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1944
1944 - 1524.PDF
,\>fc 1HT c*v^, ULY 27TH, 1944 THE New R-R. Chairman C APTAIN E. C. ERIC SMITH has been elected chairman of the Rolls- Royce board of directors in succession to the late Lt. Col. Lord Herbert Scott. He is also deputy chairman of the National Provincial Bank and a director of a number of other companies. R.Ae.C. Staff Holiday I N order to give the staff a short holi day, the Royal Aero Club in Pic cadilly will be closed for nine days from August 5th to 13th inclusive. Members sleeping at the club during this period will still be served with breakfast, but no other meals, and no drinks, will be obtainable. Miss M. Chadwick MSkrried BUTTONED UP " : A swimming pool in the grounds of a country house pro vides dinghy drill for R.A.F. fighter pilots in Southern England. MISS MARGARET daughter of Mr. the Avro designer, wag to Ra| Ant Ch| a' M AD WICK, Chadwick, ied recently ove, -at St. toy well-known thtjt ceremony followed at the Air League's Treasurer M R. J. ARTHUR RANK, best known as one of the leading personalities in the British film industry to-day, accepted the invitation of the executive council of the Air League of the British Empire to become its honorary treasurer, and was duly elected at the league's annual general meeting last week. The business of the meeting was con fined to the election of officers and simi lar purely domestic matters. Still Being "Studied" MR, CHURCHILL told Mr. Granville (Ind., Eye) in the Commons recently that he had no statement to make about the date or place of the com ing international conference on civil aviation. Mr. Granville asked for an assurance that plans for British post-war civil aviation would not be held up pending ALSO PILOTLESS ! This Henschel Hs 129 fighter did not getaway when the Car dians captured Carpiquet airfield near Caen ; it was as pilotless as a doodle decisions reached at the conference, and asked if Mr. Churchill could suggest a date and say whether the conference would be in this country. Mr." Churchill: "I cannot govern the latter part of this question because other people will have to come to the con ference and they would have views of their own. It does not really rest with H.M. Government, but the whole ques tion is being continually studied." Can Anyone Oblige? HAS any reader a copy of Flight dated March 4th and/or April 8th, 1943, with which he would be prepared to part? The Manufacturers Aircraft Asso ciation, Ne%v York, requires them to complete its file, and would be glad to meet "any reasonable charge" to obtain these copies, which are out of print. "Out of the Mouths /" MRS. H. M. McNAB, President of McNab Incorporated, precision in strument manufacturers, Keuter reports, said last week that the remark of a four- year old boy led to the discovery of a new physics principle, the development of which might lead to the repelling of the German robot bombs. She declined to elaborate on the device or on its principle, but said: " Scientists believe it is sound and a step in the direc- tino of repelling the robot bombs and another weapon that may come from German v." Dominions Air Policy R. PETER FRASER, Prime Minister* of New Zealand, said last week at New Zealand's post-war civil avia- utlook was appreciated in London and VvWhington. f It haaNbeen made clear, he said, that if the joirlt proposal of Australia and New Zealaild for an international air
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