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F LI G SEPTEMBER 6TH, 1945 AND THE Valuable CollectionA COLLECTION of air mail stampswas recently sold in London to a private collector for ^6,250. It includeda special stamp issued by the Newfound- land Government in 1919 for a lettercarried by Sir Harry Hawker and K. McKenzie-Grieve on their unsuccessfultransatlantic attempt. Traveller's TributeA TRIBUTE to the "enormousdevelopment" of the Canadian air- crait industry was paid by Mr. R. W.Sutton, a director of Dowty Equipment, Ltd., when he described to the firm'sworkers at Cheltenham his nine-weeks' mission to. Canada, the U.S. and theWest Indies. The trip, sponsored by the British Air Commission, covered 33,000miles by air, the outward flight being by the South Atlantic route. Veering Westwards ?A VIATION experts in Toronto haveexpressed the opinion that Canada will become the aircraft production centrefor the British Empire within the next decade". Hawker Siddeley's recent purchaseof the Victory aircraft plant at Malton is taken as an indication in this FARES, PLEASE ! ; R.A.F. aircraft salute the departure from Southampton of the Queen Elizabeth with 16,000 U.S. troops aboard. As reverse lend-lease it would have been a free passage, but now ? direction, and it is thought likely thatRolls-Royce will establish a factory in the Dominion to build engines for Cana-dian aircraft. Nerve!H AVING handed the Air TrainingCorps the sort of shabby deal of which only a government department isreally capable, the Air Ministry is now appealing to the patriotism of demobbedofficers and airmen of the R.A.F. to come to the rescue by volunteering to serve theCorps as officers or instructors " to re- lieve those older A.T.C. officers who haveserved the Corps throughout the war and SHEEP'S CLOTHING : Despite laminer flow aerofoil and "fastest ever " speedsthe port wing of this Shooting Star shows that something can still be lea the old-fashioned wool tufts plainly seen on its upper^ f who for various reasons are unable tocontinue the good work." The italics are ours, for the mainreason, as we know from first-hand ex- perience, is that so many of them are toodisgusted and disheartened to continue now the war emergency is over. The Editor has something to say aboutit on the leader page this week. U.SA.A.F. to be Reduced A CCORDING to a Washington spokes--^*- man at a recent Press conference, the strength of the U.S.A.A.F. is to be re-duced, by next July, from its present 2,150,000 men and 65,000 aircraft, to600,000 men and about 8,000 aircraft. . The lower figure is regarded as "theirreduceable minimum," and will be capable of rapid expansion if required. " The changing world situation, peacestatus, or the possible assumption of a police task being undertaken by theUnited Nations," added the U.S.A.A.F spokesman, "may alter the presentexpectation." Closer Link-up . '"PHREE Hawker-Siddeley nominations,-»- Sir Frank Spriggs (chairman), Sir Roy Dobson and Mr. H. K. Jones, fobeen appointed to the board of H! Duty Alloys, thus indicating a closerlink-up between producer and user. Mr. H. G. Harrington, a member of.theold board, has been appointed controller, and Mr. Duncan McKellar, of ThomsonMcLintock, is retiring; he was Hawker- Siddeley representative on the old board. Fifth Anniversary SQUADRONS of R.A.F. Fighter Com-mand and Coastal Command will, make a demonstration flight over Lon-don and its outskirts (weather being suitable) on Saturday week, Sept. 15th,the fifth anniversary of one of the great- est air fights in the Battle of Britain,and on the Sunday there will be special parades and thanksgiving servicesthjpughout the country. he service at Westminster Abbey willpreceded by a parade in which con- gents of aircraft workers, representa-
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