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1951
1951 - 0444.PDF
278 FLIGHT, 9 March 1951 HERE AND THERE Swiss Venoms? THE Swiss Government last week author- ized the purchase of 150 "improved versions" of the Vampire, presumably D.H. Venoms. It is emphasized by de Havillands that the aircraft will be built under licence in Switzerland; deliveries to the R.A.F. will not be affected in any way. Missile Inspection FOLLOWING a visit to Australia in con- nection with guided-missile development, Air Marshal Sir Alec Coryton, Controller (Guided Missiles), and Sir Harry Garner, Chief Scientist, Ministry of Supply, are making a tour of factories and proving- grounds concerned with similar work in die United States. Heavier Metal TRACTORS are now being built by the German Heinkel company. According to a recent Cape Town report, the organiza- tion will soon begin exporting tractors and other farm machinery to South Africa. If the demand proves satisfactory, a Heinkel assembly works may be set up outside Johannesburg. R.Ae.S. Garden Party SOME unusually interesting lighter-than- air craft, about which nothing may be disclosed at the moment, are to appear at the annual garden party of the Royal Aeronautical Society at White Waltham on Sunday, May 6th. Tickets, strictly limited in number, will be available only to the Society's guests and members, who are advised to apply as early as possible. As in the previous two years, the garden party will be given a prewar atmosphere by the presence of historical aircraft, together with helicopters and new light aircraft. X-4 EXPLODED: First view of the interior arrangements of the Northrop X-4 twin-jet trans-sonic research aircraft. The X-4, which may be regarded as an American counterpart to the D.H. 108 has a top speed of approximately 650 m.p.h.; power units are two Westinghouse J-30 axial turbojets, each giving 1,600 Ib thrust without recourse to the afterburners fitted. Family Affair UNITED Air Lines, whose 25th anniver- sary is marked pictorially on p. 288 of this issue, claim to employ the only air-going father and daughter in civil aviation. The father is Capt. Ralph Johnson, who flies Stratocruisers on the California-Hawaii route; his daughter Geraldine ("pen, pretty") is employed as a stewardess by the same company. Amazing Mystery COLONEL ROZANOFF, test pilot for the French Marcel Dassault Company, is now flight-testing the M.D. 452 Mystere, a swept-wing version of the Nene-powered Ouragan fighter. After four flights, accord- ing to a French source, Col. Rozanoff declared that the aircraft had "amazing qualities." So far, flights have extended to 40,000ft, the cockpit-pressurization has been tested, and maximum speed attained. First details are announced of a new Dassault fighter, the Aladin. This single- seater is developed from the Ouragan and Mystere, but carries radar in the nose and has fuselage-side intakes. A two-seat Aladin is being developed for night and all- weather fighting. HELICOPTER GATHERING: Cheerful group at the first annual dance of the Bristol Aeroplane Company's helicopter department last Friday: (left to right) Mr. A. E. Russell, Mrs. Hafner, Mr. R. S. Brown, Mr. Raoul Hafner, Mr. N. £. Rowe, Mrs. Rowe, Mr. A. J. Pegg, and Mrs. Brown. DR. A. M. BALLANTYNE A.M.I.C.E., A.M.I.Struct.£., who, as announced last week,Hias been appointed to succeed Capt. Laurenct Pritchard as secretary of the Royal Aeronautical Society. U.S. Bases in France TWO bases are to be set up in France for the U.S.A.F. They will be situated in the Nimes-Orange area, north-west of Mar- seilles, and will have runways capable of accommodating heavy bombers and jet fighters. It was recently announced that the U.S.A.F., would also establish five air bases in Morocco. Handing Back Heligoland BOMBING of Heligoland by R.A.F. and U.S.A.F. aircraft will stop within a year, This promise was given to the German Federal Government last week by Sir ' Ivone Kirkpatrick, the British High Com- missioner. The British decision to dis- continue the use of Heligoland as a bomb ing range as soon as other targets have been found (and in any case not later than March 1st, 1952), was not, it was stressed, affected by recent Communist action in sending "squatters" to Heligoland. Dr.
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