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Aviation History
1948
1948 - 2081.PDF
DECEMBER C/TH, 1948 FLIGHT HERE AND THERE manager; he was in charge of the air-craft repair depot at York managed by Handley Pages during the war. Thesales manager is G/C. A. F. Bandidt, who was for a period the M.o.S. over-seer at Miles Aircraft, Ltd. Mr. H. M. Kendall, formerly with Percival Aircraft,Ltd., has been appointed test pilot. By Proctor to AustraliaT WO authors, Mr. Nevii Shute and Mr.W. J. Riddell recently arrived in Darwin, Australia, flying a Proctor inwhich they set out from the U.K. 011 Sep- tember 22nd. The flight was uneventful,md undertaken on a fairly easy schedaJe- After a month or two, during which theywill fly around Australia* ffaey vnU retana in €he same manner. Coraercro/f AXaM. IN the absence <rf Capt. W. F. Stkk-land owing to illness Mr. J. A. Corner presided at the annual general meeting of Cornercroft, Ltd., on November 26th. In a circulated statement the chairman reported a very successful year and the directors recommended the same fiaal dividend as has been declared on the ordinary shares in past years, that is, 9 per cent, making a total of 15 per cent for the year. A very profitable disposal of the fixed assets of the company's northern subsidiary was reported. RAe.C. Film Show ALL members and associate membersof the Royal Aero Club and their friends are invited to attend the Club'ssecond film show this season, which will take place on December 14th at London-derry House. This programme will in- clude a -colour film of the atom bomb ex-periments made at Bikini by the U.S. authorities. Two other colour films, oneof the Berlin air lift in operation and the FLAT OUT : Investigations into the merits of the prone position by pilots are being carried out by the Anthropometric Unit of the Biophysics Branch of the U.S. Aero-Medical Laboratory. There is a possibility of this device being tried out in a Fortress. other of Their Majesties the King andQueen presenting the colours at the R.A.F. College, Cranwell, made by Mr.W. Courtenay, will complete the pro- gramme. Refreshments will be availablebefore and after the show, which starts at 6.15 p.m. Wedding Reception at Londonderry House FOLLOWING the wedding on Novem-ber 26th of Mr. Alex Duncan andMiss Anne Walker, the reception was held at the. Aviation Centre, London-derry House. Proposing the toast of the bride (who has recently taken her " B "licence) and groom, the best man said that the past of both was in the air andhe hoped the future would contain anheir. Mr. Alex Dun- can, thanking thebest man, said that he " had made al!the necessary small adjustments and wasresponsible for the whole thing.'' Afriend whose gift by request was to bea dog basket, had asked whether he(Alex) slept straight or curled up andhow tall was he. The bride saki:'' Thank you very much and I hopeyou all like my won- derful hat." Theconsequence was laughter and a goodparty all round. CANADIAN VISITOR: Mr. W. M. Deisher, vice-president and gen- eral manager of A. V. Roe Canada Ltd., dis- cussing gas turbines with Mr. H. T. Chap- man, director and general manager of Armstrong Siddeley Motors Ltd. News in BriefT HE Aero Golfing Society haveannounced that they will hold their annual dinner at Londonderry House,19, Park Lane, W.i, on Wednesday, December 15th. 7.1,5 for 8 p.m.# # # Several donations have been receivedby the Guild of Air Pilots Benevolent Fund as a result of a wish expressed byMrs. Brackley that such donations should be sent instead of flowers as atribute to A. Cdre. Brackley. * . * # At the private exhibition of Britishradio components and test gear to be organized by the Radio ComponentManufacturers' Federation in March, 1949, components for the electronic andtelecommunication industries will be dis- played. About a hundred manufac-turers are expected to exhibit. • * * Mr. Whitney Straight, chief executiveof B.O.A.C., said during a recent visit to Hum that this airport may possiblybe used as a landing base for civil air- craft powered by gas turbines. Atpresent work is in hand at Hum in pre- paration for its use by Hermes aircraft. * * • Mr. Gordon Russell, C.B.E., M.C..R.D.I., F.R.I.A., Director of the Coun- cil of Industrial Design, has accepted aninvitation to join the Airport Furnishing Committee set up by the Minister of CivilAviation to advise on heating, lighting, decoration and furnishing of passengerbuildings at State-controlled airports. * * * The four-letter abbreviations of placenames compiled from lists forwarded tc I.C.A.O. are published in the appendicesto Notice to Airmen No. 396. Notice tc Airmen No. 395 contains the list of th«I.C.A.O. publications which are now available from H.M. Stationery Office. • * *Arrangements have been made be- tween the Radio and Television Trust,Ltd., and their leading U.K. distribu- tors to form a company to continue thedistribution of Philco British-made radio and television equipment and otherPhilco products throughout the U.K.
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