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1947
1947 - 0023.PDF
JANUARY 2ND, 1947 FLIGHT HERE THER H THE ONLY WAY : So hemmedin by mountains is the little air- field at La Cumplida, Nicaragua,that airliners must use rockets to assist take-off. Chief trafficis supplies for the La Luz gold nrne. Prize Picture ^A BRITISH photographer, Mr. CyrilPeckham, has won first prize in the black and white professional section ofthe International Competition for Avia- tion Photography held by Intava Inc. inNew York last month. His winning picture, "Death's EyeView," was a head-on close-up oi a Tempest II just emerged from a cloudbank, taken from a Hart at about 9,000ft. The Tempest was flown by BillHumble. Cierva Memorial*/A N annual prize of ^25 is being offeredby the Helicopter Association of Great Britain for an essay or paper of atechnical nature on some aspect of rotary wing flight. This will be known as theJuan de la Cierva Memorial Prize Essay. Competitors must be British subjects,but not necessarily members of the Asso- ciation, and must be under 35 on Decemher 31st of the year of entry. Entries for the 1946-47 essay must bein by March 31st next, but full particu- lars can be obtained from the Associa-tion's honorary • secretary at Finsbury Circus House, Bloomfield Street, Lon-don, E.C.2. Peace <sJ UST before Christmas there was anews story about two ex-R.A.F. officers, both of whom had been shotdown and taken prisoner early in the war, who were sharing their Yule turkeywith foui German P.o.W.s from a camp near their home. Their mother said hertwo boys had themselves suggested thus taking advantage of the relaxed regula-tions in respect of entertaining German • prisoners aj Christmas. Doubtless there« were other similar instances in various \nifirt-' of the country, which did nothappen to " hit the headlines," and no- body, surely, has better moral right todecide what attitude should be adopted towards our former enemies than ourown ex-Servicemen. Many will agree that if lasting peace is to be achieved,then the sooner the hatchet is well and truly buried the better. Up-to-date Publicity^ :NE of the most powerful, as well asthe most up-to-date agents of propaganda to-day is the cinema, andthere have been some excellent docu- mentary and semi-documentary films made during recent years. The R.A.I1',alone have produced several, notably "Target for To-night," and, morerecently, "Journey Together," and we have all seen those Ministry of F'ood andMinistry of Information films—mostly "shorts"—at our local cinemas. Now the Society of Model Aero-nautical Engineers has collaborated with the Norman Film Studios in the pro-duction of a documentary which is ready to go on circuit and is beinghandled by Fox Films. With a commentary by Lionel Gamlin,this film will also be available to clubs on 16 mm stock. Rapid Progress \s* REUTER recently reported an an-nouncement by U.S. Army authori- ties that a 14-ton rocket of the V.2 typehad been launched from the experimental range at Whitesands, New Mexico, andhad reached an altitude of 111 miles and a top speed of 3.600 m.p.h. A rocket travelling ir. horizontal flightat this speed, they point out, would reach Liverpool from New York in51 min, or do the London-Moscow trip in 26 miti. It had been hoped, the report con-tinued, to hurl small metal slugs from the nose of the rocket 40 miles above theearth so as to have enough speed to over- come gravity and continue into space. Next thing we know, we shall be get-ting a nasty letter from Mars or some- thing ! Far East Conference i/ WHEN Marshal of the R.A.F. LordTedder was on his way back to Britain after his recent tour of R.A.F.bases in the Far East, he conferred with British Service and civilian chiefs inMalaya and South East Asia at Kuala Lumpur, that pleasant Malayan citysituated at a comfortably cool altitude about midway between Penang andSingapore and generally referred to as " K.L." by the colonial residents. The subject of the conference has not,as yet, been disclosed, but it was attended by (among others) Gen. SirMontague Stopford, the acting Governor- General of Malaya; Mr. F. C. Gimson,Governor of Singapore; and Lord Kil- learn, British Special Commissioner inSouth East Asia News in Brief The crew of a British military Ansonwere unhurt when their aircraft, en route to Copenhagen from London, was badlydamaged in a forced landing outside Kas- trup Airport just before Christinas.* • * A standard Royal Australian AirForce de Havilland Mosquito ,liglrttt- Ijomber has flown from Australia to NewZealand in 3 hr 43 min, bettering the previous record for the transocean cross-ing by 50 min. w-^Aerotech " Flying Club No. 1 an-nounce that Fit. Lt. Vernon Blunt will be unable to give his lecture on " WorldGliding" on Thursday next, Jan. r>th, as advertised, and his place will be takenby Mr. R. G. Worcester who will tall* about " Naval Aviation." Rolls-Royce Nene jet unit fromthe Ministry of Supply exhibition in Charing Cross Underground Station is tobe shown at the Empire Exhibition in the Commemorative Pavilion, Sydney,which is to be a feature of the Royal Easter Show to be staged by the RoyalAgricultural Society of New South Wales. • * * l/Miles Aircraft, Ltd., are reducing theworking week of employees to a 42^ hr. five-day week as from this week-end.Making the announcement recently, Mr. F. G. Miles said he felt sure these benefitswould be reflected in increased produc- tion. / '' * * * V'Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, whorecently retired from the R.A.F., has gone to South America to survey the air-craft industry there. He left London for Buenos Aires on Dec. 20th and will beaway for several months. * * I Recommendation that cosmic ray re-search should be supported on a greatly increased scale was made in the reportof the British Commonwealth Scientific Official Conference recently publishedby H.M. Stationery Office (price is 3d). The report also suggested that the" AirForces of the Common wealth should be asked to help in the research work byproviding the necessary flying hours.
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