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1946
1946 - 2125.PDF
OCTOBER 24TH. 1946. FLIGHT J 447 HERE The production mode. 4-seater ChrisleaAce will probably have twin fins and rudders, as shown on the prototype.A new feature is the operation of all three control surfaces by a single wheel. Swiss Switch * A CCORDING to a news agency reportA from Berne, the Swiss Defence Department has decided to stop all pro-duction of military aircraft in Switzer- land and to place all future orders withthe de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd., for Vampire fighters. The decision follows tests of variousnew fighter types carried out for the Swiss Air Force (virtually a fighter force)during the course of which their military test pilots were greatly impressed by theperformance of the Vampire "in most difficult mountainous regions." . The Fairey Helicopter * THE appearance " in the near future "of the Fairey helicopter was men- tioned by Sir Richard Fairey when hepresided over the company's 18th ordinary general meeting in London re-cently. He did not suggest that these " first results " of the firm's effortsin this field would be a profit-making enterprise for some time to come, butthey were, with open eyes, embarking on a development which might be veryproductive in a few years' time. Sir Richard, who told the meeting it was a great pleasure to return to thechair of the general meeting after an absence of several years in America, alsoreferred to " some promising new types " for which they had hopes of a reasonableshare in future Government orders, and also to " some enterprises on which I amnot permitted now to enlarge." "High Speed" Test PilotS QN. LDR. W. A. WATERTON, theCanadian member of theR.A.Fs High Speed Flight, who supported Grp. Capt.E. M. Donaldson in the successful air speed record operations has now left theService and has joined the Gloster Air- craft Co., Ltd., as a test' pilot. His experience with the Meteor underthe exacting " record " conditions gained while a member of the High Speed Flightwill, of course, come in particularly use- ful in carrying out his new duties. Airquestrianism *S AN Australian airline is to start a'' Racehorse Airtransportation Ser- vice '' following successful experimentsin handling this somewhat delicate (and sometimes temperamental) species of live.freight. ^ / PEAK PERFORMANCE : As stated above (see ' Swiss Switch ") the performanceof the D.H. Vampire among their home mountains so impressed the Swiss Air Force that this British jet fighter has been adopted as standard equipment. A Swiss tech-nician at Unterbach-Meiningen airfield explains the chief features of the D.H. Goblin engine at a recent demonstration. The company managed to load halfa dozen racehorses into one of their Dakotas, fly them a fairish distance fromA to B, and unload them again without the animals' race-winning propensitiescoming to any harm. For the regular conveyance of race-horses by the new service, however, three aircraft of a larger type have beenordered, and it is expected that entrants for the Sydney Cup next April will bearriving by air from stables in Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. Bold Forecast ^ A DDRESSING the air transport com-**• mittee of the International Chamber ot Commerce in Paris last week, Mr. JuanTrippe, Pan American's prophetic presi- dent, is reported by Reuter as saying:"An eight-hour crossing between Paris and New York will become a usual thingin 2947." It may comfort many, in these atomicdays, to have this implied assurance that Paris and New York will still be there inanother 1,000 years. Sir Frederick Lashes Out*/ /COMMENTING upon the fact thatv-' anyone who tried to operate an air- line service by private enterprise wasliable to a fine of £5,000 and two years' imprisonment, Sir Frederick HandleyPage hit out vigorously at the Govern- ment's present civil aviation policy whenhe addressed the London Rotary Club last week Civil aviation, he told the Rotarians,was evidently in the same category as bootlegging, smuggling, burglary andarson, and was suffering from a multi- plicity of Government restrictions andformalities. "As a friend of mine observed," saidSir Frederick, "the Government gives out a contract and defies one to carry itout." Villagers Protest t/ /^OMPLAINTS against the " devastat-v~' ing noise through the day and night " made by aircraft taking off fromHorsham St. Faith R.A.F. Station, near Norwich, have been made by the 5,000residents of Hellesdon, an adjacent village, and representatives of localparish councils in that area have taken up the matter with Aylsham RuralDistrict Council The villagers say that aircraft " skimthe tops of houses and bungalows " when taking off, unnerving women andchildren, causing " grave difficulty " in controlling the patients in Hellesdon
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