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1947
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140 FLIGHT FEBKUAKV 6TH, 1947 AND WINGS TO COME : This modelof the Fairey Gyrodyne found a place at the Shipwrights' Exhibi-tion in London. Note the anti torque-reaction airscrew on thestarboard stub-wing. D.H. Distinction y IN recognition of his contribution tothe progress of aviation, the U.S. Institute of Aeronautical Sciences hasthis year elected Sir Geoffrey de Havil- land to an honorary fellowship. This a rare distinction which lie shareswith one other person, namely Mr. Frank W. Caldwell, director of research to theUnited Aircraft Corporation, who has re- ceived a number of awards for his workin airscrew development. . Britannia Trophy S THE committee of the Royal AeroClub has awarded the Britannia Challenge Trophy for 1946 to G/C. E.M. Donaldson, D.S.O., A.F.C., for his achievement in setting up a new World'sAir Speed Record in the Meteor IV at 616 m.p.h. (991 km/hr) on September7th last at Littlehampton. This trophy (in case you don't remem-ber) was presented in 1913 by Mr. Horatio Barber, pilot and designer of CABIN COOLER : The Artif-Ice cabin cooler unit showing outfit grill withcooler tubes behind. M Valkyrie monoplanes in 1912, for themost meritorious performance in the air during the year by a British subject, andwas first won (in 1913) by Capt. C. A. H. Longcroft, R.F.C, for a non-stop,flight in a B.E.2. from Montrose to Portsmouth and back to Farnborough.This set up the first British long-distance record at 445 miles. The holder for 1945 was G/C. H. J.Wilson who raised the speed record from 496 to 606 m.p.h. in a Gloster Meteor. Handley Page Appointments R. C. F. JOY has been appointedassistant chief designer to Handley Page, Ltd. It is an ^/ appointment which iseffective from the be- ginning of this year.An Associate Fellow of the R.Ae.S., Mr.Joy joined the Handley Page company early \n-1944 and has been con- nected largely with itsnew project activities, including the Hermesseries. Educated at theCoventry Technical Col- lege, Mr. Joy receivedhis early training at Armstrong Whit- worth, Ltd. Cabin Cooling v A NEAT and small self-contained air-cooler unit produced by Artif-Ice, Ltd., is now available for passenger air-craft flying on such routes where cabin cooling is required. Essentially it consistsof an insulated container for a supply of '' Drikold '' dry ice and a battery of heat-exchanger tubes below. A 24 v motor drives a fan behind the heat-exchangertubes, the air drawn in thus being forced across the tubes, cooled, and re-delivered to the cabin. The unit is ap- proximately i8in tall xgin X9in, and isin peach-cream and blue enamel plastic material. (See adjoining picture.) The Limit? JW E confess to being somewhat sur-prised at reading that Air Marshal Sir Milne Robb, A.O.C. Fighter Com-mand, believes that we have reached the Mr. C. F. Joy. limit in speed—so surprised, in fact, thatwe almost expect to hear he was misre- ported on the point.According to a news agency, however, Sir Milne expressed this opinion whenspeaking at an R.A.F. Association re- union at the British Legion Exhibition inCentral Hall, Westminster, one evening last week. This view, of course, is NOT sharedby our most outstanding aircraft de- signers, aeronautical engineers andscientists. / Brabazon I's Interior*M R. RICHARD LONSDALE-HANDS,the British industrial designer, has been oommissioned by the Bristol Aero-plane Company to design the interior of the Brabazon I for B.O.A.C., and willwork in collaboration with Mr. A. E. Russell, F.R.Ae.S., the Bristol chiefdesigner. * Over to You*T HE London luncheon which markedthe handing over of Britain's internal airlines to B.E.A. last week-endcould hardly have been more genial, and this friendly atmosphere was set fromthe start by Mr. John Elliot, chairman of A.A.J.C., whose opening remarks,though brilliantly witty, paid just tribute to the pioneer concerns which built upthe inland services. Sir Harold Hartley, B.E.A.'s chair-man, said their war record, of which the^ could be proud, was due in the last resCjPito the pilots, and he quoted 7,ooo,oc|p aircraft miles carrying over 300,000passengers and 7,ooo.ooolb of mail and freight without loss of life except forone machine shot down over the Scilfcs. No Hard Feelings ^W E have often heard how Frenchpeople, living in the vicinity of enemy targets during the years of occu-pation, afterwards praised the R.A.F. for the way they pin-pointed Nazi estab-lishments and bombed them with mini- mum ill-effect on their unwilling hosts. But a recent Air Ministry News Letterreproduces r.n invitation received by the R.A.F. to attend the reopening of aDutch business which was partially de- stroyed during an R.A.F. raid onadjacent railway yards at Utrecht when
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