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390 MAY IST, 1947 HERE AND THERE Orvillf Wright in 1908, and the last reci-pient was Miss Jean Batten in 1937 for her Empire flights, including London toWellington and Darwin to London. Supersonic TunnelsT HE Lockheed Aircraft Corporationannounces a development which, if it fulfils its promise, may have greateffect on the development of supersonic flight. Wind tunnels have been foundto "choke" at Mach Numbers around 0.9 to 1.2 but Lockheed engineers havediscovered that by placing a "hump" in the tunnel and curving the airflow theturbulence can be avoided. Initial tests at Lockheeds were followed by tests atthe California Institute of Technology where the first tests in the new 12,000h.p. tunnel gave readings of 850 m.p.h. or a Mach Number of 1.1. Presumablythe "hump" works by accelerating the air over the model, while the airflowin the rest of the tunnel is subsonic. British MessierA NEW company has been formedunder the title British Messier, Ltd., to develop and market aircraft under-carriage, hydraulic, pneumatic and elec- trical equipment based on the designs ofthe well known Societe Messier, Paris. The directors of the new company, inwhich the Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., is taking an interest, are Mr. W. R.Verdon Smith, Mr. L. S. Armandias managing director), A. Cdre. F. R.Banks, and Mr. H. G. Conway (tech- nical director). The secretary is Mr.W. Masterton. The address of the new firm is Cheltenham Road East,Gloucester. Telephone Churchdown 3281. New Danish Lark OKANDINAVISKE AERO INDUSTRI^-5 of Copenhagen, whose works were destroyed by fire a short time ago, havetaken over a^Bfew factory at Kastrup airport and are now at work on a newfour-seater, the Lark, which supersedes but retains the features of the K.Z.VIIwhich was demonstrated in England last year. Quantity production is startingat once. The agents for the United King- dom, and British Commonwealth areR. K. Dundas, Ltd., Aviation Division, 4, St. James's Street, London, S.W.i,who inform us that the price of the new four-seater with the 125 h.p. Continentalengine will be in the neighbourhood oi £2,150 retail, with British C. of A. 'JL<ERKE" : The new K.Z. four-seater now going into production at Kastrup. NEW HUMP SPEED : An interior view of a Lockheed wind tunnel, showing the" hump " device for locally increasing the airspeed. Rolls-Royce BallT HE Hucknall (Flight Testing)Division of Rolls-Royce, Ltd., or- ganized a very enjoyable dance withcabaret at the Greyfriars Hall, Notting- ham, last Friday. It was the seventhannual ball, and the M.C.s were Mr. R. N. Dorey, who has recently returnedfrom a visit to America, and Mr. W. H. Offley. Among the visitors was Mr. RoyCbadwick, Avro's chief designer, who is, of course, always in close contact withMr. Dorey and his team at Hucknall. Attentive and energetic hosts includedMr. Horrocks, Dr. Still and the test pilots under their chief, Mr. R. T. Shepherd,together with their wives. News in Brief /^APTAIN J. W. G. JAMES, chief pilot^—' of British European Airways Cor- poration, was televised on April 23rd in" Picture Page." He used a model of the Viking to illustrate its special features. * * * Mr. Ian Brown, business manager ofPercival Aircraft, Ltd., left Luton in a Proctor on April nth on a sales tour ofthe Middle East for the Hunting Avia*te tion Group. After visiting Egypt Mr.Brown will make the rest of his tour via Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Turkey,('•reece arid Cyprus. * * * Mr. Richard Lonsdale-Hands has beencommissioned by Saunders-Roe to design the style of the interior of the huge long-range SR/45 flying-boat now being built for B.O.A.C. He will work in collabora-tion with Mr. Arthur Gouge and Mr. Henry Knowler. * * * * On TuesdSy, May 6th, at 7 p.m., a_ horal and orchestral concert will be <.;iven in Kingsway Hall, W.C.2, by theMusic Society of Central London Elec- tricity, Ltd., in aid of the British EmpireNurses' War Memorial Fund. Among the items in the programme is Airmen'sHymn, by Vaughan Williams, which will be given for the first time in London.
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