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1946
1946 - 1538.PDF
142 FLIGHT AUGUST 8TH, 1946 NEW YORK TERMINALS are for Washington airport for the year ending July, 1945, and therefore cover many war months. Dollars Buildings rentals 34,843 Hangar rentals 82,117 Fuel concession 150,000Airport transport (taxicab) 19,986 Restaurant 20,542Coffee shop 22,604 Tobacco and news-stand 4.987Souvenir shop 1,105 Barber shop 965Utilities (telephones, steam, power, water) 88,213 Total receipts 594.725 In addition to the variety of items listed above, the revenue is swelled by such things as a moving electric news strip, which includes advertisements, and by various slot sales machines. Later an automobile service station may be built. On the expense side by far the largest single item is Personnel Services—$369,943, while the total net expen- diture for the period is 4542,725. A profit of $52,495 (^13,124) is therefore shown and it is what may be called incidental items which provide a great part of the profit. Pre-war, the Airport Hotel at Croydon was very popu- lar, and airport hotels all over America are very well patronized. Wherever there is flying in progress a crowd of sightseers collects. In this country we could well afford to encourage this interest to the benefit of the airports and of the aviation industry generally by providing our air terminals with observation rooms, public lounges and restaurants, garages and filling stations, either as an off- shoot of the basic organization or on a concession per- centage profit basis. M. A. S. Speed-Record Preparations August 20 Now Approximate Date : News from Tangmere and America TANGMERE UNTIL the latter part of last week the Air Ministrystill hoped that Meteors of the High-Speed Flightmight attack the world's air speed record on or about August 15th. It now seems reasonably certain that the bid will not occur before the 20th and may well be later, for a hot day is essential and heat must be associated with an on-shore wind, good visibility and a high tide, the last to eliminate the possibility of bumps rising from the hot sand, for the tide recedes a great dis- tance at some points. Heat and Speed As for heat, Grp. Capt. Donaldson, who has now been instructed to pre- pare a paper dealing with the prob- lems of high-speed flying, tells us that a drop of 1 degree Centigrade below the optimum 30 deg means a loss of 1 m.p.h. ; thus the day before our last visit to Tangmere, with the tempera- ture at 19 deg C, he dropped 11 m.p.h. on one of the " hack " Meteor I Vs. The Course Controller, Wing Cdr. A A. McGregor, Staff Officer to C.S. (Air), has announced that the timing arrangements will be little different from those at Herne Bay. Specially adapted F.24 reconnaissance cameras will check the 16 mm cine cameras. They will be supervised by Mr. Gold- smith, of R.A.E., who is now estab- lished with his team in the. master timing box at the eastern end of the 3-km stretch. Fit Lt. Evason, of the Balloon Research and Development Establishment, Cardington; is again responsible for the marker balloons at each end of the course. Night-fighter Mosquitos of No. 29 Squadron, West Mailing, will carry sealed barographs and act as observation aircraft to certify that the.Meteors do not exceed the speci- fied 400 metres at any point. Air/Sea Rescue is repre sented by a Sea Otter which will circle out to sea and operate in conjunction with two A.S.R. marine craft. Marking and mooring arrangements are virtually complete after collection of buoys, bombing targets and salvage camels from around most of the English coast. The urgency and scale of this round-up of gear recalled a special wartime operation and reflects great credit on Messrs. Cope and Wilson, seconded from the Ministry of Supply. Meantime the B.B.C.'s correspondent in America reports that preparations for an attack on the.record by a heavily modified Lockheed Shooting Star are well advanced. This machine may have a nose intake and a modified wing. As announced last week, the Republic Thunderjet may also make a bid, but such information as is available on the American preparations and intentions suggests that either of these single-jet machines will be hard pressed to approach within several m.p.h. the speeds (of the order of 630 m.p.h.) THE COURSE Timing camera boxes Air n'tt Rescue nircmft Balloons uito observation aircraft Air'sen Rescue marine craft The location of the 3-km. timed stretch, flanked by balloons and timing cameraboxes, is clearly indicated on this sketch-map. Mosquitos will check the height of the Meteors and a Sea Otter will patrol in case of a ditching. . already attained by Meteors on test, as recorded in1 Ffight last week. The two High-Speed Meteors, EE549 and EE550, mav have been delivered to Tangmere by the time this is read. Their Rolls-Royce Derwent V turbine jets will be standard production units adjusted to deliver up to 4,200 lb thrust. BACK TO NORMALP RE-WAR private owners and others who knew Hanworthprimarily as a combined airfield and country club will be glad to know that the Hanworth Park Hotel has been reopened.This island in the sea of park which eventually became the air- field at Feltham has been reopened after its occupation duringthe war by the R.A.F. A week or two ago we announced the formation of a Blackburn-sponsored charter company, NorthSea Air Transport, with a base at Hanworth, and this should combine well with the facilities now provided for visitors.
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