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1950
1950 - 1410.PDF
•tiy 1950 HERE and THERE Australian Carrier Here THE Royal Australian Navy's lightfleet carrier Sydney arrived at Portsmouth on Monday. Before return-ing to Australia later this year the Sydney will embark a new carrier airgroup. Bomber into Tankers BOEING AIRCRAFT have received aU.S.A.F contract for manufacture, and installation, of the new "flyingboom" flight-refuelling equipment for 116 *B-29 Superfortresses. Althoughlarge, the order is regarded as a service- test quantity. Ameriwa bomber groupsequipped for aerial refuelling continue to employ the flexible-hose system designedby the British company of Flight Refuelling, Ltd. The R.A.F. and Korea BRITISH Naval Forces taking part inthe Korean operations under General MacArthur have been strengthened bya squadron of R.A.F. Sunderlands. Ihis was announced by the Air Ministeron Saturday. Earlier, agency messages from Tokyohad reported the arrival of three of the flying boats at Iwakuni, Japan. Latest Freighter SPECIFICATIONS of the latest Bristol»-?. 170 twin-engined freighter or pas- senger transport—the Mk. 31—include a2,ooolb increase in the maximum all-up weight and an improved power-loading. This has been made possible by theinstallation of two Hercules 739 engines, each of 2,040 h.p., in place of the Her-cules 672s (1,700 h.p.) of earlier marks. The Mk. 31 is identified by a newlyincorporated dorsal fin. POTTED POWER : These Turbo-Wasp J-42 units, produced at Hartford, Connecticut, by the Pratt and Whitney Division of the United Aircraft Corporation, are being packed in air-tight metal drums to prevent damage or corrosion while in transit or storage. The J-42 is the P. and W. version of the Rolls-Royce Nene ; the American company also produces the more powerful J-48, a counterpart to the Tay (6,2501b thrust) LADY WITH DESIGNS : Miss Maureen Elliott, a J7=year-old drawf^-office with thfe Bristol Aeroplane Company, ha won +™*"-'rtiitW.?-.r)hic inengineering, awarded by the Women's Engineering Society. Home Command C PEA KING at Wolverhampton on*J Saturday, Mr. Henderson, Secretary of State for Air, announced that, infuture, Reserve Command will be known as Home Command. The old title wasno longer appropriate as the functions of the Command had recently undergoneconsiderable change; Reserve Command had, for instance, assumed control of anumber of active units, including recruit- ing centres and the Records Office.There was also a proposal that the new Command should work with the Armyin planning the defence of R.A.F. stations in this country. Vampire's 900-mile Lisbon Flight MORE news is now available of therecent fast flight to Lisbon by John Derry in a D.H. Vampire. The aircraft,which carried standard 100-gall. external wing-tanks, covered the 902.75 milesbetween Hurn, Bournemouth, and Por- tella, Lisbon, in 2 hr 14 min, giving anaverage speed of 404.82 m.p.h. (not 380 m.p.h. as earlier announced). The longer return trip, from Portellato Hatfield, took exactly the same time, but as the distance involved was 994.75miles, the speed averaged 446.07 m.p.h. The flights were not officially observedand will not be claimed as records. Newcastle Next Saturday TWO more events in the National AirRaces series will be flown next Saturday, July 29th, at Woolsington,near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, under the aegis of the Newcastle Aero Club. TheGrosvenor Challenge Cup, with an entry of 24, including one from Spain, will beflown over two laps of a 20-mile course; it is confined to aircraft of under 1,000 kgall-up weight. The Norton Griffiths Trophy Race (eight entries, including anItalian pilot), open to aircraft of 1,000- 1,750 kg, will be contested over five laps. After the meeting has been opened at2 p.m. by Air Chief Marshal Sir James Robb, Service and civil display items willalternate with .the races, times of which are: Grosvenor Cup heats, 2.15 and2.45; Norton Griffiths Trophy, 3.45; Grosvenor Cup final, 4.45. Admission is2s. (children is, cars 2s); special car park, £1, including car's occupants. ; Russian RecordsT HE Soviet Union has captured nineof eleven records, in the model cate- gory, homologated by the F.A.I. Theremaining two records in the new list are held by France. Two of the Russianrecords were in the category for jet- powered models; the speeds reached inthis instance were 80 m.p.h. and 89 m.p.h. Lord Hives IT seems that recent newspaper an-nouncements concerning the title of the managing director of Rolls-Royce.Ltd., upon whom a barony was conferred in the Birthday Honours, may cause mis-understanding. In actual fact, he has not assumed the title of Lord Hives ofDuffield, but simply "Lord Hives." The Ostrich Attitude T\ESPITE the present international-*-/ situation and the consequent need for a strong and well-trained R.A.F., theAir Ministry continues to receive com- plaints about the noise of aircraft. TheTown Council of Bridlington recently told the Ministry that '' visitors and resi-dents had been disturbed by aircraft flying over the town." The Air Ministry (who might haveobserved that an enemy atom bomb would cause considerably more "dis-turbance") obligingly replied that, in future, aircraft would fly over Bridling-ton only occasionally, and at high alti- tude. It was stated, however, that
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