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FLIGHT NOVEMBER 5-1H, 1942 Comparing Notes N OTHING could be more useful in promoting a better understanding between this country and the United States of America than reciprocal visits of representatives of the two nations. In no sphere of activity are such visits more beneficial than in that of the air, and thus Great Britain has been unfeignedly glad to receive the American aircraft mission which has been paying a return visit for the British aircraft mission which toured the United States recently. So far the British mission has not disclosed to the British public its impressions of aircraft and engine pro duction in America, but the American mission which has been inspecting British aircraft and engine factories has had an opportunity to express its satisfaction with, what it has seen in this country. The whole community heard the views of Mr. T. P. Wright on the radio last Sunday, and those views appeared to be shared generally by other members of the American mission. One fundamental difference between conditions here and in America which has impressed the American representatives is our extensive and successful use of dispersal. One can imagine that American constructors, accustomed as they are to huge factories under one roof (with all the advantages which that system confers), would expect our relatively small and scattered units to suffer a diminution of output. The production figures given to the mission, and the evidence of its own eyes, dispelled that idea, and the view was generally held that we had done our dispersal very skilfully. The relatively small use made in this country of con veyors in factories was commented on, but it was realised that the comparatively small size of our factories renders ' the use of conveyors less profitable. CONTENTS The Outlook - War in the Air . - Here and There _ - _ War Record of the Fleet Air Arm Topics of the Day - Behind the Lines - Aircraft Characteristics Lisbon's New Airport Composite Non-such—No. 2 B.O.A. Maintenance - Gun-turret Operation The Hercules Power Plant Correspondence - Service Aviation - - _ • - - - - - - ~ _ _ _ - - - - - - - - - — _ - - - - - 498, ~ - - - ~ 487 480 492 493 496 498 a and b 499 499 500 502 504 508 5t>9 In this country there has been much criticism of the introduction of modifications deemed necessary as a result of operational experience. That, quite naturally, was particularly so in the earlier days of the war, when delays in production were, undoubtedly, caused by "mods." The Americans appear to have been much impressed by the flexibility of our industry which . permits such modifications to be made at an early*" date. At a conference between representatives of the Pis* jty and members of the American air mission, Col. Llewellin quoted as an instance of co-operation the fact that the De Havilland Mosquito airframes built in Canada are to have Rolls-Royce engines built in the United States. The statement evidently referred to the Merlin XX with two-piece cylinder blocks built by the American Packard works. The arrangement is obviously a sensible one, since the engines can be sent to Canada and installed in the aircraft there, after which the machines will, pre sumably, be flown across. « EMPIRE AIR TRAINING CONFERENCE. Zealand at the conference held in London on October 16th to discuss arrangements for Training Scheme. Left to right: Air Marshal R. Williams, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., R.A.A.F. Secretary of State for Air), Mr. S. M. Bruce, C.H., M.C., (High Commissioner for Australia), M.P., (Secretary of State for Air), Mr. W. J. Jordan (High Commissioner for. New Zeal; Mr. T. A, Barrow (Air Secretary for New Zealand), Air Marshal Sir B. E. Sutton, Personnel) and Sir A. W. Street, K.C.B., K.B.E., C.M.G., CLE., M.C. (tk Kingdom, Australia aad New bntinuance of the Empire Air Balfour, M.C., M.P. (Under Archibald Sinclair, K.T., C.M.G., Mr. L. J. Banford (Secretary), \ C.B., D.S.O., M.C. (Air Member for Under Secretary of State).
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