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1946
1946 - 1670.PDF
212 FLIGHT AUGUST 20111, 104*5 HERE AND THERE 15th) was wrongly described as one ofMr. A. H. Wilson's models held by a young admirer. The error arose because the official hadnot seen the photograph, and we had not had the pleasure of Arnold's personalacquaintance. Incidentally, although the little powerunit of Arnold's excellent model proved temperamental in this contest, it hasflown very well on many other occa- sions and is a distinct credit to itsyouthful designer and constructor. ^j Display at Woodford NEARLY 10,000 visitors turned up atWoodford airfield when A. V. Roe and Co., Ltd., gave a display of theirown aircraft there in order to raise funds towards a community centre at Wood-ford as a practical war memorial to local men who lost their lives in the war.Aircraft parked for public inspection attracted great attention, especially fromthe younger generation, who swarmed on, over, and into them whenever per-mitted to do so. An impressive take-off in a Tudor IIwas made by Mr. Jimmy Orrell, Avro's assistant chief test pilot, and a flight- ofLincolns swept over the Pennines from Doncaster to give a low fly-past whiletwo-way R/T contact was relayed to the ground from Fit. Lt. Coates. The programme wound up with somegliding by No. 183 Squadron, N.W. Com- mand, including exhibitions by in-structors Peter Thorn and P. Wilson. The display raised- the useful sum ofabout £450 for the fund. HELPING HAND : An R.A.F. sergeant instructing a French class at Rochfcrt on the Beaufighter hydraulic system. These classes are part of the scheme for Britishhelp to French Service aviation and the industry. News in. Brief ,TO relieve an acute shortage of ice-V -*- cream in Tasmania, A.N.A. cargo aircraft carried three capacity loads of it. totalling 18,7501b, from Melbourne to Hobart and Launceston. x/ No More Synthetic Rubber ._. fMPORTS of synthetic rubber have now ^transport pilot,1 stopped, and after October nothing 1.000,000 air miles, but natural rubber will be used for tyres,Mr. F. D. Ascoli, chairman of the Rubber Growers' Association, stated in Londonrecently. V "Meanwhile," he said, "manufac-turers are exhausting existing stocks of synthetic, and we have decided to pressthe Board of Trade for the return to a free market as soon as the present agree-ment with U.S.A. ends on December 31st. We are anxious to stand on ourown feet and to ascertain the real value of natural rubber as against its new com-'petitor, synthetic rubber. With the free market which we hope to see re-established the present price of is 2d a lb is likely to come down." Mr. Ascoli added that although theworld consumption ot natural and syn- thetic rubber will be much higher thanbefore the war, there was likely to be a surplus of it in 1947. Valentina Stoyanovskaya, the 36-year-old Soviet airwoman now engaged as a recently toppedDuring the war she flew supplies to the Russian fronts. Twenty-seven Indian Moslems fromSouth Africa recently chartered a B.O.A.C. flying-boat to take them on apilgrimage to Mecca—a sharp contrast with the traditional way of making thejourney by sailing boat. # * * y/ A new 27-seater airliner has beendesigned by Sergei Ilyushin, who was responsible for the Stormovik low-levelattack bomber. It is a twin-engined air- craft with a cruising speed of 220 m.p.h.and a range of 1,500 miles. As a freighter it carries three tons ; the crewnumber' five. AIRSTRIP No. .Mr. Walter Bond, personnel managerat Fort Dunlop, has retired after 54 years in the rubber industry. He alsoretires from the post of secretary to the tyre employers on the National Joint Industrial Council for the rubber manu-facturing industry. He is a Fellow of the Institute of the Rubber Industry. * # # v Mr. R. Gresham Cooke is retiring from the position of secretary of the UnitedSteel Companies, Ltd., to become direc- -? tor of the S.M.M. & T. He will bo .succeeded by Mr. R. Peddie, B.A., on ~~ October 1st. ,: * * * :: y A Lincoln is being specially equipped •at Melbourne to map the strip in Central Australia which is being considered forthe rocket projectile experiments. As 'j this area has practically no land marks \a high degree of navigational skill is : called for, and three special cameras willbe operated simultaneously. The neces- sary "mods" were designed by theR.A.A.F. experimental unit at Laverton. / * v The rumour, current in London avia-tion circles lately, that the jet-propelled Lockheed P-80 had made a secretattempt on the World's Air Speed - Record (while it was still at 606 m.p.h.)and had failed to beat it, was officially denied by Lockheed officials in Londonlast week. There is a possibility, they add, that the U.S. may attempt tobreak the record with a P-80 some i| before the £nd of October. m
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