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FLIGHT, 13 April 1951 HERE AND THERE . . . Commons on March 3rd by Mr. BeverleyBaxter. The Minister of Works, Mr. Stokes, said that he "should like to see astatue to Alcock and Brown somewhere", but did not agree with Mr. Baxter's sug-gestion that the Duke of Cambridge's statue in Whitehall should be removedand a memorial to the Atlantic pioneers erected in its place. Exercise "Ombrelle" SIX nations will contribute aircraft toExercise Ombrelle, the first in this year's series of large Western Union air exercises.Holland will be the base for aircraft from Britain, the U.S.A.F., France, Belgium,the Netherlands and Denmark. At the Garden Party AMONG the interesting old-time aircrafton show at the R.Ae.S. Garden Party at White Waltham on May 6th will be theHandley Page Gugnunc and Westland Hill Pterodactyl, both of which will appear bypermission of the Director of the Science Museum. A 1916 Sopwith Triplane wilalso be on view. " Symbol of Strength " AT his first public function as AirCommander, Western Europe, Lt.-Gen. Lauris Norstad officially handed over fourF-84 Thunderjets to the Belgian Air Force at Brussels on April 3rd. "Theseaircraft are not numerous," said Gen. Norstad, "but they are the symbol of agreater strength to come." The new commander, who is 44, had taken over hisappointment the previous day. Spitfire Scholarships WINNERS for 1951 of the two SpitfireMitchell Memorial Scholarships are P. A. Knowles and C. M. C. Spedding, engineer-ing apprentices from, respectively, the Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., and Saunders-Roe, Ltd. The scholarships, which are awarded annually, carry a grant of £60 perannum, plus supplementary Ministry of Education grants; they are tenable forfour years, from October next, at Uni- versity College, Southampton. 200 "Brab" Hours THE first member of the Brabazon Itest-crew to log 200 hours in the huge prototype is John Sizer, a test-observer.He reached this total recently during his eighty-second flight in the aircraft, theeighty-fifth made by the Brabazon itself. Sizer, who joined the Bristol AeroplaneCompany early in 1949, was originally a test-observer at the A. and A.E.E., 419 Boscombe Down, where he flew in twentytypes, including six prototypes. In 1948 he forsook flying for farming, but foundit dull and returned to aviation. Danish Fireflies MORE Firefly 1 target-towing aircraft areto be supplied to Scandinavia by the Fairey Aviation Company. The Royal DanishAir Force is the latest customer, following two years' successful operation of the typein Sweden, where Firefly target-towers are operated under charter for the armedforces by the Flygtjanst company. U.S. Base in France CHATEAUROUX, in central France, isto be the site of a receiving and distributing centre for American aircraft supplied tomember-nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. To be operated bythe U.S.A.F., it will consist of an airfield, factory and administrative block. By B.OJV.T. HAVING successfully completed thetransatlantic delivery flight of an English Electric Canberra in 4 hr 37 min—"justan ordinary ferrying job"—S/L. A. E. Callard, D.F.C., returned to England onMarch 31st in the liner Parthia. He was accompanied by his crew, F/L. E. Haskett,D.F.C., and F/L. A. Robson. Their return was made at the modest speed ofabout 18 knots and took seven days. SAFETY NET: (Above) This nylon harness has been produced by the U.S.A.F. for pro- tecting sideways- seated men in troop- carrying aircraft dur- ing crash-landings. RED READINESS: From Peking comes this picture (left) of a Chinese Communist pilot in the cockpit of his fighter—a Mus- tang captured from Gen. Chiang Kai- shek's Nationalist Air Force. at Torquay from QUICK DEVELOPMENT: A Sikorsky H-19 helicopter, the prototype of which first flew in November, 1949, is seen on air rescue duties in Korea. It has capacity for eight casualties. The H-19 is to be built under licence by the Westland Aircraft Company in Britain. IN BRIEF PAPERS on Transport Costs and Charges(Sir William Wood, K.B.E.) and Par- liament and the Transport Problem (DavidRentpn, M.P.) will bp read at the Institute -offransport Conge nth tqj5t _ _ " * Mr. F. G. Jackson, manager of thecentral personnel department at Fort Dun- lop has been appointed deputy worksdirector of the Dunlop Calcutta factory. Mr. Jackson has been with the companysince 1926, with five years in the R.A.F. * * * No R.Ae.C. film show is to be given onApril 18th; our recent announcement of this date was incorrect. The next showwill, in fact, be that on April 26th, with Flying Club and Eagles of the Fleet. •k -k * Thomas De La Rue and Co., Ltd., are tohold a private exhibition of their plastic and other products at the galleries of the RoyalSociety of Painters in Water Colours, Conduit Street, London W. 1, from July 2ndto July 19th. * * * Aerial Spraying Contractors, Ltd., pointout that the spraying time mentioned in our recent description of the crop-sprayingAuster Aiglet should have been 50 minutes for 280 acres. * * *Counterbalances of G.E.C. Heavy Alloy were used in the control system of thetransatlantic Canberra—for ailerons, rudder horn and base, rudder tab and inboard endsof the elevators. This powder-metallurgy product has a specific gravity of 16-17, ascompared with 11.4 for lead.
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