ispainted a series of flight paths. An ex- perienced pilot can immediately put thespotlight just where he wants it. FIGHTING PRINCE : It is reported that Prince Bernhard ot the i&therlands, whorecently qualified as a pilot and is here seen wearing hii wings, nssly soon become a fighter-pilot. With him in the picture are Professor P. S. Gerbrandy, Prime Ministerof the Netherlands, and M. Beelaerts Van Blokland, President of the Queen's Cou . '•?'
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