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1944 - 0224.PDF
"4 FLIGHT FEBRUARY 3RD, 1944 HERE AND THE U.S. Night-fighters Fly "Beaus" A MERICAN night-fighter squadrons in Italy have recently been equipped with Bristol Beaufighters and have already brought down a useful number of Huns. Sir Richard Fairey T HE Institute of Aeronautical Sciences has conferred an honorary Fellow ship on Sir Richard Fairey, Director- General of the British Air Commission in America. Goldfields ! L ORD PORTAL, Minister of Works, recently stated that ^600,000,000 worth of airfields had been constructed in Great Britain since war began. He was giving examples of the wartime achievements of the building industry. R.A.F. Association T HE headquarters of the Royal Air Force Association (Old Comrades) has now moved from its previous address at 10, Norfolk Street, Strand, to new premises at 105a, Gloucester Road, London, S.W.7, and the telephone num ber is now Frobisher 7433. Trained in Canada M ORE than 50,000 aircrew personnel, enough to man over 15,000 aircraft, have qualified in Canada under the British Commonwealth Air Training Scheme, it is announced by the Royal Canadian Air Force. U.S. Factory Casualties ACCIDENTS in American aircraft factories during 1943 caused the death of 18,000 workers. This fact was disclosed recently by the U.S. War Production Board in announc ing the inauguration of a National Indus trial Safety Campaign. T^HE pil -*- a tar; warship's shells bur: uncomfortab Hint U.S./ Strength T HE American Air Force now numbers more thftn 2,3*0,000 officers and en listed men, fia^or^ng to a statement by the U.S.A«a*^^^*'S'«*fc£ornmand. These figuxes^include 100,799 pilots, •20,086 bornbaisjjvs, 18,805 navigators, 107,218 air gunners and 555,891 ground and air-combat technicians. Brazilian Aircraft Engines T HE new national aircraft - engine factory in Brazil is expected to start production on April 19th, birthday of President Vargas, according to a state ment byjlifia. Antonio Guedes Muniz. of the""Brazilian Air Force, "wtotj is in charge of the Government factory. Last year, it maf/ Ul| recalled,] the tered injfc an by anufactiy^T Ranger licence. Brazilian G agreement w ntle a naval aircraft towing practice shooting by a noticed that the his aircraft—and ^riear. The same unpleasant event was re peated, and, after taking evasive action, the pilot signalled to the warship, " Please note, I am towing this thing, not pushing it." A.O.C., No. 2 T.A.F. A IR MARSHAL SIR ARTHUR CON- INGHAM, K.C.B., D.S.O., M.C., D.F.C., A.F.C., • has been appointed A.O.C., No. 2 Tactical Air Force of the R.A.F. based in Great Britain, and has assumed his new command. This pre serves the famous Coningham-Mont- gomery partnership which produced such grand results when Sir Arthur was in command of No. 1 T.A.F. in the Mediterranean. Director of P.R. MR. H. A. JONES, who has been appointed Director of Public Rela tions at the Air Ministry in succession to Air Comdre. Lord Stansgate, was the official Air Historian of the last war and served in the Army and the R.A.F. between 1914 and 1918. As an observer with the 47th Squadron he was wounded in the Salonika campaign. Mi. Jones wrote five of the six volumes of the Official History of the War, taking over the job when Sir Walter Raleigh died after completing the first volume. FLYING "FRIGE" : An artist's impression of the projected 120 ton refrigerated " fruit express," designed by Burnelli for Colonial Airlines to transport Florida fruit to Canada after the war. Payload is said to be 40 tons. Canadian Car and Foundry Co. has also received orders from a S. American airline for Burnelli aircraft. MITCHELL'S MIGHT : The 20 lb. shell fired by the 75 mm. cannon successfully used on the B-26. The projectile itself weighs 13 lb. Mars' Pacific Flight iry's flying boat Mars— largest operating aircraft waters after com- San Francisco 1 a military transport. Her Hawaii was 12 hr. 17 THE U.S. the woi* —is back ir pleting a rovA to Honolulo flying time iri min. Carrying 20,000 lb. of mail on her return trip, Mars made the round trip in 27 hr. 26 min. flying time. She also carried eight passengers and a crew of 17. Runway Rivalry O KLAHOMA'S $25,000,000 combined airport, seaplane base and railway station, to be constructed closaf to the geographical core of U.S. airlirife routes, is planned to cover six square TriflM The airport will be nine mijfefeconj'^crie centre of Oklahoma citd|*|and its potential ^eajjlane. base ws\ sS nearby 2,500-acre Already tj^gJ^yajP*arJ| local interests have secureX VosT|of#the space they need and will spflfry secure the remainder. While Boston, Mass., is also planning to extend its airport by 900 acres and to make three runways of 10,000, 8,000 and 7,000 feet long, Oklahoma is going to include two 11,000 feet runways. One View PICKING out the world's best aircraft has been a popular pastime ever since the war began. In a recent issue of an American magazine Peter Masefield, formerly technical editor of our contem porary, has set out a list of eighteen air craft in each of the more important mili tary and civil categories. In twenty-two classifications Masefield gives the palm to America for sixteen of them. Britain, in his judgment, takes the remaining six places; the enemy none ! The article appears in the monthly journal Flying.
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