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APRIL 6TH, 1944 FLIGHT 359 HERE AND THERE CAIRO TO THE CAPE : The first Spitfire to fly from Cairo to the Cape snapped from its Ventura escort just after taking off. Borrowed for exhibition by the South African Government, it was flown by F/O. G. E. Camplin, of Transport Command. -nates on shipping figures, Mr. Loening *Vemarked: " We might just as well have figured the automobile industry's capa city, in 1910, by the number of people who were riding around in horse and buggy." Reckoning a trans-Atlantic crossing to take 15 hr., Mr. Loening says post-war air traffic over this route should be gauged by the number of people on all the railways and buses in the States who take trips to places 15 hr. away. Maybe he's got something there ! Ironical Fate A MESSAGE from Melbourne tells of the death-of F/O. L. G. Fuller, R.A.A.F., who won the D.F.M. at Palermo. But he first became known in 1940 when, piloting a trainer, he pulled off an extraordinary "pick-a-back" landing with another aircraft on top of his own after a mid-air collision. Ironically enough, Fuller met his death in a cycling accident. " Why don't they use parrots and|save paj We Hope They're Right piLOTS and aircrew of the R.A.A.F. -*- who recently arrived at Brisbane on leave from operational duties in Great Britain expressed the opinion, in inter views with the Press there, that Ger many's end was not far distant. The whole of Germany would become a scrapheap, they are reported as saying, unless the Germans cried "Enough" before it was too late. His Journey Was Necessary MR. D. McVEY, director-general of civil aviation in Australia, arrived in England by air recently in prder to attend the Commonwealth communica tions meeting in London this month. Last year Mr. McVey led the Austra lian air mission to America and Britain. South African Attitude MRJ^C.STURROCK, i»h African Minis- ransport, said Union Govern- tends to retain gnty over its own He made the when he ex- m#in prin- he Union ment's post-war policy. He also announced that it is proposed to build three airports—one in the neighbourhood of Johannesburg, which will be an international air port, and others at.Dur ban and Cape Town, which will be national airports. The three air- fiejas will be constructed by the South African ailway. Portuguese Protest THE new company 1 formed by the chief Portuguese shipping lines anfi the Aero Portu- gt^esa Limitada to exploit 'r communications with their colonies and Brazil after the war, mentioned in these columns last week, is causing something of a stir in Lisbon, according to a Reuter correspondent there. The feeling is growing, it seems, that this new combine should not be allowed to become a monopoly, and this point, first ventilated in the Jomal do Comercio, has now been taken up with considerable vigour by the influential newspaper, Seculo. US. CaU for Women Pilots ADDRESSING the U.S. House of •**• Representatives on the man-power problem recently. Gen. H. H. Arnold, commanding the U.S.A.A.F., said he hoped they would get enough women pilots to replace every man now serving in America. Women pilots, he said, could be used for ferrying, target towing, and similar non-operational flying jobs. Already there were 534 women pilots in the " Wasps " doing air transport work, and it was not unreasonable to hope that eventually all such work would be done by women pilots. There was no intention, he added, to send the "Wasps" into combat over seas. Well Caught, Sir T HE latest (we nearly wrote " tallest ") story from the South-west Pacific tells how a Boston pilot "cap tured"*, the log-book of a Jap ship attacked off Wewak. After the initial attack at masthead height, a second formation of Bostons swept down on the Jap and arrived just as a violent explosion occurred immedi ately forward of the ship's bridge. Debris sailed 75ft. into the air, and, when one of the Bostons was being examined later at its base, the ship's log book was found inside the cowling of one of its engines, nestling behind a cylinder! This established that the ship was the Taimei Maru, of 3,000 tons, and certified as "fit to carry dry and perishable cargoes." We understand, however, that there is no truth in the rumour that this incident has given rise to a new A.M.O. requiring log-books to be produced as proof of successful sorties against shipping in future.
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