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1950
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FLIGHT, 20 April 1950 HERE AND THERE , . . rate of five a minute, the latter are ex- pected to fly in 30,000 troops, 14,000 tons of equipment and 12,000 tons of supplies. In overall command of the exercise will be Lt.-Gen. Lauris Norstad, a former U.S.A.F. Deputy Chief of Staff sjpr Operations. Parachute Patents Infringed IN an action taken by Irving Air Chuteof Great Britain, Ltd., against Societe Lemercier (Aviation Depart- ment), judgment was given for the plaintiffs by the Civil Tribunal of the Se^jje, Paris. It was held that the para- chute harness known as Lemercier Type 200 constituted an infringement of cer- tain Irving patents. The defendants were prohibited from manufacturing or selling these harnesses, and were ordered to pay to the British company damages of about ,£1,000. An expert was instructed to evaluate other sales that might have been made by Lemercier and to calculate correspond- ing damages. : :;./\ •.,. --i: . "._-• Avons for Australia? ' -^ DURING his visit to Australia, Mr.E. \V. Hives, the managing direc- tor of Rolls-Royce, Ltd., is reported tohave recommended the Commonwealth Government to modify its plans for pro-ducing Rolls-Royce turbojets. He urged production of the Avon unit,it is said, in preference to the Tay, as he considered it unlikely that the R.A.F.would adopt the Tay, although a deci- sion was not yet final. The Avon was asuitable power-unit for the three pro- jected Australian-buih jet aircraft (theCanberra, the C.A.C. all-weather fighter and a Hawker jet fighter), and standard-ization between the R.A.F. and R.A.A.F. was considered essential. NEWS IN BRIEF THE rapid starting characteristics oithe two Rolls-Royce Derwent turbo- jets contributed greatly, says the GlosterAircraft Company, to the quick turn- round achieved by the Meteor 8 whichrecently set up three records between London and Copenhagen. * « *Petroleum Films Bureau (29, New Bond Street, London, W.i) have issueda new catalogue of their 16- and 35-mm sound and silent films. Aviation subjectsinclude How an Aeroplane Flies, British Aircraft Review (1948 and earlier edi-tions), Airscrew, and—dealing with the conversion of tankers into merchant air-craft-carriers—M.A .C. Ship. * * * At the annual general meeting of theBelfast Branch of the Royal Aeronauti- cal Society, it was reported that themembership was now 262, an increase of 70 over the previous year. The £10-prize for the best paper on civil aviation written by a Branch member had beenawarded to Mr. F. P. Youens, B-Sc., A.F.R.Ae.S. * * * The Sperry Gyroscope Co. has obtainedan additional 100,000 sq ft of factory space by leasing a large part of thebuildings at Feltham previously occupied by the General Aircraft Co., Ltd. Thenew factory space is very nearly as large as the present Brentford, works, and theintention is to make the Feltham factory a machining plant. * * * •The report of.the brat annual generalmeeting of the Engineer Buyers' and Representatives' Association states thatmembership now extends to Burma, Egypt, India and Thailand. Three newbranches have been sanctioned by the Council, of which two—one for south-west England and South Wales, and the other for Lancashire, Yorkshire andnorth-west England—would be formed within the next two or three months.* * * The largest rubber research centre in the British Commonwealth will, it is an- nounced, be opened at Fort Dunlop on June -7th by Sir Lawrence Bragg, Caven- dish Professor of Experimental Physics, Cambridge Universitv. * * * * As from April 1st, the Renfrew Foun- dries' resident engineer in the Midland area will be Mr. W. O. Gascoigne, 28, Priory Road, Kenilworth, Warwickshire. Telephone number: Kenilworth 710. * * *Henry Wiggin and Co., Ltd., Wiggin Street, Birmingham, 16, have produceda new publication, A'. Munel—Physical and Mechanical Properties, which givescomprehensive data on this precipitation- hardening nickel-copper allov. * * • Valay Industries, Ltd., 186, CampdenHill Road, London, W.8, state that suc- cessful results have been obtained byBritish European Airways by using "Jove" wax-spray polish for aircraftexterior-surface cleaning. It is claimed that the method provides a corrosion-resistant coating with a much smaller ex- penditure of time than is demanded byorthodox wax-polishing methods. * * * A. Cdre. Colin S. Cadell, managingdirector of International Aeradio, Ltd., is now back from his 20,000-mile survey ofthe company's activities. He visited Rangoon, Bangkok, Singapore, Karachi,Basra, Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut, Cairo and Nairobi, and during the tourconcluded arrangements for the estab- lishment of an International Aeradiooffice in Singapore (at 65, Chulia Street) under Mr. R. A. Willoughby. •.-:•-. '.,,-- ' TAYLOR AEROCAR /^NE-MINUTE conversion from car to aircraft is claimedfor the Taylor Aerocar two-seater, illustrated below. Designed by Moulton B. Taylor (left), the Aerocar isnow undergoing C.A.A. certification tests, and, subject to successful completion, 12 models are to be built forsales and demonstration purposes. A quantity-produc- tion price of ^1,000-^1,400 has been quoted.For both ground and flight operation the power unit is a single rear-mounted 100 h.p. Franklin engine. Asa car, the machine's speed is 50 m.p.h.; it has front- wheel drive, hydraulic brakes, three forward speeds andreversing gear. The "flight component"—consisting of wings, fuselage, tail unit and shaft-driven propeller—can be towed from city to airport, and has two small retractable wheels in the" wing-roots for this purpose. Inthe air the Aerocar's cruising speed is 100 m.p.h.
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