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1943 - 0558.PDF
FLIGHT MARCH 41 a, j- AND THE] Tribute to the Hurricane SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS, "Minister ofAircniti i ru.'nation, in a speech 1<> aircraft v.o;>:c:s recently, said: " Somei'i you ;:,;.: question whether the Hurricam !.: f.uishud its us.iul life. Ith..s not. !: iiurricanc to-dav is just ;:s cssenlu-.! ;•, lucti.r to our \-ictory as ata;iv oth;-i" tl.::e in its history." "7/ie R.A.F. in Art" A COLLECTION of oil .paintings andwater colours will be exhibited ruder the title "The R.A.F. in Art"at the Rootes showrooms, Devonshire House, Piccadilly, London, W.i, untilMarch 13th. The exhibition, which was opened onTuesday by Capt. 11. H. Balfour, is in connection with the "Wings tor Vic-tory" week, and admission is free. The Lawrence Sperry Award EDWARD C. WELLS, assistant chiefengineer of the Boemg Aircralt Co , at Seattle, has been awarded the Lawrence Sperry Award ior 1942, "for outstanding contributions to the art of aircraft design with special reference to iour-engined aircraft." Mr. Wells, who joined Boeings in 1930, was responsible, for the basic design of the Flying Fortress prototype eight years ago, and has contributed to most of the improvements since made in the B-17 series. Coming Events .... INDICATIONS that the United Statesare contemplating a coming offensive has led Col. Nakao Yahagi, chief of the Japanese Army Press Section, to warn the Japanc.-e public to expect air raids.He thinks America will shuttle planes between China and Alaska in order toeffect the raids. Signs that the U.S. are planning suchan attack aie, according to Col. -Yahagi, the building in China ot 17 new airfields,the installation of tadio-telephone be- tween Alaska and China and the almostdaily bombing of the Japs , in the Aleutians. New Canadian Anson A NEW Anson trainer, with a fuselageof moulded plywood veneer and powered by a pair of Pratt and Whitney engines, has just received its first flight tests in .the hands oi the R.C.A.F. at Ottawa. Of Canadian design, it is equipped specially for the training oi navigators, wireless operators and bomb-aimers, and embodies some thirty modifications sug- gested by the training experience of the R.C.A.F. in oj>eratmg the British Com- monwealth Air Training Plan, now the Combined Training Organisation. X-ray ConferenceT HE Institute of Physics is arranginga conference in Cambridge on April yth and 10th, on thv* subject of " X-rayAnalysis." One of the chief items will be a lec-ture on "Future Developments in X-ray Crystallography," by ProfessorJ. D. Bernal, and there will be discus- sion en various other aspects of the.subject. Flight of Empty Plane IT is reported that a Liberator bomberwithout a pilot flew ior twelve hours over the Atlantic and Gulf oi Mexico before crashing into a mountain in Mexico. After taking off from Florida and flying out fo sea, the tail began to flutter and the aircraft lost height. The crew of six and two passengers baled out, having previ- ously jettisoned the cargo. Apparently the auto- matic pilot had been set for a level flight across the Atlantic, but tin- course changed and the aircraft crashed 2,000 miles irom where the occupants had baled out. VERTIGO! How many of us could emu- late this Sunderland flight - engineer who, from the retractable maintenance platform examines a slightly damajed propeller-t;p? Leaning out from such a small perch some 20ft. above the water would produce dizzi- ness in most earth- bound mortals. Let's hope the compression is okay! Plastic ProblemsT HE chairman of the British Pi : ;;(., Federation, "vlaj. S. M. Mohr, ];;is stressed the need for publicity to explain the various types of plastics and illtjr uses. The publkf generally, he said, had l:ilIv a hazy idea of the meaning of pktsii;* and it should be pointed out that -• iicre were many obstacles to overcome mu'l problems to solve before plastics became of universal value. They were not yd the "gold mine" some people seemed to imagine. Production in AmericaM R. DONALD NELSON, chairman ofthe U.S. War Production Board, has announced that in December last5.4N9 aircraft were delivered to die Army, Navy and the Allies, and that theoutput of engines is ahead ot aircraft production. The output of aircraft for that monthrepresents an increase of 20 per cent, above the November figure. | It's a Date!T HAT he believes the Axis air forcesare now on the decline is the view expressed recently by Lt. Gen. li. H.Arnold, chief of the U.S. Army Air Force. He said to some U.S. officers, while ina jocular mood, " 1 have .an appointment in Berlin a year from to-day, and willmeet you six . months afterwards in Tokyo."" British Air OffensiveS INCE the outbreak oi war, more- than 100,000 tons of bombs have been dropped by R.A.F. Bomber Command on targets in German ', Italy and occu- pied countries it has recently been announced. The great increase in our bomber offensive in 1942 is revealed by the fact that more than half this total had been dropped during last year. Army Co-operation and Fighter Com- mand aircraft have, in addition, dropped a large weight of bombs. Secret Post for Sir William WelshH AVING relinquished the post of Air Officer Commanding the R.A.F. in North Africa. Air Marshal Sir William Welsh returns to London to take up another position, the- nature of which is not yet disclosed. Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder will absorb the North African. Air Command into the ne.v Mediterranean Command. Parnell Appointments SIR ERNEST SIMON, Mr. MauriceHely-Hutchinson, M.P., and Mr. P. C. Crump, O.B.E., have been elected to the board of Parnell Aircraft, Ltd., Sir Ernest Simon being appointed its chairman. "Flight" Index -pUCUr index lor July to December, •* 1942, is now available; the price is 7jd. including postage, or together uitn binding case, 4s. 4d. Readers' copies can be bound at a costof 13s. 3d., including postage, return of the completed volume. on the
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