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H4 • FLIGHT JULY 3OTH, i942 HERE AND THERE Electric Aircraft TOR ngine Warmer out and quickly ft engines an attached to by Paul F. yland, to as issued [described in/the speci- separabla matching the cowl closely ap^und the air- Attached to' the inside of an electric cheating element connection/'to a source of Irrent. y^ Fthe disaS' are mounted to the cowlin^f t he heater is enclosed betwftBff them and-the cowl opening is closed so it little heat escapes. \ Neutral Enterprise T HE Swiss Federal Government is considering a project for the ex tension of the Basle Airport. The com mercial airport at Bale-Birsfelden, for many years operated by a private com pany, " Aviatik Beider Basel " (Avia tion of Both Bales), was found to be unsuitable owing to the expansion of port installations on the Rhine. A scheme to provide for a new modern airport at Allschiril-Burgfelden, Bale, did not materialise because the airport would necessarily spread over the frontier into Alsace. The new project at present under consideration provides for the con struction of an up-to-date airport at Hard at a cost of four and a quarter million Swiss francs. It is,expccted to be completed by 1944. Very Fully Feathered ! A FREAK stroke of luck, when one of the propellers flew off just as the pilot was preparing to " ditch " in the sea, saved a Coastal Command aircraft from destruction and enabled the pilot A three-quarter front view of the Grumman Avenger—America's newest torpedo plane—which shows how its clean lines are obtained by stowing the 2iin. torpedo internally. to bring the aircraft safely home. On his first operational flight a young pilot officer of a Blenheim fighter on convoy escort'found his starboard engine oil pressure dropping, and set course for base, 200 miles away. As he nursed the engine, losing height, it cut completely. The pilot jettisoned all extra load and managed to maintain height a few feet above water. Approach ing land, however, the pilot officer thought it would not be possible to gain the extra altitude needed to clear the cliffs, and prepared to crash land in the sea. Then, at the last moment, the stalled engine's propeller flew off and the air craft climbed easily, landing safely at a nearby airfield. Trophies for Scottish A.T.C. KEENNESS among Air Training Corps Cadets in South-East Scotland is stimulated by two trophies, which have been presented for competition among squadrons by Bailie T. Sawers, chairman of the Edinburgh City Wing and of the S.E. Scottish Area, A.T.C. The trophies will be awarded for the Aircraft models predominated in an Arts and Crafts Exhibition arranged by General Aircraft, Ltd., for the benefit of their employees. The exhibits (of which the above is but a corner), revealed unmistakably the painstaking effort and skill applied to more vital engines of war. first time to-morrow, July 31st, and thereafter each half year. They will go to the best squadron in each area. Ib<i^# squadron with the largest proportion oir cadets who have passed the proficiency test will be regarded as having first claim. Edinburgh City Wing's trophy is a particularly fine piece of work. It is of bronze, representing an eagle on a rock, with wings outspread as though taking off in flight. For the South-East Area there is a silver cup. The two trophies will be presented to the winning squadrons by Group Captain the Duke of Hamilton and Brand, A.T.C. Commandant for Scot land. Wearing o' the Kilt TNCIDENTALLY, the pipe and drum •*- band of the City of Edinburgh Squad ron is one of the few Scottish A.T.C. units that sport the kilt. They wear the grey Douglas tartan, the family tartan of the Duke of Hamilton. The privilege of wearing this tartan was first accorded to the squadron's big brothers, No. 603 (City of Edinburgh) Auxiliary Air Force Squadron. The cadets got their kilts in the days before the war, when they were a unit of the old A<r Defence Cadet Corps. •J'~ Another A.T.C. pipe band wearing the kilt is that of Peebles Squadron, which has permission to wear the tartan of the Duke of Buccleuch. Slide-rule Slip READERS must have been somewhat puzzled by the arithmetic contained in the Outlook paragraph in last week's issue entitled " Fuel Conservation." The editorial slide rule (or rather the Editor's reading thereof) slipped a decimal point. To make confusion worse confounded, a misprint gave the average power of engines on test as 50 h.p., when 1,000 h.p. had been intended. To get matters straightened out, let us sum marise the whole argument: If 500 engines are on test at an average power of 1,000 h.p. each, and the average con sumption is one-half pint per horse-power per hour, the total hourly consumption is in the region of 30,000 gallons per hour, or 360,000 gallons per 12-bour day, Truly sufficient reason for adopting the suggestion of our Managing Editor to use this power for generating electricity.
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