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170 FLIGHT FEBRUARY ISTH, T943 E AN U.S. Planes for China MR. HENRY WALLACE, America'sVice-President, stated recently that China will soon be receiving American combat planes with which to attackJapan. Things to Come LT.-GEN. FRANK MAXWELLANDREWS, who recently succeeded Gen. Eisenhower as C.-in-C. of the U.S.Army in Europe, has said: "We intend to go all out in intensifying our air war-fare." He is an ardent believer in strategicbombing and has had 26 years' experi- ence as au airman. Birmingham Opinion THE Campaign in North Africa mightnow be over, according to Mr. Oliver Simmonds, a Birmingham M.P., if w.ehad made greater use of airborne troops at the time of the landing. The Axisinfiltration into Tunis and Bizerta, he said, might have been stemmed by a fewthousand of such troops. Until we were able to make goodmodern transport aircraft Mr. Simmonds is of the opinion we should ask the U.S.to supply an adequate number. Canadian Air Chiefs Here TPHE arrival in England from Canada-L of Air Marshal L. S. Breadner, Chief of Canadian Air Staff, Air Vice-Marshal K. G. Nairn, Air Member for Accounts in the Canadian Air Council,and Air-Comdre. E. E. Middleton, Deputy Air Member for Personnel* hasrecently been announced. They are over here to take part indiscussions. Canada's Air Transport THAT Canada must guard against be-coming an arena for commercial air- line rivalry after the war. is stressed in an article in au Ottawa • newspaper, The Evening Citizen, whose Washington correspondent, R. T. Elson, points out that one safeguard would be to keep the control of trunk lines within Canada en- tirely under public ownership, a national policy the soundness of which has been demonstrated by Trans-Canada AirLines, which has no dividend considera- tions. Mentioning that Pan American Air-ways is now an international enterprise with government support from Washing-ton, the writer anticipates the develop- ' ment of rivalry by private subsidiariessetting up vested interests on the Cana- dian route to Alaska and making it acommercial cockpit. Best They Can Do ? FROM inspections of German aircraftwhich wo have captured, it appears that instead of new designs being de-veloped, the Germans are concentrating on improving existing types, in order tooffset the superiority in fire-power of such planes as the Typhoon and FlyingFortress. Armour plate for protection of crewand engines is being -used more exten- sively and seems to be the principalmodification to Axis aircraft. A.T.C. Appointment COMMAND ot the Central CommandA.T.C., which includes units in Herts, Bucks, Middlesex, Berks andOxfordshire, has now been taken over by Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett.He succeeds Grp. Capt. T. W. C. Car- thew, who has had to resign owing toill-health. Air Crews from Canada AMONG recent arrivals from Canadaare "teams" of air crews who are fully trained, having had several months'flying together from operational bomber stations" in Canada. Also included in the convoy were morepilots, observers, navigators, etc., and also R.C.A.F. ground crews and Cana-dian W.A.A.F. Weat and Tear AN R.A.F. officer in Canada was re-cently assailed by a young lady, who asked: " Are you in the R.A.F., ordid you sleep in your uniform? " This wisecrack was made as a resultof comparison between the hundreds of newly commissioned officers in Canada,and their experienced comrades. Victory by Combined Operation LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTKX,Combined Operations Chief, has stated that when" the enemy has beendriven from Tunisia, we shall have to carry out a combined operation, with aseaborne expedition, protected by the R.A.F;, in order to find somewhere elseto fight. But Lots More Yet THE MARQUESS OF LONDON-DERRY, Chief Commissioner Civil Air Guard in Northern Ireland, is of theopinion that there is a lot of work to be done before victory is achieved. Hesaid although he had no doubt the war is now won, people should not feel com-placent and lake things easy. Death of Dr. Frommer "DESEARCH metallurgist on the stall -*-«• of Rolls-Royce, Ltd., since 1956, Dr.-Ing. Leopold Frommer has died, at the age of 50, following an operation. Dr. Frommer was born of Polish parents and spent most of his life in Germany, obtaining his mechanical engineering diploma at the Technical University of Berlin. Later, he turned his attentions to physical chemistry, and came to this country in 1934 when driven out of Germany by the Nazis. RAe.S. Annual Meeting THE Royal Aeronautical Society is tohold its annual general meeting on Saturday, March 27th, at 3.30 p.m., in the Society's offices at 4, Hamilton Place, London, W.i. Among other business- on the agenda. the list of Fellows elected by the council during the past year will be announced. "Flight" IndexT HE index for the January-June, 1942, issues of Flight is now available, price 7|d., including postage, or together with binding case 4s. 4d. Readers' copies can be bound at a cost of 13s. 3d., including postage, on the return of the completed volume, but, owing to shortage of staff, we must ask our readers' indulgence in the matter of delivery of the bound volume, which cannot be completed as expeditiously as in normal times. MARINE TERMINUS : Three Boeing 314s, a Short "G " class, and a Cata.ina at their moorings at one oi British Overseas Airways' marine airports. Waiting to take off for the United States and West Africa, these flying-boats symbolise the Anglo- Amer'can co-operation in air transport anticipated after the war.
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