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1947
1947 - 2065.PDF
NOVEMBER 27TH, 1947 FLIGHT 601 Africa, swordnsh from Bermuda, flowersfrom the Yukon and France, dates from Iraq, mangosteens from Malaya, and(rather a homely note) Brussels sprouts from England, The object was to demon-strate the fine flavour of foods brought quickly by air. Moving a Factory by Air \ USTRALIAN National Airways isxi moving the six rolling mills of Aus- tral Bronze, Ltd., from Sydney toHobart, Tasmania, the total weight being 60 tons. Plant is dismantled ona Friday, flown over the week-end and erected on Monday, so that productionis hot seriously interrupted. "Spit" Trainers for Netherlands N order for three Supermarine Spit-fire, dual-control trainers has been placed by the Royal Netherlands AirForce. They will be conversions of Mark IX ftgbters. The prototype, it may berecalled, was adapted from a Mark VIII airframe. Belgium-N.Z Light Plane Flight AFTER a 20-day flight from Belgium,a new Zealander, Mr. H. B. Newton, arrived at Brisbane on October 7th. HeHew an Ercoupe with a range of about 500 miles and fitted with two compassesand radio. On one of the later stages he homed onto the Darwin radio beaconfrom 400 miles out to sea. The route taken was through France, North Africa,Palestine, Irak, Iran, India, Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies, and Mr.Newton, who averaged 600 miles a day, reported that there was '' nothing to aflight of this kind." Airline Bookings by Pigeon PEOPLE on Pelsart Island, 38 milesoff the coast of Western Australia, may now book an air passage to themainland by pigeon post. The Post- master-General lias been asked to provideradio communication, but in the, mean- time, the MacRobertson-Miller AviationCompany is using this unusual method of booking passages. •'".- .-.-../:, '. ; TWO HALVES : Consolidated Vultee's " flying auto " with detachable wing, made a first flight on November 15th and remained aloft about two hours, but three days later force- landed and was wrecked. Aircraft and motor car components have separate engines. News in Brief The air speed record of 496.88 m.p.h.st-t up by G/C. Cunningham in a D.H. Vampire over a 100 km. course at Lym-pne on August 31st has been recog- nized by the Federation AeronautiqueInternationale as a Class C international record. • * * ' There has been controversy about theuse of Streptomycin, a new drug power- ful in its effects on certain complaintsbut liable to be dangerous. T^he Cana- dian Air Line Pilots' Association haspointed out that one effect of this drug may be permanent impairment of thebalance mechanism in the ioner ear. • • •Capt. G. F. Moss, a B.O.A.C. pilot, is to be a flight supervisor. He has flownnearly 1,000,000 miles. • * *K.L.M. flew films of the Royal Wed- ding to Amsterdam, where they were JET HELICOPTER • The McDonnell helicopter « another novef mod.™ . test flight recently. The rotor blad s are spun by ram jet umtj. The Corporation has worked together with the US.A.A.F. m ,ts des,gn transferred to an aircraft bcurid for Sin-gappre. They were to be ilowu on by QANTAS to Sidney and shown in thecity's cinemas on Monday last. * * # On December 1st a QANTAS Constella-tion will start a weekly consignment of food parcels for Britain. Each Constel-lation will carry 2,000 lb of food. * * * Tiger Moths are being used to combata plague of grasshoppers threatening late crops and pastures in Australia * * * The Ministry of Supply has stated thatdaring the six months ended on Septem- ber 30th, the labour force in the prin-cipal aircraft factories was estimated to have decreased by 4.2 per cent* * • In a reply to a question in Parliament,the Minister of Supply stated that 493 R.A.F. officers and 3,558 other rankswere employed by his Ministry on work for the Air Ministry. * '• * • With the Uiking over of new range areas for the South Australian rocket testing ground at Woomera, a total of 2,000 sq. miles is now provided.1* * * * <<?• Air cameras for survey woik made bya London firm, the Williamson Manufac- turing Co , Ltd.. are now being used byK.L.M. Demonstration equipment is at present in Sweden and technicians are shortly visiting Turkey. * * * "The American Society of Photo-grammetry is to hold its i-)th annual meeting on January 21-22. atWashington. Air survey firms, equip- ment makers and government agenciesare to co-operate in an exhibition * » *.Mr. D. W. Plaistowe has become commercial director of the GlacierMetal Co., Ltd. * # * The pleasures of flying without exer-tion are to be sampled by two swans and a pair of Magellan geese, a present fromthe British Government to the Dutch. They are travelling by K.L.M •<
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