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1944
1944 - 0118.PDF
-6o FLIGHT E AND THE Civic Honour k EAMINGTON Town Council have in- /-*-> vited Group Captv Frank Whittle, / inventor of the jet propelled aircraft, to *S acc.ept the Freedom of the Borough of Leamington. Group Capt. Whittle was educated at Leamington College. To Join R.Ae.C. Committee CAPTAIN K. J. G. BARTLETT and Colonel W. G. Bevereux have been elected to fill vacancies on the com mittee of the Royal Aero Club. R.A.F. Speaker AIR VICE-MARSHAL SIR HAZEL-TON NICHOLL, C.B., C.B.E., will be the speaker at the Institute of Trans- sport luncheon, to be held on Friday, February 4th. From Malta to M.E. AIR VICE-MARSHAL SIR KEITH PARK, Air Officer Commanding at / Malta, is to succeed Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas as Air Officer Com- manding-in-Chief, Middle East. Guild of Air Pilots T HE 14th animal general meeting of the Guild of Air Pilots will be held at the offices of the Royal Aeronautical Society, 4, Hamilton Place, W.i, on Friday, February 4th, at 3 p.m. Arrangements for a members' dinner in the evening are in hand. Will those proposing to attend meet ing and dinner communicate with the clerk at 61, Cheapside, E.C..2, as owing to changes of address the Guild's register is not in every case accurate. Tickets for the dinner can also be obtained at this address, or at the British Airline Pilots' Association at 7, Park Lane, W.i. Lanes' Atlantic Record A NEW flight record between Montreal and Great Britain was set up last week by two Lancasters carrying mail for Canadian troops overseas. One aircraft made the journey in 11 hr. 14 min. and the other landed just two minutes later. The previous record was 11 hr. 35 min. New "Automotive" Directors T HREE new directors have-been ap pointed to the board of the Lock heed Hydraulic Brake Co., Ltd., an associate companv of the Automotive Products Co., Ltd. They are Mr. Norman Spurgeon, Mr. A. C. Burdon and Mr. E. W. Swales. Mr. Spurgeon has been secretary of the companies almost since their incep tion and has served them for more than 21 years. Mr. Burdon is the general manager and has put in 15 years' service, while Mr. Swales has been mainly respon sible for building up their aircraft equip ment production. A Tale of Two Airports S CHEMES for combined land and sea airports to serve post-war civil aviation have been put forward by both Southampton and Portsmouth, the former by the harbour board and the latter by the city council, and a para graph in the brochure recently issued by Southampton Harbour Board indicates that these two schemes are likely to find themselves somewhat competitive. " The distance from Southampton aj Portsmouth is short and suitable laboj could be obtained from these areas, jr^rys ; this paragraph, ^clearly indicatinjylhat the Southampton Hadlour Boaj^mfit^Js its own scheme as jRpalaai^si^saJfciying Portsmouth's fequj^merJs toojFBut as part of the land nRktirJE \y JiButltamp-i ton for its o\wn airprff hajBens to GOOD JUDGE : Nearly 100 model aircraft made by cadets formed an interesting show at the "A.T.C. Calling" exhibition recently held in a West End stores. Sir Frederick Handley Page and Air Chief Marshal Sir William Mitchell, the Corps' London Commandant, acted as judges. General Sosnowski (right), C.-in-C. of the Polish armed forces, about to board an aircraft of R.A.F. Transport Command in the Middle East. With him is Air Comdrc. Whitney Straight. under the jurisdiction of the City of Portsmouth Planning Authority, a de cidedly intriguing situation immediately presents itself. Both pi ojected schemes will be briefly described in next week's issue of Flight. Broadcasts on the Jet Job IN addition to the broadcasts on the subject of jet propulsion over tha Canadian B.C. and Trans-Canadian Net- work, mentioned last week, Mr. Geoffrey Smith broadcast a full-length com mentary in the B.B.C. Overseas South Pacific Service at 8,45 a.m. on Thursday last, which was repeated during the day. On the following day the commentary was given in the B.B.C. North American Service, and many readers of Flight will have heard the culminating, broadcast to the Forces in the Home Service at 1.15 p.m. on Friday, January 14th. Ten Times as Big ROLLS - ROYCE Aero - Instruction School, where specialised training is given to men ot the R.A.F., Fleet Air Arm, and Allied air forces in the run ning, maintenance, and overhaul of air craft engines, has expanded to ten times its original strength since it was opened five years ago in collaboration with the Air Ministry. Starting with three ^instructors who could deal with 500 trainees a year, it now has nearly 30 instructors, and tne annual intake of trainees has risen to 5,000. Altogether more than 10,000 trainees have passed through the school, which it is hoped to carry on after the war* in modified form.
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