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1949
1949 - 0432.PDF
276 MARCH IOTH, 1949 THE JET HURRICANE: Although French jet aircraft are not expected to be in production before 1951, thi Nene-powered Dassault 450 Ouragon speaks well for design progress. It made its first flight on February 28th. A New NumberT HE designation B-56 is reported to have been allotted to the piston- plus-jet powered version of the Convair B-36 bomber mentioned in Flight of Feb- ruary 10th. Four turbojets will be mounted in "pods" beneath the wings, after the fashion of the Boeing XB-47, to give extra speed for emergencies. Film Finale '"THE last programme in a series of film -*- shows given by Mr. William Court- enay for members and associate members of the Royal Aero Club will take place at Londonderry House on March 15th at 6.15 p.m. Mr. Attlee ImpressedT HE Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee, flew from Northolt to Gatow in a Trans- port Command York last Friday for a week-end inspection of the Air Lift. Before flying to the Celle, Lubeck and Wunstorf bases, he remarked upon the close co-operation between the British and American air forces. Mr. Attlee described the Lift as one of the wonders of the world. '' There has never been anything like it before," he stated. Second Saab-29 Flies THE second prototype of the SaabJ-29 Ghost-powered jet fighter made its first flight on February 28th. Like the first machine, which has recently been overhauled, it was flown by S/L. " Bob " Moore, the company's chief test pilot. M.o.S. P.R.O. LeavesM R. R. B. WILLIAMS-THOMPSON, who is well known not only to Pressmen but to the aircraft industry as a whole, has recently resigned from his post as chief information officer of the Ministry of Supply. He is now on v holiday in Greece, and on his return will take up an appointment as managing director of Gregg Schools, Ltd. Prediction ADDRESSING shop stewards of theA Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Com- pany at Coventry recently, F/L. F. Bes-wick, M.P., Chairman of the Govern- ment's Civil Aviation Committee, saidthat it was extremely unlikely that the aircraft industry would be nationalizedunder Labour's next programme. .He added, however, that a tighter check •\Cv U.S. NAVY'S LATEST: The Piasecki HJP-I helicopter with overlapping tandem rotor blades. With blades folded the machine can be lowered on the lift of a carrier. The HJP-I is here seen hoisting a stretcher patient on board. It can carry three of these, or five seated passengers. woufd have to be kept on the expenditureof public moneys by some of the private concerns. Brabazon DebutT AXYING trials of the Brabazon Iare expected to begin during May, and it is hoped that the first flight willfollow shortly afterwards. The vicinity of Filton airfield will probably be pro-hibited to casual aircraft during the tests. As previously announced, the " Biab "will carry a crew of eleven, consisting of two pilots and nine test engineers. Thepreliminary trials and subsequent flights of this promising and eagerly awaitedgiant will be fully reported in Flight. Not Satisfied A LTHOUGH his 2,406-mile flight from ••i^- Honolulu to San Francisco last* January set up a new long-distance'"'record for light aircraft. Captain Bill Odom's original intention, to cover non-stop the 5,000 miles from Honolulu to New York, was frustrated by adverseweather. His Beechcraft Bonanza has now beenfitted with larger wing-tip tanks, each holding 62 gall (which brings the totaltankage to 288 gall) and he will shortly m^ke a second attempt. On his pre-vious flight, Capt. Odom was in the air :or 22 hr 6 min. French RecoveryO UR contemporary Les Ailes an- nounces that six French prototypes nave made their first flights within two months. The aircraft named are, in ad- lition to the Dassault 450 fighter illus- 1 rated on this page, the Roitelet-Dabos ,;ltra-light aircraft, the Nord 1400 flying .oat and three transports, the CM 100, \C 271 and Breguet 761. This progress offsets the setback -uffered by the scrapping of production f the SNCAC 21 r Cormoran transport, ,vhich was announced by M. Ramadier, the French Defence Minister, during a debate on defence estimates recently. M. Moreau, the Secretary for Air, stated that: Vampires would be in mass production^- in France within a year. Australian Affairs AIR MARSHAL G. JONES, the Aus-tralian Chief of Air Staff, stated in Canberra last week that Australian-built Vampires, which are Nene-powered, will begin to flow from the factories next month. He added that advanced plans are being made for producing a Inter type of aircraft. This is'believed to be a ver- B-6
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