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1947
1947 - 0569.PDF
APRIL 17TH, 1947 FLIGHT HERE AND THERE The Balloons Go Up 'T'HE first post-war international bal--*- loon race is due to start from The Hague on Liberation Day, May 15th.It is expected that there will be entrants from Holland, Belgium, Britain, France,Italy and Switzerland. Lord Ventry, the British airship en-thusiast, will accompany the Dutchman M. Boesman. Playing Their Part Alan Turner Opera company, asection of Ernest Turner Group factory welfare, has been producingoperetta under the direction of Mr. Alan Turner since 1926 and British premieresof several Johann Strauss musicals have made this amateur company famous. This year's show was "The Queen'sLace Handkerchief'' produced at the Grand Theatre, Derby.Production was on a very lavish scale, employing over £3,000 worth ofcostumes. The cast numbered over 150 The entire production, lyrics and librettowere written by Mr. Alan Turner. Over ^2,500 has been raised byA.T.O.C. for charity since 1926. Veteran Airscrew WHAT must be something of a recordwas established by a de Havilland airscrew recently returned to the makersby B.O.A.C. It was originally fikted to a Short C-class flying-boathad been in continupus service these boats until the Lboats Uhemselveswere broken up. Th^njjw^pft APPROPRIATELY NAMED: Mr. Horace T. Pentecost in the seat of his " Hoppicopter. " It seems just possible that the machine may jump into the air, aided by the ground cushion, but we have never seen pic- tures of it doing so. WILD OATS? Forthe first time in England corn wassown from the air at BlatherwyckeNorthants. Ten acres of a 50-acre fieldwere seeded in eight "bombing " runs bya Miles Aerovan, piloted by S/L Nelson.The enterprising far- mer was Mr. J. W.Tomkins and the eS- periment was triedbecause of the late season and the soddenstate of the ground. Presumably the seedwas harrowed in afterwards. Doubt-less there is still much research work to doon aerial seed- hoppers and theeffect of slipstream on seed distribution. were the normalwearing parts such as blade bushings.Blades and barrels were the originals. For those who like, statistics it roav be Dinted out thatthisIrew is estimated to have flown 1.736,000 miles,to have made 1,488,000,000 revs in the course of itsworking life. The distance travelled through the air by each blade tip wassomething like 11 million miles! 53? Flood FlightS NOW and floods which paralysed—orat any rate hobbled—all forms of ground transport, often gave aircraft achance to demonstrate one of their many advantages. People who had neverbefore had both feet off the ground used Britain's internal air services to get fromone end of the country to the other, and were no doubt duly impressed by the comiort of air travel as well as its speed.But even British European Airways itself was faced with "flood trouble"when it was found that the Vickers fac- tory at Weybridge was cut off from ap-proach by road and some Viking spare* were needed by the Supplies Branch atWhite Waltham. This was scarcely a problem to B.E.A.,however, because j:here was enough firm ground at "high tide" for one of theirAusters from the Communications Flight to laud outside Vickers' works, collectthe wanted bits and pieces, and hop back to White Waltham with them. News in W E have been asked by Dorland Ad-vertising, Ltd., to point out that in their advertisement for Coopers Me-chanical Joints in cur issue of March 27th it was erroneously stated that CoopersNo. 14 gaskets were used in the Theseus airscrew turbine engine. The productactually supplied by Coopers was their Labyrinth discs and filters. • • •Electro-Hydraulics, Ltd., arc among the firms which have taken stands atthe Centenary Industrial Exhibition in Parr Hall, Warrington. The exhibitionwill be open daily from 2.30 to 8 p.m. (except Sundays) from April 19th to 26th. * # * Captain Geoffrey Wickner's Halifax, Waltzing Matilda, which he flew from England with passengers, has been pur- chased by Air Carriers, who are opening a special air freight service between Aus- tralia and China, through Java. Brief Plesseys have appointed Mr. H. Fox-Wright as sales manager of dun Government and Aircraft Division.Prior to joining the Plessey company ten years ago, Mr. Fox-Wright was withthe de Havilland Aircraft Co. and was also a student at their aeronautical tech-nical school. A. J. Philpot, C.B.F.., M.A., 13.Sc,F.Inst.P., director of the. British Scien- tific Instrument Research Association,which is the oldest research association in the country, has been appointeddirector of the Scientific. Instrument Manufacturers' Association of GreatBritain, Ltd., as from April 1, i<>.)/. at the same time continuing in his ollice asdirector of the British Scientific Instru- ment Research Association. Mr. Philpot will function from theoffices of the B.S.I.R.A., at 26, Russell Square. London, W'.C.i.
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