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1947
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FLIGHT JULY 3RD, 1947 helicopter can be flown has already been ably demon- strated at various displays given by the Services, and more recently by the Westland pilots at Barnes, a mere arrival in a roped-off enclosure in St. James's Park does not appear to add very much to the existing knowledge. We want to see Mr. Lindgren make a regular practice of flying from his back garden and landing on his office roof, and if at any time he should decide to pay us a call and land on the roof of Flight's offices to give us his impressions first-hand we shall be glad to record them in our pages. Present regulations could possibly be stretched a point for the benefit of the Parliamentary Secretary. " Chosen Instruments " AVIATION interests on this side of the Atlantic havebeen watching with close attention the endeavoursbeing made by certain advocates to get American international air lines merged into a single unified con- cern. Chief protagonist is Mr. Juan Trippe, Pan Ameri- can's energetic president, whose basic argument, if we understand him correctly, is that under the present system America's international air lines are competing against each other instead of presenting a united front against foreign organizations. Well-informed American circles do not appear to re- gard Mr. Trippe's chances of success as being very good, but this fact did not prevent the chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, Mr. James M. Landis, from bringing up in opposition to the unification scheme all the big guns that seemed likely to aid his case. Mr. Landis, as we recorded last week, was testifying before the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Aviation Sub- committee, and by way of defeating Mr. Trippe's argu- ments he drew the blackest possible picture of the state of British commercial aviation and its future prospects. America's aviation policy is, of course, entirely her own affair, and it would be an impertinence on our part CONTENTS Outlook - Naval Occasion - Westland Wyvern Round the Miles Works - jHere and There National Gliding Contests - - - - Wasp Major Civil Aircraft Types - Bermuda Non-stop ------ Industrial Gas Turbine - Civil Aviation News • Portsmouth Aerocar Auster Rally Correspondence ------ Service Aviation ------ 1 3 5 6 8 10 a 12 13 Ifr 17 20 21 22 23 to presume to offer advice. But we may proper^ question the ethics of this case. Mr. Landis was quoting from sources which must have been confidential reports by State Department employees, a procedure which would certainly not be sanctioned in this country, and which we do not believe to be common practice on the other side of the Atlantic. Mr. Landis gave anti-British sections in America a fine opportunity, and it is scarcely surprising that Aviation News of New York should have made the most of it. That journal, in its issue of June 16th, devotes nearly two pages to telling its readers that Britain and Russia are in no possible state to be a threat to American supremacy in world commercial aviation. Reasons are quoted for the delays which have occurred in connection with our newer aircraft types, and troubles (some real, some not so real) are listed with ill-concealed glee. Just what good this sort of sniping can possibly do anyone is difficult to see. The two English-speaking nations are closely bound together by common aims and interests. Those interests are not furthered by such sneering appraisals, 'mk UP FROM SOMERSET : The Rolls-Royce Eagle-sngined Westland Wyvern which made its first public aepearance at theCommand Air Display at Lee-on-Solent. Further photographs and a description appear on page 5.
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