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198 'dffiZ, a^ AUGUST 24TH, I944 HERE AND THERE Technical College af: 7 p.tn , and Or. Smith's subject will be " Fatigue and Boredom," an industrial problem she has bi-cn investigating. Equal Terms tj'ULLY qualified women llight engin- -' eers in the A.T.A. are to receive the same rates of pay, rank for rank, as men similarly employed. Announcing th'is in the House of Commons recently, Sir Stafford Cripps said the new rates would take effect as from August 1st. A.T.C. Sports Board A SPORTS board to encourage sport in the Air Training Corps is in pro cess of formation. The board, which has been guaranteed help from the governing bodies of national athletic associations, will consist of A.T.C. com mandants and the secretary of the R.A.F. Sports Board. Grave of a Pioneer TTiE city of Florence, which has been -L so prominently in the war news lately, has a special interest for Aus tralians ; their famous countryman, Bert Hinkler, is buried there. Hinkler, it will be remembered, met his death in 1933 when, during an attempted flight from England to Aus tralia in a light aircraft, he crashed in the Italian Alps. The Italians erected a fine monument over his grave. U.S. Output T HE U.S. Aircraft Production Board has announced that the total output of aircraft during the month of July -was 8,000—approximately the same as for June. This is a 5 per cent, drpp from schedule, which is attributed to several firms having diverted several days from production to taking inventories, and to certain changes in acceptance procedure of completed aircraft needing "mods," Russian Veteran A WHOLE year of flying time—8,700 hours—has recently been completed by the veteran Russian airman, Lt. Col. Vassily Chulkov, who has reached his 25th anniversary as a pilot. He has flown nearly 1,000,000 miles, carrying passengers and cargo along the Trans-Siberian airline, to the far north, Central Asia, and to the Caucasus. Since war began he has been delivering sup plies to all the Soviet fronts from the Arctic Ocean to the Black Sea. New York—London Record THE R.A.F. Transport Command Liberator which brought Lord Beaverbrook back from his recent con ferences in America flew from New York to Loudon in 17 hr. 34 min., which was nearly three hours better than the pre vious best time. The aircraft was the veteran Com mando, so named when used by Lord Louis Mountbatten, which later hit the headlines when it flew Mr. Churchill to Moscow, Casablanca, Teheran, and other vital conferences. So far as we know, no Commando air craft has yet been christened Liberator. SINCERE FLATTERY : A Russian military mission led by Vice Admiral Kharlamov (in dark uniform), inspecting rocket-firing Typhoons while on a visit to the Normandy front. Russian Stormoviks were the first to use this type of projectile. No More "Ships" Please THANKS largely to the informative value of the Hollywood film, between wars, most of us already knew that when a member of the U.S.A.A.F. referred to a " ship " he probably meant an aircraft; the equivalent R.A.F. term was 'kite"—much more appropriate, if we may say so. The American authorities, however, have now officially frowned on this play ful misnomer, and U.S.A.A.F. personnel have been asked not to use it as it can lead to misunderstandings; it is to be " plane '' in future. Lay Off, Fellers J AERIAL acrobatics, sometimes necessary in combat, will not be permitted by returning combat pilots," j says the U.S. War Department, as quoted by our contemporary, American Aviation. This official veto on gail3r beating-up .the home airfield goes on to announce that pilots and aircrews return ing to the States from " overseas action " will be put through a course in the principles of safe flying before being reassigned to flying duties in their own country. •Waal ! Waddva know ! <£ One of the dangers of lofr i H.H The Brab azon I. TN a statement to shareholders made in -*- advance of the annual meeting, Mr. W. G. Verdon Smith, chairman of the Bristol Aeroplane Co., said that progress had been made with the design and de velopment of the Brabazon I civil trans port aircraft, and an increasing propor tion of design effort was now being devoted to it. (Incidentally, Capt. K. J. G. Bartlett, a director of the firm, recently referred in Winnipeg to " a 130-ton luxury job" on whichthey were working.) In addition, an extensive programme of other developments, both of aircraft and aircrait engines was in hand. Mr. Verdon Smith criticised the " in creasing load of bureaucratic administra tion " which war conditions-had intro duced, and said it was absolutely vital for post-war business, especially it, ex^ port markets, that this load should be shed. Black Looks for Blackpool "DESIDES opposition from the neigh- J-J bouring town of Lytham St. Annes (mentioned in this column last week) Blackpool's ambitious scheme for an Atlantic Terminal Airport is being op posed by the Lancashire executive of the National Farmers' Union, who voiced strong protests against it at a recent meeting in Pieston, on the grounds that it proposed to take 5,000 acres of "the most productijft land in the county." Mr. T. Wtrbrick, of Lytham, is re ported locapy to have said that the far mers in wfe area '' received the proposal with gjfl&t alarm," and stressed that the loss g/T this land for food production wou/Ki be colossal. The executive decided to/4eek the aid of the Lancashire War Agricultural Executive Committee in jhting the scheme. ackpool has also been rather dis couraged by the Lancashire County Counca, which recently intimated that they thought it was too big a job to be left u/ their hands, even if the Govern- approved the scheme. 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