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1941 - 1133.PDF
r MAY 15TH, 1941. j 349 HERE AND THERE (Confirmed) EYES OVER IRAQ : Recent activities in Iraq have once again proved the efficiency of the R.A.F. whenever and Wherever called upon. This picture shows a " short-nosed " Blenheim flying over Basra. Aluminium in Australia /CONSIDERATION is being given to ^-' the establishment of an aluminium industry in Australia by the utilisation of bauxite deposits which exist there. A Postponed TrippeM R. JUAN TRIPPE, president of PanAmerican Airways, was to have delivered the Wilbur Wright lecture tothe Royal Aeronautical Society to-day, May 15th. The Society has been advisedthat Mr. Trippe has had to postpone his fy, so there will probably be some-like a month's delay in reading the paper, which will deal with ocean airtravel. Republic Thunderbolt TestedT HE latest American fighter, the P-47,made by the Republic Aviation Company and known as the Thunderbolt,was test-flown on May 8th at Farming- dale, New York. It is powered with asingle Pratt and Whitney 2,000 h.p. engine and is intended for high-altitudework in the 30,000 to 40,000 feet levels. The speed of the Thunderbolt has notbeen revealed but is probably in the 400 m.p.h. neighbourhood. I A And Granny Came, Too!A MONG recent callers at the R.A.F.Information Bureau in London's blitzed West End was a potential recruitfor the W.A.A.F. who gave her age as 38, but who was obviously a trifle olderthan that. This gallant "old girl" wanted to be a fabric worker, stoutlyniaintaining that she could handle a pictur sewing-machine with the best, but whenshe was finally obliged to admit that she had reversed the figures of her age andthat she was really 83, her enrolment was reluctantly refused. "Granny" waspatently disappointed, but said they couldn't stop her knitting for the R.A.F.Comforts Fund, anyway! Greeting from Hungary CHRISTMAS card from a reader ofFlight in Hungary has just been re- ceived by the Editor. It was posted onDecember 23rd in Budapest and has, therefore, been nearly five months on theway, but the marvel is that it got here at all. Incidentally, the sender's signaturerecalls the happy days of the Magyar Picnics when British private owners usedto pay flying visits (in the literal sense, of course) to that once-gay European.capital. "Time" Flies IT has fallen to the lot of that pro-gressive American journal, Time, to produce the world's first special light-weight "air express edition" for cheap delivery by air to far-away subscribers—a feat which, simple enough in itself, may nevertheless revolutionise the pub-lishing world if other magazines follow suit. Commenting on this important develop-ment, Commercial Aviation points out that by thus introducing a lightweightedition, their readers in South America, Alaska, Hawaii and the Philippines willnot only be able to get the magazine far more cheaply than hitherto, but willreceive it on or before the date of pub- lication on the cover. Previously thenormal edition, if sent by air, was very expensive, and if sent by surface trans-port, was not received in these distant places for some three weeks. Air carrierswould obviously benefit if this new idea became general. Go by AirS UCH is the exhortation on the summertime-table leaflet issued by Scottish Airways, Ltd., in which details of itsscheduled services operating from now " until further notice " are set forth. The services, of which there are five,range from Glasgow, via Islay and the Hebrides, to Inverness and on to theOrkney and Shetland Isles. Fund-raising " Flitftres "I N case you haven't heard, a Flit/ireis a light American aircraft engaged in raising dollars for the American branchof the R.A.F. Benevolent Fund which is getting well under way just now in NewYork. With their usual flair for energeticorganisation, the New Yorkers recently held an "R.A.F. Party" at the LaGuardia airport, the culminating point at which was the departure of a light 'planeto every one of the country's 4H States on a fund-raising flight. And with their even more famous flairfor finding a word for it (at which they out-Greek the Greeks!) our good Ameri-can friends have expressed the co-opera- tive link between their little aerial fund-raisers and the R.A.F. by dubbing them " Flitfires." $nappy landings, boys!
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