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1948
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DECEMBER I6TH, 1948 FLIGHT 717 THERE Pakistan Fury Delivered THE first dual-control Hawker Furyordered by the Pakistan govern- ment reached Karachi on its deliveryflight recently piloted by Mr. W. Humble and F/O. Hussein. The routetaken was by way of Rome, Athens, Cyprus, Habbaneyeh and Sharjah, andtbe flying time for the trip was 17^ hours. It is interesting to note that onreaching Rome from Blackbushe the Fury had only just come off the overloadtanks and sufficient fuel still remained to have taken the aircraft on to Athens. £ - Gliding at Dunsiable •pILOTS of the London Gliding Club•*• at Dunsiable Downs have, during the first eleven months of 1948, com-pleted 2,000 hours of soaring flight; this figure does not include the manyhundreds of short training glides. The club's premises have, after de-requisition-ing, now been restored to pre-war standards and will be officially reopenedon January 1st, 1949. Following the ceremony at 4 p.m. there will be a partyin celebration of the event. Nuffield Exports by Air ONE of the longest car delivery flightswas completed on December 10th when the first Morris Minor to reachAfrica arrived in Cairo in a Trans-World Airline Skymaster. The flight, organized PUGNACITY : Frontal aspect of an Avro Lincoln heavy bomber of by at Wyton for a raid on the "Redland" fleet in last week's Exercise "Sunrise,'' fully reported in this issue. The only sizable strike by " Blueland " Lincolns was of nine hour's duration. A "window " chute is visible on the starboard side. by Capt. Raymond Flower, managingdirector of the Cairo Motor Co., Nuffield distributors in Egypt, began at Kidling-ton where the Morris Minor was loaded into a Miles Aerovan for the first stageof its flight. After reaching Orly it was transhipped into the Skymaster. Capt.Flower stated that the car was urgently needed for demonstration in Cairo wherethe new Nuffield models are selling at the rate of one for every hour of theworking day. Glosters Reward Apprentices FIFTEEN apprentices at the GlosterAircraft Co., Ltd., on DecenjffJeT&tl) •eceived prizes consisting of vc&cn'ers MITCHELL SCHOLARS: Holders of Mitchell Scholarships setting up 0 model for wind tunnel tests at University College, Southampton. Five Scholarships have been awarded from the Mitchell Memorial fund set up in honour of the famous designer, R. J. Mitchell. The fund has purchased a site for a national youth centre at Stoke-on-Trent, R. ]. Mitchell s home town. C 15 entitling the recipients to purchase tech-nical books of their own choice, to the value of 15s. The prizes, part of theGloster apprentice training scheme, were awarded together with apprenticeshipcompletion certificates at a meeting of apprentices and principals of the varioustechnical colleges and educational author- ities concerned. The awards were pre-sented by Mr. W. G. Carter, C.B.E., F.R.Ae.S., technical director of G.A.C.Two special directors' prizes were won by Douglas Moore and Ivor Moss, both hav-ing passed their ordinary and higher National Certificate examinations. Anadditional award, a flight in the Meteor 7, was gained by Moore. Commendable Accuracy A B.E.A. Dakota freighter wasspecially chartered by a film com- pany recently to fly to Stuttgart to pickup two German motor cycles and side- cars. These machines were required forfilming at Shepperton because scenes of the film had previously been made inGermany and the producer, insisting on authentic continuity, turned down offersof English motor cycles. The same in- sistence on accuracy of detail was shownin the production of a film by the Rank organization for which the interior ofB.E.A.'s Kensington Air Terminal was reconstructed at Denham Studios. Ashortage of chairs led to the offer of some resembling those used by B.E.A.,but this was also rejected by the pro- ducer, who refused to use chairs thatwere not exactly identical. F. G. Miles Starts Again "C\ G. MILES, LTD., was registered asJ- a new company on December 4th. With premises at Redhill airfield, Mr.F. G. Miles, assisted by Mrs. Miles, is now operating on the repair and serviceof aircraft. They are open to undertake any kind of research, development anddesign in connection with aircraft, and work has already been started at tbeii
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