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1944
1944 - 0875.PDF
APRIL 27TH, 1944 FLIGHT CEYLOXESE FLEET AIR Ceylonese recruits in training at a recently opened Royal Naval Aircraft establishment in Ceylon. (Above) Instruction on a Napier Rapier-engined Fairey Seafox seaplane amid the palm trees <jk~ on the island. (Top right) Fully trained ratings work with a British rating on the Bristol Taurus engine and the De Havilland airscrew of an Albacore. (Right) As they march past the recruits are smart and well turned out. CORSAIR MODIFICATIONS APART from the clipped-wing Corsairs in service with the Fleet Air Arm, a new type is being used by the U.S. Marine Corps in the Solomons. It has a large drop tank to give the long range so necessary in the Pacific war, and the cockpit has been completely redesigned. The pilot appears to sit a little higher to improve his view, and the transparent covering continues lower down the fuselage for the same purpose. Instead of being flat-sided as on the earlier types of F4U-1, the hood on the new model is shaped rather like that on the Spitfire. A second radio aerial mast is also carried midway between the cockpit and the fin. DEATH OF GENERAL CADDELL M ANY of our older readers will regret to learn that Brig. Gen. W. B. Caddell, F.R.Ae.S., died at his home in Kent on April 20th. Commissioned iii the Royal Garrison Artillery as far back as 1900, he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in 1915- At the end of hostilities in 1918 he turned his attention to the aircraft industry and was with Vickers Aviation for some twenty years. In "1938 he joined the boards of Alexander Duckham and Co., Ltd., and Trinidad Central Oilfields, Ltd. Apart from his enthusiastic interest in aircraft and aero- itoamics, he made a deep study of bird life and flight. He was a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, and in 19.40 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. B.O.A.C. AFTER THE WAR BRITISH Overseas Airways Corporation has been charged with the fullest development of overseas air transport services, and considers it its duty, in its preparations, to cover all routes on which British air services ought to operate after the war, but the Corporation regards itself as a trustee, and should the Government decide that services on certain routes should be operated by other agencies, B.O.A.C. will make freely available to such agencies all the knowledge and experi ence and the results of its studies on any particular route." That statement was made by Lord Knollys after his return from a journey of 37,000 miles during which he visited B.O.A.C. associates overseas, Q.A.N.T.A.S. in Australia, and Tasman Empire Airways in New Zealand. Lord Knollys reported that Australia was anxious to fit in with Empire schemes, and was looking to this country for a lead. She was naturally greatly interested in the Pacific, and since B.O.A.C. owns a half interest in Qantas Empire Airways and a considerable share in Tasman Empire Airways, the Cor poration was also interested in the Pacific. He emphasised the great importance of feeder lines, and intimated that the Corporation would take a keen interest in such lines.
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