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JULY 29TH, 1948 HERE AND THERE machine will shortly undergo initial flight tests. A. V. Roe Canada, Ltd., are building a new and interesting twin jet fighter, he said. On the civil side the Canadian firm has a new 30- to 40- seater four-jet machine under construc- tion for ioter-city operation in Canada. In this country the Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Co. are constructing another ad- vanced type of commercial transport, the Apollo, which will be powered by four Armstrong Siddeley Mamba gas turbines. Power plant projects include a pure jet unit which will soon be ready for develop- ment testing. The group now comprises twenty wholly owned companies, three partly owned and eleven subsidiary companies. S. Africa Air GuideA LIST of amendments to the recently issued United Kingdom to South Africa Air Touring Guide has been pub- lished by the Private Aviation Division of the F.A.I. The amendments are so arranged that no hand corrections to the guide are necessary, the new pages, and in some cases adklitions, being substi- tuted for those in" the original manual. The Air Touring Guide contains full in- formation as to the obtaining of visas, customs and fuel camels, currency regu- lations and the like, as well as a selection of routes to South Africa with compre- hensive details of airfields and general facilities en route. , .,t,, Bullet and Bird Proof A PARTY of Royal Air Force pilotsand technical officers recently visited the Triplex Safety Glass works at Birmingham to see the manufacture of bullet-proof glass used in pressurized Meteors and to discuss problems in con- nection with the high speed of this air- craft. One pilot mentioned that he brought his machine from 40,000ft on to the runway—involving a temperature change from minus 60 deg C to 20 deg C —in less than two minutes. In the manufacture of the bullet-proof glass this temperature change would take two hours to achieve. Special windscreens to withstand the impact of a 14-lb bird at 200 m.p.h. are also being produced by the Triplex company. These windscreens have been designed for export machines and British aircraft for setvice abroad. FLIGHT A WISE HEAD : Squadron LeflS^r. Waterton, as seen by the occupant of the rear seat in the Sloster Meteor 7 Trainer. This intimate little stud/was seemedduring the ^recently completed .Turkish ** ' demonstration^ tour by,the world's fastest trainer.- Jet ComponentTesting T X)R the development-»- of component parts for proposed U.S.A.F.jet-propelled helicopters new facilities have beenestablished at the flight test centre of the GeneralElectric Company, Schenectady. Thefiist phase of the new project will include thetesting of various types of power plant and components, with particular refer-ence to the static testing of burners, and the second phase the power testiri^ ofburners in the new outdoor test 119 THREE-STAR VINlnGt: Air vice-Marshal J. N. Boothman (A.C.A.S. Technical Re- quirements) still uses a beloved "Spit" as a personal aircraft. Electronics ExhibitionP ROTOTYPE miniature high and low tension batteries developed by the Chloride Electrical Storage Co., Ltd., for use with the radio equipment installed in meteorological balloons were among the items displayed at the Electronics Exhibition at Manchester this week. Exide aircraft batteries for use in com- mercial machines were also on show. LABOUR SAVING : Ine joining wings of this Firefly have been fitted with the first set of power-folding equipment developed and produced by the Fairey Aviation Company. News in BriefT HE Busk Studentship in Aeronauticsfor 1948-49, referred to in Flight, April 15th, has been awarded by the trus-tees to Arthur John Cable of the Merchant Venturers' Technical College, BristolUniversity. * * * • • • '• . •' Mr. C. L. Yates, formerly Trans World Airline district manager atToledo, has been appointed district manager in London in place of Mr. J. C.Stewart,, who has now returned to the United States to take up another posi-tion there. » * • -An aircraft about to take off from Indianapolis was delayed by the factthat too many passengers were found to be aboard. Apparently the machinewas turned round so fast that two of the original passengers had not had time toget off! * * * Fifteen cartons of bread are being flown over every day from Los Angeles to American competitors in the Olympic games. The bread is flown to New York by American Airlines and thence by American Overseas Airlines to London. * * * Belief that America has now caught upwith other countries in jet power develop- ment has been expressed by the Com-mittee on Aeronautics of the U.S. Re- search and Development Board. Butthey still concede that British jet planes show a better fuel economy. * * * Capt. (E) M. Luby, R.N., for thepast two years Director of Engine Re- search and Development in the Ministryof Supply, has retired from the Royal Navy with effect from July 6th. Hewill continue in his post with the Minis- try in a civilian capacity.* * * Trans Australia Airlines has purchasedsix de Havilland Drovers. These all- metal six-passenger aircraft will be usedto replace the Dragons and Ansons at present being flown on feeder and de-velopment routes in Queensland. * * * A B.O.A.C. Lancastrian freighter re- cently completed a '' Zubes for Zulus '' flight. Some 5,000,000 cough lozenges weighing about 3J tons were flown in two consignments on the Springbok route to Johannesburg. , * * *•'-,-.• --- The transfer of the seaplane plant of Short Brothers and Hariand, Ltd., from Rochester to Belfast—one of the largest industrial removal operations ever to be carried out in these islands—has now been completed.
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