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1946
1946 - 0655.PDF
APRIL 4TH, IQ46 335 BOLTS OF THUNDER : An extraordinarily vivid 'snap ' of a P47 Thunderbolt of the U.S.A.A.F. launching a salvo of sin. rocket projectiles (it carries ten of them) during a recent test. officials at the intermediate stops for the adding of ice at approximately i6hr intervals. Air Survey A LTHOUGH only open to the general**• public from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., the exhibition of R.A.F. photographs andphotographic equipment at the Royal Geographical Society's premises in Ken-sington Gore is well worth half an hour of anyone's lunch period if their place ofwork is handy enough and they cannot otherwise find time. Admission duringthe afternoons, 2 p.m. to 5.30 p.m., is by ticket only, and these are limited.Last day of the exhibition is Sunday next, April 7th. Apart from the many examples ofP.R.U. operational prowess, much in- terest lies in the excellent briefing modelsbuilt up from photographs (including a captured German model of Malta), andin the peacetime application to land sur- vey, town planning, forestry and similartasks, of all this wartime development in aerial photography. News in Brief ARRANGEMENTS to hand over the •fi- R.A.F. airfields in Iceland to the island's Government are being made by the British Air Ministry, and it is hoped to complete the withdrawal of the R.A.F. during the coming summer. * * * Marshal of the R.A.F. Viscount Tren- ehard is visiting Southern Rhodesia this month at the invitation of the Prime Minister, the Hon. Sir Godfrey Higgins, and is calling on R.A.F. units in Malta and North and East Africa on the way. » * # The unusually brilliant display given^ by the aurora borealis last week may • have delighted astronomers, but ituy tiie aurora t• have delighted AIRSTRIP ... No. 8 played such havoc with oversea radiotransmission that a number of trans- atlantic flights by Pan American andother U.S. airlines were delayed. • • # A seaplane school on Lake Tahoe, Cali- fornia, where pupils are instructed in 65 h.p. Taylorcraft equipped with floats, is HERE AND THERE (CONTD.) said to be the highest seaplane base inthe U.S. The surface of the lake is 6,229ft above sea-level and the schoolwas started there in defiance of expert advice. * * * Mr. Norman Martin, Agent General inLondon for the State of Victoria, Australia, is investigating the possibilityof acquiring the latest type of British helicopter for the Victorian State Govern-ment. The purpose would be for bush fire-fighting, pest spraying, etc. * # • A scale model, six feet to one inch, ofthe scene on Doncaster racecourse in 1908 where the first aviation meeting inEngland was held, is being built by Mr. Bernard Cutriss, a member of the Don-caster motor engineering firm of that name. When completed the model,which is constructed in four sections, will measure five feet square. * * * Cost to the Australian Government ofbuilding the 61 Avro Lincolns (as re- ported in last week's Flight) has beenstated by Mr. Norman Makin, their Minister of Aircraft Production, to be£9,600,000. This figure includes the plant and equipment as well as spareengines, airscrews, and other parts. %, *The College of. Automobile and Aero-' nautical Engineering is to hold aa/OldStudents' Reunion Dinner in thjrAber- corn Rooms, Great Eastern Hotel, Liver-pool Street Station, London, E.G.2, on Saturday, May 18th, and applications fortickets (17s 6d each) should be made to the secretary at College House, 72,Princes Way, Wimbledon Park, S.W.19. • • * A report that-Russian fighter aircraftforced an American transport to land in Russian-occupied Germany, and that thepassengers, including a woman Red Cross worker, were held incommunicado forfour days, is being investigated by the U.S. Secretary of War, Mr. RobertPatterson. This was stated by the Re- publican Senator Styles Bridges, of NowHampshire, according to a Reuter message from Washington last week.# # # The British Commonwealth and theU.S. have signed an agreement on radio distance indicators on aircraft, theU.S. State Department announced. '' The necessity for such joint actionwas brought about by the accelerated research programme pursued duringthe war and the need for providing fre- quencies for distance indicators developedby Canada, Britain and more recently Australia," the announcement said. • * * Two 38ft front ami rear spars for aMiles Gemini were recently flown iiom the firm's factory in Northern Irelandto Reading in an Aerovan despite the fact that they protruded out of thecabin to beyond the tail surfaces and had to be strut-braced to the boom.The pilot reported no effect whatever upon the handling characteristics. • * # ^ Mr. W. D. T. Gairdner, former airsuperintendent of the southern division of Scottish Airways, Renfrew, has flownto Australia to take up a new post there. During the war Mr. Gairdner served asa pilot in the R.N.V.R. and commanded No. 782 Squadron of the Naval AirFerry Service in Scotland.
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