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1942
1942 - 2358.PDF
524 FLIGHT HERE AND OVEMBER I2TH, I942 Trade Mark REGISTRATION of the trade mark "Siramonds" has been granted to Simmonds Aerocessories, Ltd., in respect of their self-locking nuts. Aeronautical Scholarships THE scholarship selection committee of the Society of British Aircraft Con structors and the Royal- Aeronautical Society have made awards of S.B.A.C. scholarships to Eustace Laurence Gold smith (Tunbridge Wells), Joseph.Gilson William McHarry (Scunthorpe), Spencer Davidson Mestion (Plymouth), and Dennis Roland Murrin (Bromley, Kent). Emergency "Deck" AN emergency landing strip, the first in a $10,000,000 programme author ised by Congress, has recently been com pleted somewhere on America's Atlantic seaboard—the exact locality is not dis closed. Capable of taking the biggest and heaviest? bombers, the strip is 8,000ft. long and 500ft. wide, and of this, 7,000ft. by 150ft. is hard surface paved with 8in. thick concrete. Canadian Appointment D B. WALLACE, special representa-• tive of the C.P.R., has been appointed assistant to the vice-president and general manager of Canadian Pacific Airlines, Ltd. Formerly on the editorial stafi of the Financial Post, Toronto, Wallace was for a time administration manager of the Atlantic feny service before it was taken over by the R.A.F. Ferry Command. He holds an M.A. (Toronto) degree in Economics and Transportation. AMERICAN MISSION : Leaders qf the U.S. aircraft industry, visiting Britain under the auspices of M.A.P., are here gaining an insight into our production methods. Watching work on a Hurricane lie are (left to right) Fit. Lt. P. W. S. Bulman of Hawker-Siddeley, P. G. Johnson of Boeing, C. Marous of Bendix, Sir Frank Spencer Spriggs o< Hawker-Siddeley. Another Laurel for Dr. Lanchester AT the Institution of Civil Engineers on Tuesday last the Ewing Medal was awarded to Dr. F. W. Lanchester, F.R.S., being received on his behalf in his absence by Mr. H. L. Guy, secretary of the Institution of Mechanical En gineers. Dr. Lanchester is a well-known contributor to the pages of Flight and a famous pioneer of the science of aero nautics. The Ewing Medal, which is awarded annually, goes to Dr. Lanchester for "specially meritorious contributions to the^ science of engineering in the field of research." R.A.F. on the Target AN exhibition of photographs of the bomb damage done by R.A.I', raids is open at the showrooms of Rootes, Ltd., Devonshire House, Piccadilly, London. Enlargements—some as large as 6ft. by 4ft.—of many of the photographs which have appeared in Flight, are of great interest. They show in detail the tremendous damage done by incendiaries and the big 4,000 lb. blast bombs. There is also a number of excellent stereoscopic photographs for inspection. Although these are not so impressive in size as the wall pictures, actually they are much more informative, and we recommend our readers to go straight for these. Very Tasty- /+ •I PLASTICS FOR POWER UNITS : Wright Aeronautical Corporation expects to save many thousands of pounds of precious aluminium monthly by the use of plastic material for such engine parts as push-rod housings and bafrles. The picture shows • plastic bafrles being fitted to a 1,200 h.p JtyMone jyrfhenassembly line iJCyclon < FLYING low over a Scottish loch on their way back from a practice operation, a section,of Spitfires disturbed some swans which were " taxying" on the water. Never having learnt the rule about giving way to theymachine in the air, the foolish birds^pened wide out and proceeded to yke off, becoming air borne in time Jor one of them to get in the way of rfe second "Spit" in the -.ecti&n. The swaJS was impaled on a wing chorion an/the pilot thus carried it back to his staiion for sugper. We a* credibly pforated that roast te-j a delicacy, and it seems a the birfl already, "on the the pilot did not rip off a is and so deliver the dish cooked. a
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