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1943
1943 - 1951.PDF
AUGUST 5TH, I943 FLIGHT 143 Behind the Lines For Safety WITHIN'a competition organised bythe Italian Air Registration Board, Jlajor Gaspare Santangelo, of the Tech-nical Branch of the JRegia, has submitted n paper on a " Device to prevent the]oss of lateral stability in aircraft." The project is said to provide for themounting of two Krell pressure plates to the outer wing panels, which, whencritical angles of incidence are attained ^ would not only warn the pilot but alsodeflect additional elevator surfaces on the elevator unit, either hydraulically orelectrically; these would tend to reduce the angle of incidence and would preventa loss of stability even with the control column pulled right back. Charcoal account of the acute fuel shortage the Vichy Inter-Ministerial Eco- ^ Committee resolved in'July, 1941, to build about 100 factories for the pro- duction of charcoal. The total annual output of the proposed plants was esti- mated at 200,000 metric tons and the plan provided for' an even distribution of the plants throughout the country to reduce costs of transportation. It is now reported that 65 factories have been constructed and equipped, and the present production of charcoal fuel for generators is estimated at 10,000 • Ions monthly. Fog jpOMMENTING on, the raid carriedV_^ out by American aircraft on Trondheim on July 25th, a German re-port states that immediately the alert was sounded an artificial fog was spreadiover the town. This, it is said, forced ihe"r raiding aircraft up to a height of22,000 to 26,000ft. . It appears, however, that this formof defence cuts both ways, for the report comments that it handicapped the workof A.A. artillery and the defence had to rely mainly on fighters. Dyak Chieftain .ACCORDING to a German report,•** Greek fishermen Tn the Aegean Sea rescued an R.A.F. officer on July 23rd Service and Industrial News from the Inside of Axis and Enemy* occupied Countries who had crashed in hisdamaged bomber. His name is given as "MajorMacpherson," and it is said that his papers in-cluded a document signed by a Colonel of the 8thU.S.A.A.F. and describ- ing him as a " DyakChief" and the most suc- cessful Aegean pilot of theR.A.F. in North Africa. The " document," whichseems to be incomprehen- sible to the German senseof humour, was apparently presented to Macphersonon his '' promotion to the rank of Chief of the Dyaks," and is said to air expert.contain the following pas- sage: "With the help of his sipeds hewon many trophies over the Aegean Sea. He thus added greatly to the emblems ofvictory on the roof beam of our poor but." Incidentally, the Dyaks are a tribe ofhead-hunters in Borneo who use sipeds, or blow-pipes, to shoot arrows at their- enemies. Conference Luftwaffe Field Marshal Kesselring,and the German Minister to Rome, von Mackensen, .conferred with Badoglio onJuly 26th to discuss the future. It will be remembered that Kesselring is (orperhaps, by now, was) the Chief of Luftwaffe units in Southern Italy. The Northern Route REVIEWING German efforts to cutNorthern supply routes to Mur- mansk and through the Barents Sea, the Russia.11 journal Red Fleet states that the Luftwaffe employs in these opera- tions Heinkel He 113s on floats as EXITFougier, i AERIAL BACTERIOLOGY : The Luftwaffe now employs paratroops for testing water supplies in the advance zones of the Rus- sian front. (Above) the parachute has just landed and light arms are being unloaded. Picture on the left shows an open container. torpedo-bombers, aid the Heinkel Hein and Ju88 specially adapted for tor- pedo carrying. For reconnaissance "work the Do 18and B.V.222 are being used; the latter is said to be equipped with extra fueltanks in place of 26 of the passenger seats of the aircraft.The Russian report says that in these operations re-connaissance aircraft en- deavour to locate convoysand to bring torpedo air- craft on the target byr"-ans of their powerful wireless, installations whichact as radio beams. Musca Domestica 'THE house-fly has al-JL ways fascinated air- men with its flying tech-nique. A Paris scientist is now reported to havediscovered the existence of a minute organ, '' the bal-ancer," under the fly's wings. This organ, inthe opinion of the scien- tist, enables the insectto keep its balance in flight; when it is removed the fly can still, fly but is notso steady and can. be caught without difficulty. A new "Fly-catching with-out tears'' is not the object of these observations, for it is believed that sinceother two-winged creatures possess the same mysterious organ, the problem willnow be studied in the interests of aviation. Rino Corso Mussolini's A Regia's Man REPORT from Rome says thatMussolini's friend and favourite. Generate d'Armata Aerea, Rino Cors<*Fougier, has been relieved of his post as Under-Secretary of State for Air.Fougier commanded the Italian Air Corps which operated for a very shortspell with the Luftwaffe over the Channel and against this country, and he wassubsequently appointed Chief of Staff and C.-in-C. of the Regia. The reportdoes not state whether he retains his service command. It will be recalled that the portfolio ofthe Air Minister was held by Mussolini with the Under-Secretaiy for Air as hisassistant. ' As yet it is not clear whether Badoglio retains the portfolio or whetherthe two jobs were how united; Fougiei's successor in the Air Ministry is AirBrigadier Gen. Renato Sandalli. From Norway A PRIVATE report says that theHeroya Aluminium Factory near Porsgrunn is controlled by the Germanindustrial concern -Nordag. The famous I.G. Company is also co-operating andthe production of light metal for the Ger- man aircraft industry was scheduled tostart this summer. In Trondheim workshops and concreteshelters have been built for submarines. It is also said that although consider-able numbers of aircraft were removed from Norway to the Russian front, thethree Trondheim airfields, Orlandet, Vaernes, and Bulandet still retain sub-stantial fighter strength.
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