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1949
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FLIGHT 7l7\Y IJTII, THE Longer Working HoursA N extension has been announced tothe overhaul life of the ioo h.p. Cirrus Minor Series II engine. The newperiod between overhauls is 800 hours. Australian Civil SurveyF connection with the /2,500,000scheme to build weirs on the Darling River, New South Wales, Adastra Air-ways have received a contract for an aerial survey ot the river. Ansons willbe used for the survey, which will be undertaken in the winter months, toavoid dust haze. Revised Reunion DateI T is learned from the organizers ofthe second annual reunion of No. 3B F.T.S. (R.A.F.) late of Miami, Oklahoma,that the date originally announced by them for the reunion was erroneous. Themeeting will be held on Saturday, May 28th, at the Connaught Rooms, andtickets (17s 6d) may be obtained from H. V. D. Hallett, 142, SouthamptonRoad, Eastleigh, Hants. 1949 Gliding CompetitionsT HE Council of the British Gliding Association announces that it has accepted the offer of the Derbyshire and Lancashire Gliding Club to organize the National Gliding Competitions for 1949 their site at Camphill, Great Hucklow, )crby. Rules and regulations for the meeting—which will be held from August t»61iL»iaclusive—will be published nrtrt^ month. Neptune at Northolt /COMMEMORATING the 30th anni-V^ versary of the U.S. Navy's first Atlantic crossing by air, the record-breaking Lockheed P2V Neptune Trucu- lent Turtle was due to arrive at Northolt DOMINION VISITOR : The sturdy D.H. Beaver, though built to the Canad retains many traces of its Hatfield ancestry. It was displayed at last Sunday's R.Ae.S. Garden Party at White Waltham. at 3 p.m. yesterday. This machine holdsthe international long-distance record, set up in October, 1946, with an u,-'36-mile flight from Perth, Australia, to Columbus, Ohio. Its pilot on that occa- [ Flight " photograph FRENCH POLISH : Pichnsgua ty/w-pfft/ o show finish on the wing of the S.O. Ml high-speed research aircraft, one of the most discussed exhibits in the Grand Salon. sion, Cdr. T. D. Davies, U.S.N., also flew the Turtle on its Atlantic crossing. Rear Admiral A. C. Read, U.S.N.(retd.), who made the 1919 crossing in a Curtiss NC-4 flying-boat was a pas-senger in the Neptune, which, flying non- ( " flight " photograph*. MINE'S A MAJOR : As related in the adjoining paragraph, a (fcmini has lately been adapted to take two Gipsy Majors in place of the Cirrus Minors normally fitted. As these comparative views show, the Gipsy version (right) is not easily distinguished, as a basically similar nacelle profile has been retained. stop from New York to Lisbon via the Azores and from Lisbon to England by way of Plymouth, partly followed the same course as the earlier aircraft. Benevolent Fund Appointment r^ROUP CAPTAIN S. J. BAILEY,vJ" C.B.E., has been appointed Secre- tary of the Appeals Committee of theR.A.F. Benevolent Fund. ReappearanceF OR the first time since August, 1939,the Air Force List will shortly be 011 sale to the public. An "open" versionof the List—normally the April issue— will henceforth be published once a year;the other three quarterly issues will re- main "restricted.' It will contain com-plete seniority lists for all branches of the Services as well as the Auxiliaries andReserves. Priced at 12s 6d, the Air Force List contains some 600 pages and will beobtainable from His Majesty's Stationery Office. The last public issue had justunder 550 pages; some wartime issues exceeded 2,000 pages. ' R.A.F. at OlympiaI N this year's Royal Tournament, which will be held at Olympia from June ffitfr .:*" July -3"*1-, a parachute training display and a police dog demonstration will be the highlights of the main R.A.F. events. Representing the varying types of pupil taught at the R.A.F. Parachute Training School, Upper Heyford, will be an airwoman, a nursing sister, and three Army paratroops, together with one of the School's R.A.F. instructors. As the height of the Olympia roof is insufficient for free descent, they will make con- trolled jumps with parachutes already open. Gipsy Gemini A SPECIAL Gemini, powered by a pairof Gipsy Majors, has now logged some 15 hours' flying, and it is expected that a C. of A. will be granted shortly. The machine, originally a Miles project, has now been taken over by a private owner. Gipsy Major Xs were install'1 for the first ten hours' flying, but high- compression Major ICs are now fitted, giving together a maximum of 280 h.p. Performance has not been measured accurately, but an initial rate of climb f 1,500ft/miu has been recorded, ami indications are that the best cruising speed will be 150 m.p.h. and the maxi- mum about 170 m.p.h. While this Gipsv version is strictly a "one-off" special
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