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402 FLIGHT JUNE 12TH, 1941. EMBRYO AIRMEN : The Air Training Corps continues to grow and among thelatest squadrons are No. 479 and No. 480, recently formed by the Austin Motor Company, whose works provide headquarters accommodation. In the picture isMr. L. P. Lord, Works Director, accompanied by Wing Cdr. Monk (Midland Group, A.T.C.) inspecting a promising batch of cadets recruited from the factory and the surrounding district. Lockheed Birthday nPO celebrate the ninth anniversary of-1- the founding of the Lockheed Air- craft Corporation of Burbank, Cali-fornia, a special anniversary publication is being issued this month. Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture THE Royal Aeronautical Societyannounces that the Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture will now be deliveredon June 17th, at 6.30 p.m., at the Insti- tution ot Electrical Engineers, SavoyPlace, Victoria Embankment, W.C.2. Mr. Juan Trippe, president of PanAmerican Airways, will be the lecturer, and his subject will be " Ocean AirTransport." Refreshments will be served , before the lecture. Non-members of thesociety wishing to attend may obtain a ticket through any member. It will beremembered that the lecture was post- poned from last month. Altitude Recorders A DEVICE which will make a con-tinuous record of the altitude at which the airliner- is flying will be re-quired in future on all aircraft over 10,000 lb. loaded weight running onscheduled services in U.S.A. Also re- quired is another device which will showthe time and period of operation during which the radio transmitter is in action.The fitting of these two pieces of equip- ment brings the pilot in the air moreand more under ground control. Holiday Air Tragedy IN view of the fact that a German raiderwas seen in the vicinity within a fev minutes of the British civil air-linertaking off, it seems only too likely that the missing Great Western and SouthernAir Lines machine which disappeared with its six passengers during the shortsrossing from the Scilly Isles to Pen- zance, was shot down into the sea. If this is so it demonstrates both theinsensate brutality of the German and the risks incurred by taking a holidayair-trip within easy reach of German occupied territory. When the machine failed to reach Pen-zance—the flight should have taken only 20 minutes—search of the intervening 40miles of sea was made by R.A.F. rescue launches and aircraft and by a lifeboat,but no trace of the plane or its passen- gers was found.The passengers were Mrs. Sheelagh Leggitt, secretary to Sir Walter Monc-ton, Ministry of Information; her hus- band, Mr. John Leggitt, secretary of theAnglo-Egyptian Chamber of Commerce in London; Jeannie and RomalitaLeggitt, aged 11 and 9 respectively, daughters of Mr. Leggitt; and Mrs.Georgina Griffiths, mother of Mrs. Leg- gitt, all of whom were on holiday at St.Ives. The pilot was Capt. W. D. Ander- son, D.F.C., an Australian. Accident Report •""PHE Civil -Aeronautics Board has pub-•J- lished its report on the United Air Lines crash which occurred at Salt I^akeCity on November 4th, 1940. The Board found that the flight pro-gressed without incident until it. arrived in the vicinity of Salt Lake City, whensuch severe static was encountered that the pilot was unable to begin his descentuntil almost an hour later. The descent was not executed in full accordance withestablished radio-range procedure be- cause it was begun without the pilothaving definitely established his position with respect to the north leg of the SaltLake City radio range, the one used for low approaches. The Board found thatat the time the radio range was not func- tioning properly, the north leg having PAPER SHORTAGE OWING to the drastic fur-ther reduction in paper supplies for the new rationperiod from June to August, some further restriction ofcirculation has proved in- evitable. If all those whohave been able to obtain copies will try to share the journalwith as many would - be readers as possible, they 'willdo much to mitigate the dis- appointment which the lessfortunate are bound to suffer. HERE AND THERE swung far to the east into the WasatcKMountains, and that, due to this mai- ionctioiiiiig, the pilot was led into themountains while attempting to intersect the north leg. The Board assigned as the probablecause of the accident the malfunctioning of the Salt Lake City radio range, butrecognised as contributing iactors the failure of the communications operators,whose duty it was to monitor the range, to detect the malfunctioning and thefailure of the pilot to follow in full estab- lished procedure. The Motorists Squadron. THE Motor Industry Fighter Squadronhas been further reinforced by a lighter aircraft, this time a gift frommembers of The Society of Motor Manu- lacturers and Traders, Ltd.The Secretary of the Society, Lt. Col. D. C. McLagan, D.S.O., has requestedthe Minister of Aircraft Production that the plane be named " S.M M. & T.";and it will fly in formation with fighters named after other famous car and acces-sory manufacturers in the Motor Industry Squadron. Does Russia See Red ? RUSSIA, who may be said to have in-vented the paratrooper (though not the word for it) is now busy carrying outextensive manoeuvres, possibly as a result of seeing how effectively her Ger-man neighbour has employed the idea. Expert parachutists from all over theU.S.S.R. are said to be taking part in a> month's exercises which include the stag-~-ing of wide area raids, attacks on aero- dromes and wireless stations, training lttarlow and high altitude jumping, experi-r ments with automatic opening gearwhich can be set to act at any desir%j§ height and, of course, defence exercise?to counter attack by paratroops. ^ Long-distance We/lesiey THE Vickers Wellesley which brokethe world's long-distance record from Ismailia to Koepang in 1938, onlyto have the record snatched from it by its two formation mates who were ableto reach Darwin, is now in use for in- struction at the R.A.A.F. EngineeringSchool at Melbourne, it is stated by the Sydney paper, Airlog. This Wellesley came on to Australiaand then was on a flight between Perth and Darwin when it was forced to landin rugged country north of Derby on the coast of Western Australia. It waseventually sold for scrap, but the enter- prising purchaser dismantled, crated andtransported it to Derby, from whence it eventually reached Melbourne, having"been, bought by the R.A.A.F. as a demonstration machine for the instruc-tion of'aircraftmen.
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