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1943
1943 - 1630.PDF
654 FLIGHT JUNE 24TH, 1943 Transatlantic TowB RITISH gliders are being towed over the Atlantic by four-engined Halifax bombers, according to a German News Agency. New Air Mail ServiceF OR the purpose of speeding-up im- portant Government and Service correspondence, a temporary air mail service between Canada and Britain will be opened shortly. Gas Turbines and Jet Propulsion FOR some weeks the first edition of theabove handbook by G. Geoffrey Smith has been out of print. A second edition with two extra chapters is now available from Flight offices, price 3s. 6d., plus postage 3d. "British Plastics" TO the range of technical journalspublished by the associated Iliffe Press the monthly periodical British Plastics has now been added. It is the pioneer journal of the plastics industry and was founded in 1929 to en- courage development in an industry which is now rapidly expanding. Dearer Air MailT HE Postmaster-General has announced that the air postage rate on corre- spondence for French and Spanish Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia has been increased to is. 3d. per Joz. for letters and to jd. for postcards. The air postage rate on correspondence for Tangier has also been increased to 9d. per Joz. in the case of letters, and to 5d. for postcards. To Discuss Technical Training THE importance of providing adequatetraining for students in aircraft engineering, which has been stressed from time to time in Flight and its asso- ciated -journal, Aircraft Production, is reflected in the discussion to be held to-mcfrrow night by the .Royal Aero- nautical Society, when the subject will be " The Education and Training of Aeronautical Engineers." Dr. Roxbee Cox is to take the chair, and Sir Roy Feddou will open the dis- cussion by giving a brief outline of theposition as he found it in America. A number of others prominent in the air-craft industry have promised to attend the discussion, which, though of an in-formal nature, will try to cover every aspect of the subject, including researchworkers, those in the industry, the R.A.F., and civil air transport. The meeting is being held in the lecturetheatre of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers^ Storey's Gate, S.W.i, amibegins at 5.30 p.m. Good Show, Canada! /'CANADIANS represent about 25 per^—' cent, of the men engaged in the bombing of Germany and OccupiedEurope, according to Air Marshal tL Edwards, Air Officer Commanding RoyalCanadian Air Force overseas, who has just returned from a trip to various partsof the Empire. He also said that about 25 per cent, of the personnel of the RoyalAir Force were Canadians. Mr. C. G. Power, Minister of NationalDefence for Air in Canada, has also given some figures of the air training scheme inthat country. There are now 154 training schools under the British Commonwealthplan, and they have turned out more than 50,000 Allied airmen, as well as75,000 personnel trained in ground trades. Training aircraft numbered 10,000,and more would soon be available. Clipped SpitsI T has now been officially disclosed by the Air Ministry that "both the Spit- fie V and the Spitfire IX are in service with clipped wings; hitherto only the clipped-wing version of the '' Spit Five," some of which are in service with the R.A.F. in North Africa, had been mentioned. Since the shorter span and square tips tend to increase induced drag as well as wing-loading, thus adversely affecting rate of climb and ceiling, it is a little surprising to find this wing-clipping treatment applied to the Spitfire IX, whose chief duties are performed at the higher altitudes. On the other hand, detachable tips would mean that the " Nine " could either retain its maximum altitude perform- ance or take advantage of the greater low-level speed and manoeuvrability im- BY ANY OTHER NAME ! Here is the Brewster - built Corsair fighter on its first test flight, to which we re- ferred on this page on May 6th. Under the U.S. Navy system it is the F3A, the original Vought-Sikorski Corsair being the F4U-2. Now Goodyear Aircraft are also producing the same machine as the FG-i. Apparently the American aircraft firms are a trifle "touchy" about mentioning another concern's name, but it is of no account if plenty of Corsairs get built. parted by clipped wings, whichever hap- pened to -be the more desirable at the time. New First-aid Kit for Aircrews A NEW first-aid kit will soon be carriedby R.A.F. crews. The pack, which is fireproof and waterproof, will contain an adaptation of the Stannard ariti-buru glove for burns on the hands. The glove is made of oiled silk, which excludes the air and contains antiseptic and curative powders. Bomber Crew Blood Donors AFTER a recent Sunday night raid onan East Coast town bomber crews in the neighbourhood heard that some ofthe injured were in urgent need of blood transfusion. They at once volunteeredto give their blood, and, after they had done so, went back to their station andthat night flew to the Ruhr. Big Increase in T.C.A. Traffic T)ASSENGERS carried by Trans--t Canada Airlines in April totalled 11,537, an increase of 2,722 over thecorresponding period last year. Mail was more than doubled, rising fromI39 >379 pounds in 1942 to 292,401 thisyear. Express increased nearly four times, from 16,572 pounds to 61,577pounds. U.S. Post-war Aircraft MarketT HE bulk of America's vast output byher aircraft industry will have to be absorbed after the war1 by purchasers ofsmall aircraft for private, business, and personal use, or for small commercialoperations, such as tuition, rental, and charter. This, at any rate, was theopinion recently expressed by Charles I. Stanton, their Administrator of CivilAeronautics. Transport aviation, he thought, wouldonly be able to consume a small propor- tion of the industry's output, which, in1942, had risen to nearly $6,250,000,000, or more than fifty times that of 1938.The 1943 production value was likely to be something like $20,000,000,000. He thought that while few familieswith one car would be anxious to replace it by an aircraft, there were more than1,000,000 "two-car families" in U.S., most of whom would give up the secondcar for a plane. The part to be played by the now prac-tical helicopter, operating from back yard or flat roofs of offices and hotels,had also to be considered. AT.A. Benevolent Fund RECEN^ donations to this deservingfund received since the last list was published in our issue of May 20th are as follows: Amount last acknow- ledged (excluding con- tributions pom A.T.A. and B.O.A.C.) /. £7,383 5 n Gloster Aircraft, Ltd. .. 7 12 o Officers1 Club, R.A.F., Kirkbride 5 5 o Bennett Linz (Manches- ter) 3 3 o £7,399 5 11
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