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34 HERE AND THERE tions apply; details of the restrictions inthese areas can be obtained at a local police station. Military factories, airfields and dock-yards are, of course, still "prohibited places" where a camera may not becarried, so if you get permission to go over such a place, leave your camera out-side even if they forget to ask you for it at the gate—a not unknown oversight. CoincidenceA CORRESPONDENT points out thatthe death of Sir Trafford Leigh- Mallory, the wreckage of whose aircraftwas recently discovered among Alpine peaks after he had been missing sinceNovember, 1944. bears a tragic coinci- dence to the death, in 1924, of hisbrother, Mr. C. H. Leigh-Mallory, who was also lost amid high mountains. Mr. Leigh-Mallory was a member ofGen. Brace's Everest expedition and, with Mr. A. C. Irving, was last seen^climbing at a height of 28,200ft. As the pair were never seen again itwas never established whether or not they managed to reach the 29,000ft. summit. FLIGHT TOP SEA DOGS : Air Apprentice G. Randle, of Leicester, receives the Sebastian Cup on behalf of the Raleigh Division (best all-round division) from the Fifth Sea Lord, Rear Adml. T. H. Troubridge, at a passing-out inspection recently held at the Royal Naval Air Training Establishment, Newcastle-under-Lyme. MR. CLIFFORD B. HARMON,pioneer balloonist and pilot, founder of the International League ofAviators, and donor of the National Aviation Trophy, has died at Ca/uies atthe age of 80. * • • According to the French radio, quotedrecently by.Reuter, half of the men due to be called up in France very shortly(the 1940-43 classes) will be drafted into the French Air Force now in process ofbeing built up once again. * # # Lt. Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, formerlycommander of the U.S. Ninth Air Force based in Great Britain, was last weekappointed*assistant chief of staff of the U.S.A.A.F. * • • The first R.A.F. ex-prisoner of war toreturn to civil life under the general re- lease scheme (he was released last week)was 47 year old W/O. A. L. Cartwright, of Blackpool, who enlisted in August,1939, and was a wireless operator in Transport Command. He is aforeman builder by trade. • • * It was arranged for a Spitfirepilot of the R.C.A.F. to photo- graph last Monday's eclipse ofthe sun from a height of 35,000ft. over Western Canadain order to avoid interference from cloud. The W.A.A.F. Central Volun-tary Band received a great ova- tion when, with Drum MajorSgt. T. E. Althoff leading the forty-seven girls, it played atRotterdam Stadium during the first football match betweenHolland and a British team since 1938. The B.L.A. team won,, 3—° • # • Aluminium alloy is now being News in Brief recovered from obsolete and unservice-able aircraft in India and is being diverted to the cast-ware industry underthe name of aero scrap. Not only all kinds of office and household equipmentis being made from this scrap, but also fittings for railway rolling stock.* # # A merger has been arranged betweenthe Beech Aircraft Corp. and the Cessna Aircraft Co. Walter H. Beech (presi-dent of the former concern) and Clyde Cessna (founder of the latter firm) wereassociated in the Travel Air Co. in the earliest days of the U.S. aircraft in-dustry. * • » More than 2,300 aircraft carrying up-wards of 35,000 troops from Continental and United Kingdom bases were flownto America during the first month of the U.S.A.A.F. Air Transport Command'sprogramme of redeployment and return of Army personnel. * * • As a tribute to their employees' valu- able war effort, Dowty Equipment, Ltd., decided to give every weekly and hourlypaid worker who had been with them for more than 12 months an additionalweek's wages at the time of the works' annual July holiday. " You all made amost important contribution to the country's armaments at a criticalperiod," Mr. G. Dowty told them. * * * The Dunlop exhibition, which openedon July 2nd and closes to-morrow, covered more than 400 war products from30 factories in Britain and Northern Ire- land. Some of them were also made inAustralia, Canada, India. South Africa and the U.S. Effectively staged at theRoyal Empire Society, Northumberland Avenue, London, W.C.2, it demonstratedthe amazingly wide field of rubbrr (natural and synthetic) as a "strategicmaterial." * * • Ten 4in. anti-aircraft guns on twinmountings are included in the armament of the new Swiflsure class cruiser whichhas a displacement of 8,000 tons and a designed speed of 31 knots. The first of this class, H.M.S. Swiflsure, is on^p active service in the Pacific, and |M another, H.M.C.S. Ontario, is a^=^ gift from the British to the Canadian Government. German scientists now inAllied hands are reported to have stated that the wind tunnel builtat Peenemunde and used in the development of the V2 and otherrocket experiments, was able to produce wind speeds Up to 3,000m.p.h. and enabled von Braun to solve the problem of overheatingthrough air friction. Peene- munde is reputed to have costGermany /50,000,000. Some startling claims were made aboutthe things they would have per- fected had the war continued—these included rocket bombs capable of reaching New York.
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