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1944
1944 - 1414.PDF
32 FLIGHT HERE THE] Hon. Degree for Roy Chadwick M ANCHESTER University recently conferred the honorary M.Sc. degree on Mr. Roy Chadwick, chief designer for Avro and responsible for the Lancaster bomber and the York transport aircraft. Acquisitive P.A.A. P AN AMERICAN AIRWAYS has pur chased a minority interest in Bahamas Airways. The company plans to operate a fleet of aircraft to the prin cipal islands of the Bahamas group with connections to P.A.A. Miami seivice. •» Hats Off to Sir Roderic N EWS that Air Marshal Sir Roderic Hill, A.O.C. Air Defence of Great Britain, has on more than one occasion joined his fighter pilots in their patrols over the Channel against the German air torpedoes will not have surprised any one who knows him, though he is decidedly '' over-age '' for a fighter pilot —in years, though obviously not in spirit. Sir Roderic flies a Spitfire which is always maintained at readiness for him at an airfield near his headquarters, and his recent use of it has been to see for himself how his pilots have developed their "doodle bug" interception tech nique. ANGLO-AMERICAN RECORD ; Col. Clan A. Peterson's Rolls-Royce engined Mustang draws a crowd at New York after a record trans-continental flight from Inglewood (Calif.), in 6 hr. 32 J min. R.AI.'s "New" Bomb-sight F OR the last two years Bomber Com mand has been using a bomb-sight of which some details may now be given —the Mark XIV, or the T.i in the U.S. Air Forces. The sight which was in use in 1939 was effective only when the pilot was flying straight and level, but the Mark XIV is accurate even though the bomber has to take evasive action. The first ones were delivered to the new Path finder force in August, 1942, and before long the Mark XIV was in use through out Bomber Command. Automatic Calculations U SED for attacks on- small, single targets, such as bridges, the Mark XIV consists of two main parts—the sighting head, whicfe is in the nose of the aircraft, and a rectangular box called the computor. The necessary calculations, taking into account the speed and direction of the »r LITTER AT LITTORIA : This wreckage of hangars and Italian aircraft was about all that remained of Rome's famous civil airport at Littoria when the Allies arrived. It was probably the work of the retreating Germans. wind, the air speed and ground speed and the height of the aircraft above the ground, are worked out in this robot'. All the bomb-fi^/V has to do is to give the box the five facts, three of which can be set in the machine before the air craft takes off. Post-war Jet Jobs ? G IVING some details of the two Avro post-war aircraft, the Tudor and the Brabazon, the Daily Telegraph, follow ing an interview with Mr. R. H. - Dobson, managing director of A. V. Roe, Ltd., discloses that " both aircraft wall at first be powered with ordinary engines driving airscrews." "But," it adds, "they may later be equipped with turbines for jet propul sion." The Tudor specification includes: -*• range over 4,00a miles, top speed 340-350 m.p.h., weight 36-37 tons, capacity 68 passengers, and cost ^45,000. The Brabazon's weight is given as nearly 55 tons and its range as more than 5,000 miles. Both these new airliners, the writer adds, are developments of the York, but show considerable advances in design. The "Over 400's" AMERICA'S Aircraft Year Book, now available in this country, says that the U.S. has five fighter aircraft capable of- speeds above 400 m.p.h., while England has three, Germany two and Japan none. The five U.S. types listed are the Lightning, Thunderbolt, Hellcat, Corsair and Mustang, but as this is an Ameri can publication, quoted by the U.S. Office of War Information, the British trio is not given, although the Spitfire is mentioned as having, with the five American types, "outfought both Ger man and Japanese aircraft under all conditions." Nor is it mentioned by the O.W.I. that the Mustang is to a British speci fication and powered by an engine of British (Rolls-Royce) design. Mexican Pilots for Italy FIFTY Mexican pilots are to go to Italy in August when they have •*• finished their training, according to the Mexico City newspaper El Universal. The paper adds that the pilots will
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