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1944
1944 - 2082.PDF
3<jO FLIGHT OCTOBER irtm, 1914 HE AND THERE Appointment SIR ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR, Secre tary for Air, has appointed as his private secretary Mr. G. S. Whittuck, in succession to Mr. C. Chilver, who has been promoted. Antipodean Office M R. BRUCE FOSTER, B.C.E., D.I.C., A.F.R.Ae.S., who was for some while on the editorial staff oi Plight, is now secretary of the Australian Council for Aeronautics and also of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Re search, Division of Aeronautics. They Also Served F ELLOW employees in the Fa i rev Aviation Co. have collected £1,600 to endow a bed at the Altrincham General Hospital, Cheshire, in memory of their non-uniformed colleagues—a test pilot and flight engineers—who have lost their lives while carrying out their duties. firs* Indian Air Force A.F.C. T HE first award of the A.F.C. to an Indian Air Force pilot has been made to 23-year-old F/O. D. F. Eduljee, of Fyzabad, United Provinces. The award is in recognition of his ex ceptional services as a flying instructor at the senior Hying training school in India. Another British Secret—via US. I N the September issue of the American magazine Air News, there appeared a paragraph in which some details of the Hawkei Tempest were revealed. The latest Ternpest, it said, is the Mark V and is fitted with a 2,200 h.p. Napier Sabre engine. From Britons Abroad T HE R.A.F. Benevolent Fund has re cently received a further donation of /io,ooo from the British Patriotic Fund of the British Community Council in the Argentine Republic. London-Paris Air Service A REGULAR air service flown by R.A.F. Transport Command, is now- operating between London and Paris for the conveyance of approved military traffic, states the Air Ministry News Ser vice. International Air Force F ROM American sources comes the report that Russia, Britain and America are to contribute units to form a joint occupation air force now being created to police Axis nations and protect newly freed nations. It is to work with ground troops and will have its own air transport service at least until the manner and type of civilian air service for the defeated nation is determined. DRIVE IN AND FLY OFF : A design, by the York Research Corp. of New York, in which a small car is driven into the cabin and the aircraft controlled from the seat of the car. Casualty Clearance THE 30,000th casualty to be brought by air to the United Kingdom from the Western Front was carried by R.A.F. Transport Command during September. One-third of the casualties evacuated by Transport Command aircraft are members of the U.S. Forces. This is a York—That Was ! AN Avro York of Transport Command recently made flying history by com pleting a round trip from England to India and back in 51 hours' flying time. The total elapsed time for the return journey, including servicing at Karachi, was only 65 hr. 23 min.—Phew! Balti-more Range AN advertisement appearing in Aero Digest's August issue shows a close- up photograph of a Martin Baltimore fitted with a large long-range fuel tank. This tank, which is of steel construction, is faired into the bomb bay and forms a considerable bulge under the fuselage. The function of this type is not stated, but long-range ferrying or transport work seems to be indicated. Indian Spitfire Pilots A NUMBER of Indian pilots who returned to India after a year in this country spent in training to fly Spit fires were posted to the North-West Frontier. Interviewed by a public relations officer of the I.A.F., these men said they hoped to be transferred to the Burma front, adding that their ambition was to fly the Spitfire XIV against the Japs. , 6-29 Bases in India AIR bases in India, to be used by B-20. Superfortresses in bombing japan, are now ready for operations, and in a story of their preparation, told a short while ago in an American newspaper, the writer described how Indians and Americans worked side by side for 16 to iS hours a day, stopping only for one meal. Makeshifts were made to serve, but airfields were enlarged, buildings con structed and roads opened in preparation for the operations against the Japs, and by July the first attack on Japan had been made via these new-bases, although the\* were riot then completed. Channel Islands Air Services COMMANDER G. O. WATERS, R.N.V.R., general rnanager ot Jersey and CiirnrrvAu/wayri hm hrrn granted leave ofAbronce fKMi»'Mttll?TYrrfntra|*£ttto carr^olit the preliminary organisation *e restoration of /Civil Air Servk Jannel IsJSnqs as^j^pn as/ srmif. AUTOMATICS : The remotely con trolled -Sin. machine guns in the rear top turret of a B-29 Superfortress. Contrary to usual American practice 20 mm. cannon are employed in the tail turret. New London-Madrid Service LORD TEMPLEWOOD (formerly Sir Samuel Hoare), British Ambassador to Spain, flew to London last week on the first direct Madrid-London trip-wf what is to be a new daily service. He said before leaving, that agreement for the service had been reached in 1940, but had to be suspended owing to the war. When asked if the recent increase in
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