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Aviation History
1946
1946 - 1662.PDF
2O6 FLIGHT AUGUST 29TH, 1940 action arranged on both coasts, was quite satisfactory. It is certainly high time that some similar scheme was re-instituted. At present the number of private owners and club pilots who are able to indulge in air touring is very small, but gradually the number will grow, and in addition there are the concerns which use aircraft for business purposes, sending representatives abroad and overseas. In doing so they are directly helping our export market and are thus entitled to a certain amount of assistance. Another direction in which there would appear to be Government frustration rather than encouragement is in the matter of sales of surplus aircraft. A correspon- dent complains, in this issue, that his club has been very " unlucky " at no fewer than four disposal sales, having failed to obtain aircraft for which the club tendered. To put it bluntly, it is alleged that the clubs, or at any rate this particular club, are not getting a fair deal in these sales, and that most of the aircraft go to "'com- bines" rather than to the clubs. So long as the existing system continues, whereby the Ministry is not bound to accept any tender, the way is open for such complaints to be made. RecordsW HILE there is every prospect that the world's speed record will have been broken by a hand- some margin by the time this issue reaches our readers, we are debarred from recording the figure by the fact that we had to go to press on Monday. The structural distortion found in the Meteor EE549 was rectified in less than two days, and a new rudder was thought to have cured the tendency of EE550 to fly left wing down. CONTENTS Outlook Offensive Support . - - * - Here and There - - - - - Model-Makers' Macca Rolls-Royce Mobila Jst S.IIODI - The KZ-III Stringbag Plin - Gander Airport - - * - • • Civil Air Licence School - Folkestone Races ------ Ls Zoute Rally - Civil Aviation News - - - - - Correspondence The Piston Engine Service Aviation- - 205 - 207 - 211 - 213 - 214 - 215 - 216 - 218 - 219 - 221 - 222 - 224 „ - 227 <' - 228 - 233 Records of a different sort have been set up by the Avro Lancastrian Aries, which flew from Black- bushe, England, to Wellington, New Zealand, in 59 hours 51 minutes lapsed time. The Aries took in its stride two other, records: Blackbushe to Karachi in 19 hours 14 minutes and Blackbushe to Darwin in 45 hours 3 minutes. Good as these figures are, they might have been even better had it not been for the fact that icing conditions made it impossible to fly straight over the Alps on the first leg. The Merlin 24s of the Aries, which have given such outstanding service on this and previous nights, would have lifted her across without any fuss. But even as it is, the flight is a fine achievement by crew and flying equipment. TRANS-WORLD VISITOR : Under the command of Air Comdre N. H. D'Aeth (seen above in thepilot's seat), and captained by Sqn. Ldr. J. E. Aldrich, Aries and crew from ths Empire Air Navigation School arrived at Wellington, New Zealand, after a record flight of 59.hr 5imin from Blackbushe,Surrey. The previous best time from England to New Zealand, 6o| hours, was made by a Transport Command Lancastrian. Aries is a Rolls-Royce Merlin engined two-year-old Avro Lancaster, minusturrets but fitted with special navigational equipment and extra tanks to give a total fuel capacity of nearly 4,000 gallons. S./O. Tough, W.A.A F. records by photograph the long list of places visited by Aries during the past year. AUG mi
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