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FLIGHT, 15 September 1049 33' HERE andTHERE P.1040s—They're Lovely! " TTAWKERS, ice-cream men and fruit-"- sellers gave the display a Hamp- stead-Heath-on-a-Barik-Holiday atmo-sphere."—From a Sunday newspaper's report on the first public day of theS.B.A.C. Show. Turkish Visit IT is announced that the visit to Turkeyby 12 Vampires of No. 32 Squadron, based on Nicosia, Cyprus, will take place from September 2ist-28th. The tour was to have been made last month, but was postponed, due to the accident in which A. Cdre. G. Bartholomew, the British Air Attache in Ankara, was killed. . - . •;• Aero Golfers' Meeting '"PHE autumn meeting of the Aero-*• Golfing Society, of which Lord Brabazon and Sir Frederick Handley Pageare, respectively, president and vice- president, will be held at the RichmondGolf Club, Sudbrooke Park, Petersham, Surrey, next Tuesday, September 20th,commencing at 10 a.m. The date of the Society's annual dinner has been provi-sionally fixed as December 14th. Demonstrator's Dinner T"*EST pilots missed an excellent oppor- •*- tunity of getting together socially when the Empress Club, London, enter- tained the Farnborough contingent on Saturday, September 10th. Exertions of the previous week and the prospect of a final performance the following day must have been a deterrent to many, since only a small proportion of those who took part in the S.B.A.C. Display accepted the Club's hospitality. Pilots ANTARCTIC AUSTER: Shown at a recent demonstration at Beaumaris, Anglesey, is an Auster 5 2/3-seat floatplane (convertible to wheels or skis) which may be used in the rescue of 11 scientists marooned in the Antarctic. Similar aircraft will equip the expedition to Queen Maud Land next November. .. . .' . .,-. ,; normally have little opportunity of talk- ing over their many problems, especially with such 'an authority as Sir Frank Whittle, who was the guest of honour on this occasion. New Leaf? SEVERAL former leading pilots of theLuftwaffe—including one credited with 102 victories—are reported to beemployed by the Argentine Government on various duties which include trainingthe air force and flying aircraft to spray ground infested by locusts. It is saidthat a number of these Germans have escaped from Allied prison camps. G! TN the jet aircraft division of the-*• Thompson Trophy race, held at Cleveland on September 5th, Captain B.Cunningham of the U.S.A.F., flying an F-86 Sabre, is reported to have com-pleted the ninth lap of the 15-mile cir- cuit at an average speed of 635.4 m.p.h.Fuel shortage on the tenth and final lap reduced his average for the course to586.173 m.p.h.—in itself a remarkable performance for a closed-circuit race. BRITAIN'S GREATEST AIRCRAFT •pjURING the past weeks much*~' has been talked and written about the Bristol Brabazon. Thou-sands of people around Bristol, Farnborough and elsewhere, havebeen fortunate enough to see it; but the full record of its conception,its development, and its structural features and equipment has yet tobe revealed. On Thursday, September 29th, ina special gravure supplement, this absorbing story will be presentedto readers of FLIGHT. The Braba- zon's power installations, airframestructure and equipment will be described and illustrated in detail;and the projected features of its successor, the Brabazon II, will bereviewed. // is advisable to order copies of this issue of FLIGHT in good time. NEW SPEEDBIRD: The first Boeing Stratocruiser to be shown with B.O.A.C. mark-ings. Delivery of ten Stratocruisers ordered by the Corporation will begin shortly, and they are expected to be in service on the North Atlantic route within a fewmonths. Four of the Stratocruisers were originally ordered by Scandinavian Airlines. n r, Mr. A. H. Hall TT is with regret that we record thedeath at Farnham last Saturday of Mr. Arthur Henry Hall, who was chiefsuperintendent at the R.A.E., Farnbor- ough, from 1928 until his retirement in1941. Mr. Hall, who was 73,.was direc- tor of mine and torpedo production atthe Admiralty from 1917 to 1919, also spending two years in charge of airshipproduction at Cardington before going to the R.A.E. During the war years he wasa consultant to the Ministry of Aircratt Production. Formidable Giant HpHE recent investigation into U.S.A.F.*- orders for the Convair B-36 bomber revealed some remarkable performancefigures for this enormous bomber. First fitted with four J-35 turbojets in addi-tion to its six 3,500 h.p. Wasp Major piston engines, the prototype B-36D nowhas four J-47 turbojets (5,200 lb thrust) to provide extra urge. . This version, piwhich 130 are on order, is stated to have reached a top speed of 435 m.p.h. at50,000ft. In addition, a standard B-30 B £."
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