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MAY 6TH, 1943 FLIGHT 477 Turkey Releases Internees T TNDER an agreement reached be-U tween Turkey and interested Em- iiassies seven British and 23 Americanairmen have been released from intern- ment in that country. Russian and Axisairmen have also been released. Helicopters for Rescue Work TTELICOPTERS can be very uselul in-d rescue operations, especially in a country like Canada, where aircraft may-be forced down in rugged and desolate parts. Consequently, the Royal Canadian AirForce headquarters in Ottawa have ordered six of these machines from theUnited States. Girls Go Gliding /~MRLS of the 192nd Squadron of the'v-J Women's Junior Air Corps had a trip in a glider recently while visitingan airfield in South-East London. The flying officer commanding the gliderstation gave permission for s|x oi the girls to "go up. B.O.A.C. Chairmanship N O decision with regard to theappointment of a new Chairman for British Overseas Airways Corporation islikely to be made until the return of Capt. Harold Balfour, Under-Secretaryof State for Air, from his Middle East tour about the middle of next month. The names of Lord Swinton and AirComdre. Whitney Straight are men- tioned with regard to the post. New Atlantic Record A REMARKABLE flight, constitutinga new record, has just been com- pleted by Capt. W. S. May, ot F3ritishOverseas Airways Corporation, inxross- irig the Atlantic in 6 hrs. 20 min., at anaverage speed of 315 m.p.h. Capt. May, who was operating over the North.Atlantic for the R.A.F. Transport Com- mand, flew a four-engined Liberatorfrom Newfoundland, a distance of 2,200 miles. He was aided by a tail wind,which sometimes approached 115 m.p.h. One might call it an " unintentional "record, since racing of any ljind is dis- couraged by B.OA.C. Fair Exchange ANOTHER R.A.F. establishment has•ii. been taken over by the United States Army Air Corps. A silver casket containing an inven-tory of the station was handed to Col^ Stanley T. Wray, by Sqn. Ldr. John S.Ellard, commanding officer of the air- drome, and during the ceremony bothBritish and American airmen stood round the flagstaff. Too Busy for Both FOLLOWING on his recent appoint-ment to the new board of Short Bros., Lord Ashfield has relinquished thechairmanship of British Manufacture and Research Co., Ltd., owing to pressureof work. Lord Ashfield became a director ofthat company in 1940, and was appointed chairman in the followingJanuary. US. Aircraft Carriers « IN denying the German allegation thatthe aircraft carrier Ranger had been sunk, Col. Knox, Secretary of the U.S.Navy, recently said that there was no information to confirm that the Rangerhad even been in battle against sub- marines. The building of aircraft carriers waswell ahead of schedule, he said, and the U.S. programme would moie than re-place American losses. Air Defence Improvements AIR MARSHAL SIR TRAFFORDLEIGH-MALLORY, Chief ot Fighter Command, speaking at the OrpingtonWings for Victory Week inauguration, said the defences otthis country against air raids are stillbeing improved, and we had not yetreached the end of our new devices. "If the Germanslaunch another large- scale attack on us inthis country," he said, " I can assureyou that it will be much less successfulthan the one they launched in 1940." That is not to say,however, that Civil Defence Services canaSord to relax. PRIORITY ! This glimpse inside a Sunderland's galley makes one envious; look at all those eggs! U.S. Mass Flight IT is reported that the war's greatestmass flight of heavy bombers (Fly- ing Fortresses) from the United Statesto this country has been completed with- out loss. The actual number of aircraftin the flight is not, of course, revealed, but it is stated to be the largest massmovement ever made and, with the im- provement of weather conditions overthe Atlantic, even larger reinforcements at frequent intervals are expected. To Advise the A.T.C. AN A.T.C. Educational Advisory Com-mittee has recently been appointed by the Secretary of State for Air, SirArchibald Sinclair. It consists of 15 members, all of whomare either heads of schools and colleges in various parts of the country or areon local education committees; several are directors of education in their hometowns or districts, and all of them are already connected with the A.T.C. invarious capacities. The chairman is Mr. J. F. Wolfenden,headmaster ol Uppingham, and formerly Director ot Pre-entry Training at the AirMinistry, and the committee has been appointed to consider and report to Mr.W. W. Wakefield, the Director of the A.T.C., on such matters affecting thecorps which he may from time to time refer to them, A Corsair by Any Other Name—! DESCRIBED as "a counterpart ofthe Corsair " and the U.S. Navy's newest fightet, the Brewster F3A wasannounced last week to have just passed its first flying test. One imagines that this giving otdiflerent symbols to what is virtually the same aircraft must make life a bit com-plicated for America's students of air- cralt recognition. The Corsair, when it rolls ofi Vought-Sikorski's own assembly line, is known as the F4U-2, which, interpreted back-wards, means the second edition of Vought-Sikorski's fourth type of fighter. But when the same type is turned outby the Brewster plant it becomes the F3A, because " A " is Brewster's symbolin the Navy's lists, and it happens to be the third type of Navy fighter they haveproduced. Grasshoppers PROBABLY because the two machinesare so extraordinarily alike, few of our very alert readers seem to havenoticed that in "Aircraft and their Characteristics" of April 22nd thephotograph illustrating the Taylorcraft was, in fact, that of an earlier modelPiper. As our dear old mother used to say,a blind man on a galloping horse would be glad to see the difference, but we hopeshortly to describe the current type of British Taylorcraft. Change of Name IT is announced that the firm ol RuberyOwen Messier, Ltd., has now changed its name to Messier Aircraft Equipment, Ltd.
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