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FLIGHT, 27 October 1949 547 HERE AND THERE ... nautical Conference earlier this year (seeFlight, June 23rd), and is likely to be published shortly in book form. Record Attempt :F LYING a 185 h.p., four-seat JohnsonBullet, Mr. J. Brazil will, it is re- ported, shortly make an attempt to beatthe late Bill Odom's long-range record for light aircraft. The first leg of hisflight will be from Oklahoma to Rome— a distance of 5,500 miles—and anattempt will later be made to raise this figure by flying the 6,300 miles non-stop to Oklahoma from Tokyo. A.P.R.A. Reunion A REUNION dinner of the Air PublicRelations Association will be held on Friday, November 4th, at the Mar- tiney Restaurant, Swallow Street, Lon- don, W.i. Speakers at the dinner will be the Association's patron, Mr. Artnur Henderson, Marshal of the R.A.F. Lord Tedder. Sir Roy Dobson and Sir Guy Nott-Bower. Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip Joubert, chairman of the Association, will preside, and the guests will include Sir James Barnes, Permanent Under-Secre- tary of State for Air, Air Marshal Sir Richard Peck, A. Cdre. Lord Willoughby de Broke, Sir Arthur Street and A. Cdre. Harold Peake. Apollo Pressure-testing AS part of the pressurization-testingprogramme for the Armstrong Whit- worth Apollo turboprop airliner, the front fuselage was recently "blown" with water to a pressure of 13 lb/sq in during a test of its ability to maintain an equivalent 8,000ft cabin-altitude at 25,000ft. The pressure differential actually required for such conditions is 5i lb/"sq in. The test took place underground in a wartime emergency hospital, which was flooded with 27,000 gallons of water, and the behaviour of the Apollo fuselage section was measured with waterproof electrical instruments. AID TO SHIPPING: An outsize in radomes is carried by this Douglas Skyraider strike aircraft of the U.S. Navy. It contains new equipment designed to increase the effectiveness of ship-borne radar by circumventing the effect of earth curvature on the reflection of beams to and from points beyond the ship's horizon. On The Air DAVID MARTIN, of-, the B.B.C.,learned to fly during the summer in a Miles Messenger of the Wolverbampton Flying Club, with F/L. S. Robinson as his instructor. Peter Cairns, flying as a passenger, recorded commentaries on the course, and they will be broadcast in a series on the Midland Home Service under the title "Student Pilot"; the first is at 6.30 p.m. 011 Monday, Nov. 7th. FORTY YEARS BACK '' Three Bleriot monoplanes werebrought out to be photographed, and on lining up were joined bythe Windham monoplane. . . . Then, at the moment when shuttersclicked, Mr. Windam was gently precipitated to the ground, themain frame of his machine snap- ping about midway of its length."—From "Flight" of October 1909. •«* London — N.Z. THE CanterburyInternational Air Race Councilhas invited in- quiries from allparts of the world concerning partici-pation in the 1953 London - New Zea-land Air Race. Mr. H. D. Christie,president of the Council, recently-arrived in London to discuss details,of the race with the Royal AeroClub. |ET NOVELTY : One of the most attractive of French light aircraft is the Fouga Cyclone, shown in flight for the first time. The Turbomeca jet unit (200 Ib thrust) is in- tended to give the Cyclone a maximum speed of 160 m.p.h. NEWS IN BRIEF EVOLVED by the R.A.E., a methodof moulding plastic components without the use of either positive or nega-tive (vacuum) pressure is described in the current number of British Plasticsand in the forthcoming issue of Aircraft Production. Durestos is the materialemployed. * * * It is reported that the Swedish Aeroclub is to stage a world championship soaring contest at Orebra, Sweden, inJuly, 1950. Competitions will be divided into three events : free distance combinedwith height, goal flights and goal speed. * * *Published for the British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers' Association byIliffe and Sons, Ltd., the first (1949-50) edition of the BEAMA Catalogue pro-vides for the overseas market full data on the products of the entire electricalindustry. * * # Mr. J. A. Hunt, general manager ofthe Hymatic Engineering Co., Ltd., accompanied by Mr. A. H. A. Bastable,the company's aircraft specialist, left on October 16th for a brief tour of Sweden,Denmark and Holland. They are visit- ing aircraft constructors and operatorswith a view to establishing a technical service for Hymatic equipment. * # * Equipment supplied by the Self-Priming Pump and Engineering Co., Ltd., for the Bristol Brabazon I (des-cribed in Flight of September 29th) in- cludes four B.P. Mk. 3 electrically drivenfuel booster pumps, each capable of supplying 400 gal/hr at 10 lb/sq in;they are installed in pairs in a collector- box in each wing. The same firm'sR.P.M. 4 Mk. 1 pumps are used to supply fuel to the Radiation burners forthe de-icing systems. * * * Mr. William Courtenay has returned tothis country after a 40,000-mile flight round the world. During the 90-daytour he gave some 70 lectures and show- ings of his own colour films to U\S.A.F.and R.A.A.F. units in Japan and other areas of the Far East. His film of thetour itself is being shown to various aeronautical organizations this winter,commencing with the Handley Page En- gineering Society last Tuesday. B 11
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