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1944
1944 - 0747.PDF
APRIL 13TH, 1944 HERE AND THERE petroleum questions. Sir Frederick Godber, a member of the Petroleum Board since its inception, and Sir Wil liam Frazer, chairman of the Anglo- Persian Oil Coy., are members of the delegation. Ceylonese School A NAVAL training establishment where 300 Ceylonese are under going instruction in aircraft maintenance and repair has recently been opened in Ceylon, and it is hoped that these men will replace some 70 per cent, of the Fleet Air Arm maintenance ratings in the island for service afloat in aircraft carriers. This school is said to be the first of its kind in a British colony. Patience Rewarded AFTER four Catalina flying boats based in Ceylon had spent two days searching 200,000 square miles of the ^Indian Ocean, one of them located the 42 survivors of a sunken ship hundreds of miles from land. Much-needed food and drink were dropped near the rafts, but it was not until the fourth day that a tanker was located and directed to the spot to pick them up. Water-Runway Lights A NEW type of battery operated hot-cathode fluorescent lamp for illu minating the water area marked out for flying boats alighting at night has been developed in America. Carried in float ing rubber '' doughnuts,'' the new lamp reduces the electrical starting '' pressure '' to only 45 volts, which is one-sixtieth the voltage required by the cold-cathode type previously used. The light-absorbing properties of water prevent its being efficiently floodlit in the same way as an airfield runway. Post-war Air Plans SPECIFIC proposals are contained in a plan for post-war civil aviation which Dr. Adolpb A. Berle, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, is reported to have brought with him when he arrived in London recently with Dr. Edward P. Warner, vice-chairman of C.A.B., to discuss this all-important sub ject with the British Government. This plan, drawn up by an inter-departr committee of which ISr. Berhv^^the head, calls for a limited degree^m inter national control by the United Nations. One of the main points, prolosed is ALLIED EFFORT : American aircrew helping to bomb-up an R.A.F. Lancaster with a 4,000 lb. block-buster. R.A.F. and U.S.A.A.F. personnel regularly visit each other's airfields to maintain genuine liaison between the two air forces. the right of American domes!ic airlines to compete freely on international routes, and it also recommends that the United Nations should establish an authority which would guarantee to U.S. airlines the use of airfields built abroad with lend-lease money. Other Schools of Thought IT must frankly be admitted that there is a wide gap between Dr. Berle's idea of post-war air op^icy, with its obvious emprtnsjs,'n" ^y^kvjyprivate enterprise, the muo^argeroiegree of internal centralisatWr and interna/Sunal control favoured/oy Canada, AustrahY and New Zealan^Tand by a strong bodyfof opinion country. /"J / ( ientaJiy, ^fc/ Berle ^krrived in VJijitainyf fresh from M a discission in Mon treal/ with Mr. Hpwe and other ©knadian officials. including the presi dent of T.C.A., Mr. Dr. Edward P. Warner, of the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board (left), and Dr. Adolph Berle, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State (right), who have flown to England to discuss post-war air plans. H. J. Symington, at what the Renter correspondent described as a "hush- hush air parley behind closed doors." It may, or may not, be significant that an Australian Government spokesman has referred to a suggestion, in some American quarters, that Canada should lie the sole representative of the Dominions at the coming conferences on post-war aviation, and said that Aus tralia was backed by Great Britain in opposing tiiis suggestion. R.A.A.F.'s Cold Cup W HEN the Duke ot Gloucester, accompanied by the Duchess, visited the Boomerang Club at Australia House recently, he accepted a gold cup which lie .will present to the R.A.A.F as a tribute from the R.A.F. when he goes to Australia as Governor-General. The cup. given by Mr. E. R. |. Mack, oi Guildford, was handed to the Puke by Air Marshal Sir Bertine Sutton Civil Aircraft Navigators' Licences D ETAILS of the revised examination svllabuses for civil aircraft Navi gators' Licences (Wartime) which took effect from March 27 are contained in Air Ministry Pamphlet 44, 13th War time Edition. This pamphlet gives general informa- I ion about conditions of examination, and copies may be had free on applica tion to the Director-General of Civil Aviation, Air Ministry, CH.8 (d), Parliament Square House, Parliament Street, London, S.W.i.
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