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1948
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MARCH I8TH, 1948 HERE AND THERE Helicopter Ambulance AN unusual rescue flight was performedrecently in Sweden in a helicopter.The pilot and pupil, while on a training flight over the Stockholm archipelago,noticed a number of persons waving to them from a frozen bay. Havingdescended, they found a man suffer- ing from concussion and exposure, whowas taken on board, leaving behind the pupil, and flown to a hospital pre-viously warned by radio to expect the casualty. He was landed outside theand was soon out of danger. New Dunlop Cotton Mill IN order to speed up tyre productionDunlop's have transferred cotton mill machinery from Rochdale, where therewas insufficient labour to work it, to Fort Dunlop where a new cotton mill has beenestablished to meet one quarter of the company's requirements for-cotton, cordswhich are woven into the foundation ot the tyre. The new mill will employ maleoperators only and is planned to work MODIFIED HEMLINE : BEA have replaced the dark blue uniform of its feminine staff, shown on the left, by a grey outfit having the more modern length skirt and coat. The " tricorn " -hat is retained. ©n a 24 hours a day basis using threeshifts. A number of the older Fort Dun- . lop employees have been transferred tothis project where the work is lighter •than their previous duties. * , Glasgow Engineering Exhibition t \ REPLICA of an air traffic control** rentre will be the contribution of the Ministry of Civil Aviation (ScottishDivision) to the Scientific Engineering and Fuel Efficiency Exhibition which will°pen at Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, on March 31st. The stand will be in directcontact with Approach Control at Ren- frew, the Airfield Control Tower at FLIGHT GOOD EGG: A pressurized cabin designed for Mr. Churchill's use was fitted to a York aircraft since Mr. Churchill's medical advisers did not recommend him to go above 8000ft. Although carried on all Mr. Churchill's trips, it was never used. Prestwick and theTransatlantic Air- craft Control atRedbrae. Air traf- fic Control officerswill be heard by the public holdingtwo-way conversa- tions over theradio-t elephone with the pilots ofairliners on . the last stages of. their flights across theNorth Atlantic. A feature of the exhi- bition will be a display of the latest radioand radar devices to enable pilots to check their positions in the air and toguide them to safe landings in fog. The exhibition will remain open until April17th. News in Brief The 100 kilometres closed circuit record of 542.94 m.p.h. set up by S/Ldr. W. A. Waterton on Feb. 6th at Morton Valence in a Meteor IV has been homologated by the F.A.I. - :». * * * -—....- A licence to build Hawker Sea Furiesfor the Royal Netherlands Navy has been acquired by the Fokker works at Amster-dam. Sea Furies are already being de- livered to the Netherlands'Navy by Haw-ker Aircraft, Ltd. * * * The English-speaking world premiereof J. Paul Sartre's film " Les Jeux Sont Fa its " at Studio One this evening willbe in aid of the Women's Junior Air Corps. Patrons include ViscountessLeverhulme, chairman of the Corps, Mrs. Attlee, Lady Hume, Dame Caroline Has-lett, the Duchess of Athcll and Lady Cripps. * * * By increased efficiency in productionTube Investments, Ltd., have been able to reduce the prices of electrically weldedtubes by i\ per cent as from March 15. The last increase in the price of thesetubes .was in August, 1946. The cuts are dependent on there being no furtherincreases in production costs; other price reductions are being considered.* * * Butlin's holiday camps have arrangedwith B.E.A. to fly holidaymakers from large towns with suitable airports to andfrom the camps. Skegness is to be in- cluded this year, and there is to be anofficial opening at Skegness Airdrome on June 26th-27th, although they will beoperating here at the beginning of May. Butlin's are acquiring two Rapides, oneof which has been delivered. * » •Air France announce that as from March 14th, when U.K. time will beG.M.T. + i hour, services operated to and from Great Britain will arrive and departone hour later. This means that the first service from London to Paris will leaveLondon Airport at 08.10 G.M.T. instead of 07.10 G.M.T., arriving at Paris at10.55. More than 80 United Air Lines em-ployees, who are amateur radio operators in their spare time, are forming their ownnetwork, which extends across the air- lines routes from New York to Honoluluand from Seattle to San Diego. A U.A.L. pilot is organizing this network • - * • ' Dr. Morris Reed,Ph.D., M.Sc, M.I.E.E., has beenappointed Chief Radio Engineer of PhilipsElectrical, Ltd., Mit- cham Works. He willbe in charge of all en- gineering activitiesrelating to radio and television and alliedapparatus. * * * Mr. Anson C. McKim, O.B.E., hasbeen appointed vice-president in charge of traffic of Trans-Canada Airlines. Mr.McKim will be responsible for the de- velopment and handling of passengerand cargo traffic, mail transport agree- ments and representation in internationalorganizations, including I.C.A.O. and I.A.T.A. • ' ' ' * « Research engineers of Trans-CanadaAirlines recently took a '' North Star '' Mark TI up to 32,000 feet to determinehow the Rolls-Royce engines and pres- surized cabin reacted in the intense cold.Cruising in 80 deg below zero tempera- tures, they were satisfied with the per-formance. * * * To commemorate the 20th anniversarvof the Air France airmail service from France to Rio de Janeiro and BuenosAires a religious ceremony was held in Paris on March 2nd. Tributes were paidto the pioneer Jean Mermoz who piloted the Latecoere 26, single-engined machinewhich carried the first mail on this route across the South Atlantic, and to otherairmen who lost their lives hi building up the line. The French President, M.Auriol, attended the ceremony.
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