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1947
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59O FLIGHT JUNE 26TH, 1947 At present a primary need seems to be aids to approach and landing in bad weather, take-off never having been so difficult a problem. In this issue of Flight is described one example of newly developed equipment which makes fully automatic approaches (.0 land a commercial possibility. Recently it has seemed that of even greater importance is the need for control and accurate guidance over obstructions in normal flight. Whatever the possible causes, steps must be taken at once to make it virtually impossible for an airliner to fly into a mountain or other obstruction. The very serious effect of repeated collision accidents on the general public and upon their attitude towards flying must not be underestimated. Is it necessary to order that if its track after take-off lies over a mountain range, an aircraft must invariably climb away on another safe heading until adequate safety height is reached, and must pilots be briefed to overfly an airport and let down on the far side if a direct descent may mean cutting it a bit fine on the approach over some obstruction ? Economy of operation cannot be allowed to influence safety considerations in these matters. If it results in an appreciable reduction in accident risk, radar warning devices which are now available should also be fitted, even if they are costly to buy and maintain and cause a slight reduction in payload. It may well be that if the world's operators do not, for financial or other reasons, take action of the sort suggested, insurance policies for non-equipped, non- PROBING AND PROVING CONTENTS Outlook ------- Derby's Day - - - - - - National Gliding Contests - - - - The World Speed Record - - - Philadelphia's Show Here and There ------ Gold Plate Constellation - Fedden Power Units - Towards Happier Landings - - . - Civil Aviation News - - - - - Canadair Four Correspondence - • - - - Service Aviation ------ 589 591 594 596 597 598 600 0 - 603 606 609 611 613 complying companies may be affected to such an extern as to make them think again. Many of the important advances in safety of marine navigation were the outcome of action by Lloyds, and some people believe that the aviation insurance interests of this historic, world-influencing association are follow- ing a course similar and equally important to that taken by those of shipping nearly two centuries ago. Light- houses, buoys and lightships are now taken for granted, and one wonders perhaps if Lloyds should not again accept the responsibility for introducing measures or giving at least the lead towards increasing the safety of another form of transport and travel for all nations. Before going to the Derby Air Rally, the Minister for Civil Aviation toured the Rolls-Royce works fit Nightingale Road andat Sinfin. (Top left) : Lord Nathan takes a Derwent V up to 14,700 r.p.m. (Top right): Examining\a test record with E. W. Hives on his right, and Sir Ben Lockspeiser. (Lower left) : Alongside a Derwent on a hirii po-rrrT r11n.11 fliflTBlii ii'irMr. A. G. Elliott, Dr. S. G. Hooker and Sir Ben Lockspeiser, with the aid of a sectioned Derwent V, give Lord Nathan some instruction on the whys and wherefores of jet propulsion.
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