FlightGlobal.com
Home
Premium
Archive
Video
Images
Forum
Atlas
Blogs
Jobs
Shop
RSS
Email Newsletters
You are in:
Home
Aviation History
1942
1942 - 2110.PDF
394 FLIGHT OCTOBER 8TH, 1942 BRISTOL SCHOOL CURRICULUM FOR APPRENTICES JUNIOR T6CMNICAL SCHOOLS E.LEMENTAR1 AND CENTRAL SCHOOLS LSAVINC AOC 1 EAVING AGE UM SECONDARE AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS ] UNIVERSITIES COLLEGES WORKS PRACTICAL SCHOOL Jfc THEORYj SHOP aovs OfflCE BCV5 • WORKS SCHOOL 1 fftACTiCAL 4 THEORvj * '" • WORKS SCHOOL PRACTICAL & THEORY 1 FOUNDRY TRADES StLICTED TRADE THEORETICAL TRAIWINO MAKERS I COUWM MOULOINofl ^T*'^ COM H~ MAKERS I WOTK* | SCHOOL TINSMITHS COPPERSMITHS, ETC prfT ucl PROMGTIOI ..;>- GENERAL. ENGINEERING SELECTED TNEOR MACHINIST I NATIONAL _____-JeERTlFICAT£ UTTER- II COUHSt ERECTOR ffTuOEWT APPRENTIC6S 1 WITH MATRICULATION! t i: 'SARI IN SHOT f ITT IMC FOUNDRY LABORATORY INSTITUTE I o"ic( »»siieiicra H MAI RICULAT ION. YEARS « 5HCW1 _1_ SOfJNORY TtSTlNC ASSOC'ATE OF INSTITUTE OP M tNCINEERS INSTITUTE TOO'. ROOM DRAWING OFF1CI VIEWING TESTING RIGHT 5UED LABORATORY SKUtO CRAFTSMEN H.t -INDIA BE ENDORSED FOR NATIONAL CERTIFICATE #APPR€I >FF)CES t OBSERVERS INSTALLATION GrFICI 1 1 1 I 1 TRAINED ENGINEERS TICES SHOWING SPECIAL APTITUDE MAY QUAL PRODUCTION RESEARCH 1 FOR STUDENT OR I -I school have expressed a high opinion of its present and future potentialities, including visitors from Australia and America, and a representative from the Education Department at Wash ington. For the benefit of readers whose sons might wish to enter the Bristol school it might be of assistance to point out that in the first instance application should be made by letter to the employment manager, the Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., Aircraft Engine Department. (Letters ad dressed to the offices of Flight will be forwarded.) The age of the candidate should be given, together with his edu cational stage, i.e., whether elemen tary school, public or secondary school, college or university. When this information has been received, the appropriate application form will be forwarded for completion. It has been mentioned that no pre mium is charged, and that, on the contrary, wages are paid. It may be of interest to mention these briefly. Works apprentices are paid 19s. I id. at the age of 16, this increasing by steps to 47s. 8d. at the age of 20. In addition, overtime is paid. Staff apprentices start at 18s. at 16, with gradual increases to 48s. at 20. J unior ex-secondary or public school students receive the same rates of pay as staff apprentices, plus a cost-of- living bonus, and those with senioi university degree £4 10s., plus cost-of- living bonus. In addition, staff apprentices and junior students are eligible for special ability payments. BEHIND THE LINES Service and Industrial News from the Inside of Axis and Enemy-occupied Countries A French Engine THE Sigma Company Sociiti Indus-trfelle Ginhale de Moteurs d'Avia tion) of Saint Etienue have recently com pleted a prototype of a new aircraft engine, which is now undergoing tests. This is a radial engine of 28 cylinders in four banks. The Sigma Company, which was iormed in 1938, has a con siderable experience in the production of aircraft engines, and was originally en gaged on the manufacture of Bristol a.c. sleeve valve engines under licence at a plant at Venissieux, near Lyons. Co-ordination GERMAN aeronautical research has hitherto been conducted in various institutes separately controlled by the Air Minister, Hermann Goering. To in troduce a better co-ordination in the sphere of such researches and to bring in a unified control, a Directorate for Research at the German Air Ministry has been created recently. This " Fors- chungsrat des Reichminister's fuer Lttft- fahrt und Oberbefehlshaber der Luft waffe" is in direct charge of all technical research and is responsible for the trans mission of research results to the industry and the Luftwaffe. For Nazi Transport ITALIAN sources report that the Luft waffe has put into service on the Rus sian front a new type of cargo carrying aircraft. This is said to be a twin- engined type with twin tail booms and a tricycle undercarriage. A spacious fuse lage allows the carrying of bulky cargo and the aircraft has a load capacity of seven to eight tons. A special lift- increasing device is said to be fitted on the aircraft which allows operations with full loads from emergency landing fields. Although no further details are given it is believed that only a few of this type have actually come into service, and the JU52 is still in mass employment. Incidentally, the new aircraft is said to be the product of a firrri other than the J unkers. Jap Mystery THE scant information about Japanese aircraft is made worse by language difficulties and a confused designation of types. In this connection it will be re membered that names of Japanese air craft contain a figure which indicates the year of Japanese reckoning. Thus "00" stands for 2600, the year of the Japanese Era (or 1940). Whether this date indi cates the year of the construction of the prototype or that in which the produc tion type went into service is not clear, but one may rather accept the former suggestion. The full designation of Japanese air craft is composed of a name, a letter following, and the above mentioned number. Thus " Nakajima S-97." The first word indicates the manufacturer of a name of the aircraft while the letter stands for the class of service. In this manner fighters are designated by an " S," army light bombers by "KB," medium bombers "B," heavy bombers "OW," torpedo aircraft " G," navy dive-bombers "K," reconnaissance aircraft " H," transport types by a " Y " and training aircraft also by a "K." This official Japanese designation would greatly help to eliminate the present confusion. There seems to be no reason why this official Jap classifica tion should not be widely adopted out side Japan, in place of the confusing variety of designations at present in practice. To replace Jap symbols of classifica tion by English ones, e.g., for fighters (instead of " S ") would only add to the tangle and serve no logical purpose.
Sign up to
Flight Digital Magazine
Flight Print Magazine
Airline Business Magazine
E-newsletters
RSS
Events
