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1944
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I • ). OuJ ~> 362 THERE R.Ae.S. Honour /or Whittle T HE council of the Royal Aeronautical Society has awarded the Society's Gold Medal to Air Comdre. F. Whittle, C.B.E., F.R.Ae.S., for his work on jet propulsion. This is the highest honour which the R.Ae.S. can bestow, and only nine awards had previously been made: In 1909, Wilbur and Orville Wright; in 1910, Chanute; in 1915, Pro fessor Bryan and E. T. Busk; in 1926, Dr. Lanchester; in 1927, Professor Prandtl; in 1933, Sir R. Glazebrook; in 1933, Senor de la Cierva. More American Air Plans F LIGHTS twice a day from Los Angeles and San Francisco to Hawaii by land planes carrying 128 passengers each are planned by Pan-American Airways. The company expects 100,000 passengers a year, it is stated. The U.S. Department of Commerce has also announced that studies are under way for the development of cargo air craft to ply between the U.S. and Latin American countries. It was added that the flow of trade between the two continents was ptprz.ted to increase after the war. j PRESSURE TO BEAR ON JAPAN : Looking in at the nose of a B-29's pres surised control cabin, under construction at the Boeing plant at Renton (Wash.), one of three now on mass production. ^ Fair Winds CANADIAN-BUILT recently established a \stqA*djstance^ight of 1 msKJ, BahanVs, to Montreal, in 5 hr. and 35 min. The air craft flew strictly according to flight plan over the North American Continent, and never exceeded the normal long-range cruising speed. American Comment R EFERRING to the Airacobra, sup plied in considerable numbers to the Red Air Force, the U.S. journal, Business Week, adds, "It is common knowledge that, after accepting delivery, the Soviets stripped the P-39 Airacobra of armour and just about everything that would come off in order to increase speed, ceiling, and manoeuvrability." Commons Interlude M R. DUGDALE (Lab., West Brom- wich) asked the Minister of Air craft Production in the House last week why the request of the Mayor of West Bromwich for the loan of an aircraft to be exhibited at the Red Cross fair held at West Bromwich on August Bank Holi day was refused. Sir Stafford Cripps said a request was received for the loan of an aircraft for one day. This could only have been met by the diversion of an aircraft from the production line. It was decided that this diversion for so short a period was not warranted. Mr. Dugdale then asked why . one fighter and three troop-carrying planes were diverted to_a fete held under the auspices of the Regional Commissioner, known as Lady Dudley's Red Cross Fete, opened by Mrs. Winston Churchill shortly before ? Sir Stafford: "Perhaps you will put that question down." Cause .... LORD BRABAZON said at Wallasey (Cheshire) last week that we had given America two years' advantage in the design and stud ' of aircraft which could easily be turned to civil purposes. For in the aviation field, when the war ended, America would have first-class machines and we would have only con verted bombers. MJThat has been a mistake, and I hope that the Air Staff will devote a little more energy and enthusiasm to this ques tion. . . . We are going to have another crack at them in the House of Lords 4n- a week or two." CHIEFTAINS CONFER : From left to right, Admiral Sir Bruce Frazer, now C.-in-C. Eastern Fleet ; Air Marshal A. Durston A.O.C., Ceylon ; and Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, S.E. Asia. The meeting, attended also by Gen. Stilwell, the U.S. Commander in North Burma, took place in Ceylon. . And Effect M R. ARTHUR DRAKEFORD, the Australian Air Minister, told the House of Representatives last week that the Government had authorised the im-
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