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1947
1947 - 1036.PDF
JUNE 20TH, 1947 THERE Luton Meeting OffT HE Luton Flying Club regret that their meeting scheduled to take place on June 28th and 29th has had to be cancelled. Instead, the club is join- ing with the United Services Flying Club in giving a display at Grausden airfield on July 5th. Facts and Figures QOMEONE has been busy working out ^ statistics for the Swedish A.B.A. company. According to reports the total distance flown by the company's aircraft since its formation twenty-three years ago is 34,577,057 kilometres—or 850 times.round the world. 806,818 passen- gers are stated to have been carried up to June 2nd. Expanding THE first two of a fleet of sevenVickers Viking aircraft ordered byAer Lingus were delivered to the com- pany recently. When the fleet is com-plete Aer Lingus are hoping to open up new routes to Brussels in conjunctionwith Sabena. It is also expected to open a teciprocal service with K.L.M. toAmsterdam via Manchester, and a ser- vice linking Dublin, Belfast and Liver-pool as well as a " feeder'' service from Shannon airport to London. The Low-down HEDGE hopping sites—special low-flying areas are to be provided inAustralia's Civil Aviation plan. Pro- vision is being made to exempt these areas _from low-flying clauses of the Air Navigation Regulations. The idea is The Portsmouth Aerocar Major, illustrated above, made its first flight on theafternoon of Wednesday, June 18th, and an early appreciation of its handling characteristics was that the machine performed well up to expectations. The Aero-car has a 42 ft. span and carries five passengers including the pilot. The engines are Cirrus Major Ills. This prototype which is of mixed construction has comeout on the heavy side, but all-metal production versions are expected to conform to design weight and to have a disposable load of about 1,500 lb. psychological, designed to take the glossoff low flying, and the Australian Civil Aviation department take the practicalattitude that there are times when pilots have to fly low and they might as wellbe trained to do it properly. Parasite Fighters THE latest idea in connection with theB36, the world's largest bomber,which is being delivered to the U.S.A.A.F., is to carry inside the hugefuselage a parasite fighter, the XP85. If attacked by enemy fighters during along-distance raid, the fighter would be lowered through a trap in the base ofthe B36, cast clear in a steep dive and after dealing with the enemy it wouldreturn to the bomber. After hitching on to a specially designed hook it wouldthen be hoisted inside the mother craft. Juvenile Destruction THE mystery of damage done to air-craft and property at Biggin HillR.A.F. airfield was cleared up recently at Bromley Juvenile Court. During the THE ROCHESTER CHARTER FLEET :In the background is the club house, clearly due for ultl description of the inauguration of the club and charter '— greater part of May an armed guard wasput on duty at the airfield to watch for saboteurs. A trap was set and threeyouths, one aged 16 and two aged 15, were caught red-handed. The boys, oneof whom it was stated, was "mad on aviation," pleaded guilty' to variousoffences, including ^250 damage to an aircraft owned by S/L. Kellett; £100damage to the power house; £20 damage to the flying control tower and ^80damage to the broadcasting room. Boeing ContractT HE Wichita division of the BoeingAircraft Company, N.Y., has re- ceived an order for ten million dollarsworth of spare parts for the servicing of Army Air Forces B2g's throughout theworld. Work on the B29 spares contract is to start immediately and deliveries willextend over a period of two years. Business "Picnic"W HEN Major M. E. A. Wright,director of the Fairey Aviation Company, was in France recently he in-vited three leading French aviation officials to lunch in England and inspectthe Fairey guided missile. When they mentioned the travel problems, MajorWright undertook to send the firm's Rapide aircraft to Paris to pick themup in the morning, fly them to Heston for lunch and return them to Paris inthe afternoon. The invitation was not, however, entirely guileless; Major Wrightblandly regretted that food restriction? caused English fare to fall short ofFrench gastronomic standards and in- vited the Frenchmen to bring their ownwines and special delicacies. The idea of a business picnic vastly tickled theFrenchmen who were due to arrive for their lunch in the director's dining roomat Fairey's factory earlier this week. Radar at Blackpool HTHE first opportunity for large num--*- bers of the public to see the radar set H2S, which shows a picture of theground over which an aircraft is flying, ill. be provided in the exhibition ate Blackpool Air Pageant (see Flight, r ay 29th), which opens at Squires Gateairport on Wednesday, July 2nd. Bomber Command used this radar apparatus inattacks on German industrial centres and
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