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1948
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FLIGHT JULY IST, 1948 THE Meteor Carrier Trials A "NAVALISED" Gloster Meteor 3jet fighter, with Rolls-Royce Der- went 5 turbojets, has completed itsinitial deck-landing trials on H.M.S. Implacable. All twelve landings andtake-offs were successful. Shooting Stars for Germany SEVENTY-FIVE P-80 Shooting Starjet fighters of the U.S.A.F. will arrive in Germany during August fromthe Panama Canal Zone. The present U.S. fighter strength in Germany is 75Thunderbolts. Assistant Air AttacheM R. E. I. R. MACGREGOR has beenappointed Assistant Civil Air Attache at the British Embassy, Wash-ington, in succession to Mr. N. Bicknell, who is entering the Foreign Service. Mr.MacGregor is expected to leave for Wash- ington to take up his appointmenttowards the end of this month. Mission from AmericaE LEVEN officers of the United StatesAir Force are on a three-week visit to Britain to study signals trainingmethods in the R.A.F. The visit is a reciprocal one, following last year's mis-sion to the U.S.A. by R.A.F. signals specialists in Mercury of the R.A.F.Empire Radio School. Th\\American party, led by Brigadier General E. C. MAN-HANDLING: S,L- R- L. Poneous, Chief Instructor of the Deri in his little Chilton monoplane after demonstrating it at the display at iyht " photograph. Jr Club port on Saturday last. An account of the event appears on page 7. Kiel, arrived at Northolt on June 28th. Headquarters for their visit are the Empire Radio School, Debden. M Rolls-Royce Sales Manage/; R. 1. D. PEARSON, who hire been Mr. J. D. Pearson. Jassociated with since 1933, hasnow been ap- pointed generalsales and service manager of theAero Division. Hitherto he was the company'schief quality and service engineer,an appointment which will now be filled by Dr. E. Warlow-Davies. At the beginning of thewar Mr. Pearson concentrated on production problems ofthe Merlin engine, and. later joined the("jovernment Shadow Factory at Glasgowwhere he eventually became chief technicalproduction engineer. At the end of the warhe was posted to Canada in connectionwith the re-equipment of Trans-Canada Air-lines fleet with Merlin- powered DC-4M air-craft, and the estab- lishment of a Rolls-Rovce technical office BULWARK: The Countess Granville, wife of the Governor of Northern Ire- land, launched the new 18,300-ton aircraft carrier '' Bulwark '' at Belfast on June 22nd. This vessel, seen sliding down the slip- way, is a sister ship of H .M .S. " Ce ntau r," launched last year by the Duchess of Kent. Three other carriers are now at Belfast '. H.M.S. " Power- ful " is laid up, but " Eagle " and " Centaur " are fitting out. in Montreal, which subsequently becamea subsidiary company—Rolls-Royce, Montreal, Limited. Life-saving Awards R. HAROLD BENDING and Mr.Angus Brown, both employees at London Airport, have been awarded theGeorge Medal for saving the lives of two passengers when the Sabena aircraftcrashed and caught fire at the airport on March 2nd. Mrs. M: O. Atkinson, ofChatham, has been awarded the British jEmpire Medal for saving the navigatorof an R.A.F. Mosquito which crashed near her home on October 24th last year. BriefNews in AN "At Home" to other club mem-bers will replace the air display at Southend organized for July 17th, whiclwas cancelled subsequent to the Roya Aero Club's decision not to support rac<meetings owing to the petrol shortage. * * • A Supermarine Attacker jet fighter crashed at Bulford, near Boscombe Down, on June 22nd. The pilot—Lt. T. J. A. King-Joyce—was killed. » * * An international air race from Britainto Hare wood, New Zealand, is beinf planned to coincide with a proposed in-ternational exhibition to be held in Nev*; Zealand in 1953. Prizes totallingapproximately ,£30,000 have been pro- posed . * • * An interesting personality over herefor the Olympic Games is Mr. Francis "Goose" Gosling, who during the warserved with the R.A.F. He will be one of the leading members of the BermudaOlympic swimming and diving team, but normally is chief instructor of the re-cently formed Bermuda Flying Club which runs two Luscombe float-planes. * * * Mr. J. W. Adderley has been appointedTechnical Liaison Representative in the United Kingdom for A. V. Roe, Canada,Limited, Gas Turbine Division, and will be located at Armstrong SiddeleyMotors, Limited, Parkside, Coventry. Mr. Adderley has been associated withthe development of the gas turbine engine since 1942 and for the past yearhas been with Power Jets (Research and Development/). Ltd.
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