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1946
1946 - 0957.PDF
MAY I6TH, 194O F LIGHT ORIENTAL INTEREST : Under alicence agreement recently arranged between Rolls-Royce and the Chinese. Government, gas turbine and jet engines are to be built in China with " the approval of the British Govern-ment. Chinese engineers are now being trained at the Derby works, andRolls-Royce engineers are to go to China to supervise the tooling-up offactories there. The firm's chief engineer, Mr. A. G. Elliott, shows theNene engine to officers of a Chinese mission now in Great Britain. Last of the YanksB Y June 1st all members of the U.S.Strategic Air Forces in Europe will have been re-deployed out of England,according to a letter which Col. T. W. Scott, commanding the U.S. Head-quarters Base Air Depot, is reported to have sent to the Mayor of Leicester lastweek. The colonel qualifies the statementwith the words " providing present plans materialize," but subject to that,he says that their European Air Services Command will be '' completely dis-solved" by that date. A.T.C. Officers' Courses T/ARIOUS courses laid on for the• » . benefit of A.T.C. Officers are avail- able at a number of R.A.F. stations, thechief one being the administration course which began on the first of thismonth at Locking, near Weston-super- Mare, where there are vacancies for 30officers each week. The administration course is obliga-tory on each A.T.C. officer early in his career, and the syllabus emphasizes thetechnique of instruction. Incidentally, the Locking station has a reputation forproviding excellent quarters and good food for its A.T.C. visitors. Some courses are dependent on thenumber of officers desiring to attend, as, for example, the equipment officers'course at Stannington, while any A.T.C. officer wishing to obtain information onany subject connected with his own par- AIRSTRIP .... No. 14 ticular Corps duties can usually arrangeto be attached for a short period to an appropriate R.A.F. station for thispurpose. The German Scientists .... A HEADLINE in one of our morehysterical daily newspapers last week sought to convey the impression(and doubtless succeeded in large mea- sure) that the bringing of a number ofGerman aeronautical scientists and engi- neers to this country to help in gas-turbine and aerodynamic research was due to the recent resignations from theGovernment-owned Power Jets organiza- tion. This, of course, is not the case. Thearrangement is the direct result of an agreement between Britain, Russia andthe U.S., arising out of the disarmament of Germany, to share between the threecountries the services of some of the pre- eminent German experts of internationalrenown. Other German experts are, therefore, similarly going to Russia andAmerica. .... and Their Work WHILE we are getting along quitewell towards the solution of anumber of problems—notably compressi- bility problems affecting performancenear the speed of sound—the Germans' help will" be welcome in getting the com-plete answers more quickly; the time factor is obviously important in keepingBritain in the lead in these things. They cannot tell us very much, perhaps,but as Germany spent millions on special equipment their experience may save us money in building the simplest and besttest plant—super-sonic wind tunnels, etc Such men, therefore, as ProfessoiBuseman (international expert in the theory of aerodynamics), Professor ErnstSchmidt (specialist in axial compres- sors), Dr. W. Encke (who was engagedon Me 262 development) and Dr. Hilpert (physicist specializing on heat transfer-ence and refrigeration) can patently be of considerable service to us. Another Fairey Firefly pLICHT mentioned recently, in its"Industry" section, that the name Fairey would soon be associated with anew product which, though intimately concerned with the water, had nothingto do with the Naval Air Arm. The June issue of our associatejournal, Yachting World, publishes the first full description and photo-graphs of one of the new products, namely, the new Y.R.A. 12ft NationalFirefly class dinghy produced by Fairey Marine, Ltd. (a subsidiary of FaireyAviation), at Hamble, and designed by Uffa Fox, leading light in the racingdinghy world, who is now consultant to the company. A 15ft National class craft, also spon-sored by the Y.R.A., is soon to follow, and both types, constructed in mouldedply, are to be produced in quantities when materials become available. Homeless "pvISCONTENT is seething among the-L' cadets and officers of the Dagenham Squadron of the A.T.C., which is in
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