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1946
1946 - 0456.PDF
234 FLIGHT MARCH 1946 HERE AND THERE Mr. H. G. Nelson, Napier's managingdirector, Mr. W. A. Summers, general manager of Hunting Aviation, Ltd., andInspector Thomson of.the Lutoii Borough Police. The toast of the R.Ae.S. was proposedby the Luton branch president, Ml. \V. E. Park, who paid tribute to the excel-lent work done by the Society in pre- paring and disseminating technical infor-mation, and he also mentioned the excel- lent apprenticeship scheme offered by theS.B.A.C. Sir Frederick was well up to his usual humorous standard in hisreply, in the course of which he stressed the value of discussion groups for a freeinterchange of experience and opinion. The Luton branch of the R.Ae.S. wasformed in 1942. TiresomeA T least one of the official reports onthe Combined Intelligence Objec- tives Sub-Committee, whose memberswere formed into teams to examine Ger- man industrial activities in liberatedEurope, indicates among more important technical matters, that the examiningteam often had a decidedly trying time of it. As an example this team of twoBritish and two American officers who went in August, 1944, to examine air-craft engine factories in the Paris area left Northolt at 10.15 a.m. and did notreach their Paris billets until 9.50 p.m. Next morning they attended a meetingwith other teams (including special per- ACCORDING to official statistics issuedby the Department of Industry and Commerce in Dublin the total value ofaircraft and parts imported into Eire during last year was ^15,127, comparedwith ^26,856 in the previous year. # • » The Government factory built duringthe war at Sherburn-in-Elmet, near Leeds, "for the production of Swordfishfor the Fleet Air Arm, has been allocated to the Birmingham firm of W. & T.Avery, the well-known makers of scales and weighing apparatus. • # • Fifty airfields available for post-waruse have been declared surplus by the R.C.A.F. and are now either beingrented to municipalities, or returned to municipalities from which they wererequisitioned. Those being rented are let at a nominal fee of $1 on a five years'lease. sonnel sent direct fromthe U.S.) about 70 per cent, of whom had notl>ft-n briefed and had no idea what they were sup-posed to do. It conse- quently took them from8.45 a.m. till 12.30 p.m. to get organised, andthen the transport prom- ised for 1.15 p.m. did notarrive until 3 p.m., when one jeep with trailerturned up ! On another day thisengine team waited from 8.45 a.m. till 2.15 p.m.for their transport. No wonder that'thesquadron leader in charge referred in his report tothe "complete lack of organisation'' and theconsequent "great deal of unnecessary labour in-volved.'" BUG BOMBER : Turn-ing from Jap busting to crop dusting, this Beau-fort is spraying a special DDT solution in testsby the Victoria Dept. of Agriculture againstinsect pests that are ravaging fruit crops inAustralia. News in Brief The first Skymaster of AustralianNational Airlines recently flew the 8,075 miles from San Francisco to Melbournein 3ohr. 5imin. flying time. The final stage of 2,222 miles from Suva was flownnon-stop. After a visit to capital cities, this Skymaster will operate on the Mel-bourne-Perth service. Three more air- craft of the same type are expected with-in the next three months. • • * The Canadian Air Minister, Col. theHon. C. W. Gibson, recently stated that R.C.A.F. establishments overseas werebeing scaled down as rapidly as pos- sible. "It is certainly not our inten-tion to keep any man overseas any longer than is absolutely necessary," heis reported as saying. "The K.C.A.F. contribution to the occupational forcewill begin withdrawing at the end of June, and it is expected all personnelwill be repatriated by the end of Septem- ber. 1946." By the end of June next, 711,000 outof a total of 1,110,000 men and women serving with the R.A.F. on VE-Day willhave been demobilized in just over a year. Giving these figures in a recent broadcastMr. Strachey, Under-Secretary for Air, said that the R.A.F. was now one groupahead of the Army, and had released a greater proportion of its total strengththan had the Navy in spite of the latter having reached groups in the forties.• * • The condensed form of a news agencymessage from Bombay announcing the recent appointment of Air Vice-MarshalSir Edward Rice may possibly have caused some confusion with anotherexisting appointment. We are asked by , the Office of the High Commissioner forIndia to point out that the full official title of Sir Edward's new post in Indiais Deputy Director-General, Civil Avia- tion (Aircraft Operation). Sir Edwardwas formerly A.O.C. in West Africa. AIRSTRIP ... No.
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