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1950
1950 - 1622.PDF
238 FTJGUT, 3T August TQ=;O THREE AS ONE: The Patrouille d'Etampes aerobatic team takes off during the recent Swansea meeting. Con the pace in a similar Stampe trainer, and this trio repeated each of his manoeuvres (including bunts and stall turns) in formation. HERE AND THERE . .. . now decided to adopt a main radiator constructed on the same principles. The new light-alloy units will offer a weight- saving of 432 1b per aircraft and reli- ability at least equal to the copper and brass radiators they replace. Back in Uniform A SENIOR pilot of Pan AmericanWorld Airways who attained high rank in the war, Brig-Gen. Henry Kristofferson, has been recalled to military service by the United States Air Force. Recently, he has been flying Stratocruisers to the Far East under P.A.A.'s contract with the Military Air Transport Service. During the war he was in charge of the P.A.A. supply line to North Africa and later, serving in the U.S.A.A.F., assisted in organizing the famous "Hump" air lift from India to China across the Himalayas. Sperry Chairman Honoured THE chairman and managing directorof the Sperry Gyroscope Company, Mr. Arthur Hillier, O.B.E., was invested as a Knight Commander of the Order of Oranje Nassau on August 9th. The award, which recognizes long and ex- tensive service rendered by MY- Hillier's company to the Dutch Navy, Air Force and civil transport organizations, was made at the Dutch Embassy in London. For Aeronautical Application A NEW form of variable-speed gearwas demonstrated at Londondei ry.' House last week by its designer, Mr. J. J. Gerritsen, chief engineer of the Tiltman- Langley Laboratories, Redhill Aero- drome. Capable of drive ratios in the 1 :i to 2,000:1 reduction range, the gear consists essentially of steel balls running within coned surfaces, and is thus of the mechanical friction type. NEWS IN BRIEF A slight reduction in the number of pages in "Flight," and some delay in reporting events, continue to be unavoid- able as a result of the withdrawal of overtime working by a section of the printing industry. NEW aircraft standards for powertransformers (BSG 127:1950), metal rectifiers (BSG 126:1950) and B.A. washers (BSSP 22-27: *95°) have been published by the British Standards In- stitution, 24-28, Victoria Street, Lon- don, S.W.i. * * * The Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co., Ltd., announce the resignation of Mr. R. E. L. Izod, A.M.I.Mech.E., their British sales manager and a member of the board of directors. * • * Mr. Herman Pusin has been appointed chief of the structures department of the Glenn L. Martin Company. He joined ~~ the company in 1938 as a stress analyst and recently has been in charge pf structural design of the PM5-1 Marlin naval flying-boat. Flying enthusi- asts who are also car owners may be in- terested to know that C. C. Wakefield and Co., Ltd., have LATIN LIFT: Built for the Brazilian Air Min- istry by the Galeao factory at Rio de Jan- eiro, a»d designed by Paul Baumgarttf-^the ^ShAtnt.A helicopter (weighing only 680 Ib) made its initial tethered flight earlier this month. The designer is at the controls. a stock of chassis-and-engine lubrication charts for some 900 different types of vehicle. Copies are obtainable free on application (mentioning make, model and year) to the Company's offices at 46, Grosvenor Street, London, W.i. * * * Intended as a primary guide and refer- ence-book on the properties and working of aluminium and its alloys, a handbook entitled Materials and Fabrication has been published by T.I. Aluminium, Ltd., Redfern Road, Tyseley, Birmingham* 11. * • « On August 15th Mr. R. B. Farmer left this country to take up an appointment with Allison Gray and Co., of 44, Martin Place^^Sjjjjj&y^who M**"""™represent*^ijm *Tiraviner Mfg. Co?)k Ltd., in Australia. iJ S^^w-AfepM^ffVfnTr joined the engine department, R.A.E., Farnborough, where he was engaged in full-scale fire-testing of piston engines. In 1946 he transferred to the mechanical engin- eering department, where, until recently, he devoted the whole of his time to the problems of flight and crash fives. * * • The story of the first radio-equipped Atlantic attempt is told in No. 1 of 3 new house-organ, The Marconi Companies and Their People. The author is Mr. F. H. W. Gilmour, who was a member of Capt. F. L. Courtney's crew in the Dornier-Napier flying-boat which, in 1928, caught fire in mid-ocean. Help was summoned by the Marconi AD6 set, and crew and aircraft saved. Mr. R. B. Farmer.
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