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Aviation History
1946
1946 - 1972.PDF
360 F LIGHT OCTOBER 3RD, 1946 FIT FOR A KING : As reportedon this page last week, Air Comdre. E. H. Fielden, Captain of the King'sFlight, has gone to South Africa on a proving flight for the Royaltour. Here is the King's Viking just before taking off from Northolt Record Breaker in PlasticsA FINE plastic model of the Gloster Meteor is illustrated in the Septem- ber issue ol British Plastics. It forms one oi the exhibits in the " Britain Can Make It" exhibition. Tributes from Greece KING GEORGE OF THE HELLENEShas conferred the Grand Cross of the Order of George I on Marshals of theR.A.F. Lord Portal and Lord Tedder, and the Grand Cross of the Order of thePhoenix en Air Marshal Sir A. Coning- ham, while Air Vice-Marshal VV. ElliQtis appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Phoenix. The "Ten-Forty" AFTER last Thursday's issue of Flighthad left the presses (and therefore iar too late to correct earlier information)a statement was put out by-the Ministry of Supply to the effect thnt although the - r> de Havilland 108 had been formallyentered for an attempt on the existihg air speed record and would be flown atTangmere by Geoffrey de Havilland, it had been decided not to enter the Super-marine E. 10/40 "at present." The official reason given for this deci-sion was that the Vickers aircraft "is stili under development and its full capa-bilities are not yet known.." A Plastics Map for the Blind/ ACCORDING to an article in the Sep-**• ternber issue of our associated journal, British Plastics, a Winnipeg manmay have revolutionized map reading for sightless persons. He is Mr. George S.McPhee, a grain cleaner, who recently completed a physical map of Europe inplastics. Lakes and rivers are .grooved andmountain ranges built up, all to scale. Even ocean depths and places of his-torical interest are included. Specially constructed ridges and pin points have FLYING HORSE-BOX : Valuable show ponies are now being carried by a transportfirm using Miles Aerovans (see " News in Brief ") equipped with specially designed horse-boxes. Loading is obviously no trouble at all. been built so that the reader, with thfjjtaid of a Braille slide-rule, may work out? distances. The map took 450 hours tomake and is 40m by 50m. J Mr. S. J. Evans, Superintendent of theCentral Western Division of the Cana- dian Institute of the Blind, says that the •map will become part of the library facilities for the blind in Winnipeg afterit has been displayed in other large centres. Impressive Performance t/ /""*HANCE presented the Bristol Way-.^-' farer on its demonstration tour of Canada with an opportunity to prove itscapabilities in striking fashion to the Canadian Army authorities. The Army was carrying out manoeuvresin the immediate vicinity and two of their transport gliders taking part in theexercises had to land some little distance from their "advanced airfield." The Wayfarer, therefore, promptlyhopped over to the scene of the emer- gency landing, collected two jeeps, afive-pounder gun and six paratroopers, lurried them to where they were requiredand unloaded the lot in 2^ min. This so impressed the Dominion BrassHats that they asked for a special demonstration which kept the Wayfarerbusy for a whole week. Needless to add, the request was ful-filled with enthusiasm. Dominion Dogfight %/L ABOUR strikes in Britain may robus temporarily of such amenities as gas and milk, but they have not yet goneto the picturesque extreme witnessed in Canada recently when opposing sidesused aircraft which indulged in the peril- ous game of trying to force each otheraway from the scene of action. This happened at Hamilton, Ontario,when a Cessna Crane belonging to the Steel Company of Canada "attacked"a Cessna 140 hired by the striking steel- workers to drop leaflets to non-strikingemployees in the works. The " union" Cessna, flown by anex-Atlantic Ferry pilot, was scattering. its leaflets from about 1,000ft when the enemy" took off from the company'slanding strip nearby and went into action to try to stop this attempt toseduce the faithful garrison—workers who were actually besieged by unionpickets outside the plant, and were liv- ing there and being provisioned from the
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