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1949
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FLIGHT MARCH iyra, 1949 EREAND . THERE R.Ae.C. MeetingT HE annual general meeting of the Royal Aero Club will be held at the club premises in Piccadilly on Wednes- day, March 23rd, at 6 p.m. Canadian National ExhibitionF EATURING products of some of the. leading Canadian, British and U.S. manufacturers, a 14-day aircraft show isto be held at the Canadian National Ex- hibition in Toronto, from August 26th toSeptember 10th inclusive. Ancillary equipment will also be displayed in the30,000 sq ft of space available. Missing Airmen ALTHOUGH active search for theA remains of 600 R.A.A.F. aircraft lost in the S.W. Pacific during the warhas now been abandoned, planters and natives have been asked to look out forsigns of wreckage in the islands north of Australia, and in the rough parts ofNorthern Australia. Of 1,500 personnel reported missing, only 22 were found tobe alive as prisoners'-of-war in Japanese hands. The fate of about 45 per centof the missing men has been definitely established. Comet CommentT HE de Havilland Aircraft Company recently pointed out that many- recent references to the D.H.106 Comet jet airliner have been based on conjec- ture, and that categorical statements at so early a stage in the project would have a misleading effect. Some indication of the aircraft's per- formance was, however, given by Mr. John Cunningham, chief D.H. test pilot, when he arrived in Sydney last Monday. He said that the Comet would probably be in service oft the London-Sydnev route in 1952. Flying at 35,000ft and about 500 m.p.h. it should complete the journey easily in two days ; flying time vould be about 36 hours. MARITIME FRENCHMAN: The Nord 1400 reconnaissance flying boat, designed for the French Navy, recently made its first flight. Powered by two 1,600 h.p. Gnome-Rhone radials, it has an estimated maximum speed of 214 m.p.h. Long-Range Bombing LANDING at Fort Worth, Texas, after43 hr 37 min in the air, a Convair B-36 bomber of the U.S.A.F. last week-end set up an endurance record for air- craft of this type For nearly .25 hr itcarried a 10,000 lb bomb-load which it dropped in the Gulf of Mexico. Distancecovered was over 9,000 miles non-stop, without flight-refuelling. Sufficient fuelremained for a further two hours' flying when the B-36 finally touched down atForth Worth with two engines out of action. Aircraft Golfers T HE Aircraft Golfing Society held itsannual dinner in London last Fri- day evening. In the absence of the newpresident, Mr. Lestrade Brown (who was detained in America), the chair wastaken by the captain, Mr. R. C. S. John- son. The attendance numbered over106. The first meeting of the season is arranged for Saturday next, March 19th,at the Verulam Club, St. Albans, when the Captain's Prize will be competed for. R.C.A.F. Praised AT the conclusion of his visit to theRoyal Canadian Air Force, Gen. Nordenskiold. C.-in-C. of the Swedish AirForce, expressed high regard for the quality of R.C:A.F. personnel andorganization. He was especially im- pressed by its work with Vampires underArctic conditions—work which is, of course, paralleled by the Swedish AirForce in both climate and equipment. VISITING THE ORENDA: Watching a test-run of the A. V. Roe (Canada) Orenda turbo- jet : the Hon. Brooke Claxton, Minister of National Defence; CM. Drury, Deputy Minister; Walter N. Deisher, vice - president, A. V. Roe (Canada), Ltd.; A. Cdre. L £. Wray, CO., R.C.A.F. Staff College ; F. T. Smye, assistant general manager, A. V. Roe (Canada); M. Nix, manager, gas - turbine experimental depart- ment; and P. Dilworth, manager, gas - turbine design office. R.Ae.S. in S. AfricaA SOUTH AFRICAN Division of theRoyal Aeronautical-Society has now been formed under the same conditionsas those initiated in Australia and New Zealand last October. The new Divisionwill have power to form branches and its members will all be fully registered withthe Society. Second Record CUBJECT to F.A.I. confirmation, O Captain Bill Odom has doubled his own 2,406-mile light aircraft record of two months' standing. On March 7th- 8th he flew 5,000 miles non-stop from Honolulu to Ttterboro, near New York, in a Beechcraft Bonanza, carrying a total of 288 gall, of fuel. The journey took 36 hr 1 min. Flying Doctor Fined .D R. CLYDE FENTON, the Australian"flying doctor," was summoned re- cently for two breaches of the air naviga-tion regulations at the Darwin Court, where he was forced to conduct his owndefence as no defending counsel was available. He was fined ^50 for flyingan aircraft without a current pilot's licence, and £2 for not supplying thecontrol officer with a plan or details of a flight from Darwin to bring in an injuredpatient. Fenton has 7,000 flying hours to his credit in 20 years as a pilot. New Jet Fuel A MERICAN jet aircraft are to use a • •ti new type of petrol in place of kero- sene, thereby reducing crude-oil require- ments. The U.S.A.F. claims that the new fuel, which has an octane rating lower than that of automobile fuel, will improve performance in cold weather and at high altitude. The use of normal 100-octane fuel in turbojet aircraft is not known to have involved any major operational problems, either in this country or the U.S., but the risk of fire in the event of a crash is, of course, greatly increased. Supersonic RadioT HE U.S. Navy's Ordnance Test Station in California is now employ- ing a mobile control trailer, capable of continuously receiving 60 simultaneous messages transmitted from a guided supersonic missile. Each of the two re- ceiving stations of the trailer contains a galvanometer of 30-channel capacity for separating and recording information 1; 6
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