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MARCH T5TH, FLIGHT HERE AND THERE ployecs en his retirement, joined B.T.H.in 1901, and, except for a two-year in terval in America, has served the com-pany continuously for forty-four years. Queer CargoesB .O.A.C. aircraft have carried somequeer cargoes from time to time, and the corporation's News Letter lorFebruary lists a few of the more un- expected items, which include live frogsand fleas for research, 1,000 kg. of morphine for Moscow, a packet of indus-trial diamonds worth £20,000, a ^4.000 violin, three gold bricks worth £10,000,;:iid a small packet of medical supplies assessed at £\ 1,000. ' " Visits F.A.A. KI&TVAROUK of Egypt recently-paid his first visit to a British war- ship when he spent some six hoursaboard II.M.S. Hunter, one of the Royal ^Navy's most modern escort carriers onive service. The carrier was lying off Alexandriaat the time, and the Fleet Air Arm "laid on" a demonstration of opera-tional flying technique for the visitor. Passed to You THE Japs will have theirGerman cronies to thank if they learn, beforeUJO long, what nasty things flying bombs can be. For, according to a reportfrom U.S., it is believed that a much faster and evenmore lethal version of the missile — a super Yankee-Doodle bug, as it were— will be used from carriers inthe softening-up process ol the Japanese mainland. The U.S. Ordnance De-partment is said to be busy on their production now. Flight recently publisheda picture of the American version. * Jap Petrol SubstitutesA CLAIM that* Japan canproduce substitute iu«ls for aircraft it she is deprivedof the natural resources in the Philippines and EastIndies w;as made recently by Lt. Gen. Reikichi Tada,director - general of the Japanese Scientific Mobilisa-tion Association, in an art kit in their news agency's com-mercial service. He said that petrol from coal, buthanol and alcohol Iroinpotatoes, and fuel and lubricating nil from pine roots could all be produced insufficient quantities to make Japan self- sufficient. Even assuming this is possible, hemade one little slip; he should have said when she is deprived, etc., not if. PIN-POINTED : The camera caught this Helkatpoised momentarily on its nose after hitting the barrier on its carrier. A second later it fell back Asia-Pacific Air Link REOUl.AH round-trip an STTVICI between India and Australia ha: t'.S.A.A.F New Ranger Engine A been introduced by 1li Air Iran sport Command "to provide closer liaison between the Allied Com- mands in S.K. Asia and thrwi in the S.W. and Central Pacific," it ha* been announced by the U.S. War lVpartment Special missions have, ol course, been previously flown over this mule, but regular flights beiweeu Calculi u and lix •A :iEW Ranger aircraft engine which mouth Gulf, Australia, are a new feature,will be " readv for nenretimfi inhs asy peacetime jobs soon as the war ends," and is suitablefor feeder-line aircraft, has been an- nounced as under development. It is a twelve-cylinder air-cooled in-verted V-type unit which gives 700 h.p. for take-off with joo-octane fuel, andweighs only 870 lb. complete with stan- dard accessories; it is thus claimed tobe 25 per cent, lighter than other engines of comparable horse-power. Compact-ness is also a feature, as it is 74.92m. long, 33.28m. wide, and 3i.nin. in over-all height. KANGAROO MUSTANG : Rocket-firing Mustangs ar«4o be produced in Australiaby the Commonwealth Aircjr^fj^Corp.^.J^r.^rTane^rient with North American Aviation Inc., for the^.swW'Sjjainst Japan Note tSe-rainous camouflage effect ofthe tailplane shadow in tbyB picture1** The long over-water hop from Ceylonto a point north of New Guinea is made by C-54 Skymasters in 15 hr. For Your Diary HE Royal Aeronautical Society (withwhich is incorporated the. Institution of Aeronautical Engineers) is to hold itsannual general meeting at 4, Hamilton Place, London, W.i, on Thursday, March29th, starting at 5.30 p.m. # # # An "open session" with addresses bySir Stafford Cripps and Mr. G. Man- ning, director-genera! of A.I.D., is to IK;included in the agenda of the annual general meeting of the A.l.D. TechnicalStaff Association to be held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on Saturday, March17th. The meeting is called for 1.30 p.m.,but the open session begins at 3.15 p,m, . * # * The 1945 conference (the fourth in theseries) of the X-ray Analysis Group of the Institute of Physics has been fixedfor April 12th and r3th next, and will be held at the Royal Institution, London,under the chairmanship of Sir Lawrence Bragg. Among the series of papers and discussions on the programme will be a lec- ture by Prof. j. D. Bernal on "TheFuture of X-ray Analysis." J ii A
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