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1948
1948 - 0483.PDF
I5TH, 1948 FLIGHT 405 HEREAND THERE M FIRST IN SERVICE : Vickers-Supermari.ie Spitfire Trainers are now in service with the Dutch Air Force, having been ferried from England by pihts of No. 322 Squad- ron- One of these dainty-looking two- seaters is seen on its maiden flight ove,- Holland, with the C.-in-C. of ths Dutch Air Force, as one of the crew. UnscrewedJ OINT congratulations go to Mr. E. S.Morrell, Hawker test pilot, and to the Hawker design staff. Flying a re-' paired Tempest last Thursday at 4,000ft y and 380 m.p.h., Morrell felt the airscrewand reduction gear leave to go their own sweet way. They finished in a Sloughv street, but the resolute Morrell landed /the remainder of the machine on its belly-.-, back at Langley, some thousand pounds • "lighter, distinctly tail-heavy, but still^controllable. The Late Mr. O. LucasA MEMORIAL service for Mr. OliverLucas, who died recently at Nassau in the Bahamas, will be held at St. Mar-tin's in the Fields, on Friday, April 16th, at 12 o'clock. Mr. Lucas was a memberof the firm of Joseph Lucas, Ltd., Bir- mingham for forty years, and for 25y^ars was, with Sir Peter Bennett, joint managing director. He died at the ageof fifty-six. Bomber Command Reunion ARRANGEMENTS are being made toA hold the first Empire Reunion of Bomber Command of the Ro ral AirForce in London next year. The sponsors are the proprietors of the London Even-ing News, and the date and place are March 12th, 1949, and the Royal AlbertHall. The invitation will be extended to all ranks of air crew and ground person-nel, including WAAFS, and members of the Allied. Forces whxL^ejaieddTfthe Com- mand, and also to members ot theAmerican bomber forces who worked side-by-side with them. It promises tobe an excellent party. MK. Prune's Parallel. J. HOOPER, the THE QUEEN'S CUP : There will be keen co-npetition among model aircraft enthus- iasis for this impressive trophy at Langlsy a'rfiald on June 20. Dstaih of the ccn- tests are given on page 421. VY. j. creator ofPilot Officer Prune'' whose famous (or infamous) sayings and doir;gsappeared in Tee Em and other trainin^ journals has, at the request of the CoaBoard, discovered for their journal C a similar character who is uiidej^rtgthe mining industry. He is Davy Lump, an ex-Army trainee at tJbc'Betty MartinMain Colliery and is^-rtmarkable in that, like P/O. Pruryv^ne is apt to volunteerfor artythirig^and everything. A pear- shapei-person, he was born on the samedj^ Prune—April 1st—and is at resent putting up the largest number ofblacks in the mining industry without, of course, putting up any output! Overheating Cured THE overheating of the Pratt andWhitney engines of the Tasman- class flying-boats referred to in Flight,February 26th, has, after three weeks intensive research and experiment, beenovercome by local modification The aircraft were grounded and removed fromthe trans-Tasman service on February NAVAL METEOR : The variant of the Gloster Meteor shown in thi; new and exclhsjve "Flight " photograph i; Jitendad for flight trials from an aircraft carrier. Though ths airframs is a Mk. Ill, the turbo-jsts are Derwent>Vs»-flS in the Mk. IV, andMii rate of climb is consequent- ly extremely high. A Sea Mosquito arrester hook is fitted, and to guard against damage to thi wmei doors, arising from rebounding arrester wires, these doors are deleted, necessitating a restriction on speed to 300 knots. Despite this limitation valuable experience should be forth- coming from ths deck trials now imminent.
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