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1943
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MAY 13TH, 1943 FLIGHT 495 E AN Sir A. Tedder Honoured A IR CHIEF MARSHAL SIRARTHUR TEDDER has been elected into an Honorary Fellowship atMagdalene College, Cambridge, the place from which he took his degree inhistory in 1912 and won the Prince Con- sort Prize. Still a Pilot TNCIDENTALLY, when Mr. WendellI Willkie visited the Allied forces in the Middle East, Sir Arthur flew him on apersonally conducted tour over the front lines in a Fieseler Storch captured fromthe Germans. Mr. Willkie refers to this incident inhis book, New World, though he does not actually mention the name of theaircraft. His description of its charac- teristics, however, makes it fairlyobvious. U.S. Production Figure THE United States target of 7,000 air-craft a month will in all probability be reached this month according to Mr.Donald Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board. He said recently thatfrom now on production of aircraft in America will increase each month, theMarch figure being 6,200 aircraft, 500 of which were heavy bombers. Empire Air Service LORD BENNETT, former PrimeMinister of Canada, in a talk to the Publicity Club in London, put in a pleafor an Empire Air Transport system to help in the development of Imperialpolicy. The Dominions should be con- sulted, he said, in all matters of foreignpolicy which affect their welfare, and an Empire air service would enable confer-ences to be called in any of the Dominion capitals within twenty-four hours. Atlantic Flights THE North Atlantic Return FerryService of British Overseas Airways has just completed 400 flights betweenthe United Kingdom and Canada in eighteen months. Pilots and crews of R.A.F. Ferry Com-mand who 'deliver bombers to Britain return to Canada in this way, andGovernment passengers are also carried. Aircraft flying to this country carry moreGovernment passengers and freight. An Old Trick A LLEGATIONS by the enemy that the•** R.A.F. have dropped explosive pencils and fountain pens in Germanyand Italy "with the intention of killing children" constitute a Nazi trick withwhich wo are already only too familiar, ior booby traps of this very kind havebora used by themselves in the Western Insert and, we believe, in Russia. 1 he infamous charge was, of course,emphatically denied by a senior officer of the R.A.F., though this was hardlynecessary. Kr. Goebbels should remember, when n<; is concocting his propaganda, that wear(a a "decadent" nation, and would HOME FROM CANADA :Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Bowhill hasreturned from Canada to take over his new dutiesas A.O.C.-in-C. of the R.A.F. Transport Com-mand. Taken before leaving Montreal airport,the picture shows (left to right) Mr. Morrison W.Wilson, President of the Royal Bank of Canadaand a pioneer of the Atlantic ferry, Air ChiefMarshal Bowhill, Air Comdre. G. J. ("Taffy")Powell, captain of the Liberator, and Mr. HaroldM. Long, who was chief executive officer of theAtfero under M.A.P. never be able, therefore, to emulate themagnificent ruthlessness of Hitler's fol- lowers to the extent of deliberatelymurdering little children—as his Stuka pilots did in France, for instance ! Death of a Pioneer THE name of Hans Renold, who diedrecently at the age of ninety, was familiar to all the older cyclists andmotor cyclists, for in 1880 he invented the bush roller chain—the type whichmade their mounts practical vehicles and which has since become the basic designof all precision power transmission chains throughout the world. In 1895 he in-vented the inverted tooth, or silent chain. Hans Renold was a first-rate engineer,who insisted on quality above all else, and he was also a pioneer in social con-ditions and ? very enlightened employer. As far back as 1896 he introduced a48-hour week at his Manchester factory, and his workers enjoyed holidays withpay long before anyone else thought.of such a thing. The late Hans Renold, inventor of the bush roller chain. Back to B.O.A. MR. A. F. BURKE, O.B.E., who hasbeen deputy managing director of Napier's far the past year, has returnedto British Overseas Airways Corporation as engineering director. Mr. Burke has been away from thecorporation for three years, having been seconded to the M.A.P. for special dutiesin connection with the aircraft civilian repair organisation and later as lechnical Liaison Officer to the Controller of Research and Development. Appreciation from Russia '"THE Prime Minister recently received-L the following personal message from Premier Stalin :— " I welcome the bombing of Essen,Berlin and other industrial centres of Germany. Every blow delivered byyour Air Force to the vital German centres evokes a most lively echo inthe hearts of many millions through- out the length and breadth of ourcountry." This message was passed to the Com-mander-in-Chief, Bomber Command, who has circulated it to his squadrons. Splendid Record MORE than 2,000 A.T.C. cadets haverduring the past year, received prac- tical flying training in gliders, and not asingle one of them has been involved in an accident. Some twenty schools invarious parts of the country have_ been operating gliders, and altogether it isestimated that about 10,000 l;;unchings have been made to date, so this safetyrecord speaks extremely well for theii instructors. As many of the gliders used have beenbuilt by the cadets themselves, this free- dom from mishap is also a tribute to (heirworkmanship no less than the technical skill of those who have supervised theirwork. The A.T.C. has, incidentally, just com-pleted its second year (it was founded in April, 1941), during which some 25,000cadets have gained their proficiency certificates, and 102,679 cadets attendedthe summer training camps in 1942.
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