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1948
1948 - 2029.PDF
DECEMBER 2ND, 1948 FLIGHT HERE AND THERE tion of this kind, three having been com-pleted in the years before the war and two in 1946 and 1947. The expeditionwill remain in the field for six months of each year and will carry out aerial ex-ploration of large areas of the uncharted mountains and deserts in Iran.. A photo-graph of the aircraft appears on page 648 in this issue. Kittyhawk in Washington.A FTER crossing the Atlantic packedin a crate, the Wright Brothers' famous Kittyhawk arrived in Wash-ington on November 23rd. A brief ceremony was held at the SmithsonianInstitute, where it is to be displayed on December 17th, the anniversary of itsfirst flight 45 years ago, and the prin- cipal speaker was Mr. WilliamMcCracken, holder of the first pilot's licence in the United States. 25 Years with A.W.A. ON November 16th Mr. H. M. Wood-hams, C.B.E., F.R.Ae.S., Director and General Manager of Sir W. G. Arm-strong Whitworth Aircraft, Ltd.. *CWSB- pleted 25 years withthe company. Mr. Woodhams, who hasbeen engaged in the aircraft industry since1909, joined A.W.A.- as chief inspector in.1923 and has been promoted succes-sively to assistant works manager,works manager, as sistant general man-ager and general manager. He wasappointed general manager in 1937 andin 1941 became a member of the board. Mr. Woodhams is also president of theCoventry Aero Club. Exports to AfricaA RECENT analysis of the freighton a Lancastrian flying on the joint weekly B.O.A.C.-South African AirwaysSpringbok cargo service to Egypt, East Africa, Rhodesia and South Africa indi-cates the classes and volume of goods being exported by air to the Africancontinent. Among the items carried by this aircraft were books, newspapers andother literature amounting to some 1,600 lb; automobile, aeronautical andother machine spare parts accounted for 1,500 lb. Other classes of merchandisewere radio and electrical goods, 1,350 lb; fabrics and clothing, 1,100 1b; toys,300 lb; jewellery, silverware and watches, 190 1b ; films and lantern slides,160 1b; instruments and tools, 140 lb; drugs, 70 lb; antiques, 65 lb. The sameaircraft carried other items including leather goods, printing blocks, confec-tionery, tobacco, gramophone records and 1 lb of bagpipe reeds. Mail wasalso carried. Petroleum ResearchA T the recent annual meeting of itsresearch experts, the Royal Dutch Shell Group adopted a research budgetfor 1949 amounting to /6,ooo,ooo. The programme embraces fundamental re-search and all phases of research into petroleum extending from the u. 11 Mr. H.M. Woodhams. THUNDERBOLTS IN TURKEY: Turkish Air Force ground crews at work on Republic Thunderbolts atfomir air base. The Turkish Air Force has received a considerable amount of military aid from the U.S. initial prosrjes£»# for crude oil to thej*se of every kind of petroleum fuel, lubri- cants and other products. About 4,000employees are now engaged on research activities for Shell, whose most modernand best equipped laboratories are in trie U.K. at Thornton, Cheshire, theNetherlands and the U.S.A. In 1948 the Shell. Development Co., at Emeryville,California, received the American Insti- tute of Chemical Engineers award lorchemical engineering achievemenf'in recognition of its contribution to themanufacture of synthetic glycerine from petroleum. A full-scale syntheticglycerine plant was completed in Sep- tember at a cost of over 9 milliondollars. The plant will produce 35,000,000 lb of synthetic glycerineannually. News in Brief AT a recent agricultural convention inDodge City, Kansas, 94 of the 150 farmers attending came in their ownprivate aircraft. .; •' •: • * * * When Mile. Marcelle Choisnet re-mained airborne for 35 hours in a glider near Aix-en-Provence recently, shebroke her own record and became the world's woman gliding champion. * * * Successful demonstrations of televisionreception in an aircraft have been made in America by United Air Lines. Twostandard table receivers showed recep- "Well gentlemen, that concludes the Lecture, but here are a few pictures I brought back from the last Paris show." tion .from three stations with little dis-tortion. The height of the aircraft over Chicago was 2,000ft and another testwas carried out over Milwaukee at 6,300ft. * * * . The R.A.F. Reserves Club (c/o TheR.N.V.R. Club) have arranged a Christ- mas Ball at the Savoy Hotel for Tues-day, December 21st. Music will be supplied by " Herr Crow's Band." * * * . An instrument-carrying balloon re-leased during September reached a height of 140,000ft (about 20-i miles),nearly four miles higher than the pre- vious record. The instruments wereused by the Army Signals Corps to provide data for weather forecasting andthe control of guided missiles. * * # Following the announcement thatCaptain Sir Geoffrey de Havilland and the Rt. Hon. Lord Balfour of Inchyrehad agreed to serve as vice-presidents of the Ultra-Light Aircraft Association,which appeared in Flight, November 18th, it is now learned that Mr. F. G.Miles has accepted a similar office. This brings the total number of vice-presi-dents to five. It is possible that one further appointment may be made in thenear future. * * # Speaking in the House of Commonsrecently, Mr. Skeffington referred to pro- visions for spraying insecticide from theair to combat the effects of the tsetse fly on the cattle in Africa. It had beenstated that there were two aircraft en- gaged on spraying, and it is understoodthat a helicopter is on order for this work, but Mr. Skeffington contendedthat this was insufficient for an area as large as Western Europe.
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