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JANUARY 6TH, 1940 FLIGHT HERE AND ERE Car Ferry Licence BRITISH AVIATION SERVICES,LTD., has obtained a licence from the Ministry of Civil Aviation to operate a motor car ferry service on a scheduled basis between Lympne Airport and Le Touquet. Two Bristol Freighters will start on April 14th with four nights a day, the first from Lympne starting about noon. Prices for the 20-minute journey have not yet been settled, but in all probability ^30 will cover the cost of the motor car and four passengers. It will be remembered that last year the Company ran a service on a charter basis, and some 200 cars were carried during the season. Full customs facili- ties are available at both airports, and times of departure will be so arranged to allow convenient motoring time from London and Paris. Gliding Clubhouse Reopened 'THE reopening of the London •Gliding -L Club premises at Dunstable Downs, following their use as a P.O.W. camp during the war and their recent restora- tion to pre-war standards, took place on January 1st. Mr. Dudley Hiscox, chair- aian ol the Club, introduced Mr. Whit- ney Straight, who declared the buildings officially open. Mr. Whitney Straight .spoke of the important part played by the gliding movement in helping to make Britain an air-faring nation; just as in the past the fact that we were a sea- taring nation had led to national pros- perity so in the future, Mr. Whitney Straight was convinced, our destiny was to become an air-faring nation. Follow- ing the opening ceremony films on glid- ing were shown, and after these had ended members and guests concluded an • interesting and enjoyable evening by dancing. Dorothy Spicer Prize Essay RULES and details of the DorothySpicer Memorial Prize Essay for 1949, the foundation of which was announcedin Flight, December 23rd, have been issued by the Society of Licensed AircraftEngineers. The subject selected for the 1949 contest is Flying Controls on LargeTransport Aircraft, and competitors may ' choose any aspect of this sujbject for their.paper? which should not exceed words ; the final date of entry is February 28th, 1949. Entries, which must be accompanied by a duly completed entryform obtainable from the Society, must be sent to the General Secretary, Societyof Licensed Aircraft Engineers, Finsbury Circus House, Blomfield Street, London,E.C.2, from whom copies of the rules may be obtained. New Zealand Visitor to Shorts TOURING a recent visit to Northern-L-' Ireland, Mr. Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand, inspected theBelfast works of Short Brothers and H-ailand, Ltd. Together with Mr. VV. J.Jordan, New Zealand High Commis- sioner in London, and Sir RolandNugent, Minister of Commerce to the Government of Northern Ireland, he sawthe progress that has been made in the construction of four new Solent flyingboats for Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd. Other projects which were inspectedwere the three Sealand amphibians under construction for B.W.I.A. for service iipthe Caribbean. Mr. Fraser who dis-*. played very keeij. interest in the aircraft,especially the Snients, DANISH MISSION: As reported in "Flight," December 30th, Capt. Rasmus- sen of the Royal Danish Navy recently flew the Hawker P.1040. Capt. Rasmussen is here seen with S L. " Wimpey " Wade. FORTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY: Three Martin P.BM. flying boats flying over the Wright Brothers' Memorial on Kill Devil Hill, North Carolina, on December 17th, the 45th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first fight. pressed with the standard of workman-ship he saw and remarked that there was no doubt that the flying boat wasthe most comfortable way of travelling. Mr. Fraser was presented by Mr- C. P. T.Lipscomb with a model of a Solent. New American Undercarriage PRESCRIBED as a perfect energy ab--*--' sorption system, a new oleo pneu- matic undercarriage strut has recentlybeen introduced by the Air-N-Oil Shock Absorbing System, Vandalia, Ohio.The chief feature of the new unit is the complete damping of the initial land-ing shock so that the rebound tendency of the aircraft to bounce after a heavylanding is entirely eliminated. Although at present approved by C.A.A. only forlight aircraft, it is stated that the strut is adaptable to all types of aircraft re-gardless of size, and this is reasoned to be of some significance in the largertransport categories in that the superior shock absorption qualities can meangreat savings in the structural weight of the aircraft. A photograph appears onpage 10. B.T.H. RetirementM R. R. H. COLLINGHAM, M.Inst.C.E., M.I.Mech.E., retired from his position as Chief Turbine Engineerof the B.T-H. Company on December 31st, 1948. He will continue his asso-ciation with B.T.H. as a consultant on technical design problems. T.C.A. Appointment '"THE President of Trans-Canada Air--»- lines, Mr. G. R. McGregor, an- nounced recently the appointment of Mr.R. Maclnnes as director of public rela- tions. Mr. Maclnnes enlisted with theR.C.A.F. at the outbreak of war and came to London to establish the Direc-torate of Public Relations; he remained in London as Director of Overseas Public AMERICAN V.I.P.S: A party of U.S.A.F. generals accompanied Mr. Stuart Syming- ton, the U.S. Secretary of State for Air, on his recent visit to the American base at Burtonwood, Lancashire. Left to right are : General ]. Doolittle, Lt. Gen. J. K. Cannon, U.S.A.F. Commander in Europe; Mr. Symington, 'and Maj. Gen. Leon A. Johnson, Commander of the 3rd Air Division. c 10
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