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1946 - 0097.PDF
JANUARY 17TH, 1946 FLIGHT •55 WHAT MANCHESTER DIDYESTERDAY : Just before VE-Day the U.S.A.A.F. ex-perimentally adapted a B-29 to carry a 12,000-lb. bomb, butas can be seen here, the American "la'lboy" was notso weii streamlined as those dropped by R.A.F. Lancastersa long time before. Short Notice 'T'HE civil version ol the Short Seaford •*• ^45 flying boat is to be known as the Solent This aircraft was described in detail in, our issue of January 3rd, 1946. R.Ae.S. at Peterhead A BRANCH of the Royal AeronauticalSociety has recently been tormed at Peterhead and is to hold its meetingsat the Palace Hotel Mr. W. Wood is the honorary secre-tary, and he tells us that Lord Brabazon has been invited to become president andto address the first meeting of the new branch. Last Over " The Hump" r\AKOTAS of R.A.F. Transport Com-*-' mand made the last flight over "The Hump" between India and Chinaon New Year's Eve, and this famous—or should we say infamous?—air route is110w closed. It was American pilots of the U.S. AirTransport Command, and Chinese National Airways, who pioneered thisperilous air route to get supplies into China after the old Burma Road waslost. Flying over the Himalayan spurs ofNorth-east India, it was acknowledged to be the worst air journey in the worlduntil Allied victories in North Burma made it possible to modify the route toavoid the highest peaks. *~ Valuable Capture A 'REMINDER that RAF personneldid some gallant fighting on the ground as well as in the air is given in acitation in a recent issue of The London Gazette which records the award of theM.C. to Fit Lt. VV R. Jay. R.A.F V.R This ofhcei commanded an armouredflight on the Western Front and gained his award in an operation with a troopof armoured cars which enabled the force, of which his cars formed an im-portant part, to gain its objective with- out casualties"The operation,' says the citation, "resulted in the capture of the entiredesigning staff of the Focke Wult Air- craft Co., together with many valuablesecret documents Misleading Accuracy T^HE celebrated preciseness of tho-*- London Gazette in all its announce- ments has recently led to a rumour thatActing Group Capt. Douglas R. S Bader had retired from the R.A.F. This, asthe Air Ministry points out, is definitely not the case; the famous pilot is anactive figure at an R.A.F. station near London. Without going into lengthy details,the misunderstanding arose because the wording of the announcement confirmingBader's war substantive rank of Wing Cdr. included the abbreviation " ret.,"in brackets, as a formal reference to his retirement from the Service in April,1933, after the crash in which he lost his legs. As all the world knows, he talked hisway back into the R.A.F. in November, 1939, aud proved that artificial limbscan ^till woik a fighter's rudder. HIGH-SPEED HERALDRY : Thisstrictly unofficial shield, designed by Pit. Lt. R A. Johnson of the E.T P.S.' Flight, Manston has been presented to Group Capt ' Willie ' Wilson byother members o1 the High-speed Unit. Our own heraldic nterpreta-tion is as follows :—On a field con- lused, red braces sans culotte.Superior, a marker balloon adrift, Walrus affronte and rescue launchrampant Inferior mailed fists with Woodbine tapped and digit extractedMotto (freely translated) '' lev calm chaos 'c~ calm." Compact Powet tpEW wartime developments are mureJ- impressive than the manner in which engine designers have managedto squeeze more and more power out of a given cylinder capacity The Merlindoubled its power output, and in the Griffon 65 the specific powex has risento 60.5 b.h p. per litre The Sabre Mark V gives 71 b.h.p. per litre, andin the Sabre VII the figure has risen to the astonishing value of 83 5 b.h.p. perlitre. Who, one wonders, will be the first toreach 100 b.h p per litre in an aircraft piston engine? Acknowledgment from U.S.D R. LEO. SZILLARD, one of theAmerican pioneers in atom bomb re- search, recently told the Senate Commit-tee investigating atom bomb coutrol, that if Britain had not passed on to theU.S. in 1941 the knowledge previously gained by her scientists of the poten-tialities of uranium 235, American scien- tists might never have developed atombombs. While appreciating the acknowledg-ment, we are aware that this lact could be used to write an extra scene into" 1066 and All That " Gift to R.C.A.F. Fund PRESENTATION of a cheque tor-t $8,500 was made to the R C A F Benevolent Fund by the Air ForceVeterans' Association oi Montreal at the recent annual dinner in the Ritz-CarltonHotel. The money represented the Asscxia-tion's War Charities Welfare Fund, and was presented by Mr ) D Tudhope.president of the Association at the time the money was collected, to Air MarshalHarold Edwards. C.B., a member ot the executive committee and a director ofthe Benevolent Fund. Irish R.A.F Club AIR Force personnel trom Eire will beinterested in the iormatiou of the R.A.F. Social .Club in that country, ofwhich the acting honorary seotetary 13 Mr H B Frazer. $4, Corrig Avenue,Dunlaoghaire, Co, Dublin The club's subscription is 7/6 tor ex-Service and 5/- for serving members of
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