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654 FLIGHT DECEMBER IITH, 1947 EREAND THE •'OFF THE STRINGS": The Fairey Gyrodyne made its first free flight at Heston last Sunday, piloted by SIL B. H. Arkell. Much ground-running of the rotor had previously been done with the machine tethered. The fight tests are being con- tinued. Unusual features are the anti- torque propelling airscrew and the Cierva type of tilting rotor head. R.Ae.C. Seeks Fuel Tax ReliefP ROPOSALS for the ending of the tax of gd a gallon on aviation petrol are to be placed before the Government by the Royal Aero Club. It will be pointed out that the tax is a severe handicap on private flying and that its removal is inseparable from any plan to save the flying clubs, whose existence is at present threatened. Our Aircraft ExportsE XPORTS of aircraft from January to October, 1947, from the U.K. to the Dominions amounted to £2,094,000, according to the Board of Trade. India and Pakistan accounted for £"654,000 of this. During the same period, aircraft sold to the Argentine were worth £2,579,000 and to Turkey, £1,601,000. Total sales to foreign countries were £8,892,000, including £"i,ooo-worth each to Saudi Arabia, the U.S.A. and Uruguay. The grand total, all countries, is thus nearly ^n million. Cruising at 264 m.p.h. OWING to an error in transcriptionthe maximum weak-mixture cruising speed of the Ambassador was given last week as 204 m.p.h. This should, of course, have been 264 m.p.h. Johannesburg Airport Opened FIELD - MARSHAL MONTGOMERYofficially christened the new Jan Smuts airfield at Johannesburg onDecember 10th. When it is completed in 1952, the airfield is expected to havecost ^3,000,000. It will have one 3-mile and two 2|-mile runways designed for HALF AS MANY AGAIN : As might be expected, the engine instruments of the big six- engined Consolidated-)/'ultee XC-9? make an imposing display. This photograph, taken during the first flight, shows Mr. R. R. Rogers, chief test pilot of the company, at the controls, with the flight-engineer on the right. aircraft weighing up to 200 tons.General Smuts flew home from London for the ceremony. Death of Mr. Leonard Newatl WE regret to record the death of Mr.Leonard Newall, chief development engineer of Percival Aircraft, Ltd., at the age of 54. He started his career with Vickers after the 1914-18 war, was with Handley-Page as assistant chief de- signer, worked with Arm strong-Whit- worth on the development of the Ensign, became chief designer to Airspeed (1934), Ltd., in 1936, and joined Percivals in 1944- No Snow on BootsT HERE have been questions in Parlia-ment about foreign countries provid- ing armed guards.for their aircraft "atNortholt airfield or any other airfield without reference to the Britishauthorities in charge of such airfields." Mr. Lindgren, Parliamentary Secretaryto the Ministry of Civil Aviation, said that the last case had been the guardingof the aircraft which brought the Ameri- can Secretary of State to the ForeignMinisters' Conference by two members of the crew armed with automatic pistols.That was in October, 1947. Sir Ralph Glyn asked that the ParliamentarySecretary should point out to our friends in the U.S. that it was unneces-sary to bring people to guard their air- craft on British airfields, and Mr.Stokes asked him to explain how two men managed continually to guard anaeroplane. Colonel Hutchison was in- terested in the circumstances in which,he understood^ guard of armed Russian soldiers was mounted over Russian air-craft at Northolt, but Mr. Lindgren said that he knew of no such guard, and thatthey had no snow on their boots either. Indian Evacuation HEAVY passenger loadings of aircraftconcerned in the Indian-Pakistan refugee evacuation operations by B.O.A.C. have been referred to. Figures for a Wayfarer have come to hand; in nine days' flying, this aircraft, stripped of seats and other interior fittings, car- ried 1,105 evacuees and their baggage (44 lb per person allowance) without ex-
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