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Aviation History
1947
1947 - 1106.PDF
FLIGHT JULY IOTH, 1947 the A-T.C. is concerned. Deeds and not promises must be the slogan. The Navy and GlidingT HE time was when the Navy, or perhaps it would be more strictly correct to say the Admiralty, was not very interested in the air. During recent years, however, there has been a very marked change in that spirit and naval aviation has forged ahead by leaps and bounds. This applies not only to material equipment but to the whole outlook on flying and what it means to the Royal Navy. Another welcome sign of the interest of sailors in flying was provided by the National Gliding Contests held at the R.N.A.S. station at Bramcote (H.M.S. Gamecock) to which we referred last week and the week before. The Royal Naval Air Command Soaring Asso- ciation was among the entrants, a very sporting effort when one considers that this association suffers from the handicap that gliding has not yet been approved by the Admiralty as one of the "recognized" forms of sport. If a naval officer is injured while playing rugger, for example, his hospital treatment is free and, if he should be permanently incapacitated to such an extent as to be unfit for further service in the Navy, he is entitled to his pension. If, however, he should prefer to spend his spare time in gliding and soaring, and meets with an accident, that is his own affair ; if he is disabled, he loses his pension. In the Royal Air Force, gliding is included among the sports which entitle a man to a pension in case of mishap; the Navy should obviously follow that example. Fortunately Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Trou- bridge, with that quick grasp which made him such a very effective Fifth Sea Lord during his term of office at CONTENTS Outlook - Braving it at Blackpool - Brussels Once Again Beating About, the Bush Here and There - Air Whaling Sponsored Research The Airspeed Ambassador - American Newsletter - Civil Aviation News Correspondence - - - Service Aviation - 25 27 31 35 37 o 39 40 41 43 46 47 the Admiralty, is believed to have made up his mind that gliding is a form of sport which should K- encouraged; one may, therefore, hope that t'^i anomalous position will soon be changed. If anyom- can persuade My Lordships of the Admiralty certainly he can. B.O.A.C. Converts?T HIS journal's flying-boat partisanship is well known, but in the past B.O.A.C. has argued un- economical operation against this type of air- craft. It thus comes as something of a surprise to real in a recent Corporation Air News issue the following: — "The flying-boat's new lease of life will provide thi opportunity to prove that under normal peacetime con- ditions, with new and larger aircraft and more modern equipment and docking facilities, flying-boats can be operated as economically as landplanes. These, of course, they cannot displace, but could easily supple- ment to the greater glory of British Aviation." Some of the Speedbirds at Airways Terminal must have been reading Flight! RADIAL TUDOR : On April 17th an Avro Tudor VIII (Tudor II with Bristol Hercules 120 power plants) here seen after take-off made a first flight of 90 minutes durot/on. On subsequent flights the aircraft has performed satisfactorily at medium altitudes An Avro automatic recording unit is installed in the forward baggage hold, and the fuselage is fully furnished to 8 0 AC spec'ifration
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