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1946
1946 - 2064.PDF
FLIGHT OCTOBER 17TH, 1946 in July Lord Cherwell announced in the House of Lords that the Aeronautical Research Council had been directed to look into the possibility of founding a school of aero- nautical science. The A.R.C. presented its report on August 10th, 1943, and in December of that year Sir Stafford Cripps announced approval of the recommenda- tions and the appointment of an inter-departmental com- mittee under the chairmanship of Sir Roy Fedden. The report of that committee was published in October, 1944. There need be no uneasiness about the relatively modest way in which the College of Aeronautics is starting. From the national point of view it was far better to build-up the College gradually than to wait until it could be finished and fully equipped. From the Students' point of view those who are among the first should benefit from the fact that they will have to create and build to a considerable extent the equipment with which they will later be working. That is an advantage which subsequent students will not share. Circuit SortingD URING and after next week some rather more detailed and involved air traffic rules are brought into force to deal with the collision risks at Northolt and London Airport. These supersede the previous scheme with which, in differing conditions, right- or left-hand circuits were made at the two airfields. The new scheme is sound as far as it goes, and is intended to control the position of the areas covered by CONTENTS Outlook - - The Bristol Wayfarer - • - - - Here and There High-Speed Airflow - - - - - Morane-Saulnier 571 Short Sturgeon - - - - - - Seafarer from Rochester - Reliability of Gas Turbines ... Civil Aviation - - - - - - Correspondence ------ Service Aviation - .... - 409 - 411 - 415 - 417 - 420 - 422 a - 426 - 427 - 430 - 432 the two circuits—which are now left-handed in each case. Vertical stacking is to be used when congestion demands, and arrangements are made to suit the air- craft equipment carried. But too much, it seems, is still left to the crews them- selves. Air Traffic Control has neither the power nor the detailed knowledge to do much more than issue instructions to the aircraft, and hope that these will be followed. All will be well while movements are few, but a system must, in the end, be instituted by which Control really can control, and is possessed of con- tinuous knowledge of the whereabouts of each and every aircraft. S. OF S. ON TOUR : Within a few days of his appointment as Secretary of State for Air, The Rt. Hon. Philip Noel-Baker spent a day at the R.A.F. Stations at Wittering, Waddington and Hemswell. He is seen inspecting a D.H. Hornet fighter of No. 10 Squadron. Fit. Lt. J. D. Furneaux, pilot of the Hornet, is his guide.
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