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6oo FLIGHT JUNE IOTH, 1943 E AND THE Chocks Away ! WHEN Lord Londonderry, formerSecretary for Air, introduced the new radio feature, " A.T.C. Parade," inthe B.B.C. Forces programme, he was the first A.T.C. commandant of any ofthe eleven commands to speak to the entire corps over the air. He was, ofcourse, recently appointed commandant of the A.T.C." in Northern Ireland. Air A.D.C. to the King AIR COMDRE. B. E. EMBRY, tripleD.S.O. and A.F.C., who is Air Aide- de-Camp to the King, has been promotedto the rank of Air Vice-Marshal. It was in 1926 that he was firstgranted a permanent commission, and during the Battle of Britain he was afighter pilot. He has also seen active service as a bomber pilot and night-tighter pilot. Eire's Increased Air Traffic "CINCE the outbreak of the war therevJ had been a remarkable increase in the number of passengers and weight ofgoods carried by air," commented Mr. Sean Lemass, Minister for Industry andCommerce, in the Dail (Parliament) in Dublin recently. The number of passengers carried byIrish Air Lines in 1942 was double that of 1939, although the number of airmiles flown had been reduced. Conference to be Convened A CONFERENCE to discuss post-waraviation policies is planned by Great Britain and the United States, althoughthe date and place have not yet been decided upon. It is likely, however, thatrepresentatives from the Dominions will be invited to attend the conference, par-ticularly Canada, owing to her essential strategic location on Transatlantic andTranspacific air routes. Workers Share Ideas WORKERS' representatives from agroup of factories making Lan- caster bombers have met in Stafford, andit has been decided to pool, every month, all ideas submitted to the Joint Produc-tion Committees. This meeting is believed to be the firstof its kind, and the sharing of such sug- gestions should prove very helpful. U.S. Production 'TPHE 100,000th warplane to come off-L the production line was completed in America recently, and enough bombshave been made in that country for 542 raids of the size made by the R.A.F. onDortmund a fortnight ago. These facts, as well as the disclosurethat American bomb production has reached 1,084,000 tons, have been re-vealed by Mr. James F. Byrnes, the new- Director of War Mobilisation in theUnited States. Increased American Output A SPEED-UP in the aircraft produc-tion programme of America will result in a monthly output of more than1,000 four-engined bombers, according to Mr. Charles Wilson, vice-chairman of theWar Production Board. . This increase should have effect from INSIDE INFORMATION : Radiography, using miniature film, is now applied to cadets at an aircrew receiving depot. The result is projected on to a screen and any betraying suspicions of T.B. are re-photographed on full-sized X-ray material. Seacopters ?S UCCESSFUL tests are said to havebeen carried out in Long Island Sound. America, with liberty ships equippedwith small decks for the use of heli- copters. The tests were carried out by Col.H. F. Gregory, of the U.S. Army Air Force, who made twenty-four take-offsand landings, using a landing stage measuring 20ft. square which had beeninstalled on a tanker. The helicopter was fitted with pon-toons with which it could alight either on sea or on the deck of a ship. Madagascar Airgraphs THE Postmaster-General has an-nounced that, as from June 1st, 1943, airgraph letters addressed tocivilians in Madagascar will• be accepted. A similar service to H.M. Forces in Mada-gascar is already in operation. The charge for airgraph lettersaddressed to civilians is 8d. Congratulations to Dortmund Bomber Crews A MESSAGE from Air Chief MarshalSir Arthur Harris, C.-in-C. of Bomber Command, has been received bythe crews who took part in the raid on Dortmund recently. The message said:"In 1939 Goering promised that not a single enemy bomb would reach theReich. Congratulations on haying de- livered the first 100,000 tons of bombson Germany to refute him. The next 100,000, if he waits for them, will beeven bigger and better bombs, delivered even more accurately and in a muchshorter time." New US. Airfield in Britain THE first American-built airfield inBritain, which has been dedicated to the late Lt. Gen. Frank MaxwellAndrews, who was killed recently in a flying accident in Iceland, has now-beentaken over by the U.S. Army Eighth Air Force. The new airfield has been completedthree months ahead of schedule, work having been continued at night with theaid of shaded lights which could be ex- tinguished immediately in the event ofan air-raid. Fifth-column Fires T^HE vast wastage of precious material-»- and effort being caused by fires in factories and other industrial buildingswas stressed by Sir Stafford Cripps when he recently spoke to 5,000 workers at anaircraft factory in the north-west. Describing fire as "the deadliest fifth-column among us now," Sir Stafford said there were 1,000 of them every day inthis country, many of which affected war industry, and the majority of which werecaused by individual carelessness. The money value loss alone greatly exceededthe cost of 400 fighters, or 100 twin- engined bombers, and the serious inter-ference with production was far more serious than the monetary loss; he ap-pealed urgently for everyone to help to put a stop to this terrible wastage.
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