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252 FLIGHT SEPTEMBER 2ND, 1943 E AN All for Half-a-DollarT O judge by our voluminous contem-porary, Aeto Digest, there can be no paper shortage in America. The June number of this bulkymonthly numbers no fewer than 476 pages and it weighs precisely 2lb. 40Z. A Misquotation.S INCE the paragraph '' Per Derby adAstra," page 261, went to press, we have received from Mrs. Peter Mase-field a letter to the effect that her hus- band has cabled from America acategorical denial of the statement attributed to him in the cable publishedin certain sections of the lay press. We are happy to give prominence to this dis-claimer. Synthetic Cloud-cover ANOTHER new device, reported bySwedish refugees from Hamburg to be used by the R.A.F. in bombing raids,is the dropping of masses of sheets of paper, black on one side and silvered onthe other, which deflect and reflect searchlight rays. The bombers were thus hidden, theysaid, behind a carpet of blinding reflec- tions ! Fewer Overhauls AN increase of 50 per cent, in theperiod between overhauls is reported to have been achieved by improvementsintroduced by the designers in a Russian aircraft engine factory.Whether these improvements are in the actual design of the engine, in thematerials used, or in the methods em- ployed in their manufacture is not dis-closed ; it might, of course, be a com- bination of all three, since the increaseis a substantial one. Swedish Research A FIVE-MAN committee charged withthe task of working out suggestions for the construction ol an engine for theresearch institute was recently appointed by the Swedish Minister of Trade. Professor Ivar Malmer, director of theAeronautical Institute at Stockholm- Bromma, is a member of, this committee,and the new research installation, which will be used for the investigation ofboth aircraft engine and airscrew- problems, will probably be placed underthe Bronima institute. Marauding from BritainP REVIOUSLY used by the R.A.F. andthe U.S.A.A.F. only in the Middle East and Far East, the B-26 Maraudermedium bomber is now being operated by the Americans from bases in GreatBritain on daylight raids. With a top speed of over 300 m.p.h.,a range of 2,400 miles, and a bomb load of 2 460 lb., the Marauder has alreadydole much useful offensive work against tjie Axis, but the Truman Committee haspassed adverse judgment upon it because, they say, it is too expensive to manu-facture and is so tricky to take off and land (a blow to tricycle undercarriage enthusiasts) that only pilots speciallytrained for the job can handle it with safety.Production of the Marauder, therefore, is to be "tapered off " in favour of otherwell-proved types. All-Brazilian Fairchilds T AST year the Brazilian Government-L' entered into a contract with Fair- childs, U.S.A., to build the PT-19 fortraining purposes in the Brazilian Air Force, this being recorded in Flight atthe time. Up till now, however, the 175 h.p.inverted six-cylinder in-line air-cooled Ranger engines fitted to the Fairchildtrainer had to be imported from the States, but now Brazil has completedarrangements, through her Embassy in Washington, to manufacture the enginesalso. The contract embraces Ranger enginesup to 200 h.p., and they wili also be fitted to the Grumman Widgeon flying-boats used in the Brazilian coastal patrol, the AmazoB patrol, and for air-mail deliveries. Change in "Light Metals" Directorship MR. HORACE W. CLARKE hasretired from the Directorship of the Light Metals Extrusions Control, for theorganisation of which he was initially responsible in October, 1939. He issucceeded by Mr. G. Meredith, previously Deputy-Director under Mr. Clarke. Mr.H. J. Sells becomes Deputy-Director and Mr. W. H. Smith, Assistant Director. Mr. Clarke is managing director ofJames Booth & Sons, Ltd., and of Wilkes, Sons and Maplebeck, Ltd. Hehas been chairman of the Wrought Light Alloys Association since its inception,and is actively concerned with other non- ferrous metal trades associations as wellas being a member of the Grand Council of the F.B.I. "Father of Radiolocation"S IR EDWARD APPLETON, K.C.B.,F.R.S., Secretary to the Committee of the Privy Council for Scientific andIndustrial Research, has recently had •bestowed upon him by Lord Cecil,Chancellor of Birmingham University, the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws.Referring to Sir Edward as '' the father of radiolocation," ProfessorRitchie, the university's Public Orator, taid at the investiture that the methodsof radiolocation differed only in detail from those devised by Sir Edward fromthe study of a purely scientific problem. Presentation to Lt. Col. J. A. Cole ON the occasion of his retirement fromthe chairmanship of Humber, Ltd., and its subsidiary companies, Lt. Col.J. A. Cole, O.B.E., was presented with a fine antique clock by Sir WilliamRootes at a dinner given in* his honour. Sir William, who succeeds him aschairman of the combine, paid tribute to Lt. Col. Cole's untiring work in thedevelopment of the aircraft shadow fac- tories, and mentioned that a cot and fullequipment in the Coventry and Warwick- shire Hospital was being endowed in hisname by the staff and workpeople. Lt. Col. Cole said he was " 75 not out,innings declared." Future work, he felt, would be best in the hands of youngeimen than himself. CHECKING UP : Cadet Johnson, of No. 1256 (Swanley & Dist.) Squadron A.T.C., the 15J year old mascot of an A.T.C. summer camp (yes, they call him "Tich," makes sure he has been given a man-sized dinner—just to oblige the Press photographers 1
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