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112 HERE AND THERE Motorist readers of Flight find it morethan difficult to accept a'ny suggestion that there is still a shortage of fuel inview of Sir Archibald Sinclair's state- ment in the House on May 16th last.The then Air Minister said that during the last year of the war in Europe, theR.A.F. used 1,250,000 gallons a day in their operations against Germany. Only a very small fraction of thisgigantic supply is being used by the R.A.F. and other Services in this countryto-day. Getting Their Own Back ACCORDING to Professor Uyten- *"*• bogaart, a Dutch enginer living near the V2 sites on the outskirts of The Hague, a large proportion of the rockets ^launched never got more' than a few hundreds yards into the air and fell in or near The. Hague. The professor described to British and American correspondents how he made scale drawings of the V2 and sent them to England soon after the Germans started firing them at London. Returned to the R.A.F. T~\UNKESWELL airfield, in Devon--L-' shire, which has been the main U.S. Naval Air Base in Britain since Septem-ber, 1943. until they ceased operations theie in June, was vacated by theAmericans last Friday and handed over to R.A.F. Transport Command. The U.S. airmen flew from there insupport of surface craft engaged in anti- submarine activities in the Atlantic andthe Bay of Biscay and were under the operational control of Coastal Command. In oui issue of June 21st we publisheda photograph of Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas decorating some of theAmerican pilots at the '' closing down ceremony. To Aid U.S. Research THE setting up by the U.S. Govern-ment of a National Research Founda- tion and the creation of a permanentScience Advisory -Board are two impor- tant recommendations in the report sub-mitted to President Truman by Dr. Vannevar Bush, director of the Office ofScientific Research and Development. This report is in response to a requestfrom the late President Roosevelt that Dr. Bush and his colleagues should sug-gest what could be done to harness the organisations of wartime science, and itsdiscoveries, for the peacetime benefit of humanity. Federal Support THE report is a comprehensive one (itfills six pages of foolscap), and its recommendations include a programmefor Federal support of research at exist- ing colleges, universities, and researchinstitutes, and^ for the financing of applied research in the public interest ata cost estimated to reach about $50,000 annually when fully under way.No special mention is made of aviation, but it would obviously come within thescope of these far-reaching proposals. On July 19th a Bill implementing Dr.Bush's recommendations was submitted to the Senate by Senator W. G.Magnuson, who described them as "vital to the future of the nation." F1/&H1V* ^f\V AGU 2ND, 1945 HERCULEAN HULL : And here is the hull of the Hercules nearing completion.It measures 220ft. in length, is 30ft. high and 25ft. wide. News in Brief "yESTERDAY, August ist, was pro-JL claimed '' Air Force Day '' by Presi- dent Truman, in recognition of theaccomplishments of U.S. air power. This was officially announced at the WhiteHouse last week. * * * More than 1,000,000 miles have beenflown by a squadron of Anson I aircraft on daily patrols of the south-east coastof Australia in search of submarines. / * * * 1Mr. Akhur Sulzlj New ^fagf Vnaef, itAmerioV^fierfcas, visi£l td/TSurope. / His return ligtps^as via the Shannon Air-port, Eire. * . *The Germans are reported to have con- tinued to manufacture, up to the lastpossible moment in Berlin, secret radar equipment which they claimed indicatedthe speed, size and weight of all aircraft as soon as they had taken off fromBritain. ... A sailplane flight from Paris to Aachen(Aix-la-Chapelle), claimed to be a new record, was achieved last week by aFrench pilot, M. Lepanse; the distance is 230 miles. Mile. Marcelle Choisnet setup a new sailplane record for women by covering 156 miles; she landed south ofBrussels. After five years' service in the R.A.and the R.A.F., followed by nine months' convalescence after being invalided out ofthe latter Service, Sqn. Ldr. R. F. Turnejr' has now resumed his duties as adirector of Cooper and Turner, Ltd., Sheffield. / ... / The Swedish Government is to hand' over to the Russians all aircraft which at the time of the armistice were flownto .Sweden from German territory. Stockholm radio, says Reuter, recentlymade this announcement, and added that a delegation from the Soviet Air Forcewas now studying some of these aircraft in Sweden. * * * In order to devote himself to the scien-tific development and application of alu- minium alloys over a wider commercialfield than hitherto, Mr. W. C. Devereux is relinquishing his position as chairmanand managing director of High Duty Alloys, Ltd. He will, however, retainthe chairmanship of International Alloys, Ltd. Some Japanese shipbuilding yards areto be converted into plants for the manu- facture of wooden aircraft, according toa recent Tokyo broadcast picked up in New York, and the work has alreadybegun. Admiral Kantaro Suzuki has been touring aircraft factories as part of -a drive to increase production. ... Lord Brabazon of Tara has joined theCouncil of the Air Registration Boajd as a co-opted member of Group 4. Thefirst three groups each comprise four members representing constructors,operators, and insurers of aircraft re- spectively. * * » Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harrisflew to Brazil last week, at the invita- tion of the Brazilian President, to attendthe "Welcome Back" -celebrations of the Brazilian Forces from Europe. SirArthur flew in a Lancaster escorted by two ether "Lanes," and all threecrews were men who had fought in the air war against Germany.
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