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FLIGHT, 23 November 1950 453 taken by the flight's second-in-command, F/L. H. M. T. Tudor, D.F.C. In an informal lecture on the film, S/L. Walford said that the use of light aircraft in such ventures was well worth while provided that their shortcomings (e.g., their vulner- ability on shipboard, and their inability to operate in thick weather) were borne in mind. They could "more than earn their keep " if used for local visual recon- naissance to assist the ship to find her way through pack ice; for local photo-recon- naissance-, for search and rescue; and for supply-reinforcement of sledging parties. He discounted their use for actual explora- tion, surveys and mapping. Paris Show Date THE Paris Show will be held next yearfrom June 15 th to July 1st. Small lircraft, engines and ancillary equipment will be exhibited in the Grand Palais and an international flying display will be staged at Le Bourget. Guns for Dutch Meteors THE Hispano-Suiza Company is toopen a factory in Holland to pro- duce guns (presumably of the standard 20 mm pattern) for Meteors built under licence for Holland and Belgium by the Fokker Works. The new factory, which will employ 500 workers, is not expected to be in full production before 1952. Score of Bulls /^LAIMED to be a record weight-lift of ^ live cattle, 20 bulls were recently transported in one flight by a Bristol Freighter of A.N.A. over a distance of 100 miles in Northern Australia. The whole operation of loading, flight and unloading took only two hours, as against three weeks for driving the animals over- land. The cost worked out at 30s a head, the bulls being carried as a " back- load." Unanimous Opinion NORTH Korean prisoners have con-firmed the U.S.A.F. evaluation of the Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star as " a superb weapon for close support." A re- cent statement by Lt. Gen. Stratemeyer, American Far East Air Force commander, revealed that "More than 2,000 Com- munist prisoners, from colonel to private, have been interviewed and the sifting of these reports produced one inescapable conclusion: our jet fighter is the most effective and the most feared weapon we have employed against the North Korean military machine." FIRST AND LAST : Still flying from the Fairey Company's airfield at White Waltham, this is the prototype Fulmar (R.R. Merlin 30)—the first Naval eight-gun fighter, developed from a 1934 specification. It has been modified to carry three people (instead of two) and is thought to be the only surviving example of 602 Fulmars built. Siam Survey '"THE Government of Siam has awarded•*• to Hunting Aerosurveys, Ltd., a con- tract, put out to international tender, foraerial photography and mapping of some 15,000 sq km in Central Siam. In addi-tion, a large-scale survey for a new rail- way has been ordered. A Percival SurveyPrince is being used for the operation; already on its way to Bangkok, it isequipped with a Smith's S.E.P.l auto- pilot monitored by a Hughes G.3 mag-netic gyro compass. Two Williamson Eagle IX electrically controlled surveycameras are being carried. The expedition manager is Capt. J. H.Saffery, D.S.O., chief pilot of the com- pany, and included in his crew is Mr.J. S. English, chief photographer. NEWS IN BRIEF MR. G. R. SHAW, until recently en-gineering manager at the B.O.A.C. flying-boat base at Poole, is joining Pest Control, Ltd., Bourn, Cambridge, as general manager. • -••. *.; •• •. The Avro Ashton high-altitude research jet aircraft, demonstrated for the first time at Farnborough Exhibition, has been equipped with the Sperry Gyrosyn Com- pass Type C.L.2. • * • Unique among industrial directories published to promote Britain's export trade, in that it shows a substantial cross- section of the most important producers of British goods, is the F.B.I. Register of British Manufacturers, 1950-51. Pub- lished at 42s by Kelly's Directories, Ltd., in conjunction with Iliffe and Sons Ltd., it comprises 852 pages (9iinx7+in) of information. FOR EXPORT : This Bristol Fighter has flown to Sydney—by B.O.A.C. and Qantas. A model replica of the aircraft used during the 1917 Allenby campaign by Capt. Ross Smith, it was made by Rolls-Royce, Ltd., and presented to the Australian War Museum, Canberra. Flameproof relays and automaticswitchgear for industrial and research applications are illustrated in a leafletfrom Londex, Ltd., 207, Anerley Road, London, S.E.20 * « » From an American firm of consultingengineers, Amman and Whitney, 611 N. Broadway, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, comesa brochure entitled Cost of Long-span Concrete Shell Roofs. Illustrated is ahangar, for American Airlines, with two 257-ft spans. * * * To the list of contributors of aero-nautical articles in the Britannica Book of the Year, 1950, (reviewed in Flight ofNovember 9th) should be added the name of G. D. H. Linton, formerly Press Officerat London Airport: he is responsible for the sections on European airports and onair races and records. # • # Before Maj. P. L. Teed's recent R.Ae.S.lecture at Belfast (see p. 428 of Flight last week) a special prize awarded by theSociety for the best work by a student of the Belfast College of Technology waspresented by Major G. P. Bulman, C.B.E., Director of Construction and Re-search Facilities, Ministry of Supply, and president of the R.Ae.S. The recipientwas W. J. Hanlon. # • # Claimed to be the first of its kind mthis country, new high-speed machinery has been installed—at a cost approaching£20,000—in an extension to the Holm- firth, Yorks., mills of T. and J. Tinker,t-td. Its purpose is the preparation of yarns from which the firm's Tinkertaxfireproof and mothproof fabrics are made. Specially suitable for aircraft upholsteryand curtaining, these materials are, it is stated, the subject of large orders receivedduring and since the S.B.A.C. Show, at which the makers exhibited.
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