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1946
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FLIGHT JUNE 6TH, 1946 HERE AND THERE vin's 11-year-old sister, Lynn Carol, tofly, too. Which raises the question—is this arecord for youthful pilots? We seem to remember that Louis Bleriot not onlytaught his schoolboy son to fly, but actu- ally built him a small made-to-measuresingle-seater monoplane which Master Bleriot flew when he was ten. Our conespondence columns are wideopen to proud flying fathers with superior claims. Fourth Edition GAS TURBINES AND JET PROPULSION FOR AIRCRAFT By. G. Geoffrey Smith, M.B.E. A NEW edition of this book, greatly /-I enlarged and profusely illus- trated is now in the press. Twenty-one chapters cover the develop- ment of the aircraft gas turbine, in both jet and airscrew types, describe current and projected turbine-propelled aircraft, and discuss future prospects. They deal with the functioning of gas turbines, the fundamental prin- ciples of jet propulsion, and the per- formance, testing and maintenance of turbine units. Combustion systems, fuel and control equipment and turbine design features are fully described and illustrated by specially-prepared sectional drawings. The relative merits of airscrew and jet propulsion under different operating conditions are assessed, and the in- fluence of turbine power units on air- craft design is emphasized. Special chapters outline the probable development of tailless and all-wing aircraft and investigate the problems of high speed flight, compressibility effects, and boundary layer control. First published in 1942 when the significance of the gas turbine to the future progress of avaition was not generally appreciated, it was for long the only work on the subject. In subsequent years two further editions were published, but for some time these have been exhausted. The work was widely adopted as the standard text on the subject by uni- versities, technical institutions, and governmental and commercial training establishments. Two editions were also published in the U.S.A. Copies of the fourth edition will be available in the course of a few weeks, price 12/6, from Flight Publishing Co. Ltd., Dorset House, Stamford St., London, S£l DISTINGUISHED VISITOR : Marshal of thi R.A.F. the Viscount Tedder, G.C.B., recently paid a visit to thi Napier aircraft engine works at Acton. On his left are Sir George Nelson, the firm's chairman (nearer camera) and Mr. H. G. Nelson, managing director. News in Brief AIRSTRIP ... No. 17 "PRINCESS ELIZABETH, broadcast-•t^ ing to the youth of the Empire from the Albert Hall last week, suggested theinterchange of visits by air among schoolchildren and members of youth or-ganizations, in order to preserve wartime friendships. » * • Sir Miles Thomas, vice-chairman of theNuffield organization, recently strongly advocated increased supplies of news-print and paper for export catalogues, when addressing Glasgow PublicityClub. • * # Mr. A. D. Duncan, of the aviationdivision of R. K. Dundas, Ltd., has re- cently Teturned from his tour of SouthAmerica which he undertook to develop the firm's exports in Argentina, Uru-guay, Chile and Brazil. # * * The Royal Society of Arts is offeringtwo £50 prizes for 1946 under the Thomas Gray Memorial Trust. The firstis for an invention in the science or prac- tice of navigation and is open to anyoneof British or Allied nationality, and the second for a deed of outstanding pro-fessional merit by a member of the British Merchant Navy. * * • Seven L-type airships have been pur-chased from the U.S. Government by the Goodyear company for experimental pur-poses. Built by the company during the war, these airships were used for trainingpilots for duty on the larger K and M types used by the U.S. Navy for coastalpatrol work, and the firm now proposes to establish transatlantic travel by full-sized rigid airsfiips. * * * Envelopes bearing pictures of PeterStuyvesant, the Dutch-born Governor of New Amsterdam (New York) in 1647,were issued for letters carried on the first K.L.M. Amsterdam-New York flight onMay 21st. They bore the words, "I never dreamed of this," and the post-mark combined drawings of the steeple of an Amsterdam church and the Statueof Liberty. * #' •Captain E. I. Short, lately in charge of works publicity at General Aircraft, Ltd.,after 40 years' association with the motor industry, and particularly in con-nection with air rallies and concours d'elegance, has been forced to retirefrom business. He is in Ashford County Hospital and will be pleased to hearfrom any of his friends. * * * Mr. E. S. Thomson, of the aviationdivision of the General Electric Com- pany, said recently that he hoped thatthe TG-100 gas turbines would have passed all requirements and would beready for use on passenger transports bjk 1950. He recommended that the air-lines experiment with power plants 01» cargo flights before introducing them forpassenger use. The success of the axial flow TG-180 in the Republic XP-84 hadconsiderably cheered their engineers.
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