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Aviation History
1946
1946 - 1003.PDF
MAY 23RD, 1946 FLIGHT 5*5 AS NAVIGATORS? The GirlGuide movement has now in- augurated an Air Ranger section.Apart from giving the girls instruc- tion in ground handling and aircraftmaintenance, it is intended that they should be able to obtain airexperience on gliders. They are shown here being initiated into themysteries of using dope for fabric repairs. In the background is aJu 52 used for demonstration. Atefeor in South AfricaB Y flying from Langebaan airfield toCape Town, a distance of 65 miles, in seven and one half minutes, Capt. JackMeaker, on Wednesday, 15th May, attained the fastest speed—520 m.p.h.—ever recorded in South Africa. His air- craft was a Gloster Meteor. Sandwich ConstructionM ANY people who have a noddingacquaintance with methods of air- craft construction know the meaning ofthe description "balsa-plywood sand- wich construction." Not so many, how-ever, know how this highly specialised process is carried out. In the case of the de Havilland Hornetthe halves of the fuselage shell are formed from a sandwich of balsa woodbetween two skins of plywood, and the gluing process takes place on a concretemould—or, more accurately, core—on which the half-shell is built. It is thensubjected to the pressure of some fifty flexible steel bands which are tightened- down upon it. The bands are heated byan electric current in order to obtain the optimum glue-setting time.The process is described in detail in a second instalment of the article on deHavilland Hornet production, appearing in the June issue of Aircraft Production,on sale next Monday, May 27th. A Point from Sweden IN a paragraph in Flight of March 21stwe alluded to the "national Swedish aircraft factory" as Svenska AeroplanA.B. This concern was, in fact, founded in 1937 by a number of Swedish indus-trialists, and the government has never been concerned with it. Architects Over London '"PHE British Council is arranging flights-*• over London for architects and town- planners from overseas. This is con-sidered to be the best way of giving them a general grasp of the layout of themetropolitan area, the siting of housing estates and other features. Victory Pageant IT will be quite like old times at South-ampton airport on June 22nd, when the local branch of the Air League isorganizing a " Victory Air Pageant." There will be a flying display of Serviceand civil types. The pageant will be opened, it is hoped, by Lord Winster.In connection with it, a static air exhibi- tion is also being organized in South-ampton to be open between June 15th and 22nd. The Goat Will be There LED by Lewis their Goat, two K.A.F.Halton apprentices' bands will take part in the Victory Day march. Lewis,whose name is derived from the initial letters of London, England, Wales, Ire-land and Scotland, is the Halton mascot and, at the age of 2 years 4 months, isthe* youngest flight-sergeant in the R.A.F. He was only recently promotedfor exceptionally good conduct. With his horns and hooves gilded, his white \ " Flight " photographs. IN THE WAYFARER • (Left) The chief radio officer of Channel Islands Airways, Mr. P Moss, in the^^adio compartment of the Bristol Wayfarer. (Right) The non-retractable undercarriage of the Wayfarer is interesting to warcb-fxQmLJtha -front passenger's window. It revolves continually in the slipstream, and when the aircraft flies directly into the sun the flittine shadows from the airscrew blades strobe the moving tyre treads
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