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1948
1948 - 0010.PDF
IO FLIGHT JANTCARY IST, 1948 HERE AND THERE pletion at the Vickers works, while by1948 it is expected that the experimental tunnel for supersonic speefl research willalso be operating. Hong Kong-Shanghai Service ON December 16th the first flight onHong Kong Airways new route between Hong Kong and Shanghai wascompleted when a Dakota arrived at Shanghai with a number of newspaper-men on board. The airfield used was Lung Hus. Miles Service A LTHOUGH Miles Aircraft, Ltd., is in£*• receivership at the moment, the Repair and Service department isfunctioning normally and operators of Miles aircraft can receive all the usualservices from this department, which is under the direction of the chief techni-cal officer, Mr. J. \V. Angell. Airfields in NorfolkA BOUT 21.000 acres of land in Nor- folk are covered by airfields, 9,300 acres of which are farmed, according to the Minister of Agriculture, in a reply to a question in the House of Commons recently. America's A.T.C. A MERICA has an equivalent to the**• A.T.C. in the Cadet branch of the Civil Air Patrol, an organization startedfor the purpose of mustering the country's private flyers and aircraftduring the war and which carried out 24,000,000 miles of coastal patrol, as wellas supervising frontiers and communica- tions. The Cadet branch now has 49Wings with a membership of about 75,000 boys and girls, who study allaviation subjects such as navigation, radio, meteorology, engines, instrumentsand airframes. No flying training is given, although cadets are encouraged tolearn to fly and are given orientation flights in aircraft on loan from theU.S.A.A.F. Some Wings have scholar- ship schemes to give outstanding cadetsfree training. Met Flights in AntarcticW HEN the Falkland Islands De- pendencies Survey relief ship John Biscoe left Tilbury on December 19th she carried a Hornet Moth, crated, with AViTRUC : The new all-metal assault glider o,r this name, now on test prior to delivery to the U.S. Army. The span is 86ft and the designed gross weight in excess of seven tons. which Mr. P. A. Toynbee will makeflights. After distributing 25 relief men at seven permanently manned bases theship will return. Besides having on board the men who have been relieved, theJohn Biscoe will bring back charts, maps and information representing 12 months'work by British scientists in the Antarctic. The seven bases have beendoing excellent work with daily weather forecasts which have led to discoveriesabout the route taken by the great Antarctic weather depressions. 475 b.h.p. MerlinI N marine form, the Merlin engine usedin the latest Thornycroft 50ft passen- ger and general service launches has acontinuous rating of 475 b.h.p. at 2,100 r.p.m. and a half-hour emergencyrating of 570 b.h.p. at 2,400 r.p.m. The engine is based on the Rover Meteor, amodified version of the Merlin developed for tanks, which has been further modi-fied by Thorny crofts. It gives the launch a speed of 24 knots and at such a low-rating is, of course, suitable for very long periods of continuous work withoutservicing. Sound and Fury A STATEMENT by Col. S. A. Gilkie,Commander of Muroc Army Airfield, expresses sarcastic doubt concerning thereports that the Bell XS-i rocket-pro- pelled experimental aircraft has exceededthe speed of sound. Col. Gilkie's state- ment is to the effect, that, although hehad only indirect supervision of test flights, he thinks he would have Beennotified if such flights had been made. FERRYING PASSENOGRS : Trans World Airlines use this smart hybrid between a limousine and a bus to carry passengers from their New York headquarters in 71st Street to the T.W.A. airport terminal. "It sounds to me like another flyitvsaucer story," he added. The repO; had been based' on an item in the Amer.can magazine Aviation Week, which stated that flights, timed by radar, weremade at heights between 40,000 and 70,000ft and that supersonic speeds atthese levels had been achieved. If 70,000ft was in fact attained, thiswould be well above the world's height record for piloted aircraft. Aviation EducationO NE little-known activity of B.O.A.C.is the supply to students, teachers and lecturers of a very limited amount ofmaterial on aviation, such as films, film strips, wall charts and maps, photo-graphs, textbooks, pamphlets and re- prints, and periodicals, in some casesfree and in others at a small charge. The Board's Education Officer, whoseaddress is Airways Terminal, Bucking- ham Palace Road, London, S.W.i, isinterested in hearing from school teachers their views on what material is requiredand in getting into touch with teachers who are prepared to help in compilingmaterial. In the meantime a list of materials available and the sources fromwhich they may be obtained has been compiled. News in Brief Mr. Paul E. Lamer, a French para-chutist trained at Ringway during the war, plans to return to Ringway to in-*" ,an attempt to beat the Russian rec£ which is reported to be a drop of 8J mii^ * * • Mr. A. S. Bishop, a director of theGoodyear organization, has been elected chairman of the Tyre Trade Joint Com-mittee in succession to the lato Sir Harold Ken ward. * * * " Caroplane" aircraft in America,such as the Consolidated machine which crashed on test recently, are intendedto make use of stocks of detachable wings at the main airfields. * * * \\'i stland Aircraft, Ltd. is proposing topay a dividend of 5 per cent tax free on the ordinary capital, the same as lastyear. The annual report says that de- liveries of aircraft have been on a reducedscale during the year. * * * " A woman passenger knitted threeinches of a sock while a plane circled Lon- don Airport last night .... "—DailyExpress, December 22nd.
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