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1949
1949 - 0241.PDF
FEBRUARY IOTH, 1949 FLIGHT 157 Russian Progress A LEXANDER YAKOVLEV, the Rus- •** sian aircraft designer, was recently quoted in Pravda as having stated that Russian aviation experts had solved the problems of building new types of air- craft and engines in their country. This statement was made in an address at a Communist party conference in Moscow ; no further details were givers _ , -... Publicity AppointmentM R. DALE ARMSTRONG, formerly Director of Information to the Aircraft War Production Council and later of the Northrop Aircraft Corpora- tion, is now stationed in London, having joined Foote, Cone & Belding, Ltd., to take charge of that company's Public Relations Department. "African Enterprise"T HE Bristol Freighter African Enter- prise which is engaged on a 17,000 mile demonstration tour of Africa, reached Accra, Gold Coast, from Lagos, on February 3rd, carrying nine passen- gers including Capt. Bartlett of the Bris- tol Aeroplane Co. When the aircraft landed at the Portuguese island of Sao Thome the crew were feted and a public holiday was declared in their honour. Bleriot LectureT HE Royal Aeronautical Society re- minds those wishing to attend the Second Louis Bleriot Lecture that this will be given this evening, February 10th at 6 p.m. at the Institution of Civil Engineers, Great George Street, West- minster, S.W.i. The lecture will be by M. Brocard and M. Hussenot on " French Practical Aerodynamic Methods." Non- members wishing to attend should obtain tickets of admission through mem- bers of the Society. Light refreshments will be served at 5.30 p.m. _, ^ SPIDER'S WEB: Members of the R.A.F. Balloon Unit at Cardington carrying out repairs to the inside of a barrage balloon. For this purpose the balloon has been inflated with air. It is at Cardington that the maintenance of balloons used for practice parachute drops is carried out. Fairchild Developments rpNQUIRIES of the Fairchild Engine-I—' and Aircraft Corporation, New York, elicit the facts that none of itsearlier piston engine designs is now in production. Instead, the productivefacilities are being devoted to the manu- facture of major components for the J-47turbojet under General-Electric sub- contract. The company is also develop-ing three different types of power plants of a proprietary design, about whichnothing further may be said at the present time. K.L.M. Retirement AFTER 28 years' service with K.L.M.,Mr. Johannes Martin, vice-president (traffic) of the airline, is to retire on August 1st. He joined K.L.M. as general secretary in 1921 and afterwards headed the division which built up the 8,300-mile Amsterdam-Batavia service, for several years the longest in the world. In 1938 he became assistant vice-president, and was appointed vice-president (traffic) in 1946- .;.., ._•..- WHOAHJ: A Boeing X8-47 Stratojet bomber is seen using a ribbon-type broking parachute attachment at Moses Lake, near Seattle. The purpose of this device, which resembles that used on the German Ar 234, is to enable high-speed jet aircraft to make landings on shorter runways. Boost for the B-36 A CCORDING to a report from America **• four turbojets are to be added to the six 3,000 h.p. Pratt and Whitney pusher piston engines of the U.S. Air Force's B-36 bomber, to give extra speed for combat and emergency. Built for the U.S.A.F. at the Fort Worth Division of the Convair Corpora- tion, the B-36 is the largest bomber in the world, with a span of 230ft.- A mach- ine of this type recently lifted two guided missiles, together weighing 37J tons, as reported in Flight, February 3rd. New Dowty [Canada) FactoryM R. G. H. DOWTY has recentlyreturned from a visit to Canada and. the U.S.A. While in Canada Mr. Dowtycompleted arrangements to move the company's factory from Montreal toToronto. He was accompanied by Mi. R. F. Hunt who will shortly return toToronto to take over control of the new factory. Quantity production of fighterand bomber aircraft in that country will result in considerable business for theCanadian company now producing hydraulic equipment for the C-100 andC-102. The first set of Dowty equipment for the C-102 was manufactured in Eng-land at the company's Cheltenham factory and has now been shipped toCanada for installation in the prototype aircraft. During his visit to the UnitedStates Mr. Dowty made arrangements with four companies for manufactureunder licence of many of the company's new products including liquid spring air-craft undercarriages. Air Prospecting for Minerals A DAKOTA belonging to Silver CityAirways has arrived in Australia, where it is being used for a six-months' programme of mineral prospecting. It is equipped with the latest prospecting de- vices, including a magnetometer, which records magnetic curves showing where mineral deposits occur. The position of the aircraft is also recorded automatically by bearings from base station and radar; an accuracy of within 100 feet in 200
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