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FLIGHT, 15 June 1950 70/ HERE AND THERE . . . Pictorial, due for general release nextMonday, June 19th. The picture, •which is the outcome of co-operation be-tween the film company and Airwork, Ltd., one of whose Vikings made thetrip, shows some of the finer points of traffic-handling involved in getting suchunusual passengers as white rhinoceroses to travel by air. Birthday Fly-past LONDON and the Home Counties lastThursday saw the first of the cere- monial fly-pasts which are to markoccasions of national importance. To celebrate the King's birthday, 18 Lin-colns of Bomber Command, from Bin- brook and Hemswell, flew over theMetropolis at i,oooft is six vies in line astern; His Majesty watched them- fromthe Palace balcony. Seen from Flight's offices, overlookingthe Thames near Blackfriars, the forma- tion was an impressive one, well main-tained in spite of bumpy conditions. The King's birthday was celebratedthroughout the Service, with colour- hoisting parades at home and overseas. Guard or Grumbler? _,.". « HpHE S.E.2410, a French jet-propelled1 attack bomber, with two Hispano- Suiza-built Rolls-Royce Nene turbojets,is now flying and has been given the name Grognard, which can either meana grumbler or a grouser, or a soldier of the Old Guard. In this design, a scalemock-up of which was shown at the last Paris Salon, the Nenes are staggeredinside the bulky fuselage. The air intake •s let into the upper fuselage surface, and*he flush-roofed cockpit is in the extreme nose of the aircraft. .:.... FRAMED in the door of the Vickers-Armstrongs Viscount as it left on June 5th for its tropical tests at Khartoumis Mr. J. Leach (pressurizing and air- conditioning specialist), whose first"record has shown the ground tem- perature at Blackbushe to be 82 deg Fin the shade. With him is flight- observer R. Holland. Also on the tripis G. H. F. Hemsley, to whom the vJLAe.S. recently awarded the R. P.-Alston Memorial Prize for his valu- able work as a flight-test observer. F.A.I. IN THE SKY : Mustangs of the Royal Swedish Air Force spelt out a welcometo delegates in Stockholm for the Federation Aeronautique Internationale Congress. This year's Congress also marks the 50th jubilee of the Royal Swedish Aero Club. / Lincolns on Safari T^HREE Avro Lincolns from UpwoodJ- returned recently to Shallufa, Canal Zone, after visiting R.A.F.Station Heaney, in Rhodesia, where they took part in Empire Day celebra-tions. Ansons, Harvards, Tiger Moths and the Lancaster squadron fromNairobi performed with the Lincolns before 6,000 spectators. There has been no change in theposition with regard to the with- drawal of overtime working by asection of the printing industry. A slight reduction in the numberof pages in Flight accordingly continues to be unavoidable.AH journals printed in London are similarly concerned to a greater orlesser extent, but journals printed in the provinces are not affected. Airborne TelevisionN EW aerial television - transmittingequipment produced by the Glenn L. Martin Company employs a rotatingantenna, in the extreme fuselage tail, to eliminate interference as far as possible.The first aircraft to demonstrate TV transmission from the air, a B-29, wasequipped with a large retractable mast beneath the fuselage. Airborne trans-mission greatly increases coverage. Eastern Intelligence ON his return to Washington from theFar East an American diplomat has declared that Russian pilots, using theirown jet aircraft, "probably" figure in Peking Government plans for attackingFormosa. In Shanghai, ne said, there are more than 3,000 Russian air force andadministrative advisers. He recently saw Russian-type jet fighters makingflights over the area. NEWS IN BRIEF THE Aircraft Golfing Society hasarranged for its members to use the facilities of the Nineteenth Club, 10, Old Burlington Street, London, W.i, and an inaugural dinner is to be held on Wed- nesday. July 5th. The London H.Q. of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research have recently been moved to Charles House, 5-11,. Regent Street, London, S.W.I. The telephone number—Whitehall 9788 —remains unchanged. # * # Dowty Equipment, Ltd., has made an agreement with Rubber and Plastics Inc. of Dayton, Ohio, to manufacture Dowty bonded seals in the U.S.A. These seals consist of a specially shaped rubber washer bonded to a metal ring which forms a leakproof seal when compressed in a joint, and are claimed to withstand pressures up to TO,000 lb/sq in. « * * Appearing for the first time since 1939,The Iron and Steel Directory and Hand- book (price 25s) contains 300 pages ofinformation of value to buyers and users of non-ferrous metals. Aircraft steels areamong the materials on which data are given. The publishers of the directoryare the Louis Cassier Co., Ltd., Dorset House, Stamford Street, London, S.E.T Four films in the Shell Film Unit's"Refinery Processes" series have recently been completed under the titles of OctaneNumber, Cracking, Components for Avia- tion Gasoline, and Aviation Gasoline—Blending. # * » 'j •. •:The name of Metalastik, Ltd., Leices- ter, should be added to the list of sup-pliers of components for the Avro Shackleton. a description of -whichappeared in Flight of May 18th. The firm is responsible for the resilient mount-ings of the Griffon engines. # # * R. B. Pullin and Co., Ltd., Brentford,Middlesex, announce that their electrical turn-and-slip indicators have been ap-proved for use in the D.H. Comets for B.O.A.C. These instruments, stated tobe the only electrical turn-and-slip indi- cators approved for use in Service air-craft, including jets, have a recommended overhaul period of 1,000 hr. # * * In our report (May 18th) of theR.A.F. Display eliminating contests at North Weald, we mentioned some par-ticularly fine Mosquito aerobatics by F/L. G. L. Auty of No: 15 M.U. Thisunit is, of course, in Maintenance Com- mand, whose pilots do a great deal moreflying, and on a larger variety of types, than is generally realized.
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