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1943
1943 - 1091.PDF
APRIL 2QTH, I943 FLIGHT 439 HERE AND THERE inents; external loads; aircraft struc-tural problems; characteristics of rotating - wing aircraft; spinning;methods of preventing ice formation; jet propulsion; flutter and vibration; heatllow and boundary layer; theory of air ilow; planing surfaces, hydrofoils andhigh-speed surface craft. Within a few months the NationalAdvisory Committee for Aeronautics will have all its establishments workingon a three-shift basis " around the clock." Lucky N.A.C.A. SIR ROY FEDDEN, on his returnfrom America, warmly applauded the action of the United States in spend-ing vast sums on aeronautical research. The House of Representatives recentlyapproved, without a dissentient vote, the sum of just under 19J million dollars forthe National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics for the financial year 1944.A little over half of that sum will be absorbed by salaries and expenses. Most of the rest will defray operationalcosts, since much of the new equipment has already been installed. An exceptionis the completion of the equipment at the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory at MoffettField, California, for which three and three-quarter million dollars has beenvoted. Handley Page Lecture T ANCASHIRE readers will be in- -L' terested to learn that Sir Frederick Handley Page is to give a lecture in Manchester next month on " Commercial Air Transport." The occasion will be the fourth annual lecture of the Manchester Association of Engineers, and will be held in the Great Hall of the College of Technology, Sack- HIGH TEA ? Bostons took such a prominent part in the scattering of Rommel's African columns that their forays became known as " Boston Tea Parties." From the apparent altitude of this one, the occasion was evidently " high tea ! " ville S'-reet, Manchester, on Friday, May 28th, at 7 p.m. Admission to the lecture will be by tickets obtainable from the Assistant Secretary of the Association, St. John Street Chambers, Deansgate. Man- chester, 3, International CrewT HE international character of some bomber crews of the R.A.F. is well known, and typifies the united character of the fight against Axis aggression. A recent example to come to light was that of a Halifax operating with Coastal Command, in which the crew included a Dutch first pilot, a Briton born in the Tonga Islands as second pilot, an Australian, a Canadian, two Londoners, and a sergeant flight-engineer from Not- tingham. EXHIBIT " A" : A Beaufighrer I was Bristol's contribution to the city's "Wings for Victory Week." Powered by a pair of Hercules sleeve-valve engines and armed with four cannon and six machine guns, ;t is the most powerfully armed fighter in the world. The second pilot, incidentally, came from Fiji to join the R.A.F. and received his training in Rhodesia. Badge for Canadian Aircraft Workers A BADGE showing a silver aircraftover a red maple leaf on a white background is now being given to air-craft factory workers in Canada, " to show that they are war workers on thefactory front." It is described as being intended " forstreet wear " and has a blue rim bearing the words " Aircraft Production." Toqualify for such a badge—or broach in the case of women workers—it is onlynecessary to have been so engaged regu- larly for three months. Canada's aircraft industry now em-ploys more than So,000 men and women, as against approximately 1,000 menbefore the war, so if they all get one the amount of material absorbed (pre-sumably metal) will be fairly con- siderable ! Growth of Airgraph Service BEGUN two years ago "on a fewforms in a corner," the airgraph section at the London G.P.O. is now well on the way to becoming one of the busiest branches in the huge sorting office. One day recently the section handled 390,000 airgraphs from troops overseas and 250,000 outgoing messages, and among various labour-saving devices recently installed is a machine for fold- ing the incoming airgraphs at the rate of 30,000 an hour. Efforts are being made, it is stated, to recruit more women sorters. "Flight" Photographs PLIGHT postcard-sized photographs of-*• aircraft are obtainable from this office at 6d. each and 5s. per dozen. This series covers a wide range of air-craft and includes machines of the R.N.A.S., R.F.C., R.A.F., Fleet AirAnn, America and Germany. A list of types available, together witha specimen photograph, will be sent on receipt of a remittance of 6d.
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