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i34 HERE and THERE Bristol History year the Bristol Aeroplane Co.,J- Ltd., celebrates its fortieth anni- versary, and in next week's (February16th) issue of Flight will appear a photo- gravure supplement dealing with thefamous aircraft built by the firm. Trans-Canada Record A NORTH STAR of No. 426 TransportSquadron, R.C.A., recently cut seven minutes from the two-year-old trans-Canada record, by flying from Vancouver to Halifax in 8 hr 25 min (485 m.p.h.). The pilot was F/O. Gordon Webb, D.C.M. and bar. There was a tail-wind, sometimes exceeding 100 m.p.h., but the speed is nevertheless very creditable. Expensive Scoop r" ^ ALLEGED to have flown over the A manoeuvring area of the airfield at Filton at less than 500ft, in order to allow a Press photographer to obtain pictures of the Brabazon, the pilot of a^n Auster was recently fined £10 at Staple Hill (Bristol) Magistrates' Court. The pro- prietors of the journal concerned were fined /60 and two employees /io each. Antarctic Rescue ; i ON January 30th the first two of thefive British scientists who have been marooned by heavy sea-ice on Stoning-ton Island, in Marguerite Bay, Graham Land, for more than three years, werebrought out by air. The Norduyn Norse- man carried by the supply-ship JohnBiscoe made the relief-flight from the FLIGHT, o February SLIPSTREAM AND SNOW: Taxying out the ski-shod Auster which accompanied theoriginal Graham Land expedition in 1947, members of which are now being evacuated by air (as reported below) from icebound Stonington Island, Marguerite Bay. base established on Argentine Islands, 200 miles distant, with Peter St. Louis, a Canadian, as pilot; it was achieved with- out incident, though floating ice added to the difficulty of the take-off from a fiord at Stonington Island, and base was reached just as a thick mist closed in. In addition to the five scientists men- tioned, there are six others who have been there for two years. The John Biscoe also carries an Auster floatplane, used for reconnoitring routes through the ice. An Auster—seen in the photograph on this page—accompanied the original exploration • party in 1947- but crashed during a survey flight; the crew made a ten-day trek back. U.S.A.F. General for London THE appointment of Maj. Gen. LeonJohnson, U.S.A.F., to the American Embassy in London for duties in connec- tion with the mutual defence assistance programme, was announced last week by the U.S. Secretary of Defence, Mr. Louis Johnson. Maj. Gen. Leon Johnson, who com- manded a heavy bomber group in the European theatre during the war, is one of seven American flag and general officers designated as chiefs of the Mili- tary Assistance Advisory Group. The others are appointed to Brussels, The Hague, Rome, Copenhagen, Oslo and Paris. B.A.L.P.A.'s New Chairman LAST week Capt. A. le R. S. Upton waselected chairman of the British Airline Pilots' Association for 1950, insuccession to Capt. A. P. W. Cane. After leaving the R.A.F. in 1932, he flew forvarious airlines until he joined Imperial Airways in 1936. Much of his war-timeflying was on the '' horse-shoe route '' in Africa, and for the past three years he hasbeen employed on flying-boat training. Belgium and R.A.F. Orphans "FOLLOWING the visit of 150 R.A.F.-L orphans to Belgium, the Chief of the Belgian Air Staff, General L. Leboutte,has sent a message to the R.A.F. Bene- volent Fund, who organized the visitwith the assistance of the International Help for Children. He said that Belgianfamilies who entertained the children to a month's holiday in their own homeswere glad to show that Britain's war- PENETRATIVE : Last week, in "American Notebook. ' Flight published an appreciation of the YF-86D development of the North American F-86 Sabre. The still newer machine now depicted—likewise a member of the Sabre family—differs so extensively as to warrant redesignation as YF-93. Noticeable features include flush intakes to the Pratt and Whitney Tay (Rolls-Royce licence) turbojet with afterburner, and a new undercarriage with dual main wheels. New armament may also have been embodied.
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