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1942 - 0912.PDF
418 HERE FLIG HT/ AND 7 T942 'Another P. and P. Gift T HE Merchant Navy Comforts Service, 62, Heath Street, London, N.W.3. lias received £51 12s. iod. as a further donation from the employees' charity fund of Phillips and Powis Aircraft,* Ltd., .Heading. The Service aims at raising £100,000 during 19.(2. Rumbold Appointment M R. THOMAS O. JONES has been appointed General Works Manager ol L. A. Kumbold and Co., Ltd., Kil- buin, the specialists in aircraft seating and similar equipment, in succession to the late Mr. F. H. Kybert, whose death was recently announced in Flight. Mr. Jones has been with the company for a number of years and was Mr. Kybert's assistant. Wright Memorial Lecture T ORD BRABAZON OF TARA, M.C., -L-' F.R.Ae.S., is to give the 30th Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture, which will be held at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Storey's Gate, St. James's, S.W.i, at 6.30 p.m. on Thursday, May 28th. Lord Brabazon, the former Minister of Aircraft Production, is Vice-President of the Royal Aeronautical Society. He will be more familiar to our readers as Lt.-Col. Moore-Brabazon. Scientists and the War T HE Association of Scientific Workers is holding its annual Council meet ing on May 2nd and 3rd at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medi cine, Holborn, W.C.i. Mr. R. A. Watson Watt, F.R.S., President of the A.Sc.W., will be in the chair. The Association has increased its membership from 2,000 to 5,000 in the past year, and has just now affiliated to the Trades Union Congress. The main items for discussion will be the ways in which scientists and en gineers can aid war production, and the need for improved professional status and educational facilities. Young Modellers to Help AMERICAN high school youths, says the Civil Aeronautics Journal, have been asked by Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox, to participate in a vital part of the Navy's training programme by producing 500,000 aircraft models— 10,000 each of 50 different types of fight ing aircraft—for training personnel in aircraft recognition and range estimation in gunnery practice and for training civilians in aircraft recognition. The Office of Education is extending the request to 26,000 youths and the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics is preparing plans and specifications for the aircraft. Monoxide Peril W RITING on the invisible menace ol monoxide gas in exhaust fumes, W. B. Burchall, secretary of the Air Transport Association of Canada, draws attention, in the March issue of Canadian Aviation, to the remarkable fact that in the C.A.A. analysis of accidents for LONG-RANGE CANNON : The American version of the Atracobra, which mounts the 37 mm. cannon backed by light and heavy machine guns, is the hardest hit ting fighter in the U.S. Air Forces. This one has a jettisonable extra fuel tank of bomb-like proportions. 1940, more than one-third of those on scheduled airlines are attributed to "poor technique" and "carelessness" on the part of the pilot. Considering the flying experience of aWiiie pilots, their physical fitness, long training, and their instinctive ingrained solicitude for the safety of their passen gers and craft, Mr. Burchall puts for ward the theory that at the time of the accident they were probably under the unsuspected influence of carbon monoxide poisoning productive of subnormality. Recent research, he points out, has shown that a very small amount ol this invisible, odourless and tasteless gas will seriously affect the victim's judgment. Its first effects are often mental and it can induce a reckless mood. Faults in cabin-heaters of the exhaust muffler type, he thinks, may well b^. at the bottom of many accidents. \^ R.C.A.F. Research T HE Royal Canadian Air Force has announced the appointment of A.V-M. E. W. Stedman to the newly created position of Director-General of Air Research. He will be succeeded on the Air Council -A>y Air Comdre. A. Ferrier, who liecorhes Air Member for Aeronautical Engineering. The duties ofHhe Director-General will be entirely divorced from routine work ol the department and the officer will devote his time entirety to the study of research and development work in close collaboration with the National Research Council. This organisation is intended to make possible the introduction into service, with a minimum of delay, of new devices and new patterns of weapons. Help from Britons Abroad I N the course oi a " Bomber Week " organised by the British Community Council in Portugal the sum of £40,000 was subscribed by the members of the British Colony there. It is not a large colony, even though its numbers have been increased by a temporary popula tion of refugees and diplomatic and consular officials who wire forced to flee from the overrun countries. The effort, therefore! is quite credit able. The largest individual contribu tion was £10,000, while there were three of £5,000, one (f £2,000, and four of £,1,000. The mc ley collected was either outright gifts o else loans of vary ing kinds—National ! avings Certificates, etc. This "special ego 14' is quite apart from the very many >ther funds in con nection with the wa , all of which are fed by considerabl; voluntarv con tributions ffi>m the British Colony in Portugal. \ In latg 19V0 aril early 1941 the Colony nhj. at Spitfire Fund, which brought in £17,0^0/not a little of which came from as far afield as the Azores and Madeira. Books for Airmen in Hospital N O fewer than 1,198,533 books ha\lr been distributed by the British Red Cross and Order of St. John Hospital Library to Service hospitals in this country and overseas since the war began until the end of last month, and of these, 22,528 have gone to Air Force hospitals at home and 446 to the R.A.F. in Russia. Some idea of the magnitude ol the task of providing reading matter for our sick and wounded Service men and women is conveyed by figures just issued from their headquarters at 48, Queen's Gardens, London, W.2, which disclose that more than 800 voluntary librarians are working in hospitals in England and Wales alone, while the destinations of books sent abroad range from Iceland and the Faroes to Aden, Bagdad and the Far East. Even St. Helena received 370, while 13,930 went to hospital ships. The vast majority of the books<have been obtained by collections and appeals all over the country, but during the past two years more than 15,000 books and nearly 6,000 paper-covered books have been rebound at their binding room at Bel grave House. Needless to say, books and magazines are still urgently needed.
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