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1944
1944 - 2190.PDF
438 OCTOBER 26TH, 1944 THE] Closer Co-operation R OME radio, quoted by Reuter, revealed recently that pilots of the Italian Air. Force have, for the first time, used Allied aircraft in military operations by fighter formations. Change in N.Z. Air Command AIR COMDRE. SIR ROBERT CLARK-HALL has been appointed Air Officer Commanding No. 1 Islands Group of the New Zealand Air Force in place of Air Comdre. M. W. Buckley, who is returning to New Zealand. "Squirts" Going Strong IN a written reply to Mr. Hewlett (Con., Manchester Exchange) Sir Stafford Cripps has stated that the pro duction of jet-propelled aircraft in this country is making good progress. It would be contrary to the public interest, he added, to make any more detailed statement. POLISHED PERFORMANCE : Camouflage paint is no longer applied to U.S.A.AF. aircraft which look and perform better in their polished nudity. The R.A.F. compromises by polishing the camouflage. High Average T HE fastest journey from England to the Gold Coast, British West Africa, was made last week by a Transport Com mand aircraft carrying urgent documents to Lord Swinton, newly appointed Mini ster for Civil Aviation. The 4,795 miles from England to Accra, West Africa, was done in 31 hours 14 minutes overall time by a Mosquito piloted by Fit. Lt. J. Linton, of Cook- ham Dene, Berkshire. He stopped at Rabat, Morocco, where he refuelled, and again at Bathurst. Finnish Air Mail Hopes A GOTEBORG firm has asked the General Post Office whether there are any prospects of a resumption of the air mail service with Turkey via Russia before the end of the war. The firm con siders that it might now be possible to arrange this service via Finland. B.T.H. Jet Units WHEN we published the first picture of the Gloster jet-propelled mono plane in our October 5 th issue we stated MAIL AND SUPPLIES are carried to forward units on the Western front by the R.A.S.C. Air Freight Service. Dakota, Anson, Oxford, Hpfrricane, Sentinel and Auster can be seen on their airport, glimpsed- from ther air, from which 5,000 tons have been delivej»tfwithin 14'yfays. that the Whittle engine unit was built by Power Jets, Ltd. This is not strictly correct. The jet engine was actually built by the British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., at their Rugby factory for Power Jets, Ltd., and supplied by them to the Gloster Aircraft Co., Ltd. The B.T.H. Company played a con siderable part in the development of early Whittle jet units. Eire Night Flier T HE distinction of wearing the pilot's badge of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force has been conferred on Wing Cdr. James Wallace, D.S.O., D.F.C., of St. Adolphus's Terrace, Limerick City, Eire. He is a squadron commander of a Desert Air Force Baltimore night-flying wing in Northern Italy. Pan-American Giant T HE new Pan American air finer which will be used in the com pany's proposed long-range transocean flights," says a Reuter message from Washington, " will carry 128 passengers by day or 119 by night with 30 accom modated in berths. "With a gross weight of 184,000 lb. the aircraft can generate 14,000 h.p. for take-offs. It has a cruising speed of 288 m.p.h. using 64 per cent, of its horse power, when flying at 25,000ft. The cargo capacity is just over 2,000 cu. ft." This evidently refers to the Lockheed Constitution. Speeding Front-line Supplies D URING the first week of operations between New York and Paris, C54 aircraft of the United States Army Air Forces Air Transport Command carried more than 50,000 pounds of cargo, in cluding mail and passengers, it was announced last week by London A.T.C. Headquarters. Priority war cargo brought into France on the newly established route included vital map-making equipment, medical supplies and engine parts destined for the front line. Swedish-Finnish Air Traffic, CAPT. FLORMAN, of " Aerotrans-port," who has been interviewed by Aftonbladet, says that Swedish air traffic to Finland has gone on without a hitch , since the armistice, but desires have been un"2-
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