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FLIGHT JULY 14TH, 1949 AND Commonwealth Vampire Airborne MR. ARTHUR DRAKEFORD, theAustralian Air Minister, announced last Thursday that the first Australian- built Vampire had successfully completed its initial flight tests. Oh Well ... ERE was considerable anxiety aswe found difficulty in ' feather- ing ' the propeller, but later we saw itfall off. From then onwards things be- came more normal."—The captain of theturned-back Stratocruiser, as quoted in a London evening paper. W.J.A.C. Under Canvas FOUR young pilots of the Women'sJunior Air Corps—all holders of "A" licences, for which they were trained under the W.J.A.C. scholarship scheme—are at present sharing a summer camp at Elstree Airfield with members of the Ultra Light Aircraft Association. They are flying Piper Cubs under the in- struction of Mrs. Patterson and Miss Vera Strodl. Quid Pro Quo DURING one of the strikes in ExerciseVerity, the starboard outer wing of one of the Netherlands Sea Furies col-lected a seagull, which made an incursion into the leading-edge. Back at Culdrose,the maintenance crews got on the job without delay and, in five hours, hadfitted a new outer wing. However, as the Dutch had not brought suchelaborate spares with them, it was a British wing which was fitted, and thatis the storv behind the oddlv marked CLOSE CONTROL : Pest Control, Ltd., displayed one of its Westland-Sikorsky SSI crop- spraying helicopters at the Royal Show, Shrewsbury, recently. Guided by hand signals from Mr. R. Bryant, (the company's chief engineer), Mr. J. Harper landed the SSI on the 20 ft-square roof of the Pest Control siand with only 2 ft clearance between the tail-rotor and a flagpole. .?"•• aircraft (shown below) which may have puzzled spotters in Cornwall last week. Millions for Missiles A USTRALIA'S expenditure under the -tl. five-year defence programme will be increased by £36 million, in part for the manufacture of a "new-type bomb" and rocket projectiles. FORTY YEARS BACK '' The Wright Brothers have ap-plied for a patent for a supple- mentary mechanical control whichwill, when required to do so, re- lieve the pilot of the necessity ofmanipulating the elevator, rudder and warping levers by hand. Thepower ... is compressed air. The mechanical brain ... is in onecase a pivoted vane acting under the influence of wind pressure andin the other a pendulum."—From "Flight" of July 10th, 1909. WESTERN UNION : As related in the paragraph above, it was a mere seagull, and not a further manifestation of close co-operation between Britain and Holland, which brought about the unique mixture of markings on this Sea Fury. Jet Bomber Named BRITAIN'S first jet bomber, theEnglish Electric A.I, is now officially styled the Canberra 1. No details of theaircraft—-other than that its power units are two Rolls-Royce Avons—are yetavailable for publication. Its first flight was made on Friday, May 13th. Noreason has been given for the selection of a name with this Commonwealthassociation, but there has been an un- official report that Australia is to buildone type of British medium jet bomber. Flush-Duct Thunderjet AN increased rate of climb and un-changed stability characteristics are reported to result from the substitutionof flush side air-inlets for the normal nose air-intake of a standard Republic F-84Thunderjet. The possibility of produc- ing a night and all-weather intercepterversion of the F-84, w'tn the consequent need for nose-installed radar equipment,led the Republic Corporation to make this modification. A two-seat night-fighter version of the Lockheed F-80 was ilustrated in last week's Flight. Cadets See "Sunray" SIX Lancasters were due to leave Mil-denhall, Suffolk, last Tuesday on Bomber Command's regular monthlytraining exercise in the Middle East— Exercise Sunray. Four A.T.C. cadets ofNo. 301 (Bury St. Edmunds) Squadron were allotted seats in the accompanyingDakotas carrying 59 ground crew mem- bers of the bomber squadron. Inciden-tally, seven cadets of No. 1403 (Retford) Squadron flew from Binbrook in thesortie made by Bomber Command Lin- colns, as part of Exercise Verity, de-scribed in this issue. k.C.A.F. Instructors Here TNSTRUCTORS from the Royal Cana--*- dian Air Force Central Flying School, Trenton, Ontario, are here for a three-week visit to study R.A.F. training methods and discuss mutual trainingproblems. This will be the first liaison visit paid to this country by R.C.A.F.flying instructors, although a party of
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