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1949 - 0845.PDF
55O FLIGHT MAY 12TH, 1949 to the controls, and some manoeuvring can be done. So far this form of flying has been mainly spectacular in character, but the basic idea is capable of application to "serious" work. The American Air Materiel Com- mand has established a base at Dayton, Ohio, at which a tower is used as the pivot for the circling models. Instead of sitting in the tower and being made giddy, the controller sits outside the circle and controls the model. A cine camera is supported on the cable, so that it is always at the same distance from the model and aimed at it. Hitherto, our American friends have, we gather, con- fined experiments to fairly low speeds, but the tower system is considered capable of development into the sonic region. The whirling arm has been in use for airscrew testing since the early days. Control-line model flying might be turned into an instrument of scientific research as well as an entertaining pastime. Remembering the Past TWO events have happened recently which haveserved to remind British aviation of the days of itsbirth. Last Saturday Mr. Oswald Short was at long last remembered by the Council of-Rochester, when he was made an Honorary Freeman of the City. While applauding the action, one may wonder why this honour was so long deferred. Horace and Oswald Short transferred their works from the Isle of Sheppey to Rochester in 1913, and un'til Sir Stafford Cripps decided on the unnecessarily drastic action of transferring the CONTENTS The Outlook Salon Studies Grand Aerostatic Fete - - - - - Here and There ------ Honouring a Pioneer - - - - - Background of the Soviet Air Force Projects and Actualities - ... The Asymptotic Bomber - Civil Aviation News - A Pulse-Jet Helicopter - Correspondence ------ Service Aviation Forthcoming Events page S76 - 549 - 551 - 556 - 558 - 560 - 561 - 565 - 568 - 571 - 574 - 576 - 577 ownership to the State, Shorts were the mainstay of the Medway city, and Mr. Oswald Short himself was a good employer as well as a generous citizen. At White Waltham, on Sunday, the Royal Aeronauti- cal Society celebrated the granting to it of a Royal Charter by a Garden Party which is estimated to have attracted some 4,600 members and their guests, and at which a number of aircraft of the earliest types were shown and, one may say, flown, if flown be denned by the original test of lying down in the grass to see if day- light was visible between the wheels and the ground. The attendance at White Waltham, and the eagerness with which these old flying machines were examined, appear to show that the younger generation is not alto- gether unmindful of what it owes to the pioneers. _ vhotwjr. THAMES-BORNE : As part of the commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of British air transport, a B.O.A.C. ,, o has been flown into the heart of London for public inspection. The Flight Captain of No. 4 Line, Southern Region, Capt. J. L. M. Davys, alighted in Limehouse Reach and taxied the aircraft to moor off Tower Pier, where it will remain until the 15th. Last Tuesday the Lord Mayor named the aircraft " City of London." B 2
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