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138 FLIGHT AUGUST 5TH, 1943 Sicilian Shuttle ServiceR .A.F. Transport Command aircraft are ferrying troops and equipment to Sicily and returning with Allied casualties, states the Air Ministry. These aircraft were among the first to land on the island and take off again. Bigger and Bigger AIR experts in Washington haveannounced tliat far bigger and more .powerful bombers than the latest Fort-resses may be in action by the autumn. It is stated that 8-ton bombs arealready in existence. R.C.A.F. Women RecruitsT HE Royal Canadian Air Forcewomen's division is recruiting in Britain a number of English girls whohave married Canadian airmen. Accord- ing to the Air Ministry some of thewomen are widows of Canadians killed in action. There are vacancies in many tradeswhich are now closed to the W.A.A.F. Soviet Women ParachutistsR USSIAN women parachutists are in Action on the Donets sector, accord- ing to a report from Berlin. . It is said that the women, after being trained in the use of arms, are sent out to reconnoitre the German positions. They then mobilise guerilla troops who attack the Nazis from the rear. America's "Cold Coast"H ERE'S a smile from the house organof a Saa Diego aircraft factory: "A guy from Kansas came to the coast andgot a good job in one of our airplane plants. Shortly he sent this messageback: ' Wish you were here. Having wonderful time and a half.' " U.S. Transport Aircraft IT is announced that the first four-engined transport aircraft produced at the ^8,000,000 Chicago plant of theDouglas Aircraft Co. will shortly make its inaugural flight. This is the C-54Skymaster, which will carry 15 tons of arms, equipment and supplies, or 50fully equipped and armed soldiers. The Skymaster is the largest type .in •full-scale production. Express DeliveryT HE first transatlantic flight in the Canadian Government's new war- time transocean service was accom- plished recently. The aircraft made a non-stop flight to this country from Montreal in 12 hours 26 minutes, and GRIM GAIETY : Four wing-cannon instead of machine guns is the latest armament applied to the Mustang. This one is being used for an experiment in camouflage, the idea being that the jazzy finish will confuse enemy air-gunners ; it looks as though it might even blind them ! carried 23 cwt. of mail and three pas- sengers. The service was started mainly to carry mail to and from the Canadian Forces in the United Kingdom, and official pas- sengers. Firmly Rooted IT is announced that Sir WilliamRootes, K.B.E., has been appointed chairman of Humber, Ltd., and sub- sidiary companies (Hillman, Sunbeam- Talbot, Commer and Karrier) in suc- cession to Lt. Col. J. A. Cole, O.B.E., who has retired, and that Mr. R. C. Rootes lias been made deputy chairman of the companies. Fast Work UNITED STATES ARMY engineershave turned over another big bomber base, the third within two months, to the Eighth Air Force. It took them only 89 days to clear the land, lay out the runways and taxi strips and make the field ready for bombers to take off for the Continent, thereby breaking their own records for speed in construc- tion. Brig. Gen. C. R. Moore, chief engineer for the Army in the European Theatre of Operations, made the formal presenta- tion to Brig. Gen. R. C. Candee, chief of the Eighth Air Force Support Com- mand. Post-war Flying in India SAYING that the question of conven-ing an Empire Air Conference was now under consideration, Sir GurunathBewoor, Secretary of Posts and of the Air Department, recently told the CentralAssembly at New Delhi that there had already been an exploratory provisionalexchange of views between the Govern- ment .of India and the British homeGovernment. New Lodestars for C.P.A.T HE important part played by Cana-dian Pacific Airlines in the ever- expanding war projects of NorthernCanada has resulted in the Joint Air- craft Committee at Washington allocat-ing three new Lockheed Lodestars to them. These additions to the C.P.A. fleet re-cently arrived at Edmonton, where they are to be based, in order to supplement the services on the Edmonton-WhitehorsR and Vancouver-Whitehorse routes, of the most active air routes on the N American continent at the present time. West Indies Extension BRITISH WEST INDIES AIRWAYS,which was formed in 1940 at the Government's request, is now to extend its service to Haiti, Jamaica, and the Bahamas. The service began between Trinidad and Tobago, and extended to the Wind- ward and Leeward Islands. Washington has recently granted a temporary permit to fly to Miami via Jamaica and Nassau. It was announced in the July 22nd issue of Flight that K.L.M. was also to inaugurate a service to Miami from Curacao, in the Netherlands West Indies, with two routes taking in Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba, so this part of the world__\vj]^ be very well served by air communica- tions. Air/Sea Rescue Record LAST week, during the intensivebomber offensive by British and American aircraft, no less than 101 air- men were rescued from the North Sea by the Air/Sea organisation within 50 hours. During that time more than 200 R.A.F. machines were engaged in searching and protecting the rescue craft. Several airborne lifeboats were dropped by parachute. B.O.A. Flying Boat Accident records with regret the dis-•* aster to the British Overseas Airways Sunderland flying boat which crashed onMount Brandon, 14 miles from the little seaport of Dingle, County Kerry, at 4.30a.m. on Wednesday, July 28th. Nine of the 18 passengers and the cap-tain of the flying boat. Captain T. Allett, were killed. The remaining nine pas-sengers and .six members of the crew were all injured, some so seriously thatrecovery seemed doubtful. The Sunderland had left Lisbon theprevious evening for Foynes, and the spot where the accident occurred wasonly some 50 miles or so from its destina- tion. Pending the findings of the in-quiry which • follows such accidents, it is not yet possible to say more than thatit was reported to have happened during a thick fog;
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