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1948
1948 - 1248.PDF
174 FLIGHT AUGUST 12TH, 1943 HERE A>l D THERE Prestwick, proceeding to Gatwick on the following day. The schedule includes Jersey on August 24th, Copenhagen on the 25th, returning to Linkoping on the 27th. On September 5th this aircraft will take off en its third demonstration tour, calling at Amsterdam and visiting The Hague, Brussels, Geneva, Lisbon and Madrid. The Scandia was described in a fully illustrated article in Flight, June 23rd. Appeal Fails 'T'HE House of Lords recently dis- -*- missed an appeal by Mr. F. S. Short and the Lonsdale Investment Trust against an Appeal Court decision regard- ing the valuation of Short Brothers' shares. The Appeal Court had ruled that the price of £1 gs 3d, based on Stock Exchange quotations, was the correct figure to be paid for shares trans- ferred under the Defence Regulations in March, 1943. American Factory Dispersal "FTOLLOWING recommendations by the -L American Government, the Chance- Vought division of the United Aircraft Corporation is moving 60 million pounds worth of machinery and about 1 500 em- ployees and their families from Strat- ford, Connecticut, to Dallas, Texas, a distance of nearly 1,700 miles. The move, part of a plan to disperse import- ant industrial undertakings, is expected to result in improved flying and produc- tion facilities and reduced maintenance costs. Radio ReunionD URING a transatlantic flight in aT.C.A. North Star aircraft the stewardess learned from a chance remarkof one of the passengers, Mr. W. Shorden, that his son, a lieutenant in theNavy, was serving aboard H.M.C.S. Weather Ship Saint Stephen off theLabrador coast. The stewardess passed the information to the aircraft's captain,who called up the weather ship by radio- telephone and enabled Mr. Shorden tospeak to his son for the first time in two years. THE SHAH IN THE WEST COUNTRY: For the recent visit of the Shah of Iran to Bristol a Wayfarer was flown from Filton to Northolt and returned with the Shah at the controls. When he reached Bristols he inspected the works and the Brabazon ; he flew a Meteor 7 in company with S L W. Watenon and remarked that he found it the easiest machine to fly that he had ever handled; incidentally he has a Hurricane of his own. Later the Shah tried out the Bristol 2-litre car at high speed on the perimeter track. News in Brief M R. ARNOLD LATHAM, who hasbeen succeeded as production man- ager for the Bristol Brabazon by Mr.F J. Chard, as reported in Flight, August 5th, has taken up the appoint-ment of genera] manager of Fawcett, Preston, Ltd., a subsidiary of MetalIndustries, Ltd. * * * -News fnwi Cape Town states that the skies over the Peninsula will in future bepatrolled by aerial police to stop low and dangerous flying and to check otherviolations of flying regulations. Not only road hogs, but air hogs, must nowmend their ways. * * » An award of S500 has been made toMiss Jill Varney, of Brookman's Park, Herts, as the first prize in a com-petition run by Northwest Airlines in America to name a special fleet ofMartin 2-0-2 aircraft. The aircraft will now bear the winning name of "SpeedLiners" and operate on Northwest Air- lines' routes from New York to Wash-ington, and trans-continental services to the West Coast termini. * * * During the Olympic Games field and track competitors of all nationalities will receive a daily supply of fresh eggs through the courtesy of the Clonliffe Harriers, Dublin. The first consignment of 1 (ooo eggs was carried in an Aer Lingus aircraft, and the company will continue to fly an equal number of fresh eggs a day from Dublin to London until the con- clusion of the Games. * * » The first batch of Naval flying cadets numbering 12, who were selected from 1,500 applicants, have completed their three months' disciplinary training at Flinders Naval depot and have com- menced their elementary flying course with the Royal Australian Air Force. They are being trained for the aircraft carriers now being built for the R.A.N., and on completion of their flying course will attend a naval course in Scotland for two years. * * * Mr. Rex K.. Stedman has been approved as a test pilot consultant by the Air Registration Board, in which capacity he will be able to undertake prototype, research and development test flying on a free-lance basis. Prior to this Mr. Stedman served on the per- manent staff of the Chriska. Aircraft Company, and was responsible for all the prototype testing on the Chri.ska Ace and the test and developrnent flying of the Super Ace. * # * Permission to charter an Australian National Airways Skymaster to fly to New Zealand has been refused the "Old Vic" Company, on tour in Australia with Sir Laurence Olivier. The applicaf tion was turned down by the Director General of Civil Aviation on the grounds that petrol could not be spared owing tP the acute shortage of dollars, and as there is a regular, service Detween Sydney and New Zealand." Much adverse criticism has been made of the decision.
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