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1947
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FLIGHT APRIL 17TH, 1947 SERVICE AVIATIO Royal Air Force and Naval Aviation News and Announcements HELICOPTER HAVEN : A pontoon- equipped Sikorsky helicopter is launched at Portland by the Royal Naval Helicopter Training Detach- ment. A later Sikorsky type is to be built by Westland Aircraft Ltd. "Whirlpool" is suggested as a suit- able name for a navalized version. Important Presentations •\7"ESTERDAY (April 16th) two pre- JL sentations of benefit to serving and former members of the R.A.F. wore made at the Hall of the Auctioneer?' ami Estate Agents' Institute in Lincolns' Inn Fields. Both gifts have been made from the R.A.F. Pilots' and Crews' Fund of the Institute. On behalf of the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent accepted a cheque for ,£50,000, completing a gift of £200,000, and the Secretary of State for Air, the Right Honourable Philip Noel-Baker, M.P., was presented with the title deeds of Headley Court, Leatherhead, for use as a rehabilitation centre for flying per- sonnel of the Royal Air Force, and a donation of £133,000 for the equipment of the centre. Amounts contributed in various parts of the country are: London .. .. .. .. £"27,137 Beds, Herts and Hunts . . £.4,277 Belfast and Northern Ireland . v /i 1,510 Berks, Bucks and Oxon . . iijjnn Birmingham and West Midlands (Warwick, Worcester and the counties of Hereford; Stafford, except the town of Burton - on - Trent; Salop, except that part lying north- west of the Cambrian Railway (G.W.R.) £63.219 Bristol and District . . .. £10.216 East Anglia £"15.987 Hants, Wilts and Dorset .. £30,285 Kent £3i.99o Lincolnshire . . . . . • £24,375 Liverpool and Distict and North Wales • £"13.957 Manchester and District .. £10,177 Midland Counties (Covers the Counties of Leicester, Notting- ham, Derby, Rutland and Northampton, and Burton-on- Trent) . . . . . . . . £"36.032 Northumberland and Durham .. £7,117 WITH RIME AND REASON : In view oi the recent trials with the Viking and R.A.F. and R.C.A.F. experiments in Canada, this view of a 20-ton tractor. mounting a 2,200 h.p. engine for icing research, is of special interest, It is stationed on the 6,288ft Mount Washington, New Hampshire. South Wales and Monmouthshire £2,296 Surrey •.. -£8,458 Sussex . . . . . . . . £11,737 Western Counties . . . . £"17,823 Yorkshire .. .. .. £"11,540 Spitfires for S.A.A.F. SPITFIRE IX fighters—136 of them—are being transferred from the R.A.F. to the South African Air Force. It is planned to ferry ten a month between now and May, fifteen a month irom June to October and sixteen in November, subject to delivery of aircraft and availability of pilots. Pilots of No. 46 Group of Transport Command will ferry the aircraft from Pershore. Mobile Classrooms DESIGNED to allow TechnicalTraining Command to give instruc- tion on new and special equipment, instead of sending maintenance personnel and aircrews on special courses, the latest type of mobile classroom is a large articu- lated trailer, 26ft long, and fitted out as a schoolroom or instructional workshop. Some classrooms have a 16 mm cinemato- graph projector which can show talking instructional films deajing with the type of equipment with which the classroom is concerned." Others have a synchro- phone which gives instruction by meanj of an electric gramophone synchroniz< with an illuminated screen. ! The crew of each classroom is one instructor and one driver. The instructor will, in most cases, have been trained by the manufacturer of the equipment it is his duty to explain. Each trailer has an electric lead 100 yards long so that electric power and light may be drawn irom nearby sources. The equipment varies from motor tyres to jet propulsion engines; from adhesives to flying instruments. There are now 43 mobile classrooms available for use in any part of the world. Ceylon Inspection AIK Marshal Sir Geurge Piiic, AirC.-in-C. South-East Asia, arrived at Negombo, Ceylon, recently for a i-eveu-day inspection of the island's air- fields. On the same day Air Marshal Sir
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