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1946
1946 - 0556.PDF
286 FLIGHT MARCH 1946 NO STANDING : The sur- prising capacity of the Miles Aerovan is demonstrated by- its ability to take—if only just—a saloon motor car. Its four passengers, if not too massive, might also travel with it. KnightedO N Wednesday of last week Air Mar-shall H. E. Wigglesvvorth was received in audience by the King atBuckingham Palace where he was knighted and invested with the K.B.E.This was on occasion of Air Marshal Wigglesworth's being appointed AirOfficer in Command and Chief of the Air Mission, Control Commission, BritishAir Forces of Occupation. Ebb and FlowA NUMBER of U.S. aircraft manufac-turers, whose employment figures dropped sharply after VJ-Day, are nowbuilding them up again almost to the same level as they get into their peace-time production stride. Republic, for example, which dropped from 8,000workers to 3,700, is now back to 5,400 and may have 7,500 by August. Airport for Sale A IRWORK, Ltd., have offered ^54,000•**• to Perth Council for Scone Airport, and the town's "aerodrome committee "has recommended that, the council should sell at this figure. It is understood that the offer coversthe whole of the laud occupied by the airport together with the buildings andtheir furnishings and fittings and all other equipment belonging to the towncouncil. Well Worth a Visit A ERIAL photographs taken during the**• flight of the Aries over the North Pole, and enlargements of photographsof key objectives during the war, will be included in the exhibition illustrating thedevelopment of aerial photography which will be open from March 25th toApril 7th at the Royal Geographical Society, Kensington Gore, by arrange-ment with the Air Ministry. Hitherto unpublished informationabout radar will be given in a lecture on "Air Survey" by Lt.-Col. C. A. Harton the opening day, when Viscount 135 M.P.H. ON 65 H.P, : Interesting because it re-affirms the possibilities of the high efficiency single-seater, the all-metal Luscombe Model 10 looks rather larger than the Chiltons, Tipsys and Darts of our own pre-war light aircraft Utopia. The engine is a Continental flat-four. Stansgate, Secretary for Air, will visitthe exhibition. The uses of aerial photo- graphy in agriculture and forestry will bedescribed in another lecture on March 28th and will be shown in some of theexhibits. The Play's the ThingI N order to provide more- " live " enter-tainment lor the R.A.F. and W.A.A.F. at the more isolated stationsin Germany, theatrical repertory com- panies are being formed by the BritishAir Forces of Occupation from locally recruited talent. These companies are to tour theBritish Zone with straight plays and revues, and it is hoped to have two ofeach " on the road " by the end of April, with two more in rehearsal. Compact and ModernT HAT the makers of a British lightaircraft which so distinguished itself during the war under the R.A.F. nameof Auster should adopt this Service name for the company itself, is surely a sign oftheir progressive outlook. Auster Air- craft, Ltd., is a more euphonious titlethan was Taylorcraft Aeroplanes (Eng- land), Ltd., and there are other advan-tages. It will fit more easily into the appro-priate space on customers' cheques, it avoids any possible confusion with theAmerican Taylorcraft, and, finally, it is more up to date in that it substitutes"aircraft'.' for that outmoded hybrid, " aeroplane." Back to the LandO UT of some 650 airfields in Englandand Wales, about 100 grass airfields have already been, or are being derequisi-tioned and will go back under the plough to help in meeting the acute food situa-tion, according to a recent statement by the Air Ministry.An enquiry is being made into the peacetime requirements of the R.A.F.and civil aviation, and upon the results of this will depend the return of otherairfields to agriculture. In the meantime, 195 of these airfieldshave been placed at the disposal of the Ministry of Agriculture for varyingdegrees of agricultural use, ranging from unrestricted use down to grazing only.
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