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FLIGHT JULY 22ND, 1948 • THE Flight-refuelling for B.S.A.A. A . V. ROE, LTD., are at present fittingflight-refuelling equipment to' a B.S. A.A. Tudor. This will enable the air-craft to take on over a thousand gallons of petrol at the rate of about one hundredgallons per minute while flying at nearly 300 m.p.h. Enemy IntelligenceF ROM Germany comes the newsthrough the Quarterly Bulletin of the Electrical Officers' Association(R.A.F.), that when the R.A.F. Tech- nical Branch first moved into a buildingpreviously occupied by part of the Focke- Wulf design staff they were surprised tofind copies of Flight dating from 1913 to early 1945 neatly filed away! New Vickers Directors •yiCKERS - ARMSTRONGS, LTD.,V announce that Mr. A. E. Marsh - Hunn, commercial manager, and Mr.Joseph Smith, C.B.E., chief designer, both of the Supermarine works, and Mr.George Edwards, M.B.E., chief designer of their Weybridge works, have beenappointed special directors of the com- pany. Avro's Mission to Australia TV/TR. C. J. WOOD, London manager of1V1 A. V. Roe and Co., Ltd., and Mr. D. C. Wood, projects department, leftLondon by air on July 9th on a liaison mission to Australia. They are re-estab-lishing contact with the firm's Australian agent and are obtaining first-hand in-formation on air activity and potential markets there. Royal Navy At HomeA N opportunity of inspecting some ofthe Navy's latest aircraft, aboard the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Implacable,will be afforded to Plymouth visitors during the August Bank Holiday NavalDays. The fleet will be "at home" to the public from July 31st to August 2nd,both days inclusive, at Portsmouth, Plymouth, Chatham and Sheerness, anduntil August 1st at Rosyth. At Ports- mouth the aircraft carrier H.M.S.Theseus will be among the ships on view, and it is hoped that a light fleetaircraft carrier will be r.Jded to the list of ship? at Rosyth. 1948 OlympicsM R. GEOFFREY DE FREITAS,Under-Secretary of State for Air, opened the Olympic Centre at the R.A.F.Camp at Uxbridge on July 7th. The visiting athletes will live in airmen'sbarracks which have been redecorated by the airmen themselves specially for theoccasion and the guests will share the camp with the R.A.F. for the durationof their stay. On July 29th, when the King will open the Olympic Games at VERY HIGH DUTY: The Hiduminium die-cast bcwl of this Olympic torch carries the symbol of five entwined circles and is inscribed: " Olympia to London, 1943." Naphthalene pellets provide the flame and the complete torch, eighteen inches in length, weighs only 3 Ib. Wembley an English runner will enter thestadium carrying the traditional lighted Olympic Torch. These torches, of whichHigh Duty Alloys have made 1,600 are carried by runners from Olympia, Greece. K.LM.'s New Engine Test Shop '"THE new engine test shop recently-L completed at Schipol airport by K.L.M. was designed by Heenan andFroude, of Worcester, in co-operation with the airline company and theAmsterdam municipal authorities. It contains two large engine tunnels andall the subsidiary plant necessary for the complete ground testing of modern, high-powered engines, both air- andliquid-cooled, of either British or American manufacture, up to 4,000 h.p-'Great care has been taken to reduce noise' and vibration to a minimum and en*.gines can be tested at reduced pressure- simulating altitude conditions. Airborne Television Relay AN " airborne'' method of relaying•**• television which will enable viewers to pick up programmes from hun-dreds of miles away instead of the present 50-mile maximum range, has, it is stated,-;been perfected by an electric company* in Ohio. Using a specially equipped• " stratovision " aircraft, a photograph of which was published in Flight, July 8th,the company were able to pick up and *relay the Republican convention in Phila-delphia, 360 miles away. By this method, they claim, coast-to-coast television couldbe provided much earlier than forecast, and the service could be conveyed toareas that ground systems could not reach. Radioactive Iodine ,;_T HE first radioactive isotope ever to be ~.flown from Baltimore was recently carried from there by B.O.A.C. to Ber-muda, where it will be used in experi- ments involving thyroid gland research.The radioactive material, known as Iodine 131, was sent to Dr. S. A.Mathews, of * the Bermuda Biological Station. Radioactive iodine will betested on parrot fish which are peculiar to Bermuda and are considered to bemost responsive to this type of research. The shipment, weighing about 40 lb, wasofficially listed as one millicure of radio- active iodine 131. In all, ten millicureswill be flown to the Bermuda Biological Station by B.O.A.C. in consignments of amillicure each. ,v American Stall Indicator v THE Safe Flight Instrument Corpora-tion, of New York, has produced astall indicator in which the warning light and horn operate in the pilot's cockpitat approximately 5 m.p.h. before the stalling point of the aircraft to whichthe device is fitted. The "detector" is mounted low down on the leading edgeof the wing and consists of a small pro- jecting vane which, so long as the air isflowing over it normally, remains in the TRANSATLANTIC BOUND : A flight of United States Air Force Lockheed F.80 Shooting Stars lined up at Selfridge Field, Michigan, £ prior to taking off for England. Bad weather caused some delay en route and two of the machines were held up for power plant "- adjustments. Flying by way of Goose Bay the aircraft completed the 714-mile leg there from Bangor, Maine, in 2 hrs. 8 mins. As reported elsewhere the first transatlantic flight by jet planes was recently made by R.A.F. Vampires from this country.
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