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1945
1945 - 1600.PDF
AUGUST T6TH, 1945 M.A.A.F. Disbanded FIELD MARSHAL SIR HAROLDALEXANDER, Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterraneantheatre, has announced that the Mediter- ranean Allied Air Force has been dis-banded. The British section will revert to the R.A.F. Mediterranean Commandunder Air Marshal Sir Guy Garrod. Boche Brolly THE current, issue of Air News tellshow, shortly before VE-day, the Ger- mans evolved a new parachute. It hada closed top and was of triangular shape, which features were supposed to reducethe number of accidents, eliminate wide swinging and make dropping moreaccurate. College of Aeronautics THE board of governors of the Collegeof Aeronautics, created in accord- ance with the recommendations of theFedden committee for post-graduate in- struction in aeronautical science and en-gineering, has now been appointed. Air Chief Marshal Sir Edan LudlowHewitt has been appointed chairman of the board, the other members being Dr.W. Abbott, Mr. H. Burroughes, Sir Roy Fedd«n, Mr. J. Ferguson, Brig. Gen. SirHarold Hartley, Sir William Hildred, Sir Melvill Tones, Dr. E. B. Moullin, Mr.]. D. "North, Sir Frederick Handley Page, Mr. R. Relf, Dr. H. Roxbee-Cox,Lord Selkirk, Air Marshal Sir Ralph Sorley, Sir William Stanier, Rear-Admiral T. H. Troubridge, and Mr. \V. E. F. Ward. THE GOLD COAST SQUADRON, of Bomber Command, was recently v;si%ed bythe Governor of that colony, Sir Alan Burns, and Lady Burns. With them are (left) Group Capt. W. R. Brotherhood, CO. of the station ; Wing Cdr. W. J. SmithCO. of the squadron (centre) ; and Air Comdre. J. Silvester, CO. of the base (ngh*). To Open Next Year PRELIMINARY steps are now beingtaken with a view to opening the college some time next year. This willbe in temporary accommodation to be provided at Cranfield pending the estab-lishment, at a later date, of permanent premises. In the meantime invitations are beingextended to the Governments of the Dominions and India, who may wish toassociate themselves with the college, to appoint representatives on the board ofgovernors. Optimism LAST week's terrific news that Alliedscientists have at last succeeded in tapping the cosmic energy of the atominspired Mr. J. Langdon Davies, the Daily Mail's scientific scribe, to indulgehis lively imagination in what Ian Mackay, of the News Chronicle, fittinglydescribed as "a real Bank Holiday romp." According to Mr. Davies, " the LabourGovernment need not waste time nationalising the coai industry nor theelectric and gas industries, since these industries are, from now on, obsolete, orat least of such altered value that nobody can possibly assess their capital assets."He admits, however, that there is bound to be a bit of a time lag before atomicpower supersedes all other forms of pow«r in our everyday lives. Unbiased View IN sharp contrast with the above, ex-perts of the National Advisory Com mittee for Aeronautics in Washington,whose opinions are not coloured by British—JJaitfy polH!lC»7-^haye expressedtheir considered view that**~siany years of research and development lieSmead ''before atomic energy can be conVerted into controlled power. They say that the atomic enis a " distinct possibility." and ppiut THE P.51H MUSTANG, mentioned on this page in last week's FU&M, which is powered by a Packard-built Merlin of 2,000 h.p plus, is credited with a top speed of over 460 m.p.h. and increased range and ceiling.
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