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1944
1944 - 2301.PDF
NOVEMBER OTH, 1944 £ ERE AND THERE educated at Leamington College, and the casket containing the scroll was made of old oak from a building in blitzed Coventry—his birthplace. Saying that he had always hoped the products of his work would do more to serve the causes of peace than the pur poses of war, Air Cmdre. Whittle added tkat he had derived great pleasure from the fact that the first use of the jet- propelled fighter had been to save life by destroying flying bombs. A.T.C. Cadet's B.E.M. THE KING has approved the award of the British Empire Medal to A.T-.C. cadet Leonard Wells, of Egre- mont, Cumberland, for his gallant rescue of a pilot from a burning aircraft which crashed near where he was at workman a farm. Wells's prompt action in climb ing on the wing of the»blazing machine, dragging the pilot from the cockpit and tearing off his burning parachute and clothing, undoubtedly saved his life. Wells is the first A.T.C. cadet to win the B.E.M. All Wright! M R. T. P. WRIGHT, of the Cu Wright Aircraft Corporation, Curtisa- is to give the 33rd Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture before the R.Ae.S. on May 31st next year. "T. P.," one of the best known men in American aviation, was recently appointed Administrator of Civil Aero nautics, having previously been Director of Aircraft Resources Control Board of the U.S. War Production Board. He is an Honorary Fellow of the R.Ae.S., but is not a member of the Wright Brothers family, as many people rather naturally imagine him to be. U.S.-Scandinavia Service Planned AN air service between Scandinavia and_the U.S. is being planned and will be operated jointly by Norway, Sweden and Denmark in agreement with the U.S., according to a recent statement made to C.A.B. in Washington. Mr. Frederick Melchier, vice-president of Midnight Sun Airlines Inc., told the board that the American Government would like to have such a service, and that the fare between New York and Stockholm would be $350, which is about £8j FLIGHT Record Circulation A SQUADRON of U.S. "Forts and" **• Libs " lias dropped 908,000,000 leaflets within twelve months, mostly by night, on Norway, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Belgium and France, it was re cently reported. They represent some 1,700 tons of paper. This sort of "record net sales" of special overseas editions should impress even the biggest national dailies, especi ally as the war news they contained in variably scooped the German papers. The leaflets were usually written am' printed just before the bombers took off. To Keep Their Hands In A RECENT issue of the Swedish news- •*•»- paper Dagsposten takes up the ques tion of Danish refugee airmen operating with the Swedish Air Force, and pub lishes an interview with Maj Adolfsson of that Force. Confirming that there Danish officers residin^fwith t Air Force, the inajjtjfsays tfi times under.jftie supervisioi specially appointed ff S. G. whose duty! it is THE TURKISH AMBASSADOR, M. Rusen Esref Unaydin, recently pre sented wings to a flight of 50 Turkish cadets undergoing training as pilots with the R.A.F. They will remain at the R.A.F. Flying Training Command for advanced fighter and bomber-type training. AltCfc4P,. SIGN ts-S " .. . . and so, gentlemen, our special commission aftp^nearly three years intense research, has decided that such a design shoprfn be eminent^ the first ten years of post-war afli aviation. SKY HOOK : Lt. Col. V. Stewart and his new 65-lb. container which spirals down with supplies more accurately than a 'chute. secrets are revealed to their visitors. The main purpose of the Danes' presence, he adds, is to enable them to continue training in Order to keep their hands in—it is purely an humanitarian measure. Anglo-American Airliner T RANS-CANADA AIRLINES has completed arrangements for the use of what they claim will be the most advanced trai.sport aircraft in the world in post-war civil aviation. A high official of the company said the American-designed DC-4, now under production in Canadian factories, when equipped with Rolls-Royce engines manufactured in Britain, would be equivalent to the DC-6, which U.S. com panies are planning to use. The important fact from the view point of the .relative positions of the U.S. and Canada in this field is that the DC-6 will not be available for two or three years. Its Canadian equivalent will be ready within a year. All's Fare in Air War P ERHAPS something sane will eventually emerge as a result, of the Chkago conference, but at present there seems to be all the makings of a first- class price-war in Transatlantic post-war passenger fares, even among the Ameri can companies themselves. T.W.A. has recently applied to C.A.B. for four daily flights between America and Europe, quoting a single fare to London of 8205 (about /5T). This follow^on the announcement of a New -London fare of $235 (about £59) yy American Airlines Inc., and a cut- price fare of $148 (about ^37) by Pan- American Airways for the same journey. In between these is the proposed Prest- wick-New York return fare of £80 (equi valent to a single fare of ^40) by Scot tish Aviation, as reported in last week's issue of Flight. It now remains to be seen what B.O.A.C. propose to do about it.
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