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386 APRIL 12TH, 1945 HE AN THERE Postponement '"PHE Koyal Aeronautical Society ' •*• debate originally fixed for Monday next, April 16th, has been postponed, but the new date had not been announced at the time of going to press. Seconds Out THE A.T.C. National Boxing Cham-pionship Finals will be held at the Royal Albert Hall on the evening ot May 14th. This is the 3rd National Championship organised and controlled by members of the Corps, and among the trophies is one presented by Flight. Spanish Soaring Record CKNOR LUIS VICENTE JUEZ, an in- <^? structor at the Huensca gliding school, recently set up a new Spanish duration record for sailplanes by remain- ing in the air for 30 hr. 57 min., beating his own previous record by 6 hr. 56 min. France's First Duty UR first duty is to build up apowerful air force; our second is to plan efficient and fast commercial airservices," said the French Air Minister, M. Charles Tillon, at the recent openingof the French National Aviation Con- gress. LONDON'S FORTRESS : The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Frank Alexander,christens a Flying Fortress of the U.S. 91st Bombardment Group, Tower of London, with a bottle of Thames River water. Sir Frank himself suggested the name. London Airport Design /"PHE importance of starting right, and -»- planning right, in creating what he described as "the staging posts of the future" was stressed by Sir William Hildred, Director-General of Civil Avia- tion, who officially opened the exhibition, in Piccadilly last week, of the prize-win- ning entries in the ^650 competition for a design for an international airport for London organised by our contemporary, The Aeroplane. la a brightly humorous, but never facetious speech, Sir William said it was very important that the air traveller should feel he was being properly cared for at the airport, and he contrasted this idea] state with an amusing description THE WINNER : First prize of ^500 in The\Aeroplane"s airport design competition (see paragraph above) is shared by H. J Coates, A.R.I.B.A., of Bristol, Mr. E. R Morgan, a B.O.A.C. engineer of North Harrow, and Mr. F. W. Smith, A.R.I.B.A., a B.O.A.C. architect, of Bath. of his own daily experience at a certain railway station which he termed a "functional monstrosity." Mr. R. E. Dangerfield, managing director of Temple Press, who took the chair, said that the chief idea behind the competition had been to focus general attention on the importance of airport design, and stressed the fact that the lay-outs exhibited had no reference ' to any specific site. The winning design is illustrated on this page, Vickers at WarS OME interesting items of information about the wartime activities of Vickers, Ltd., were given by the chair- man, Mr. A. A. Jamieson, at the com- pany's annual-general meeting in London last week. He mentioned, tor instance, that the aircraft carriers Illustrious, Victorious and Indomitable had been built in their shipyards—a fact not generally known— and later added : " I am proud to tell you to-day that we have constructed over 28,000 new aircraft, and repaired over •1,060 in addition. || Blackburn Branch in Canada A CCORDING to a report from Mon- •**• treal last week, Mr. Norman Black- burn, who had then completed a two- months tour of U.S. and Canadian air- craft plants, stated that Blackburn Air- craft,. Ltd., was "likely to establish a Canadian branch." The company, he said, plans extensive production of transport aircraft after the war, and he and Sqn. Ldr. J. L. N. Tiennett-Baggs, who accompanied him, expressed a preference for flying boats for very henvy aircraft. Ten Thousand Good JapsL T. GEN C. KENNEY, commanding the Far East Air Force and Allied Air Forces in the south-west Pacific, 4 stated at a recent Press conference held by the U.S. War Department in Wash- ington that from September 1st last to the end of last month fliers of the U.S. Army and Navy had definitely shot down
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