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1946
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MAY 9TH, 1946 FIRST AND LAST : The first productionDove follows the last Mosquito on the D.H. production line at Hatfield, thoughMossie production continues elsewhere in the U.K. and abroad, well over 6,000of them having already been built in D.H. factories alone. Sir Geoffrey deHavilland is on the extreme right. F LIG H i V.--.-'*J> - 1>^jJ\^ The Bun and the Ha'penny THE Brazilian Government has invitedBritain to send a party of six under- graduates to Brazil on a three months'"good will" visit. Not only will those lucky enough tobe selected for the trip be taken by air, but the Brazilian Government is to giveeach of them /50 as pocket money. African "King's Cup" WHEN Their Majesties visit SouthAfrica next year the Aero Club of South Africa plans to stage an air raceas part of the celebrations. Subject to the King's approval, therace will be called' the South African King's Cup Air Race, and the club pro-poses that the finish shall be at Cape- town, where the trophy will be presented. Already the club has submitted a re-quest to His Majesty to grant his patron- age and to present the trophy to thewinner. "Prudence" is Filmed '"THE R.A.F.'s safety-pin-up girl,-*- '' Prudence '' (who was introduced in a picture of one of Section OfficerRuth Walker's posters on this page some weeks ago) has now come to life in aninstructional film, made for the Air Ministry's Directorate of Accident Pre-vention, which is doing the rounds of R.A.F. stations. Miss Patricia Cutts plays the role ofPrudence and the rest of the cast are all Service personnel. Apart from flying accidents, mishapsduring taxying cost the country ^2,ooo,ooo during the war, so the in-tensified safety campaign now being waged would appear to be amplyjustified. AIRSTRIP ... No. 13 Island's First Plane f^AMPBELL ISLAND, about 400v-^ miles oft South Island, New Zealand, was landed on for the firsttime by an aircraft when a Catalina of the R.N.Z.A.F. flew there recently topick up a member of the Air Force meteorological staff who was sufferingfrom appendicitis and urgently needing a surgeon. Both operations were com-pleted successfully. Landings on this island are said to bepossible only in three months of the year. Food and Flowers A YEAR ago last week Sqn. Ldr.Harris, R.A.F., dropped the first food parcels to the Dutch people, andhe celebrated the anniversary by drop- ping a bouquet of flowers and a letter ofgreeting from Marshal of the R.A.F. Lord Tedder to Queen Wilhelmina. " On behalf of the R.A.F., I send bestwishes to your Majesty and through your Majesty to your people," the letter said.'' We can never forget the fine spirit shown by the people of Holland duringthe bitter days when your country was occupied by a hard and ruthless enemy." Dominion Adventure THE fact that flying can still be anadventure in Canada was illustrated recently when two brothers named Led-ward were lost with their light aircraft for a whole fortnight. They took off from Edmonton onApril 15th on a flight of about 240 miles to Grand Prairie, which lies more or lessunder the shadow of the northern foot- hills of the Rockies. They failed toreach their destination and R.C.A.F. and U.S. aircraft searched for them untilApril 24th without success. Then on April 29th they were found,hungry but otherwise 'unharmed, by boatmen on the Wapiti River, about 28miles short of their goal. It appeared that a forced landing had damaged theundercarriage, and as the report says they were suffering from '' slightly swol-len feet" they had evidently been doing quite a bit of hiking. News from Sweden ERIK JAGERBLOM, whose kind-nesses will be remembered by many of the British contingent attending theStockholm Aero Show in P936, has been appointed managing director' of AeroMaterial A/B Stockholm. This Swedish firm, which holds theScandinavian agency for the majority of the British aircraft firms, has also be-come a manufacturer in a small way. Handicapped by being unable to importaircraft equipment from Britain during the war, it produced such things asWilliamson' cine gun-cameras and Sim- monds' computers under licence. Rapide Cough Cure ABOUT this time of the year it is quiteusual (in fact almost inevitable) for somebody to raise the query-—does flyingcure whooping cough ? Strong evidence in support of theaffirmative is forthcoming from Sweden (whose statistics can usually be trusted),for an experiment was recently made with over 100 young victims of this dis-tressing complaint; they were taken for a flight in parties of eight, accompaniedby eight parents and under medical supervision, in a Dragon Rapide belong-ing to Svensk Flygtjdnst A.B. The treatment consisted of a slowclimb to 10,000ft, and the gratirying result was that 25 per cent of the patients CRICHTON V
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