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1944
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86 FLIGHT JANUARY 27TH, 1944 THE] Two More Honours GRP. CAPT. FRANK WHITTLE has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society at a meeting of the Council held on the Society's 78th birth day, and has also received the M.A. at Cambridge, taking the degree by proxy. Election to full Fellowship of the R.Ae.S. directly at the initiation of the Council is a special distinction which is only given for work of outstanding im portance in aeronautics. "Identification of Aircraft" COPIES of "Identification of Air craft" containing 82 of the types dealt with in Flight's recently concluded series, "Aircraft Types and their Char acteristics," are now available from this office in limited quantities at 5s. each or 5s. 3d. by post. Back to the Air League ON his retirement from the R.A.F. with the cessation of the inspector ship of the A.T.C., Air Commodore J. A. Chamier has been appointed Exe cutive Controller of the Air League of the British Empire, of which he was Secretary-General from 1933 until he was recalled to the R.A.F. in 1939. "H.M.T. Rolls-Royce" EMPLOYEES of Rolls-Royce, Ltd., who recently adopted the mine sweeper named after their firm, have de cided to send its crew reading matter, including a copy of Flight, for which they are advancing a year's subscrip tion. Flight will thus be mailed to the Commanding Officer, " H.M.T. Rolls- Royce," c/o G.P.O., London, each week. Society of Aircraft Engineers AT the two-day meeting of the Founda tion Committee held on January 17th and 18th it was finally decided that this new body shall be known as "The Society of Aircraft Engineers," whose temporary offices are at 356-366 Oxford Street, London, W.i (Tel. 0818 May- fair) . All enquiries should be addressed to the secretary at the above address. Among other business dealt with at this meeting, the aims, objects, policy and constitution of the Society were drafted and will be made known at the general meeting to be called shortly. R.A.F.V.R. Club IT is proposed to form a club, for the original members of the R.A.F.V.R., and those who are interested should get into touch with Lt. (A) Harold A. MB mli • 81 n 1* l B '««^HMtfH 1 ? M. £'• "'' ife" 1*** mm i n • ill =1—rrfS^^ -• ~ r ——^23HI ",•••-• '. . ~ • 4 • !i|' * i • • - _i Engine between ments. ***« -&&• ••• w • m- _ . J instruments on the York are the duplicated flying instru- Epps, R.N.V.R. (late Sgt. Pilot 740753), at the Royal Naval Air Station, Worthy Down, near Winches ter, Hants. Lt. Epps has already received a fair number of letters from prospective members, but thinks there may be many eligible for membership who are not yet aware of the project. Speed Not Everything CAPT. J. L. PRITCHARD, secretary of the R.Ae.S., deplored the fact that so much research had been devoted to the quest for more speed when he re cently addressed a branch meeting of the society at a Blackburn aircraft fac tory; what was wanted, he maintained, was slower take-off and landing. • The title of his talk was "Bird Flight and the Aeroplane," and he advocated more study towards the type of machine that could fly at "nought" m.p.h. so that heavy post-war air traffic would not absorb huge expanses of land for airfields. View Your Share in Victory A WORKS exhibition staged in a Rootes aircraft engine factory in the Midlands is designed to let em ployees see for themselves just what role is played in the completed engine by the various components and small parts they make. Another important aspect of the show is designed to drive home to every worker the seriousness of making scrap. The exhibition was arranged by the fac tory's joint production committee. Air Aid to Turkey TURKISH draughtsmen and engineers are to be sent to this country and to the U S. to complete their training in aeronautical engineering after taking initial courses at home, it has been an nounced by Airligue, the organisation which promotes flying in Turkey. The organisation's administrative council also reported that the greater part of the supplies in aircraft machinery ordered in G.B. and U.S. has been de livered to Turkey during the past six months. Smoke Screen THE German News Agency, quoted by Reuter, recently said that Allied air craft which raided Rome used a dense smoke screen as a protection against accurate A.A. fire. U.S. Air Mission A GROUP of American Army and Navy officers is visiting Venezuela to help with aviation problems there, and Mr. Cordell Hull, U.S. Secretary of State, and Dr. Diogenes Escalante, the Vene zuelan Minister, have signed an agree ment simila* to those made with other Latin-American countries. The agree ment is for four years and is renewable at Venezuela's request. Jet Propulsion MESSAGES and letters of congratula tion in connection with Mr. Geoffrey Smith's recent broadcasts and articles on jet propulsion -in the daily and technical Press con tinue to arrive at Flight offices. Amongst these congratulations none was more pleasing than a cablegram from Mr. W. Hudson Fysh, D.F.C., of the Queens land and Northern Territory Aerial Ser vices, Ltd., of Australia, better known as Qantas. He said: "Congratulations on your broadcast which listened to here with great interest." Two cheques for ^10 also arrived to be handed over to the Red Cross Prisoners of War Fund from Mr. F. J. Robinson, a well-known manufacturers' agent and pioneer motorist of -Coventry, on condition that Flight secured for him, duly autographed by Grp. Capt. Frank Whittle and Mr. Geoffrey Smith, two copies of '' Gas Turbines and Jet Pro pulsion for Aircraft." This was arranged, and the two .cheques have been handed over to the Fund. ^ This generous action may inspire others to emulation.
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