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1947 - 1698.PDF
F LI G H T OCTOBER HERE AND THERE first part begins at 10 a.m. on October 15th, and ends at 12.45; the second, at - 2.30, ending at 5 p.m.; and the third, at 10 a.m. on October 16th, ending at 5 pm Helicopter, Sir ? /"MTIZENS ot Washington, D.C., may^-^ soon be able to hire helicopter taxis it the operation of an experimental ser-vice authorized by the Civil Aeronautics Board is successful. The service is to berun by the Yellow Taxicab Company and will operate between Washington Airportand the centre of the city. It is the first time that a helicopter passenger ser-vice has been authorized in the United States. S.B.A.C. ScholarshipsT HE following have been awardedscholarships by the Selection Com- mittee of the Society of British AircraftConstructors and the Royal Aeronautical Society: —D. Fletcher—S.B. A. C. Educational Grant, apprenticeship at Saunders-Roe,Isle of Wight. D. I. Powell—S.B.A.C. EducationalGrant, apprenticeship at the Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd., Hayes.R. H. Hayward—John de Havilland Scholarship, apprenticeship at the deHavilland Aircraft Co., Ltd., Hatfield. Mapping Australia DURING the past lour months theRoyal Australian Air Force using Mosquito aircraft has been co-operatingwith the Commonwealth Survey Com- mittee and the National Mapping Councilto photograph some 45,000 square miles of territory in various parts of the Com-monwealth. Employing vertical photo- graphy, much of the work has beencarried out at a height of 25,000 feet giving a stale of 1 : 50,000. but in caseswhere more detail was required the machines flew at 15,000 feet to produce ascale of 1:30,000. South Australia, West Australia and Queensland were allincluded in the operations. Mercury "Stands In" JT is interesting to note that one of theoldest types of aircraft engines in service today, the Bristol Mercury air-cooled radial, is powering _yet another new British aircraft—the prototype Boul-ton Paul P. 108. The Mercury has been installed in the P. 108, prototype for fly-ing trials only, and production models of the aircraft, which is to be known asthe "Balliol," will be powered by gas turbine engines when they become avail-able The Mercury was first designed as a special engine for the Short Crusader,one of the contenders for the 1937 Schneider-Trophy race. In 1935 it be-came the first British aircraft engine to be approved for controllable-pitch air-screw operation, and in the following year quantity production of the Mercuryunder the Shadow Scheme began. F.A.I. AwardsA T the Royal Aero Club, Londonderry House, Park Lane, last week. Lord Brabazon of Tara, President of the Royal Aero Club and of the International Aero- nautical Federation (F.A.I.), presented de la Vaulx medals, which are awarded SPECIALIST: The D.H.2. Beaver desrgned by the de Havilland Aircraft Company of Canada to meet the special requirements of Canadian • Bush Pilots is powered by a Pratt omfe Whitney 450 Wasp Junior Engine, has a maximum speed of 160 m.p.h. and a range of (30 miles. by the F.A.I, to winners of world records,to Group Captain H. J. Wilson, who in 1945 established a world speed recordof 606 m.p.h., ami to Group Captain Donaldson, who last year increased therecord to 616 m.p.h. The medals are a memorial to Count de la Vaulx, a pioneerit French aviation and one of the three founders of the F.A.I., who was killedin a flying accident in America in 1930. MEMORIAL PLAQUE : The de la Vaulx medal awarded to G/C. Donaldson by the F.A.I, at the Royal Aero Club last week. GjC. H. J. Wilson received a similar award. (See paragraph above.) Survey Finishes A RAPIDE Aircraft belonging toHunting Aerosurveys, Limited, has completed a survey of Arabia and Persiainvolving a flight of over 55,000 miles. The survey, details of which weregiven in Flight of June 5th, was carried out to investigate the possibility of aproposed reservoir to hold the flood waters of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates.Information in the form ol maps and mosaics is now being prepared at thenew laboratory of Hunting Aero- surveys, Limited, at 6, Elstree Way,Hertfordshire. The laboratories were recently visitedby members of the Commonwealth Sur- vey Conference. News in Brief T^OLLOWING his acquisition of the •*• Aston Martin Car Company early this year, Mr. David Brown, head of the David Brown group of engineering com- panies and of David Brown Tractors, Ltd., has bought the goodwill, designs and work-in-progress of Lagonda, Ltd. * * • Twenty-three British pedigree pigs—4boars and 19 sows:—sold to. Austria on recently granted credits, were flown fromEngland last week to Schwechat Airport near Vienna. * . * ,. *: The Directors of Viekers, Ltd. havegiven notice that an interim-dividend of 4 per cent (actual), less income-tax onthe ordinary stock of the Company in respect of the yt-ar 1947 will be paid onOctober 28th, 1947. * * * Lord Nathan, Minister of Civil Avia-tion, who has been making a tour nf the Far East, is expected to arrive inLondon on October 5th. On his home- ward journey by air he will spend a fewdays at Bangkok, Singapore, Ceylon and Karachi. * * * Memorial services to Sir Harold Ken-ward, Dunlop Director of Distribution, who died on. the Queen Elizabeth, wereheld last> week at Holy Trinity Church, Brompton, London, and St. Philip Cathe-dral Church, Birmingham. Many promi- nent personalities of the motoring indus-try were among those who attended. * * • A new airways terminal has beenopened in The Hague by K.L.M. and a new organization, the K.L.M. Motor JCoach Company, owned jointlv by' K.L.M. and the Netherlands Railways,has been formed to operate the fleet _ of 16 Crossley Coaches which will providethe ground transport between Rotterdam, Amsterdam, The Hague and Schipol. * * *M R. R. F. CARSE, who has been Ser- vice Manager of Gloster Aircraft Co. since 1942, has now been appointed Sales Manager. Mr. F. J. Turton, vvlw has been Assistant Service Manager since 1942, will become Service Manager Mr. Carse will, however, still be assoa'atfd with the Service Department in :\n ad- visory capacity and on matters connected with its export side.
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