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Aviation History
1946
1946 - 2194.PDF
4*4 FLIGHT OCTOBER 3IST, 1946 SERVICE AVIATION BOLD, BAD BRIGAND On one of its twin Bristol Centaurus 18-cylinder sleeve-valve radials the Bristol Brigand torpedo-fighter flies comfortably with its 18-inch torpedo and R/P load. Royal Air Force and Naval Aviation News and Announcements "Aries" Off Again ytRIES, the famous Lancaster of the-*1 Empire Air Navigation School at Shawbury, near Huntingdon, which hasalready flown nearly a quarter of a million miles and only recently returnedtrom a visit to Australia and New Zealand, in the course of which it estab-lished three new speed records, kit, lor Canada and the United States ol America on Thursday, October 24th,By now, Aries has become almost a household word in the R.A.F., but it isonly two years, soon after its delivery to the Empire Air Navigation School,since it first attracted public notice by completing the first round-the-world tripby a British Service aircrait. In the fol- lowing year it made its famous flightsover the geographical and magnetic North Polfs. This was the occasion when it was first discovered • that theNorth Magnetic Pole lies not in its charted position in Boothia Peninsula,but some 2-300 miles N.N.W. of this. Group Captain D. Finlay, O.B.E.,Deputy Commandant of the School, will lead the mission, and the captain of theaircraft will be Wing Commander O. M. Dunniclifte, D.S.O., D.F.C., who pilotedAries on her record flight to Cape Town earlier this year. As usual on these missions, a lectureprogramme will be carried out and the latest navigation facilities in aircraftdemonstrated. These will include H2S Mark 111G, Lucero, Loran, Magnesyncompass, magnetic, dip indicator, air position indicator, ground position indi-cator and various types of bubble sex- tants Certain items oi German naviga-tion equipment will also be carrie<\|. Furthei work will be carried out on the"*new navigation technique known as pressure pattern flying." Nuremberg TrialsjCourier Service THE hanging oi the Nazi war criminalssees the end oi another R.A.F. com- mitment—that of carrying secret reports,official documents, Press reports, news- reels and B B.C. recordings betweenFurth landing ground, near Nuremberg, SUNDAY SERVICE : The Padre ofthe aircraft carrier H.M.S. Ocean holds Sunday Morning Service in thehangar, with Firefly I fighter-recon- naissance machines in the background.
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