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Aviation History
1944
1944 - 1010.PDF
522 THERE Film Chief's Air Post M R. J. ARTHUR RANK, one of the leading men in the British film in dustry, has accepted an invitation to become honorary treasurer of the Air League of the British Empire. French Civil Air Plan M . FERNAND GRENIER, commis sioner for air in the French National Committee, recently stated, in Algiers, that a vast plan was afoot to link up the French Empire with airlines covering 37,500 miles. It was hoped, he said, to extend existing lines through Africa to Madagascar, Corsica and Moscow, cover ing some 280,000 miles a month. R.A.F. Salvage I N less than three years the R.A.F. has collected 276,778 tons of material and either reused or returned it to industry. By sorting salvage at its source they have saved over ,£135,000 of the tax payer's money, for the salvaged material ranged from aluminium and transparent plastics to waste paper and bottles and is classified in 124 categories. Post-war Glut '' A FTER the war Britain will be try- **• ing to sell aircraft to a world knee-deep in 'planes," said Sir Richard Fairey, addressing a Board of Trade meeting in Vancouver recently, and added that the British aircraft industry could turn out enough aircraft in three days to last all the world's commercial airlines for five years. An Up-and-Down Life ! L T. COL. N. A. AMINTAEV, of the Red Air Force, recently made 53 parachute jumps in one day while train ing instructors, says a Moscow message. He has been training parachutists for twelve years and has made more than 1,400 jumps in all, in addition to turning out more than 2,000 instructors with more than 100 jumps each. U.S."Jet" Fighter S OME weeks ago we quoted an Ameri can report that squadrons of jet- propelled fighters were being formed in the U.S. for operations later in the year. It is now revealed that the twin-jet * fighter produced by Bell Aircraft has been designated the P-59 by the U.S.A.A.F. "Package Guns" P ART of the armament of the B-25H Mitchell, which is equipped with the 75 mm. cannon and 14 machine guns, takes the form of a new mounting known as the "package gun." This is a port able unit containing one or more fixed o.jin. machine guns which,.can be in- DIRECT DELIVERY : Liberators are being delivered to the R.A.F. and U.S.A.A.F. in Italy direct from Canada by Transport Command. This crew, just arrived at an Italian base, represents England, Australia, America "and the Scilly Isles. stalled.anywhere desired as a sort of self- contained " blister." In the case of the Mitchell, a two-gun "package" is in stalled on either side of the nose and fired by the pilot. Memorial Fund A MEMORIAL FUND, the proceeds of which will be handed over to the R.A.F. Benevolent Fund, has been opened in the name of the late J. Crosby- Warren, recently killed in a test flight accident. Contributions should be sent to Mr. Michael Daunt, Gloster Aircraft Co., and cheques should be made pay able to the J, Crosby-Warren Memorial Fund. Air Transport for P.O. A SUGGESTION that the Post Office should employ air transport after the war was made at the recent Black pool conference of the Post Office Con trolling Officers' Association. The resolution was moved by Mr. J. R. Bartlett (Barry) who said that by this speedy means inland mail posted early in the day could be delivered the same day. Luxury Airliner THE model of a projected post-war transatlantic luxury airliner to carry 150 passengers non-stop between New York and London was recently shown to air correspondents at the Con solidated plant at Fort Worth, Texas. With a span of over 200ft. it will have two decks and will be called '' Con solidated 37." Evergreen Anson T HERE has probably never been a more useful aircraft than the Avro Anson, and few have equalled its viceless reliability. But many will be mildly surprised to know that even the U.S.A.A.F. now includes it among its range of training aircraft. This is the Canadian-built Anson V navigational trainer powered by a pair of 450 h.p. Pratt and Whitney engines and having a top speed of 197 m.p.h. Its fuselage is a wooden structure. Anaglyphs on Show S OME of the wonderful anaglyphs of bomb damage in Germany which originally were specially prepared by the R.A.F. for exhibition to Mr. Churchill and members of both Houses of Parlia ment, are now on show for the employees of the Champion Sparking Plug Co., Ltd. The exhibition was opened by Sqn. Ldr. R. A. B. Learoyd, who won the V.C. for bombing the Dortmund- Ems canal in 1940. Life of a Fortress I N his report to the U.S. Secretary of War, General H. H. Arnold, Com manding General U.S.A.A.F., revealet. that in one of the war theatres the Fly ing Fortress has an average operational life of 231 days, although in some other theatres its life is several times as long. • In addition to numerous practice, training, tests, supply, administration and ferry flights, the Fortress is reckoned to average 21 combat missions. The actual theatre to which these figures apply is not stated, but the reference seems to indicate the Western zone. Information Release T HE U.S.A.A.F. also participates in the air-distribution of leaflets in addition to the air-distribution of more lethal objects. For the scattering of the leaflets at a reasonable height .which will - ensure their covering a wide area, yet not so wide an area that they become " lost," a clever little aneroid release has been developed. This consists of a light alloy capsule, deformation of which actuates a trip lever, and the capsule is so arranged that it can be pre-set to collapse at any given atmospheric pressure. The leaflets are tied in bundles with a length of string which is looped over the trip lever, the capsule is set, and the bundle is tossed overboard at, for example, 28,000ft. As it drops, atmospheric pressure on the capsule increases until, at 1,oooft., for example, the pressure causes the cap sule to collapse, the' trip lever to tCT, and the leaflets to scatter on the wind?
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