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1947
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DECEMBER IITH, 1947 FLIGHT 655 ceeding its all-up weight of 37,000 Ib.The machine was operated for B.O.A.C. by British Aviation Services. Sheep by AirA N unusually large consignment of stud sheep, 254 of them, was freighted in seven batches by Australian National Airways from Tasmania to Melbourne for a Show. Transverse par- titions were fitted, in the aircraft, to form pens, and the sheep were loaded direct from lorries by a short gangway. Dorval AssociationA N association has been formed ta>link together those who flew from the wartime Atlantic Ferry airport ofDorval, Montreal. It is to be called the Dorval Association, and the organizingsecretary is Mr. Robert Russell, Douglas Lodge, Bothwell, Glasgota JThe objectof the Association is to re-unite all those of every nationality who worked togetherat Dorval and became internationally minded. It is planned to issue a bulletindealing with the latest developments in Atlantic aviation and giving news ofmembers. Aries II for South Africa \ FTER a research and liaison tour inii Australia and New Zealand, the R.A.F. Lincoln bomber Aries II has leftAustralia for South Africa. It is ex- pected that the interesting compass de-viations studied on the outward flight will be encountered again on tinsjourney, and there has been talk of a new type of direct-reading compass beingevolved. Aries II, which is commanded by G/C. Veille, arrived at Darwin, inthe early stages of the flight, within one minute of E.T.A. Instruments on ShowA N exhibition is being held at Bretten- ham House, Lancaster Place. Strand, YV.C.2, from January 2oth-3ist to introduce the Cintel range of industrial electronic instruments made by Cinema- Television, Ltd., Worsley Bridge Road, Lower Sydenham, London. S.E.26. They will include a metal-detector, a 30,000 per minute counter and oscilloscopes. B RAM JET HELICOPTER. In this picture the size and mounting of the ram jet units used on the McDonnell experimental helicopter con be seen. Weighing 310 Ib, the machine has a disposable load of 300 Ib and a forward speed of £0 m.p.h. Short of Duration TT7HEN Dr. John Homewood, anVV Australian flying dentist who serves towns with no dentists of theirown, arrived at Darwin on November 22nd, he was warned off by the ControlOfficer to permit a Lancastrian to land. He flew cff and did not return, and ashe was believed to have only one hour's petrol a search was made, which revealedhim in a swamp 12 miles away. He and his passenger were uninjured, but theproblem of the extraction of his Tiger Moth remained. •. ,.: . . •-• ' . AIRCRAFT FACTORY BECOMES TUBE RAILWAY The Plessey Co. s wartime facto y n part of London Transport's Central Line tube railway extens.on has now .everted W ts original purpose and the first trains run tomorrow. The p.cture shows the light-gauge Ime y y that was used in the factory. News in Brief One feature of the extensions and im-provements to Sola airport recently ap- proved by the Norwegian Parliament, tolulfil the requirements of S.A.S. and D.N.L.,"is a special hangar for BoeingStratocruisers. * * • In the December issue of our asso-ciated journal Aircraft Production is a complete illustrated description of theseries production of Cirrus engines at the Brough works of Blackburn Air-craft, Ltd. * * * Five Bristol Type 170 aircraft havebeen converted for troop-carrying in the . Argentine, each carrying 35 men andtheir kit. The fleet is accompanied by a sixth Type 170, fitted as a workshop. * • • The American round-the-world flyers,George W. Truman and Clifford V. Evans, whose safe arrival in Alaska wasreported in Flight recently, have now landed at Van Nuys, California, aftera non-stop flight from Canada, and have so completed their long trip. * * • * Mr. J. K. Redman, A.R.C.S., B.Sc.(London), A.F.R.Ae.S., of the technical department, Gloster Aircraft, has beenappointed chief technician to Dunlop's Aviation Division. He had previouslybeen with A. V. Roe and Short Bros. * * » Flight congratulates Mr. D. H. Cun-liffe-Owen, only son of Sir Hugo Cunliffe- Owen, on his marriage to Mary MaudRedgrave at St. Mark's, Audley Street, London, on December 3rd. * * • An international helicopter conference,the first to be held in Scandinavia, was held in Stockholm recently. Delegatesvisited the Swedish Seefab factories and inspected a new type of rotor blade withlight seamless steel tubing at the lead- ing edge and light metal in the rest ofthe blade. * * * In refusing to intervene in the strike,of 5,000 workers at the Ulster works of Short and Harland, Sir Basil Brooke,the Prime Minister, has stated that since the dispute between workers andmanagement had not been brought before the agreed negotiating organiza-tion his proposed intervention would be " of no useful purpose." * * *Eniwetok atoll, 2,500 miles S.VV. of Hawaii, is to be used by the U.S.Government as an atom bomb testing ground. * ,« * A paper dealing with marketing, in-dustrial design and packaging was read in London recently before the Incor-porated fales Managers' Association by Mr. Richard Lonsdale-Hands, headof the firm which styled the B.O.A.C. inter-station coach and the interiors ofthe Tudor II, Brabazon, and Saro flying boats. * * * From Oslo to Shanghai via the U.S.A.is now 61 hours by air. while on the eastwards route the time required is 92hours. The S.A.S. service to New York connects with North-West Airlines' ser-vices. There is considerable mail and passenger traffic by air betweenShanghai, as a great seaport, and Norway, with its wide shipping interests.
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