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1950
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21 September, 1950 337 New publicity manager to Venner Time Switches, Ltd., andVenner Accumulators, Ltd., of New Maiden, Surrey, is Mr. Douglas Gibson, late manager of Chemical Products. • • • Mr. D. K. Forsdyke, who until recently was manager of theKandy airport in Northern Nigeria, has been appointed Civil Aviation Officer to the Government of Cyprus. Previously Mr.Forsdyke was senior traffic controller at the overseas A.T.C.C. at Gloucester. • • • A cocktail party was held at the Northolt Airport Club on September 9, to celebrate the airport's 10,000th landing under the G.C.A. condition since the system was installed in 1948. Northolt thus becomes the second airport in the world to have handled 10,000 radar landings, the first being Gander (New- foundland) where G.C.A. was in operation as far back as 1943. • • • Aluminium Laboratories, Ltd., announce the appointments of Dr. R. T. Parker, B.Sc., A.R.S.M., F.R.I.C, F.I.M., as director of research, and Mr. George Forrest, B.Sc. (Eng.), as associate director of research, at their Banbury laboratories. Aluminium Laboratories, Ltd., is responsible for the technical management of the Aluminium, Ltd., group of companies. • • • The twelfth aircraft in the S.O.30 Bretagne series has been delivered to Air France for trials on the company's routes. Forty of these aircraft are due to be completed by the end of 1951. The news that the Bretagne is shortly to undertake demon- stration flights to several European capitals is expected to coincide with the announcement of a full C. of A. • • • Of great interest to prospective operators were the catalogue prices announced for some of the more prominent civil aircraft at the recent Farnborough show. Vickers Viscount, for example, may be purchased for £167,000, while a D.H. Comet is priced at £450,000. The Dove feederliner, in which U.S. operators are showing interest, is listed at £17,500. • • • The resistance of various airfield-surface materials to jet blast is being tested at Cardington, where the power-units of a Meteor —"anchored" to concrete blocks—are directed against a patch- work of various surfaces. Coarse tarmac, it is reported, is the most easily destroyed; asphalt is more durable, although kerosene causes it to deteriorate considerably. • • • The Royal New Zealand Air Force has ordered a Bristol Freighter equipped for aerial top-dressing; it will be used for economic testing under New Zealand conditions. A Freighter Mk. 31 recently gave a demonstration of top-dressing with super- phosphate at Plynlimon and was later exhibited at the S.B.A.C. show. • • • Engineers of the S.N.A.S.E. factory, under the leadership of M. Jarlaud, are now constructing a jet-powered glider to be known as the Emouchet. Designed to permit glider pilots to make an initial climb to high altitudes, it is equipped with two pulse-jet units fitted under the wings. The first flight is expected towards the end of October. - • •"•'"•• ' The Governor of Fiji, Sir Brian Freestone, attended recently a meeting of the working committee of the South Pacific Com- mission last week in Sydney. Proposals for air services to link Fiji with other Pacific Islands were discussed. A survey flight was recently made over the projected routes and the report is now in the hands of the Fiji Government. • • • ."'.; "y; "•'••".•. -".'-"" .••.;•.•••*; Ethiopian Airlines announce an operating profit of hearty£40,000 for 1949, a considerable increase over the figure for the previous year. Passenger-mileage rose by nearly 3,000,000 tosome 8,989,307 miles. The company now operates nine Dakotas, one Norseman and one D.H. Dove; delivery of two Convairlinersis expected in November. • • • Generally increased international airline traffic during the first seven months of this year is indicated by a rise of almost 10 per cent, in the total number of interline transactions handled by the I.A.T.A. Clearing House in London. The 35 members of the Clearing House were able to eliminate cash payment and foreign exchange dealings on 81.3 per cent, of the turnover for July by the offsetting of credit and debit accounts. • • • The Anglo-American Oil Co., Ltd., announces that a plant recently completed on the site of the original refinery at Fawley is now producing Paranox 56 additive for lubricating oils. This British compound will be known as Paranox 56GB to differentiate it from that of American manufacture. During the war, Paranox 56 was specifically recommended for use in Bristol engines. JET BOMBING: In recent U.S.A.F. tests at Muroc, 500-lb bombs were dropped at speeds of over 500 m.p.h. from a B-45 Tornado New Zealand has called for tenders for an air-freight service to link the two main islands of that country • • • While visiting this country for the S.B.A.C. Show, Mr. Christopher Clarkson made it known that he would be remaining in his post of Civil Air Attache1 at Washington, D.C., for another 12 months. • • • • With the opening of Barrackpore, Calcutta now has a satellite airport which will help to relieve some of the congestion now being experienced at Dum Dum. Five companies are expected to operate passenger and freight services from the new airfield. • • • To assist Swissair in its present financial difficulties, the Swiss Government is to purchase ten of the company's aircraft. They will continue in operation and after ten years will be re-acquired by Swissair at the then prevailing value. • • • In addition to an initial order for 30 Martin 4-0-4's placed last June, T.W.A. announces an order for a further ten of these twin- engined 40-seat airliners. They will be used to replace slower equipment now operating on the company's medium- and short- haul routes. • • • A dance for past and present students of the Colleges of Automobile and Aeronautical Engineering (Chelsea) is being held at Victoria Hall, Bloomsbury Square, London, W.C.I, on Tuesday, October 17. Tickets from the secretary, 102, Sydney Street, London, S.W.3. • • • The growing importance of Montreal as an international terminal is signified by the inauguration of a regular service to and from Paris by Air France. The first flight is due to arrive at Montreal on October 3 and eastbound services will begin two days later. • • • For flights made at the S.B.A.C. Display at Farnborough, the Bristol Brabazon was insured for some £750,000, estimated to be half its actual value. The risk continued only while the Brabazon was warming-up, in flight or landing, the aircraft being uninsured when the engines were not running. • • • United Air Lines are converting seven standard 21-passenger DC-3s' to accommodate 28 passengers. The project is designed to provide increased capacity for certain segments of the company's route network where, though load factors are high, the use of larger equipment is considered impracticable. • • • Latest in the Fouga series of jet-powered sailplanes, the Cyclope aerobatic trainer made a successful flight at Aire-sur-Adour on August 31. Like the Sylphe, which has been demonstrated in both Britain and America, the Cyclope is powered by a Turbo- meca Pim6n6 turbojet. • • • P.A.W.A. announces that, due to the unprofitable nature of the operations, services to Prague have now been suspended. This capital was previously served by Pan-American on a flight between Vienna and Munich on services from America to the Middle and Far East. • • • As handsomely produced as ever, the 1950-51 edition of the "Dunlop Aviation Year Book" (Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., Aviation Division, Foleshill, Coventry), has recently appeared. In its 90 large pages, it illustrates and gives technical data con- cerning products in the tyre, hydraulic, de-icing, armament- control and other fields for which the Aviation Division caters.
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