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1945 - 1756.PDF
and AIRCRAFT ENGINEER FIRST AERONAUTICAL WEEKLY IN THE W>JRLD •• FOUNDED WOO Editor C. M. POULSEN Managing Editor G. GEOFFREY SMITH, M.B.E. War Correspondent JOHN YOXALL Editorial, Advertising and Publishing Offices: DORSET HOUSE, STAMFORD STREET, LONDON, S.E.1 Telegrams : Truditur, Sedist, London. COVENTRY : 8-10, CORPORATION ST. Telegrams : Autocar, Coventry. Telephone: Coventry 52 10. BIRMINGHAM. 2: GUILDHALL BUILDINGS, NAVIGATION ST. Telegrams : Autopress, Birmingham. Telephone: Midland 2971 (5 lines). Telephone : Waterloo 3333 (35 lines). MANCHESTER, 3 : GLASGOW, C.2 : 260, DEANSGATE. 26B, RENFIELD ST. Telegrams : Iliffe, Manchester. Telegrams: IKffe, Glasgow. Telephone: Blackfriars 4412. Telephone: Central 48 5 7. No. 1915. Vol XLViy SUBSCRIPTION RATES : Home and Abroad : Year, £3 10. Registered at the G.P.O. as a Newspaper. September 6th, 1945 6 months, £1 10 6. Thursdays, One Shilling, "We Outlook The Tune Has ChangedA FTER the treatment meted out to the Air Training Corps during the last couple of years, the appealk issued by the Air Ministry is really rather funny, or it would be if it were not so tragic. Lads who, with a keenness beyond all praise, had joined the A.T.C. so as to qualify themselves for the Royal Air Force were bundled off into the Army or into any other square holes that could be found for these particular round pegs. That they had spent years on highly specialised training went for nothing. Bitter disappointment was the result, and the A.T.C. began to stink in the nostrils of thousands of youngsters who saw vanishing into thin air all the hopes they had built up—-fostered, be it remembered, by promises made to them when they joined the Corps. Admittedly this was unjustified inasmuch as the A.T.C. and Air Ministry had not the power to refuse Jjjtffcieir lads be transferred to the Army, but the cadets couIPhardly be expected to differentiate between their own authorities and those "still higher up." To them it seemed very naturally that they had been shabbily treated, as indeed they had, their patriotism and keen- ness in joining the Corps voluntarily being rewarded, as they saw it, by bundling them willy-nilly into the Army, where they worked alongside boys who had done no pre-entry training but merely waited until they were "fetched." And now the Air Ministry is appealing to former members of the R.A.F., officers and airmen, to come forward and volunteer for posts as officers and instruc- tors in the A.T.C. If they don't, " the position is being reached when there will not be enough qualified men to give proper instruction to existing cadets—or to the thousands of young men who are still joining the A.T.C.ea ger to learn about the air." That is really rather priceless. " Stratovision "T HE experiments which will presumably be made in the United States of America as a result of the schemes propounded by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation and the Glenn Martin company for transmitting television programmes from aircraft should be watched with great interest in this country. (Details are published in this issue.) True, American conditions are very different from ours. We have not the vast distances to cover which the American continent presents, but, conversely, one or two aircraft circling at 30,000 or 40,000ft., carrying transmitters and relays would probably make it possible to cover the country from Land's End to John o' Groats and from Northern Ireland to the Wash. The Glenn Martin company does not appear to be in the least worried by the aircraft technical problems, which their engineers describe as '' nut and bolt problems." While the Americans are proposing to build specialised aircraft for the work, we could probably adapt existing bombers, of which there will be plenty to spare, and thus save a good deal of time. The cost per aircraft w-ould probably be greater in this country than in America, due to the higher price we have to pay for fuel, but even so, the expense in- volved in keeping a couple of aircraft in the air during television hours, with two more in reserve, should not be altogether prohibitive. Significant is the fact that the originator of the scheme, Mr. C. E. Nobles, has stated that a transmitting power of one kilowatt, using valves existing and available to-day, suffices for a range of 200 miles in all directions, " even for the high-defini- tion colour television frequencies." The picture thus conjured up is a tantalising one. High-quality televi- sion in colour! But this country has many bare necessities to find first.
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