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JUNE 301H, 1949 FLIGHT 759 HERE AND THERE of production, shows no signs of flag- ging, and there have been several recent orders for the Bristol 170. l.O.W. Garden. Party 'TPHE Isle of Wight branch of the AirJ- League of the British Empire is hold- ing an aerial garden party and "athome" on July Qth. It takes place at Lea Airport, Sandown, and the pro-gramme is due to begin at 1430 hours. Jet Licences RefusedI T is reported that during negotiationsfor a five-year trade agreement be- tween Britain and Yugoslavia, whichLegan on March 3rd, an approach was made by Yugoslavia for licences to buildBritish turbojets to power her fighters. The British Government refused thert quest. A Place in HistoryM ANY important historical documents, lowing warning by radar picket ships,Dreviouslv inaccessible, are included when the simulated attackers were 180 LROKEN CURVES : As an experimental patrol and search aircraft for the U.S. Navy, with the designation Po-lw, this Constellation has acquired two large radomes, above and below the fuselage, and lost its normally sleek appearance. Modifications to the nose are also apparent. previouslyin a recent gift to the American nation— the papers of Orville and Wilbur Wright.Presented by the executors of the late Orville Wright's estate, they are to bekept in the Library of Congress, Wash- ington. They cover a period of manyyears, and include diaries and notebooks detailing the Wrights' experiments fromM ©3 to 1910, and a description of the first flights, at Kitty Hawk. Banshees Battle FROM performance figures recentlyquoted in America, it appears that the McDonnell F2H-2 Banshee, now inservice with the U.S. Navy, is one of the most effective of U.S. fighters forhigh-altitude interception. Navy pilots are said to have reported favourably onmanoeuvrability at 43,000ft, where its Mach limitation of .85 restricted maxi-mum speed to 562 m.p.h. Two Banshees, catapulted from an air-craft carrier, recently made a successful interception of two "raiding" machinesof the same type at 40,000ft, at a dis- tance of 80 miles from the carrier, fol- miles away. The Banshee carries six20 mm cannon, and is powered by two Westinghouse J-34 axial turbojets, eachrated at 3,000 lb s.t. Magnetic Air-surveys TNVOLVING the use of an instrumentJ- known as the magnetometer, the completion of what is claimed to be thefirst commercial aeromagnetic survey is announced by Aeromagnetic Surveys,Ltd., a Canadian subsidiary of the Hunt- ing Aviation Group. The instrument isbased upon one used by the American Navy during the war for detection ofsubmerged submarines. The naval apparatus was so sensitive that it coulddetect a variation of about one part in 65,000 in the earth's magnetic field;since geologic structural changes can cause variations of much greater magni-tude, the possibilities of adapting the instrument for geophysical explorationwere quickly realized. The equipment used in the Canadian surveys is installedia a Canso amphibian. PUZZLE PICTURE : This unusual view from the /Oft-high catwalk above the floor of the new Filton assembly hall shows well the disposition of the Rrabazon's "buried" power plants—coupled Centaurui units—which recently received A.R.B. type-test approval, and develop over 5,000 h.p. each. News in Brief IT is announced that the Rt. Hon. SirArchibald Sinclair, who was Secre- tary of State for Air from 1940 to 1945.has accepted the post of honorary treasurer to the R.A.F. BenevolentFund. •» » « Mr. J. C. Needham, senior managingdirector of Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd., has retired after 48 years service with thecompany. He retains his seat on the board. * * * British aviation firms who conductbusiness with Italy should find good use for an Italian-English technical glossarywhich, covering many spheres of trans- port and engineering, devotes ten pagesto aircraft. Edizioni Tines, Via Guiseppe de Blasis 5, Naples, are the publishers. * * # Dick Reidel and Bill Barris, of Fuller-ton, California, who in April last landed after spending six weeks in the air, arereported to have lost $4,000 (/1,000) in setting up this endurance record. Ex-penses of the flight, excluding those of three previous attempts, totalled $12,000. * * * Details of a scheme by which scientific and technical papers may be filed, cata- logued, and made available on demand in the form of microfilmed copies are issued by the American Documentation Institute, Science Service Building, 1719 N Street, Northwest, Washington D.C. * • * Members of the Institution of Mechani-cal Engineers recently visited the Samles- bury (Preston) factory of the EnglishElectric Co., Ltd., where they saw Vam- pires in production and watched an acro-batic demonstration by S/L. J. Squires. The party also visited the company'sLiverpool works, where Napier turbo- props are made.* -» * Considerable sums spent in equippingthe Dunlop factories at Coventry with *he most modern machinery have enabledthem to play an important part in the expansion of the company's aviationdivision, said Sir Clive Baillieu (chair- man) at the annual meeting. Dunloptyres were fitted to American airliners operated by British, Dutch, Belgian andSwiss lines and also to the aircraft operated by B.O.A.C.
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