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Aviation History
1946
1946 - 0707.PDF
APRIL IITH, 1946 F LIG H T 361 ERE and THERE Accident-free Month DURING the month of March, R.A.F.Transport Command, without acci- dent, flew 5,667 Service men home fromIndia and took 4,308 out to India from Britain. More than 16,000 Service personnelhave been brought safely home by the Command during the past three months,and 14,000 have been taken to the Far East. Since large-scale air troopingbegan last October, the total is 37,000 brought home and 43,000 taken out. Golfer's Special ACCORDING to a Renter messageA* from New York, Mr. Fred Corcoran, manager of the U.S. Professional Golfers'Association, has said he understands that a " large international airline com-pany" intended to fly a "golfers' special" to England for the BritishChampionships. Both Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan,he added, were making plans to compete in the British Open Championship eventin July next. In "South-Ken" Museum THE National Aeronautical Collectionat the Science Museum, South Ken- sington, was reopened to the public onMarch 30th. The main gallery housing this collection suffered most during thebombing in September, 1940, and some immovable exhibits and a number ofspecial show cases were damaged. The former have now been restored and—•with the exception of Henson's model of 1842 and the Lilienthal glider of 1895—all the historic flying machines are again on view. New additions include the originalWhittle jet engine W.i, and an example of the German V.i "flying-bomb,"sectioned and illuminated to show the technical features. The remarkable development of mili-tary aircraft during the war period is illustrated by scale models of outstand-ing fighter and bomber types. A "Merlin" III engine used in the Battleof Britain and examples of the later jet engines are also on show. • Scope for Amateur "Wops" ORGANIZATION of an Air Force^—' Amateur Radio System to act as a practical radio auxiliary of the perman-ent R.C.A.F. is being planned by the Hon. Colin Gibson, the Canadian Air^Minister, and Air Comdre A. H. Keith 'Russell, formerly CO. at No. 4 Wire-less School, Guelph, has undertaken the AIRSTRIP No. 9 task of organizing the civilianside of the system. The organization will con-sist of groups of amateurs affiliated to R.C.A.F. auxili-ary squadrons and in radio contact with squadron signalspersonnel. Those holding operating and station licenceswill be loaned transmitting and receiving equipment fromsurplus R.C.A.F. stocks, and both Morse and R/T will beused. Messages will be re- layed across Canada todemonstrate the rapidit3' of the system.The scheme also takes in unqualified enthusiasts whowant to work for their amateur radio licences. Thesewill be given provisional membership and the auxiliarysquadrons will provide in- struction and encouragement. PORTABLE : This radaraerial, mentioned during the recent Radar Conventionheld at the Institution of Electrical Engineers in Lon-don, was designed for trans- port by air. It is readilydismantled into suitably small components. News in Brief According to the Los Angeles press,there are now 14 "jet projects" scheduled in California, of which onlythree, the P-80, P-81, and FR-i, have so far been publicly announced. * * # Among the new bombers reported tobe coming along are two Northrop flying wings, the XB-35 and XB-45, and atwin-jet version of the XB-42 Mixmaster. • * * New U.S. fighters include a Northropflying wing, XP-79, in which the pilot lies prone (minimum "G" effect), andsuccessors to the Ryan Fireball and the Shooting Star. There were three accidents involvingdeath or injury during the 35,000,000 passenger-miles flown during Februaryon scheduled services, special flights, and trooping movements carried out byTransport Command and other Com- mands of the R.A.F. These resulted ineight crew and two passengers killed, and four crew and nine passengers injured. As from April 1st, the Ministry of Air-craft Production was merged into the Ministry of Supply, under Mr. JohnWilmot, and will have two Parlia- mentary Secretaries—Mr. W. Leonardand Mr. A. Woodburn. The latter was formerly Parliamentary Secretary toM.A.P. * # *Operational control of Bovington air base, built by the U.S.A.A.F., reverts tothe British Air Ministry on Monday next, April 15th. It was at first an experi-mental station for the U.S. 8th Air Force and later became one of the biggest U.S.Transport Command stations this side of ths Atlantic. • * » " The Jet-Propelled Shell " is thetitle of a new documentary film produced by the Soviet Popular Scientific FilmsInstitute. The film reviews the develop- ment of rocket projectiles from what aredescribed as '' jet-propelled arrows '' used by the Chinese in the 13th century,to the multi-barrelted " Katusha " rocket gun of the recent war.
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