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1947
1947 - 0892.PDF
518 PLIGHT JUNE 5TH, 1947 HE THE " Thy Sentinel Am I "s A Stin-son L5 acts as lookout for a trainload of U.S. Army psrsonnelmoving across China. Broken bridges and displaced rails can beeasily spotted. Terminal TrafficO VER 9,000 passengers a week onsome 600 services are handled by the B.O.A.C. at Airways Terminal inLondon. Apart from its own services, B.O.A.C. deals with the traffic handlingof B,E.A., B.S.A.A., and all the foreign airlines excepting K.L.M. A Bramson Prang SHORTLY after taking off fromKastrup airport, after a visit to his native Denmark, Mr. M. L, Bramsou h«»dto make a hurried forced landing in his civil Spitfire. The engine stopped and.as it was not possible to regain Kastrup, the Bramsonian Spit was belly-landed ina ploughed field on the island of Amager. A few coolers and things were rubbedoff and the airscrew damaged, but Mr. Bramson was unhurt in body, althoughwe believe he relieved his feelings in forceful Danish and English. Training School A NEW company, Airways Training,Ltd., has been formed by B.O.A.C.and B.E.A., to deal with the training of aircrews and ground crews. Pilots,navigators, radio officers, flight en- gineers, ground engineers, radiomechanics and flight controllers are to be trained at its school at Aldermaston,near Reading. The facilities of the school will also be available to all civilair transport operators. Problem Freight men, including carpenters and-•—' engineers, took twelve hours to load pieces of freight on board a Scot-tish Airlines' Liberator recently. The freight consisted of machinery weighing5 tons 14 cwt, valued at ^1,500 and destined for Basra, where the motortanker British Sincerity was laid up in harbour awaiting spares. With a knowledge of the weight anddimensions of the seven large pieces and several smaller ones comprising the load,a complete scheme had to be drawn up so that the placing of the parts on theaircraft did not affect the centre of gravity. A MOVING STORY : North Sea Air Transport^Eta^with theirtewly acquired MilesAerovan, recently fetched an 1,800 lb load ofy Cyf il Turner's (M Irving Airchutes) furniture from France to England. Comparectwith landarjdjwSter transport the in-surance premium was one third and delivery waVia-^tfriTours instead of three months. S.B.A.C. DisplayT HE Society of British Aircraft Con-structors has chosen Radlett again this year for its Display, which is to beheld from September 9th to 12th. It will be recollected that last year the generalpublic was not admitted, as it was held that the approaches to Radlett were in-capable of coping with large crowds. French Air Press Entertained HE Air Council gave a cocktail partyin the Air Council Chamber, King Charles Street, London, S.W.i, lastweek, when the following members (M the French Aeronautical Press were re-ceived : Gen. Chaffin and MM. J. Romain-Frugier, Delage, Blanc, Fevrier,Charriou, Laurent, Tournaux. * Ice SurveyA N air expedition will leave Russianext month to study the ice forma- tion in Arctic waters. The expeditionwill pass on their information to the Soviet Union, which is planning to sailthe first big passenger and transport ships in Arctic waters. AppointmentsF IRST Indian to fill the post ofAssistant Air Liaison Officer to the India Office in Whitehall is S/L. B. K.Sen Gupta of the R.I.A.F. S/L. Gupta is twenty-seven years old and saw serviceon the Burma front. Illness j-H IS many friends in the aircraftindustry will be sorry to learn that Mr. Eric Holgate, technical director ofTitanine since 1923, is very g^31 If any of his old friends wouldwrite to him at 19, Sherwood Road, Hendou, N.W.4, Mr. Holgate wouldvery much appreciate hearing from them. Aluminium MergerI T was announced last week that anagreement has been reached between Tube Investments Limited and HawkerSiddeley Aircraft. Ltd., to merge their aluminium interests. Over £5,000,000will be involved in setting up a new holding company, jointly administeredand in which each group will have an equal share. The companies involved inthe arrangements are the Hawker Sidde- ley Subsidiary, High Duty Alloys, Ltd.,and the Aluminium Division of Tube In- vestments, comprising the lieht alloy
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