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FLIGHT, 10 November 1949 HERE AND THERE... swept-wing P. 1052 was developed as an experimental research aircraft, there would appear to be no major obstacle to its use as a land-based fighter. Australian production of the English Electric Canberra jet bomber, says the journal, may take place at the Beaufort works of the de Havilland Aircraft Com- pany of Australia. FORTY YEARS BACK "It was on Saturday last thatMr. J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon succeeded in fulfilling the condi-tions of the Daily Mail £1,000 prize for the first circular mileflown on a British machine, and his mount was the Short biplanewith which he has been experi- menting for some time at the fly-ing ground of the Aero Club at Shellbeach. . . . He understandsthe tuning-up and adjustment of the motor as well as anymechanician ... he is fearless, with just that dash of reckless-ness that one admires while still deploring it—that touch of reck-lessness which alone can make a pioneer aviator." — From "Flight"1909. of November 6th, U.S. Safety Awards THE Flight Safety Foundation of NewYork has announced the four 1949 winners of its annual awards in recogni-tion of services which have demon- strated their value, for not less than ayear, in achieving safer utilization of aircraft. The awards are sponsored bythe journal Aviation Week. Recipients of the awards are : LeonardM. Greene, president of the Safe Flight Instrument Company, for the stall-warn-ing indicator developed by his company ; Hugh de Haven, of the Cornell Commit-tee for Air Safety Research, for inten- sive study of safe-flight design principles;American Airlines and United Air Lines. The latter companies produced film'; TRIPLE THRUST : The first flight of the Martin XB-SI—described as "spectacular but uneventful "—was made at Patuxent on October 28th, and lasted 34 minutes. Designed for tactical operation, and classed as a light bomber, the XB-51 is powered by three General Electric J-47 turbojets, each giving 5,200 Ib thrust. dealing with, respectively, aircrew acci- dent procedure and safety in over-water flying. Mosquitoes for Sweden THE Fairey Aviation Company, in co-operation with the de Havilland Air- craft Company, recently completed theoverhaul, modification and testing of 45 Mosquito 19 night fighters for the RoyalSwedish Air Force. This work, which has been undertaken at Ringway (theflight test and servicing centre for Fairey's main northern factory at Stock-port) follows similar contracts for con- version and overhaul of 132 Mosquitoesfor Turkey and five for the Dominican Republic. Fairey test pilots at Ringway are nowtesting the last of 124 Yorks—formerly on the Air Lift—which have been over-hauled for the R.A.F. This contract is stated to be the largest ever awarded bythe Service to a civil maintenance organ- ization. EMBEDDED: For fight-testing tha Phcebus—the gas-producer section of the Bristol Proteus turboprop—the turbojet unit is neatly installed (as mentioned on p. 595 last week) in the bomb-bay of a Lincoln flying test-bed. NEWS IN BRIEF THE Indonesian Chief of Air Staff,Air Vice-Commodore Suryadarma, stated recently that Indonesia plans to build up an air force of five fighter squadrons and up to five transport squadrons, following the transfer of sovereignty by Holland. * * • The index to Volume LV of Flight (January to June, 1949) is now available and may be obtained from the Flight Publishing Co., Ltd., Dorset House, Stamford Street, London, S.E.i, at a cost of is i£d, including postage. * * • Henry Hughes and Sons, Ltd., report that their G.3 gyro-magnetic compass is fitted in the prototypes of a number of important new aircraft, including the Brabazon I, Ambassador I, Comet, Vis- count, Apollo and Canberra. • • • A recent report from Istanbul, whichappeared in a daily newspaper, said that a first contingent of 40 Vampires for theTurkish Air Force was expected to arrive there shortly. The de Havilland AircraftCompany states, however, that it has no knowledge of such orders. # * * Stated to be ',' already widely used asa permanent protective finish on auto- mobile and aircraft electric cables," andto have high flame-retarding and oil- resistant qualities, " Kling" celluloseacetate lacquers are the subject of a leaflet issued by the East Angh'a LacquerCo., Ltd., Street One, Aycliffe, Darling- ton. ; • Results of recent examinations con-stitute a -record in the history of the Saunders-Roe apprentice school. Intaking the Higher National Certificate, twelve apprentices passed in mechanicalengineering, two with distinctions in "Strength of Materials r.nd Structure,"and in the Ordinary National Certificate examination 18 apprentices passed inmechanical engineering and four in elec- trical engineering. B S
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