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FLIGHT, 15 February 1951 HERE AND THERE . . . 181 with the Viet-minh rebels. The 170s,three in number, belong to a subsidiary of Air France, Societe Indochinoise desTransports Aeriens, and were used on internal services to carry both cargo andpassengers. New Bases in Morocco WORK has begun on the enlargementand modification of five airfields in Morocco which will be shared by Frenchand American air force units. Seventeen thousand personnel of the U.S.A.F. willbe engaged in the work, which is expec- ted to be completed by July. The air-fields will be employed by the U.S.A.F. as strategic-bomber bases. Sabres in Korea— ON his return from Korea last week,W/C. J. E. Johnson, D.S.O., D.F.C., was quoted as saying that the Russian Mig-15 can climb faster than the F-86 Sabre, which he described as " the best fighter in the Western world." Mig-15s, which he had seen in action, were good aircraft and would give the Sabre "a good run for its money." W/C. Johnson, top-scoring R.A.F. fighter-pilot during the war, has been spending the past three years on exchange duty with the U.S.A.F. During a 14- week stay in Korea he flew 12 operational missions and was decorated by the -U.S.A.F. —and in Parliament THE question of supplying Sabres tothe R.A.F., discussed in last Thurs- day's Flight, was again mentioned by theAir Minister in Parliament recently. He said that a proposal to obtain F-86s wasstill under examination, and continued, " It is considered at the moment that theF-86 is the fastest aeroplane in the world in level flight, whereas a year or moreago machines used by the R.A.F. were the fastest." In the interests of accuracy, it shouldbe remarked that there is nothing new about the Sabre's high performance. Astandard, fully armed F-86A set up the world's speed record of 670.981 m.p.h. onSeptember 15th, 1948. As frequently pointed out in Flight, this speed was then—and still is—well in excess of that attain- able by any aircraft in service with theR.A.F. TAKE-OFF BOOST : With the added thrust of eight Jato cylinders, this take-off by the Chase C-123 was made in six seconds after a 400-ft run. The C-123, originally developed from a cargo glider, was the winner of a recent U.S.A.F. design competition for " assault transports " ; rival designs were the Fairchild Packet and Northrop Raider. No production-contract has yet been granted. In the Queue ^PHE Chief of the Dutch Air Force Staff-*- said in Amsterdam last week, on his return from the U.S.A., that Hollandwould receive " hundreds " of jet aircraft from America in the next two or threeyears. The only jet fighter in produc- tion in the Netherlands is the GlosterMeteor 8, which, at the moment, is being built by the Fokker works for Hollandand Belgium. Paris Show Arrangements AS mentioned in Flight last week, the19th Paris Aero Show will be held simultaneously in the Grand Palais andat Le Bourget next June. The organizers now announce that while the main exhibi-tion of aircraft, engines and equipment will be held in the Grand Palais fromJune 15th-July 1st, a supplementary shewing of equipment will be given at LeBourget, where it can be demonstrated, from June 22nd to July 1st. This addi-tional exhibition is combined with the static park for heavy aircraft, which willbe at Le Bourget for the same period. FRENCH VAMPIRES : Newly built de Havilland Vampire 5s aligned at the Marignane factory of S.N.C.A.S.E., where production has reached a rate of six aircraft a month. The next version to be produced at Marignane will be the French-developed Mistral (Vampire 53), which has an ejector seat and is*powered by a Rolls-Royce Nene, as built under licence by Hispano-Suiza. NEWS IN BRIEF AMONG five former students of the•^*- City and Guilds College upon whom Fellowships of the City and Guilds ofLondon Institute have recently been con- ferred is Mr. S. Scott-Hall, C. B.,M.Sc.(Eng.) Lond., D.I.C., F.R.Ae.S. Mr. Scott-Hall is Principal Director of Tech-nical Development (Air), M.O.S. * * * Thomas De La Rue and Co., Ltd., statethat, to facilitate the operation of their industrial group, their wholly owned sub-sidiary company, De La Rue Extrusions, Ltd., has been taken over by the parentcompany. The business will in future operate under the plastics division. * * * Among the three recipients of awardsmade recently by the Institute of Metals is Mr. Christopher Smith, chief metal-lurgist of James Booth and Co., Ltd., Bir- mingham. He receives the W. H. A.Robertson Medal for his paper on The Extrusion of Aluminium Alloys. * * » Folland Aircraft, Ltd., announce thatProf. E. J. Richards, M.A., B.Sc, A.F.R.Ae.S., of University College,Southampton, is to act as consultant to them in connection with some importantnew work. Until recently, he was assis- tant chief designer and chief aero-dynamicist at Vickers' Weybridge works. * * # Zirconium alloys are finding increasingapplication in aircraft work, and now comes news that zirconium itself is beingproduced on a commercial scale in this country—by Murex, Ltd., Rainham,Essex. It is at present available in sheet and rod form, and wire will shortly beavailable. * * * A compact 2in-capacity version of the" Staffa" 4in hydraulic tube-bending machine made by Chamberlain Industries,Ltd. (Staffa Road, London, E.10), has recently appeared. Operated by a ^ h.p.230- or 440-volt motor, this bench-type machine is entirely self-contained, thehydraulic-power pump being mounted in its own reservoir of oil.
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