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1946
1946 - 1282.PDF
JULY 4TH, 194O HE] A LINE FOR AIRLINES :Vikings taking shape at Vickers' Weybridge factory. In thiserection shop hundreds of Wel- lingtons were produced duringthe war. "Flight Supervisor" Wanted THE College of Aeronautics, Cranfield,Nr. Bletchley, has recently been asking for the services of an experiencedtest pilot to organize and maintain their Flight Section. The requirements arethat he should be a good pilot with prac- tical experience of modern types andwith a thorough knowledge of the use of modern instrumental aids with, prefer-ably, experience of long-distance flying. The object of this Flight Section is togive students of the college a compre- hensive knowledge of test flying andpractical research work. York versus York THREE Tudor Us and three Yorkshave been ordered from Avro's by the South American airline, Plata AereaMercante, of Argentina—a useful bit of export business to the tune of some ^500,000. As they are to operate over the sameroute—London, Lisbon, Bathurst, Natal, Buenos Aires—as British South AmericanAirways, who are also being supplied with the same type of 21-seater York,there should be some of that healthy competition advocated by private enter-prise. The Argentine concern is to get de-livery of -its Yorks within the next two months. Quo Vadis? A NON-PROFITMAK1NG corporation,to be known as Air Affairs Inc. has been formed by some 40 companies andmore than 100 individuals in order to "study and predict the social effects ofaviation." A prominent member of the new or-ganization is Mr. V/illiam L. Clayton, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State. Parliamentary Plea A PETITION has been presented tothe House of Commons by MajorNiall MacPherson on behalf of the Aero- nautical Engineers' Association, askingthat recognition be accorded, to the Association as a Trade Union, and alsothat the Association may be permitted to elect representative members to serveon the Whitley council. The petition has been presented because it is alleged thatthe Air Ministry has declined to admit members of the Association to localWhitlej'' councils and has varied the terms, in relation to discharge, underwhich the petitioners were engaged. SB.A.C's New PresidentM R. W. JR. VERDON SMITH, adirector of the Bristol Aeroplane Co., and son of its chairman, §ir W. G.Verdon Smith, has been electod president of the S.B.A.C. for 1946-47. / Mr j RobertBlackburn, chairman and managing director of Blackburn Aircraft, Ltd., hasbeen re-elected vice-president, and Mr. Arthur Gouge' (Saunders-Roe, Ltd.), be-comes deputy-president. TRANS-OCEAN TRAVEL PRIOR to their first scheduled trans- atlantic service which began last Monday, July 1st, R.O.A.C. made a number of proving flights with their Lockheed Constellations, of which all five have been delivered. On Monday, June 24th, "Flight's" Assistant Editor was a passenger on one of the final proving flights and the return trip was made during June 30thjJuly 1st on a positioning flight. Impressions of travel by trans-oceanic airlines and nctes on the airports, visited, and their organiza- tion and facilities will appear in future issues of "Flight," starting next week. The XB-35 Flies T*HE Northrop flying wing bomber, de--»- signated the XB-35, which was described in Flight of May 9th, made itsfirst test flight on June 25th, at Haw- thorne, California. There cannot havebeen anything very much the matter with the prototype, since it was, accord-ing to reports, in the air for more than minutes. It is by way of being HUNDRED-TONNER : The designed gross weight of the Consolidated-Vultee XB-36 is well over 100 tons. Should this figurefail to convey the awesomeness of this largest of bombers, soon to be test-flown, the reader is offered the following data : span, 230ft ; length, 163ft ; fuselage diameter, 12ft 6in ; height of rudder tip from ground, 46ft ; weight of each tyre, 1,500 lb. SixPratt and Whitney Wasp Majors supply 18,000 h.p. A civil transport, the CV-37, is being developed along similar lines. This will weigh over 140 tons, carry 204 passengers, and cruise at over 300 m.p.h.
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