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1947
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MAY 2QTH, T947 495 STAGE COACHES, 4 h.p.—3,380 h.p. : This old London to Oxford stage coach delivered the mail to a B E A Vikine air craft at the inaugurate of the new service to Geneva on May 10th. The first Viking proving flight to'Switzerland was made on April 14th and 15th. AND THE Swiss Buy Vampires TTiE Swiss Government have author--*• ized the immediate purchase of 75 Vampire jet aircraft at an estimated costof three million pounds. A further seven million pounds is to be expended on wire-less apparatus and ammunition. ^ Ceylon-Singapore Record A YORK aircraft of R.A.F. TransportCommand on a scheduled passenger- freight flight from Britain to Singapore has broken the Transport Commandrecord for the run from Negombo, Cey- lon, to Changi, Singapore, by sixteenminutes. F/O. T. VV. Good was captain of the York, which took 7 hr 9J min tocomplete the 1,843 statute miles at an average speed of 257 m.p.h. It was F/O.Good's second trip to Singapore and his first flight as captain. The York belongsto No. 242 Squadron based at Oaking- ton, Cambridgeshire. F/O. Good hasbeen serving with Transport Command transferring from Bomber Command. FOR SPEEDS UP TO 2,500 m.p.h.: The North American Aviation Company supersonic wind tunnel at Los Ange*%J%^£^ £?&JZ£% section ™\™™%™^U^£^ seen STthe right. Australian StatisticsI I is revealed (hat 1946 was tlit- busiest year in the history of Australian 1 ivil aviation. Regular Australian airlines carried 640,666 passengers, (lying a total of 8,695,311 miles. The most spectacular increase on the 1945 figures w;is the amount of freight eairied, which rose from 1,579,696 ton/miles in nj.|_<j to 4,024,621 ton/miles last ycai, Amsterdam-Dublin ServiceT HE new air service linking Arn^tc: dam, Manchester and Dubliu wu.s opened on May 20th by K.L.M., in con- junction with Aer Lingus. The service is in be operated four time wi-eklv in each direction, providing a diicct route to.the Continent from Kirn and the Mid- lands. K.L.M. will be renewing an old link with Manchester, for until I<H<I it was a regular stop for I he Dutch air sir-' vice. Overseas Expansion AN agreement for participation in anew manufacturing company inIndia is announced by Portsmouth Avia- tion, Ltd. A modern factory is 1O bebuilt in India as soon as possible, and the company will produce and serviceaircraft besides manufacturing a wide range of light engineering products.Similar arrangements, state PortsmouOi Aviation, Ltd., are being negotiated inAustralia, Canada and Italy. American Supersonic Tunnel THK closed-circuit supersonic windtunnel at the Los Angeles base of North American Aviation, Inc., wasplanned primarily for conducting tests of a fundamental nature on aerofoils,liifTusers and projectiles so that experi- mental confirmation of supersonic flowtheory could be obtained. The range of
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