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1942
1942 - 2500.PDF
602 FLIGHT DECEMBER 3RD, 1942 n • 1 AND THERE P! for the Mosquito^ ROSE, an Australi ""recently^eturned (Sbuntrv, is fquoted D.H. "Mosq ' pqpviousl ^ighi_is^Me""controls an<^S6 manoeuvrable as liu combat with eng \irphrt Wage$ Dispute T^OLLOv/lNG a dsffute involving JL workers at the Shannon Airport in County\CJarej the Eire Government has underta\e,fti«n examination of the wages paid at the airport. Wages are stabilised in Eire to prevent inflation, and it is stated that due regard will have to be paid to Government orders affecting the position. _ It is understood that the men involved are employed on construe tiomfjtork at the airport Canadian Air Ma /CANADIAN fJostal authoriB| a The Mauser 151/20 cannon which is the latest German weapon. It has a rate of fire of over 700 rounds per min. This is a 20 mm. cannon, but it was originally introduced with a 15 mm. bore. trans- e benefit at Britain. ntioned by r. Mulock, onference in s retjirn from a flying ritain.., 1 >w/ sidering the possibi atlantic air mail %yrvic< of their Armed F The matter wasMlst their postmastertgenaral when he spoke ScfarPress Montreal visit to __ . the c\acsiict\ of priorities jipment and personnel needed ksuch a service would have to sidered, he added, "But I think have to have our own air mail over the, Atlantic to maintain ftitact with thf* men overseas." T.C.A. Appointment AMONG the recent changes in the operations personnel oi Trans- Canada Air Lines is the appointment of a Sussex man to the post of assistant operations manager at Winnipeg. He'is E. P. "Billy" Wells, of Sea ford, who joined T.C.A. in 1937 after leaving the R.A.F., and who piloted the first air mail operated by the line be tween Vancouver and Seattle. Billy Wells, who is now 41 years of agf, was awarded the D.F.M. for out standing work in Iraq during the middle 20'S. Conservation of Fuel IN view of the interest displayed by readers of Flight in the question of conserving fuel by utilising the power- output of aircraft engines under test, it is interesting to read in a November issue of The Engineer that more than half the electric power required in the pro duction of Pratt and Whitney engines at the new Ford plant at Ypsilanti, Michi gan, is produced by the engines them selves. As each engine leaves the assembly line for test, a hydraulic constant-speed coupling, linked to a generator, is attached to it, and the result is said to be a saving ot fuel which reduces the manufacturing power costs by 53 per cent. Canadian Aircraft Output CANADA'S monthly output of aircraft is now four times greater than that for the whole of 1939, announced C. D. Howe, the Dominion's Minister of Muni tions during a recent visit to Washing ton. Including trainers, night-fighters, Lan- casters and Mosquitoes, their monthly output totals 400 aircraft, and they are now tooling-up factories for the produc tion of dive-bombers. Aer Lingus Teoranta THE terminus of the Irish Air Lines service between Dublin and Great Britain has now been changed from Barton Airport, Manchester, to Speke Airport, Liverpool, and intending pas sengers should note that this has necessi tated a slight change in the arrival and departure times. • Although the decision to change to tV.e terminus was not made by the operajji*<g company, it confers the benefit of bitter facilities for catering for the comfort of passengers and also of connections with air services to other parts of Great Britain. International Air Force THE post-war, establishment of an international air force which could reach the most remote corners of the world and could strike at any who sought to break the peace was advocated by Sir Stafford Cripps in his recent broadcast to America. The power of the air, he said, provided an opportunity which never before existed for the control of world order. Cheque from Spaniard for R.A.F. A SPANISH listener to the B.B.C. has •**• sent a cheque for £10 to one of the announcers in the Spanish service "as a humble acknowledgment of profound respect and great admiration for all the heroes of the R.A.F., who are giving everything they have to the cause which we, the majority of the Spaniards, solidly support." The writer adds that his letter was inspired by the " sad shadow cast by the death on active service of His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent." The cheque has been forwarded to the R.A.F. Benevolent Fund. From the Trade •jiff "Flight" photograph. MAJOR MODS. A Consolidated C&taiina flying boat being altered for service with British Overseas Airways. As a civil machine it retains its long-range characteris tics and provides accommodation for seven passengei B. MR. G. A. R. MEAD has been ap pointed a managing director of the Skefko Ball Bearing Co., Ltd. • * » MR. N. R. ADSHEAD, who was elected to the board of Boultou Paul Aircraft, Ltd., 18 months ago, has been appointed joint managing director of the company with Mr. J. D. North, F.R.Ae S. Mr. Adshead is a director, among other companies, of Hydro Elec- .. ^ trie Securities and Sena Sugar Estate. * * * THE photograph shown in " Titanine Recognition Test No. 14" in Flight of November 5th was that of a Short Stirling. This completes the series.
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