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PLIGHT, 22 September 1949 ~ 379 tended by the Society to a journalist,marked the occasion of a presentation from the Society to Mr. Poulsen on hisretirement after nearly 40 years in aviation journalism.The presentation, which was made by the Society's President, Sir JohnBuchanan, was in the form of a bulk- head-fitting clock and inscribed plate forthe yacht recently presented to Mr. Poulsen by the Society of British Air-xraft Constructors on behalf of the Industry. FORTY YEARS BACK "The other day M. Bleriotmade the interesting announce- ment that he had just sold his one-hundred-and-first monoplane, and that he would get into difficultieswith regard to deliveries if he did not set to work at once and giveall his time to completing his machines."—From "Flight" ofSeptember 18th, 1909. FROG'S LEG : Part of an otherwise good-looking aircraft, this nacelle of a K.L.M. Convair 240 is of oddly rep- tilean appearance. Bouquets CENATOR E. JOHNSON, of the U.S.*J Senate Interstate and Foreign Com- merce Committee said recently thatseveral American airline presidents had arranged to buy British jet transportsduring the next three years. "The three- year lead the British have grasped whilewe have marked time . . . may lose this country's predominance in civil airtransport," he stated. Similar thoughts have also been ex-pressed on the Continent. The French newspaper Combat has referred to thesize of the American delegation at Farn- bornugh as " a measure of American dis-quiet in the face of the British advance." Royal Visit to A.S.T. T^HE Amir Mansour, son of King Ibn•7 Saud of Saudi Arabia, recently visited Air Service Training at Hamblei» order to inspect the training, accom- modation and recreational facilitiesafforded to ten of his subjects who are training there for Commercial Pilots'Licences. Prince Mansour, who was accompanied by the Saudi Arabian Am-bassador and Brigadier J. E. A. Baird of B 13 . :.;.:- .... . , ,- :-.-••: LIVE-BAIT: The "jaws" of a Bristol Freighter open to admit a Pest Control Westland-Sikorsky S-51 helicopter, destined for spraying cotton fields in the Sudan. the British Mission to Saudi Arabia,lunched with W/C. Jenkins, director of training, and later had tea with the stu-dents. On the same day, September 12th,A.S.T. was visited by a Grumman Mal- lard on its way from the U.S.A. toEgypt, where it will be employed as King Farouk's private aircraft. It carried aparty of Egyptian Air Force officers— including the S.A.S.O., A. Cdre. Nagy—who visited some of their fellow-officers now taking a special navigation course. Avon Thrust THE figure of 7,500 ll> quoted by theS.B.A.C.—in contravention of official secrecy regulations—as the thrustof the Rolls-Royce turbojet, is, in the makers' words, " unofficial and un-authorized "; moreover, there is good reason to question its accuracy. Thatthis extremely promising unit is not de ficient in '' urge '' is, however, provedby the Avon-Meteor, which climbs to 40,000ft in a shade over 4 min. Canadian Survey A CONTRACT for aerial mapping of •£*• 180,000 square miles of Alberta has been awarded to the Photographic Survey Corporation of Toronto, a Canadian associate of the Hunting Aviation Group. The work is expected to be completed by the end of 1951. Ryan Robots HTHE U.S. Air Force has placed a J- second order with the Ryan Aero- nautical Co. for an unspecified number of Ryan XQ-2 pilotless jet-powered target aircraft. Few details of the XQ-2 have been released, other than that it is radio-controlled and is less than half the size of present jet fighter aircraft with which its performance is comparable. No information has been given concerning the type of jet power-unit fitted. The Martin KDM-i target aircraft, now in quantity production for the U.S. Navy, has <t 2oin Marquardt ramjet. NEWS IN BRIEF LORD TEDDER is to propose thetoast of "Transport" at the anni- versary luncheon of the Institute ofTransport in London on November 1st. Following a recent reference to theirproducts, Reid and Sigrist, Ltd., point out that their address is now BraunstoneWorks, Braunstone, Leicester. w * * , Mr. A. A. Pollock, B.Sc, director andchief mechanical engineer of the British Thomson-Houston Company, has retired ;he is succeeded by Mr. K. R. Hopkirk, M.A. Mr. Pollock will be available toact in a consultative capacity. * * * A dance for past and present studentsof the Colleges of Automobile and Aero- nautical Engineering (Chelsea) is beingheld at Victoria Hall, Bloomsbury Square, London, W.C.i, on Friday,October 14th. Tickets from Miss Sid- well, College House, Princes Way,London, S.W.19. It is announced that the issued sharecapital of Bowthorpe Electric Co., Ltd., Hellerman Electric, Ltd., and Bow-thorpe Engineering Co., Ltd., has been acquired by Bowthorpe Holdings, Ltd.Directors of the new company are Messrs. J. Bowthorpe (managing), R. A. Parsons,A. G. C. Lloyd and M. L. Miller. • • # Mr. H. J. Finden, M.I.E.E., who isresponsible for the development and design of electronic instruments in thePlessey Co., Ltd., is reading a paper on '' Precision Measurement of Enginer.p.m. " at the Conference in Stockholm on Instruments and Measurements. * • * The Anglo-American Oil Companyannounces that it is at present unable to introduce its new unleaded fuel, Essoaviation gasoline 80 (referred to in these columns on September 8th), and thatthe product to be sold instead of 73- octaue Pool spirit will therefore be Essoaviation gasoline (unleaded), which meets Air Ministry SpecificationD.Eng.R.D.2471.
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