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1948
1948 - 0103.PDF
JANUARY 22ND, 1948 FLIGHT HERE AND THERE Firms concerned include: Bristol, Per-cival, Folland, Fairey, Armstrong-Whit- worth, English Electric, Airspeed, Boul-ton Paul, Cunlifle-Owen, de Havilland, General Aircraft, Heston, Hawker,Miles, A. V. Roe, Scottish Aviation, Napier, E. K. Cole and Short and Har-land. / November Transport Mileage T)ASSENGER and troop-carrying air--L craft of the R.A.F. flew about 11,800,000 miles during November,1947, without an accident involving death or injury. Decca in Holland ARRANGEMENTS have been corn-el pleted for Internationale Nava- gatie Apparaten C.V., of Noordwijk, torepresent the Decca Navigator Co. in Holland. This Dutch company specializesin radio aids and has full servicing and training facilities. R.N.Z.A.F. ScholarshipsT O assist the progress of suitable air-men from the ranks to permanent commissions, the Royal New ZealandAir Force has set up a university scholar- ship scheme open to serving airmenunder 21, and providing one year of study. Candidates have to be fit forflying duties. Trouble at Eaton BrayI X a case at Bedfordshire Quarter Ses-sions on January 7th, fines totalling ^,4,500 and £08 costs were imposed on"Douglas Arthur Russell, Boxmoor, Herts, ' and Eaton Bray Model Sportsdrome,Ltd., Leighton Buzzard, for what was alleged by the prosecution to be illegalbuilding to the extent of £II,8QO. Mr.Russell was charged with having erected a number of buildings at the model air-port and laid a drive, and was fined 2i,5oo. The company was charged withpermitting the work to be carried out at its expense, and was fined ^3,000. F0R MANUAL DE- ICING : ' Icicles oh the wings and nacelles of an aircraft at La Guardia airfield during the recent wintry weather in New York. purpose of the ex-periments is to de- termine the practic-ability of an '' out- door wind tunnel''on which new aero- foils can be tested atsupersonic velocities. lid.M. Engine OverhaulsT HE K.L.M. en-gine workshop, opened last year atSchiphol Airport, has, during theyear just ended, overhauled 535 air-craft engines. Of these 465 were Prattand Whitney, 56 Wright Cyclones,and 14 other types. An average of 16 en-gines a week are now completely over-hauled in this work- shop which covers38,000 sq. ft. and houses 437 techni-cians. . , ...'• N SUPupersonic Rocket Sleds Northrop Aircraft Company havecarried out some tests with rocket- powered sleds running on rail tracks out-side Los Angeles. These sleds are about 15 feet long and constructed of alumin-ium alloy tubing and are unmanned. It is claimed that they cove.igd .2,000 feetof track in less than two s<s$i>nds. ews i Mr. Joseph Chifley, the Australianpremier, has announced that his cabinet has approved an approach to the BritishGovernment by Mr. Arthur Calwell, Min- ister for Immigration, with proposalsiortransporting by air 10,000 British emi- grants a year to Australia. .' - In this feature we published recentlya photograph of a crashed, dismantled Consul brought back from Spain in aBristol Freighter to the Airvvork shops at Langley. This Freighter is one which isoperated by the Cie. Air-Transport, a French charter and air freight firm, andthe aircraft was chartered by Lloyd's. .O.A.C.s import cargo section atLondon Airport handled 30,845 parcels, a record number, during December. . Threetimes the normal volume of business was . handled and- ..,..., an overflow ware- house, staffed byvolunteers .w h o worked through-out the Christmas holidays, had tobe opened to clear the gifts as quickly;is possible. WINGSPAN 15 IT.: A miniature tmcraft of wooden construction weighing 500 Ib which has been built at Mil- waukee, U.S.A., by Mr. Edward 0. Effenheim (right). Mr. Robert E. Huggins (left) flew the first trials. n Brief Sir Frederick Handley Page lias beenelected chairman of the company, follow- ing the death of Mr. S. R. Worley, whohad been chairman for 21 years. Mr. F. S. Gaylor has been made a director. * * * A recent addition to the range ofinteresting aero Engines displayed in the Engineering Hall of Power at the RoyalScottish Museum at Edinburgh, is a de Havilland "Goblin" lent by the D.H.Engine Company. By way of contrast a Wright engine of 1906 is included inthe range of exhibits. There is also a Green aero engine, the first to be de-signed and built in Britain. Sir Roy Feddrn was married quietly inLondon on Saturday, January ioth, to Lady Norah Lilian Barratt. Sir Roy,who is 62, was knighted in T942 for his services to aviation and it was in thatyear that he left the Bristol Aeroplane Co. to become a special adviser to theMinistry of Aircraft Production. » * * The American Society of AutomotiveEngineers' Technical Board has issued material specifications for. heat and, cor-rosion resisting affloys for use in fas tur- bines. The new materials are claimed towithstand operating temperatures of 2,000 degrees F. and it is further claimedthat their use enables between-overhaul periods of this type of engine to be ex-tended to over 140 hours. * • * ^»Increased demands on the rfTo.A.C. route to the Persian Gulf have led tothe introduction of three flying boat ser- vices a week in each direction to Bahreininstead of two. Stops are made at Marseilles, Augusta, Cairo and Basra.
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