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386 FLIGHT OCTOBER 7-TH, 1943 E AN Dominion Airmen Arrive NEW ZEALAND airmen who have beentrained in Canada under the Empire Air Training Scheme have recentlyarrived in Britain. The party was a large one, and on arrival they were greeted byMr. W. J. Jordan, the New Zealand High Commissioner in London. New U.S. Carrier ANOTHER aircraft carrier wasA launched at Camden, New Jersey, recently. It was the San Jacinto, whichwas intended to be a 10,000-ton cruiser, but was converted during constructionto an aircraft carrier. Still Spreading MORE new airlines are planned byAmerican companies. The civil Aeronautics Board has received applica- tion from Eastern Air Lines Co. to operate fourteen new mail, passenger, and cargo services after the war, ten of which are to Latin-America and Canada. Gifts from India WITH a message of congratulation tothe Royal Air Force on the third anniversary of the Battle of Britain, HisHighness Air Commodore the Nawab of Bhopal has placed at the disposal of theAir Officer Commanding-in-Chief, India, the sum of 100,000 rupees to be devotedto purposes connected with the prosecu- tion of the war, and a further sum of10,000 rupees for providing .amenities for units of the Royal Air Force and theIndian Air Force stationed in the Bhopal State. Beefing-up the Fund THE Stratford-on-Avon and districtbranch of the Auctioneers' and Estate Agents' Institute has raised£17,000 for the Institute's Royal. Air Force Pilots' and Crews' Fund. At arecent gift auction in aid of the fund the Mayor of Stratford-on-A von, Mr.Roderick Baker, acted as auctioneer for the first lot, a fat bullock, which, beingresold time after time, brought in a total of £10,251. The Institute's Fund recently handedover to the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund stock to the value of ^75,000. S.B.AC's New President TV/TAJOR H. R. KILNER, M.C., hasXVX been elected president of the Society of British Aircraft Constructorsin succession to Mr. A. F. Sidgreaves, O.B.E., who had been president sinceNovember, 1941. Major Kilner is director-in-charge ofthe aircraft section of Vickers-Arm- strongs, Ltd., whom he joined in 1930,becoming a director in 1936. He is also a director of Cooke, Troughton andSimms, Ltd. Mr. Sidgreaves, the retiring president,who is managing director of Rolls-Royce, Ltd., becomes deputy president, and Mr.H. Burroughes, a director of the Gloster Aircraft Co., Ltd., has been elected vice-president. W.A.A.F. Appointment f^ROVP OFFICER LADY WELSH VJ has become Director of the W.A.A.F. and is promoted to Air Com- mandant in succession to Air Chief Commandant Trefusis-Forbes, who has been posted abroad for special duties. Lady Welsh, who is 47, is the wife of Air Marshal Sir William Welsh. She served in France during the last war, and joined the A.T.S. in 1938, later transferring to the W.A.A.F. Air Chief Commandant Trefusis- Forbes will remain senior officer of the service. First of all she will go to Canada to study the activities of the women's division of the R.C.A.F. and later will tour North Africa and the Middle East. Anglo-American Acceleration MR. DONALD NELSON'S visit tothis country t» confer with Mr. Oliver Lyttelton has as its chief objectthe ensuring that our joint productive superiority over the enemy shall be putto the most effective use. The two men are, of course, joint heads of the Anglo-American Combined Production and Resources Board set up early last year. At the same time Mr. BernardBaruch, advisory assistant to Mr. Byrnes, U.S. Director of War Mobilisa-tion, has stated to Congress that airisflgfr. production must be augmented by an ffi-crease in aircraft workers and plant on the West Coast, otherwise the 1943 pro-gramme will fall short at a time when the need is greatest. But F.D.R. Says— SOMEWHAT strangely with Mr.Baruch's alarm comes Mr. Roose- velt's cheering assertion that the upwardcurve of U.S. aircraft production in- creased in August and was even betterlast month. '' During the two months of the recessof the Congress," he is quoted as saying, "our factories produced approximately15,000 aircraft. There was an important increase in heavy bombers in August." Mr, Roosevelt also stated that sinceMay, 1940, 123,000 aircraft and 349,000 aircraft engines had been produced anddelivered "up to September 1st, 1943,'• and that of these aircraft 52,000 ha/ibeen produced during the first eight months of 1943. The U.S. Navy Department has alsostated that its air forces now have more than 18,000 aircraft compared with1,744 three years ago. Ql "First League" Fighters QUANTITY, however, is not every-thing, and Mr. Ralph McGill, editor of one of the leading newspapers in theSouthern States, who has recently re- turned to America after a visit to thiscountry, discusses comments on various American aircraft which he heard, notfrom the British but at U.S. air bases in this country. Only the Thunderbolt and theMustang with Merlin engine, he was told, are really up to the " first league "air fighting obtaining in the European theatre, where the Germans have theirbest aircraft and pilots. Two other American fighters, headded, had to be shipjrfed out of England PISCATORIAL PIPER : This American experiment in a marine application of the^r^,**tff""wefe"'*9©*ag a^food job on otherpick-up method widely used by the Army's liaison "grasshoppers " must caJLA»f fronts and he durjfct seek to deprecate nice co-ordination between the pilot of the Civil Air Patrol Piper and theoafsmen, them; it was uptN^hat they couldn'tThe aerial fisherman, it seems, holds the line in his handSj^-^^ compete in theif first league."
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