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1947
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54 JULY 17TH, T947 THE ELEVEN THOUSAND POUNDER: Loading the 17 ft ship's propeller- shaft on to the Lancashire Aircraft Corporation's Halton at Heathrow on July 5th. The flight from London to Calcutta took 1\ days and the s.s. Photinia was ready for sea by July 15th (see "Urgent Charter" " Flight" July 10th.) Turbine Talk '"TOMORROW, Friday, the Gas TurbineJ- Collaboration Committee is meeting at Burnley, and on this occasion JosephLucas, Limited, will be the hosts. Our readers will know that the Lucas labora-tories have been responsible for much of the development work in connection withthe fuel and combustion systems for gas turbines and Lucas activities havealready formed the subject of an article in this journal. More B-29 Visits TV/TAJ OR - GENERAL CLEMENTS1V1 \McMULLEN, Deputy Chief of the U.S. Strategic Air Command, has statedthat the frequency of training missions to overseas theatres by Boeing B-20 Super-forfrefees is to be stepped up to the point 9s would be on hand in Europe SHOCK WAVES AND WIRELESS WAVES: To reduce drag on the latest Lockheed Shooting Stars the wireless masts are e liminated and the aerials are built into the cockpit canopy. and the Orient "most of the time."Flights will be undertaken a little oftener than once a month during the summermonths, but bad weather might restrict flying during the winter. 10,000 h.p. Aircraft Engine REPORTS from America, according toB.U.P., state that the Curtiss-Wright Co. are testing a 10,000 h.p. turbine-typeaircraft engine, claimed to be the largest of its type known to be under practicaldevelopment. The report adds that the engine will be ready for trial flights some-time this summer, and plans have al- ready been made to install it for flight-testing as a fifth engine in the nose of a Flying Fortress. Ground tests are .beingcarried out in the company's laboratory at Wood'Kidge, New Jersey, where morethan half the Jgiboratory's work is being devoted to the development of turbineengines. The company's laboratory cost nearly' £1,000,000 to build and equip. R.34 Reunion THIS month marks the twenty-eighthanniversary of the first trans- Atlantic crossing accomplished by an air-ship. On July 6th, 1919, the British airship, R.34, commanded by G. H.Scott, A.F.C., landed at Mineola, Long Island, after a voyage which had lasted108 hours and 12 minutes! Now Mr. R. F. Durrant, of 73,Alexandre Road, St. John's Wood, who was chief radio officer of the airship, isplanning to hold a reunion service at St. Ethelburga's Church in the City, as soonas he can contact surviving members of the R.34's original crew. So far, Mr.Durrant tells us, he has found only five members of the crew, but he is hoping toget in touch with about fifteen. Aircraft to Trailers G in the footsteps of themany American light aircraft firms which have cut down production re-cently, the Waco Aircraft Company has announced that development and toolingwork on the Aristocraft has been discon- tinued because over-all financial require-ments would be uncertain of attainment in the face of prevailing conditions with-in the American aircraft industry. All distributor and dealer advance paymentson the aircraft are being refunded, and the company is now producing, undercontract, a utility trailer of welded metal construction. The company will continueto devote its facilities to '"variety" manufacturing until a suitable produc-tion aircraft design can be. offered. Business or Pleasure ?S CRUTINY of two recent months' pas-senger lists on B.O.A.C.'s Empire and Atlantic routes reveals that, of thetravellers who gave their occupations. 45 per cent were " business," 18 per centwere in the Services, and 10 per cent were Government officials. The remaining 27 per cent were inmiscellaneous professional categories, such as lawyers, doctors, school-teachers,clergymen and journalists. Scholarship Award /^EORGE GATES, a 21-year-old em-^J ployee of Miles Aircraft, Ltd., has been awarded the Walter Copley Scholar-ship for this year, which will enable him to attend the University of London wherehe can take the B.Sc. Engineering degree. Walter Copley, in whose memorythe scholarship was created, was killed while testing a Spitfire in 1945. At thetime of his death he was one of Miles' leading executives. Detachable Undercarriage A T the Hamilton plant of the Cub Air- •**• craft Corporation seaplanes take off from concrete runways! The method employed in this operation is rather unusual. The seaplane is placed on an ingenious three-wheeled dolly which fits snugly beneath the floats and forms a temporary undercarriage. A normal take-off is carried out and as soon as the aircraft attains flying speed it is lifted off the dolly which remains on the runway. Weather Maps for Newspapers'?I N its June editorial, Weather, the monthly magazine published by the authority of the Royal Meteorological Society, advocates the printing of a daily synoptic chart in our national newspapers. Weather, quite rightly.
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