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1946
1946 - 1669.PDF
AUGUST 29TH, I946 AND Air League Chairman ,/' •\ /TAJOR R. H. MAYO, the designer of1VJ. the Short-Mayo composite aircraft, has been elected chairman of the AirLeague of the British Empire in succes- sion to Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip Jou-bert, now Director of Public Relations at the Air Ministry. Belgian Air RallyT HE Royal Aero Club has received aninvitation, through the Royal Aero Club of Belgium, to take part in theInternational Air Rally which is being organized by the Ghent Aviation Club atSt. Denis-Westrem-Gand on September 7th and 8th. The invitation also em-braces British clubs affiliated to the K.Ae.C. D.H. Down Under i/" T\TOSQUITOES and Doves for the-LVJ. Australian and New Zealand market will probably be produced in anew factory which the de Havilland concern plans to erect at Bankstown Air-port, near Sydney. Later it is possible that -Vampires will also be manufacturedthere. A Reuter message from Sydney lastweek quoted Major Allan Murray Jones, managing director of de Havilland Pro-prietary, Ltd. (Australia), who has just returned to Sydney from Britain, assaying that it was the parent firm in Britain which hoped to establish the newAustralian plant. Battle of Britain Sunday fH EADS of churches of all denomina-tions have authorized collections to be taken on Battle of Britain Sunday(September 15) for the R.A.F. Benevo- lent Fund. Proceeds will go to relievedistress among past and present members of the R.A.F. and their dependents. r~ FLYING SCHOLARSHIPS which will provide training for "A" licences are to be awarded to chosen members of the Women's Junior Air Corps who are over 18. Ex-Fit. Lt. C. A. Nepean Bishop is giving instruction to some of the candidates at the United Services Flying Club, Elstree. Lord Riverdale, the chairman, statesin an appeal that the Fund is facing in- creasing numbers of claims. In the firstsix months of 1946 16,534 new cases were aided—the highest rate so far. Battle of Britain Sunday will beobserved each year on the Sunday nearest to September 15. This yearSeptember 15 falls on a Sunday for the first time since 1940. For Pathfinders \/ THE Pathfinder Association now hasits own publication—a quarterly bulletin called Pathfinder Newsletter—whose chief function is to keep its mem- bers au fait with the Association'sactivities and in touch with each other. Members who are unable to get up toLondon to visit the club at 115 Mount Street, except perhaps at long intervals,should find it particularly useful. Incidentally the accommodation \atMount Street has become too small for the crowd of members and their guests, so new premises just off Piccadilly areto be taken over shortly. These will have the advantage of a restaurant toprovide full-sized meals; Mount Street can only manage snacks. The first number of Pathfinder News-letter (why didn't they call it The Marker ) points out that its future suc-cess will depend on the active support of members in sending along articles,letters, stories, etc., so that its pages will really reflect their own activities. Amende Honorable OUR apologies are due to the youngdesigner of a tailless model air- craft, Alan Arnold, of Bournemouth,who competed in the recent Bowden In- ternational Trophy contest at Heston—his first big competition. Owing to a misunderstanding with anofficial of the S.M.A.E., the photograph of Arnold and his machine which ap-peared in Flight's account of the meet- ing (published in our issue of August PROJECTILE RESEARCH : A specimen shell is here shown mounted in the working section of the N.P.L. nin. supersonic tunnel. The fan is powered by a 1,500 h.p. motor and wind speeds up to 2.5 Mach number are possible.
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