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1946
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MARCH 28TH, 1946 FLIGHT 309 OFF DUTY : Skis are among the many amenities provided for airmen and " Waafs " at Gatow Airport, Berlin. With winter sports laid on, Service life in Germany has its com- pensations. Disbanded. '"PHE Air Ministry announced last week -L that British Air Command, which has been implementing R.A.F. policy in Berlin since last April, has now been disbanded. Most of the local administration for- merly dealt with by British Air Com- mand is being taken over by the R.A.F. Station at Gatow, commanded by Group Capt. D. M. Somerville. Australian Avros HPHE first Lincoln bomber to be built •K in Australia flew over Melbourne last week in an aerial display. which formed part of a security loan campaign. The aircraft is the first of 61 of this type authorized by the Department of Aircraft Production for the R.A.A.F. A Melbourne message states (somewhat vaguely, since no mark number is given) that the Department has also authorized the construction of 12 Tudors in Austra- lian factories. THOR Flies Soutk T^HE Lancaster, Thor, of the Empire -I- Air Armament School, Manby, has now gone on an extensive tour of Austra- lia and New Zealand, carrying a mission of specialists in bombing and gunnery drawn from the R.A.F. and Dominion Air Forces. The mission will discuss problems connected with air armament and will exchange views on aircrew train- ing with Dominion representatives. Thor, it will be remembered, carried out a similar mission to the Middle East, Southern Rhodesia, and South Africa last autumn. It is fitted with all the latest armament and radar equipment •used by the R.A.F. New Atom Chief T ORD PORTAL of Hungerford has -*-' been appointed Controller of Pro- duction of Atomic Energy. Following his resignation as Chief of Air Staff, it was announced in February that he was appointed head of an organi- v • Eation within the Minis- try of Supply for the Q production of material •""•"* for the Atomic Research and Experimental Estab- lishment at Didcot under the directorship of Pro- fessor J. B. Cockroft. Now Lord Portal will plan all development for industrial and military purposes. Incidentally it was an- nounced in the Commons last week by Mr. Arthur Henderson, Under-Secre- tary for India, that the FIRST FLIGHT : Avro personalities descend from the Tudor II after its successful maiden flight recently. In front is chief test pilot, S. A. Thorn, and on the steps (left to right) are Capt. J. Orrell, 2nd pilot, Mr. Roy Chadwick, chief designer, Mr. Bowers, flight engineer, and Mr. C. E. Fielding, director of production. Government would control the disposal of the atomic metal, thorium, found in Travancore, India. Another Award for Whittle ""PHE Institution of Mechanical Engi- -L neers last week awarded the £ 1,200 "James Clayton" prize for 1945 to Air Comdre. Frank Whittle, who was also received into honorary membership of the Institution. The prize, which is for the greatest contribution during the year to modern engineering science, was presented at the annual meeting by the Institution's retir- ing president, Professor Andrew Robert- son, who said that Whittle's gas turbine '' may well rank in importance with Parson's steam turbine." Busier Than EverA T no time in our history have we had so large a volume of proto- type and development work." said Mr. A. W. Martyn, chairman of Dowty Equipment, Ltd.. when addressing the annual general meeting of the company at Cheltenham recently. "We are working concurrently," he added, "on such designs as the Bristol Brabazon, Bristol Wayfarer, Avro Tudor, Airspeed Ambassador, and numerous other civil and military types." Mr. Martyn also mentioned that the firm was about to enter into new mar- kets with products not hithero made in this country for which they believed there would be a wide demand. FORTHCOMING EVENTS April 2nd.—R.Ae.S. Bristol Branch : " Re- search in Aeronautics," by Sir Ben Lock- speiser (Ftlton House). April 4th.—Metropolitan Region luncheon meeting, Institute of Motor Industry (London). Lecture by Air Comdre. f. Whittle. April 6th —-R.A.S. Reading and Dist. Branch. Visit to R.A.E., Farnborough. Really Co-operative IT is a well recognized fact that thesuccess of any A.T.C. squadron de- pends to a considerable extent upon what sort of co-operation it gets from the R.A.F. station to which it is affiliated; it is also well known that such co-opera- tion is apt to vary from place to place. No. 1,017 (Malvern) Squadron, A.T.C. is among the fortunate units, as was am-
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