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1942
1942 - 2094.PDF
384 FLIGHT HERE AND "73 Colleagues' Donation A DONATION of /50, as a memorial to the late E. R Staniland, who was killed when an experimental aircraft in which he was flying crashed last month, has been made by his colleagues at the Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd. Staniland had been an experimental test-flight observer on Bristol engines for several years. Busman's Holiday SO popular are the American-built Mustangs with the pilots of a Polish squadron operating with R.A.F. Army Co-operation Command that, according to an official Air Ministry news item, one pilot who was due to go on leave just after he got his new Mustang decided to stay and enjoy his holiday in the cock pit. What a testimonial! Sunderland Sweep H ERE'S a true story from West Africa. An injured Sunderland captain, rescued from a dinghy, arrived in hospital with nothing but a 10s. note and an American dollar in his possession. Fellow patients, mostly Army officers, sympathetically suggested a game of cards to help pass the time. The flight lieutenant thanked .them* and said how about a hand at poker? When the evening's play closed, the " destitute " victim of enemy action was feeling lots better. He'd won £6 10s. from the Army 1 Postmen to Keep Look Out L IVES of members of air crews have sometimes been lost because of the delay in locating their aircraft when they have "crashed in lonely places. Sometimes postmen are the only per sons who pass through such isolated districts, so they have been asked by the Air Ministry to maintain a careful watch while on their rounds and to report to the police any crashed craft they see. Postmen on dutv, however, will not TO BUILD SHIPS WITH WINGS : " Can Do " Kaiser, as they now call him in America, holding a luncheon conference with aircraft chiefs on the building of "sky freighters." Left to right are, Grover Loening (War Production Board consultant) Glenn L. Martin, Donald W. Douglas, Henry J. Kaiser and John K. Northrop. take part in searches, for that would in volve delay in delivering letters, some of which might be of outstanding im portance. Contract for Kaiser A CONTRACT for three experimental seven-engined twin-hull flying boats, each capable of carrying 60 tons of freight, has been awarded by the U.S. Government to Henry J. Kaiser, the " miracle-man " shipbuilder who re cently launched a Liberty cargo ship ten days after its keel was laid—and claimed he could even improve on that! If these three flying boats are proved satisfactory, more will be ordered, and Kaiser has been asked to draw up plans for their mass production. The value of the initial contract is put at £4,500,000. Incidentally, it seems an ironical -co incidence that the name " Kaiser " should be so prominently connected with the fight against Germany in this war. Official Appointment T HE Ministry of Supply announce the appointment of Mr. George Briggs as Deputy Controller in Charge of Iron and Steel Supplies. He succeeds Sir John Duncanson, the newly appointed Iron and Steel Controller. In his new post Mr. Briggs will be directly respon sible for the supply of iron and steel pro ducts to all the war industries. Mr. Briggs has been with the Iron and Steel Control since the outbreak of war, where he has been responsible for the production of alloy and special steels, steel castings, forgings and ferro-alloys, in which work he has been closely asso ciated with the new Controller. Mr. Briggs has held the post of Director for Alloy and Special Steels and Assistant Controller of Iron and Steel Supplies. Before the outbreak of war Mr. Briggs was special director of English Steel Cor poration, Ltd., and a director of the Dar lington Forge, Ltd. HOWDY, NEIGHBOUR ! : A Spitfire meets a Lightning when paying a vis California. " This historic handshaking of the two champion defenders of de when Col. Ben Kelsey, of the U.S. Army Air Forces, flev the vockheed air terminal at Burbank, nys the official caption, " took place ;ht Field."
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