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i66 FLIGHT AUGUST X2TH, 1943 E AN Bravo, Liverpool!A TROPHY has been presented toLiverpool by the Air Ministry for raising ^16,799,069 in its Wings forVictory week, this colossal sum being second only to. London.• Air Vice-Marshal Sir Leonard H. Slatter made the presentation to theLord Mayor of Liverpool, Alderman R. D. French, together with fifty logbooks to be allocated to aircraft asso- ciated with Liverpool, these to be re-turned for the city archives after the war. From Vengeance to HavocP RODUCTION of the VulteeVengeance dive-bomber at the Nash- ville plant of the Consolidated Vultee Air-craft Corporation is to be tapered off during the next few months in order toprepare for the production, early next year, of the Douglas A-20 Havoc. This is yet another side-light onAmerica's changing attitude towards the dive-bomber, the limited usefulness ofwhich is being more and more realised in the light of operational experience. Franco-Russian Fighter Squadron A FIGHTING-FRENCH squadron,known as the Normandie Squadron, is operating on the Russian front underthe command of a 30-year-old major who saw plenty of air fighting during theLibyan campaign. The squadron is equipped with Rus-sian YAK fighters, of which they are reported to speak very highly. Its pilotshave a useful number of Huns to their credit, and a favourite operation is thatof train and lorry busting. Supply and Rescue A NOTHER news item from our Rus-AX sian allies says that during the past two years their guerillas havewrecked some 3,000 German aircraft " behind the enemy lines," while theguerillas themselves are being regularly supplied with ammunition, food, etc., bv old U-2 single-engined biplanes, flying at night, which have returned to their own lines carrying Russian children, orphaned by the invaders. Dihedral AN acquaintance who knows far moreabout the English language than he does about aircraft or flying recently ex-pressed disapproval of some of the terms in general use in aviation circles. He particularly complained about theword "dihedral," which, he says, means " two "plain surfaces," and is thereforewrongly used by us flying folk to indi- cate the upward angle of a wing fromthe horizontal. As for "anhedral," the first syllable,"an," certainly means "negative,"' but the rest of the word is wrongly applied. Who started this, anyway ? R.C.A.F. to Buy HelicoptersR OYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCEheadquarters in Ottawa have an- nounced that six helicopters are on orderfrom the United States for use as rescue aircraft and. also, possibly, to servelocalities now dependent on irregular shipping facilities. Their primary function as rescue air-craft will be to reach airmen who are forced down in territory which is in-accessible to any other means of trans- port. There is no intention, as yet, to usethem for convoy protection. "Aussies" in the Air War SOME impressive figures recentlyquoted by Mr. A. S. Drakeford, the Australian Air Minister, showed that theCommonwealth had contributed 16,000 trained aircrews, via the Empire airtraining scheme, up to March of this year, that the number of aircrews abroadhad increased by 200 per cent, since Sep- tember, 1941, and squadrons by 50 percent. The R.A.A.F., he disclosed, is nowthirty times larger than at the start of BLIMP BARN : Measuring more than I,oooft. long, about 300ft. across the base, and 170ft. high, hangars for U.S. Navy blimps used on coastal submarine patrol are now being constructed entirely of wood, in pre-fabricated sections, at a cost which is about two-thirds that of steel hangars of the same size. the war, and its establishments have beenmultiplied by fifty. The total R.A.A.F. casualties to dateare 2,369 killed, 1,433 wounded, 982 missing, and 301 prisoners. Canadian Aircraft Output /"""WNADA is now producing aircraft at ^s the rate of eighty per week, and her aircraft industry employs more than 100,000 people, including some 25,000 women, according to a recent statement by the Hon. C. D. Howe, the Canadian Minister of Munitions and Supply. Types now in production are the Lan- caster, Mosquito, Catalina, Helldiver, Bolingbroke, Harvard, Anson, Cornell and Norseman. The last-named, which is used both as a transport and for air- crew training, is the only all-Canadian- designed aircraft in the list. Air-mail Reminder t ALTHOUGH it has previously beeirJ•**•' stated that there is no ordinary air mail service to the British North Africanand West African Forces, the G.P.O. is still receiving is. 3d. air mail letters forthese addresses. These have to be sent by surface routeand, where the name and address of the sender is given on the cover, the excesscharge is refunded, which causes an enormous amount of extra work with itswastage of precious man-power. There is, however, an air-letter service(6d.) to both North African and West African Forces, and the differencebetween this and an ordinary air-mail service should be noted. The North African Force also has anAirgraph service (3d.), but this has not yet been extended to West Africa. De Havilland Appointment i >T HE de Havilland Aircraft Co., r*f| Hatfield, England, announces that Mr. P. C. Garrart, who has been vice- president and managing director of the subsidiary company, de Havilland Air- craft of Canada, Ltd., since 1936, hag now been appointed to the board of directors of the parent company and will shortly take up the post of resident direc- tor in North America to look after the parent company's interests in Canada and the U.S. Mr. J. Grant Glassco has been appointed, by the Department of Muni- tions and Supply, in charge of the de Havilland production organisation in Toronto on Mosquito manufacture. You 'Eard!L T. COL. C. S. HOUGH'S power-drive in a Lockheed Lightning at the officially reported speed of 780 m.p-h- was one of the great newspaper stories of the month and was extensively " featured " in the dailies last week. Without comment, we reproduce the two following quotations, from inter- views with the celebrated American pilot: Daily Mail: " There was the noise of it like the roaring and rushing of a sea past my cabininnd the shrill screaming of the propelle 'Chronicle: "All I could hear was a^aint engine whine, Hough, who put up a marvellous ance,Jhtas,pur sympathy. •• \
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