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1945
1945 - 1047.PDF
MAY 3 IST, 1945 575 New D.H. Engine Co. Chairman MAJOR F. B. HALFORD has beenelected chairman oi tJie de HaviUand Engine Co., Ltd., in place of Mr. W. E. Nixon, who has relinquished his seat on \ the board in order to devote all his time 4;:o his responsibilities as managing direc- tor oi the de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd. Mr. A. S. Butler, chairman of the latter company, has also joined the engine company's board. New Super Fuel T 7ICTANE is the name of a new special V fuel developed by Imperial Chemical Industries at their Billingham plant which, Lord McGowan announces, " gives the engines of fighter aircraft up to 25 per cent, more power than any pre- vious aviation fuel." Since 100-octane spirit has been in use for a long time past, this development in still higher-grade fuels, which The Autocar has previously referred to, is of more than ordinary interest. Manu- facturers of Victanc began in 1944, and full information was immediately passed on to our American allies. Lord McGowan, chairman of I.C.I., stated that in the search for more power from existing engines a particular organic VISITORS' DAY : Fleet Air Arm pilots, who recently visited an R.A.F. HurricaneT.R. squadron on the Burma front to gain a general idea of the situation, attending a briefing by an Army liaison officer. chemical was found which had these pro-perties, and a practical process of manu- facture was quickly worked out and thefuel produced in time for D-Day. Sir Roy Dobson s GuestsT HE French Air Mission which hasbeen touring round the British air- craft industry (its arrival and purposewere reported in Flight at the time) to study British manufacturing methodsand to explore the possibilities of manu- facturing British aircraft, engines and equipment in • France, recently paid avisit to the Avro factories at Manchestei and were entertained by Sir Roy Dobson,managing director of A. V. Roe and Co., Ltd. Sir Roy personally conducted thevisitors round the Chadderton factory, and they later went oh to the firm'sassembly unit at Ringway, where they also enjoyed a short flight in a bomber. In addition to seeing the productionlines of Lancasters and Yorks, the French visitors, headed bv Gen. HenriZiegler, also learnt something of the forthcoming Tudor. Now It Can be Told MISSION TO MANCHESTER : Members of the French Air Mission to Britain 'see adjoining paragraph) snapped at Ringway during their visit to the Avro plant. Left to right are : Maj. A. Esperet, Col. C. Rozanoff, Wing Cdr. Francis (their escorting officer-, Sir Roy Dobson, Gen. H. Ziegler, Mr. C. E. Fielding, Maj. C. Teyssier and Mr. A Sewart. The aircraft is, of course, a York. THA"P the Germans could easily haveoutwitted Radar, had they only known how simply this could have beendone, and thus probably have won the Battle of Britain, was disclosed byWing Cdr. Ronald Ad«ms, a fighter con- troller at Hornchurch, when he told theinside story of the Battle of Britain in a B.B.C. broadcast last week. Those who heard this broadcast willagree it was a thrilling story well told. '' Radar was in its infancy in thosedays," said the Wing Commander, "It was not at all accurate, and there weretimes when it could fail to give any in- formation at all." Lindbergh for Europe ? THE United Aircraft Corporation,U.S., announced recently that it proposes to send ex-Colonel Charles A.Lindbergh to Europe to continue the studies he conducted last year in thePacific area in connection with the cor- poration's activities in the developmentand production of aircraft engines and airscrews for the armed services. Col. Lindbergh, first man to fly theAtlantic solo (1927), last visited Europe in 1938 when he spent some tim« in Ger-many and was decorated by the Nazi Government. In 1941 he resigned his
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