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1947
1947 - 0104.PDF
*»4 FLIGHT /-. Ar *L J9^ ..' ANUARY 23KD, 1947 T H E RE FRANCO-GERMAN. A numberthese Me 108 light communicati ons type were produced by S.N.C.A.N., one of thesix State-owned French concerns. This one, seen at Croydon, was chartered byProf. Smertenko for his ill-advised visit to England recently. A Creditable Recor SOME figures just issued for B.O.A.C.'sBaltimore-Bermuda service during 1946 show's, very creditable performance.During the year, this service carried 12,679 passengers as well as 13,1531b offreight and 15,9121b of mail. Of the 324 flights made, only two weredelayed. Phew ! ! ! 1/S QN. LDR, VV. A. WATEKTON'Sflight from Paris to London last week in an elapsed time of 2omin lisec,achieved in the Meteor IV, EE 549, is an occasion for more congratulations to theGloster test pilot, the makers, and the machine's maintenance crew. Taking the distance as 208 statutemiles, this represented a point-to-point speed of no less than 618.4 m.p.h.,though flying control at Croydon said AIR CHIEF MARSHAL Sir ArthurBarratt receiving the Legion of Honour from M. Massighn, the French Am-bassador, at the Institut Francais in London last week. at the time that the generally accepted _mileage had not been finally settled for record purposes.The time was not, of course, a take-off to touch-down reading; Waterton diveddown over the Le Bourget control to about 2,000ft and then climbed to 12,000ft for the Channel crossing, losing height again gradually as he crossed the Englishcoast and finally diving down for the time check over Croydon flying control.Apart from, the initial climb, he used only approximately four-fifths throttleand he had no help from the 25-knot wind which was almost dead on his portbeam. Gas Turbine Loco A •!,500 h.p. gas turbine locomotive isbeing built by Metro-Viet at Man- chester for the G.W.R., and is intendedfor express passenger work between Pad- dington and the West Country, Fish-guard, and Birkenhead. New C.I.A. Chiefs f^OMMANDER J. M. KEENE-V-^ MILLER, O.B.E., who was ap- pointed general manager of ChannelIslands Airways last August, has now been made managing director of this com-pany in succession to Commander G. O. Waters, his promotion being announcedat a meeting of the board held in Jersey on January 15th. During the war Commander Keene-Miller served with the Fleet Air Arm, but he first joined the airline in March, 1934,when it was Jersey Airways, Ltd. Want an Anson ? < A REUTER report from Sydney lastweek announced that a Mr. Eric Mclllree, an Australian business man,had bought 35 Anson aircraft from Dis- posals Commission there and intended tohave them flown to Er gland for sale here. The first batch of three is to leave onFebruary 10th, one of them being flown by Mr. Mclllree himself, and the othertwo by ex-R.A.A.F. pilots to each of whom he is paying £500 as a ferrying fee. Providential Proctor y LISBON newspapers recently publishedan account of how a Pcroival Proc- tor belonging to the Portuguese concern,C.T.A., flew from Lisbon to Madrid in 2hr 15mm with a package of streptomy-cine to save the life of a Spanish child suffering from meningitis. Since the Spanish motto is tradition-ally " manana " (tomorrow) it may sur- prise readers to hear that putting a'phone call through from Madrid to Lisbon, getting hold of the drug, char-tering the aircraft and getting permission for it to land at Madrid was all accom-plished in 45min—until it is explained that the child's father was an old pal oiFranco's ! " Skystreak"^ A CCORDING to a recent report from•^*- Washington, a new experimental jet-propelled Douglas aircraft, a single-seater officially designated the D-558, it to be "unveiled" in California on February 5th and will attempt to exceed the speed of sound. It has been giventhe name of Sky^treak. It appears that the Sky streak hasonly just been completed and had not flown at the time the statement wasmade by the U.S. Navy authorities, who added that exhaustive slower-than-souw!test flights would be carried out before the attempt to "crash the supersonicbarrier." Forging Ahead »t/ »W ITH so many people complaining oftheir industrial activities beiny impeded by .shortage of man-power and ,scarcity of raw materials, it was a pleasant change to read Mr. G. H.Dowty's report to the tenth annual meet- ing of the celebrated Cheltenham firmbearing his name. " I am glad to report," he said, ''thatthe manufacturing facilities in your Cheltenham plant are fully engaged 011aircraft work. The volume of aircraft business on hand is twice that of anypeacetime period, and we are in an excellent position to give satisfactory de-liveries of all present orders." A large proportion of their output, Mr.Dowty added, was equipment for civii airliners. • . ^ _i Air League for S. Africa •€ WITH the object of discovering whatpossibilities exist in South Africa for the formation of an Air League therethe Duke of Sutherland is paying a visii to the Union. As a former president of the Air ;League of the British Empire, and at present a member of its executive com-mittee, the Duke of Sutherland will be able to offer any help the South African'-may need if they decide to form an AT League of their own. He should have arrived in Cape Townby the time these words appear in print a-fter which he will visit Durban an'Johannesburg, addressing meetings ar. ;
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