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FEBRUARY 24TH, 1949 FLIGHT 917 HERE AND THERE hours. The route lay through Egypt,Abyssinia, Kenya, Mozambique, the Union of South Africa,' Rhodesia, Angola,French Equatorial Africa, Nigeria and the North West coast, and on the returnjourney two days were spent in Lisbon. Captain K. J. G. Bartlett, the BristolAeroplane Company's Sales Director, who accompanied the aircraft on the tour,said that the aircraft had been completely- trouble-free and that it had never beenmore than five minutes out of schedule. Spicer Memorial Film. Show THE Society of Licensed Aircraft En- -»• gineers announce that a film show will be given in aid of the Dorothy Spicer Memorial Fund on Friday, March 25th, at 6.30 p.m. in the Livingston Hall, Broadway, Westminster, S.VV.i, under the patronage of Sir Frederick Handley Page, C.B.E., F.R.Ae.S. Mr. William Courtenay will show four colour films on the U.S. National Air Races, Cleveland, Ohio, 1948; the atom bomb trials at Bikini, July 1st, 1946; and the B.O.A.C. routes to New York and Johannesburg. Admission will be by ticket only, obtain- able price 5s each from the Society at Finsbury Circus House, Blomneld Street, E.C.2, or from D. G. Thorpe, Esq., Gable End, Rusthall, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. "<.~y.'~: US. Navy Blimp TfURTHER details of the non-rigid air- •*- ship on order for the U.S. Navy, re- ferred to in Flight, January 27th, have been released by the Goodyear Aircraft Corporation, of. Akron, Ohio. Thislighter- than-air craft will have a helium capacity of 100,000 cubic feet greater than pre- vious types of U.S. Navy airships, and its overall height will be 92 feet. Con- structed on a two-deck plan, the total length of the car will be 87 feet. All con- trols will be power assisted and the en- velope itself is to be made of three-ply fortisan-rayon fabric coated with neo- prene synthetic rubber. The '' blimp '' will be propelled by two 18-feet revers- ible controllable pitch airscrews driven by a transmission system which will allow either engine to drive one or both air- screws as desired. These engines will be enclosed within the car, giving greater accessibility for repair and maintenance whilst in flight. SLEEK SHIP: The jet orifice "Step", for the McDonnell XF-83's two Westinghouse J-34 axial-flow turbojets, is clearly shown in this new photograph, taken as the aircraft made its first flight at Muroc, California, recently. Classed as a penetration fighter, the XF-88 is reported capable of extremely high speeds D.H. Servicing School SINCE its formation in 1941 the deHavilland Servicing School at Hatfield has completed the training of 7,770 fly- ing and ground personnel. This figure in- cludes 3,857 pupils trained since the end of the war against Japan. Analysis shows that trainees nave come from all parts of the world to take the courses on opera- tion and maintenance of de Havilland aircraft and engines provided by the School. In addition to trainees from the Empire and overseas, Naval, Air Force and civilian personnel have also under- gone training. S.L.A.E. Maintenance Schedule "PUBLISHED by the Society of *- Licensed Aircraft Engineers, a 28- page brochure contains a specimen main- tenance schedule suitable for an unspeci- fied type of aircraft with an all-up weight of approximately 6,ooolb. The foreword and introductory pages explain the opera- tion of such a schedule in relation to the issue of Certificates of .Safety under the present system and under the new system, which is expected to be- come law in the coming spring and which relates such certificates to flying time. The relationship of maintenance done, in strict accordance to an approved schedule, to the issue of C. of A. is also explained. Maintenance in accordance with such schedules has been gradually introduced during the last few years, and publication of this specimen is particu- larly opportune at the present time, when scheduled maintenance will be essential under ,. jEhe revised system of issuing Certificates of Safety. > NAVAL VISITORS AT LANGLEY: Photo- graphed during a recent visit to the Hawker fac- tory at Langley this group includes (I. to r.) Mr. T. O. M. Sopwith, Mr. T. Sopwith Jn., Mr. W. Humble (almost ob- scured). Rear-Admiral The Mackintosh of Mack- intosh, Vice - Admiral Creosey, Mr. T. D. M. Robertson, Mr. J. V. Stanburf and Mr. R. H. Chaplin Caribbean Survey TPO commence a three-months aerial-L survey of the West Indies and South America, a Lockheed 14 belonging to thePhotographic Survey Corporation of Toronto, Canadian associate of the Hunt-ing Aviation Group, recently left Oshawa Airport. The Corporation is undertakingaerial surveys for Government agencies and for private companies in the Carib-bean area. The members of the aircraft crew are all ex-members of the R.C.A.F.and on this trip pilot, engineer, navi- gator and camera operator will becarried. - , . v; News in. Brief To take up a position as DevelopmentManager with Conrad Parlanti Castings, Herne Bay, Mr. V. C. McDonnell,M.I.Mech.E., has resigned from the de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd., where hewas production manager of the Develop- ment and Research Division. * * • After 19 years' service with the Com-pany, Mr. F. Stanley Mockford, Com- mercial Manager of Marconi WirelessTelegraph Co., Ltd., has been elected Chairman of the Radio Communicationsand Electronic Engineering Association. Mr. V. M. Roberts, of the British Thom-son-Houston Co., Ltd., is the new Vice- Chairman. • * * On his appointment to the Sub-Com-mittee on Helicopters of the Inter- national Advisory Committee for Aero-nautics, Charles H Kaman, 29-year-old president of Kaman Aircraft, wasselected by the Hartford, Connecticut, Chamber of Commerce as the Outstand-ing Young Man of the Year. • * # The B.P. Aviation Fuel Service of theAnglo-Iranian Oil Co., Ltd., have issued a printed schedule of the airfields andaddresses throughout the world at which fuelling facilities can be arranged. AllU.K. enquiries concerning overseas avail- ability should be made to the Londonoffice, Britannic H^use, Finsbury Circus, E.C.2. * M> « The fourth of a series of books for busi-nessmen produced jointly by B.O.A.C. and Ihe British Bulletin of Commercehas been published. Ground Light on New Zealand presents the potentialitiesof that country as the others in the series deal with South Africa, Australia andCanada. The book is obtainable from B.O.A.C. Airways Terminal, BuckinghamPalace Road, S.W.i. B II
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