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1951
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FLIGHT, 22 June 1951 729 HERE AND THERE Australia's New Air Minister IN the new Australian Cabinet, Mr. P. A. McBride is Minister for Air as well as Minister for Defence and for the Navy. Mr. H. L. Anthony is Minister for Civil Aviation and also Postmaster-General. As already announced in these pages, the former Air and Civil Aviation Minister, Mr. T. W. White, is coming to this country as Australian High Commissioner. New Airlift ? A SHARP increase in parcel airmail out of Berlin last week suggested the commence- ment of a new airlift. The reason was the holding up of some 1,400 West Berlin export consignments as a result of a dispute with the Soviet authorities over Berlin's trading rights with the West. Viscount Orders IN his address at the recent general meeting of Vickers, Ltd., Lt.-Gen. Sir Ronald Storrs (chairman) said that, in addition to the B.E.A. order for Viscounts, I the contracts to supply similar aircraft to Aer Lingus and Air France were now being I finalized and that "further demands are not unlikely." All's Well . .. A FIRE which occurred in the port outer engine of a B.O.A.C. Stratocruiser, five minutes after it had taken off from London Airport on Wednesday of last week, failed to submit to the aircraft fire-suppression equipment. The pilot asked for an emer- gency landing and seven airport tenders dealt effectively with the matter. High-Speed Buyer A LONDON firm of car agents, Tankard and Smith, Ltd., are finding that it is no more expensive, and certainly quicker, for their sales manager to fly himself round the country (to examine and purchase cars) than to travel by road or rail. Not only is valuable time saved, they say, but a wider market has been opened up. Ice Destroys Eight THE recent simultaneous crash of eight F-84 Thunderjets, shortly after they had taken off from Wright-Patterson field, Dayton, has been found to have been due to icing of air-intakes. "There was no indication of sabotage," says the U.S.A.F. and F.B.I, committee which investigated the accident. Three of the pilots lost their lives; the others escaped by parachute. Aeromodellers' Classic ONE of the classic events in the model aeronautical calendar is due to take place next Sunday, June 24th, when, starting at 10 a.m., the Northern Heights Model Flying Club holds its gala day at Hawkers' airfield, Langley, near Slough. The pro- gramme will include the annual contest for the Queen's Cup, limited to rubber- powered duration models of specified wing area, weight and fuselage cross-section. Compact Compass A NEW stand-by compass, the E2A, developed by the Admiralty Compass Observatory at Slough for the Ministry of Supply, weighs only 3 oz. and is little larger than a golf ball; its case is of trans- parent plastic material, and a new silicone fluid is used instead of alcohol. Designed for installation in modern high-speed air- craft, where electrical and metallic inter- ference may be high and stowage-space small, the new instrument is being put into production by Kelvin and Hughes, Ltd. Unwilling Guests TWO F-84 Thunderjets based in Bavaria landed last week near Prague during a training flight; it is thought that they had lost their way. The pilots, one a Norwegian and the other an American being trained in Germany under the military assistance programme, were detained by the Czechs. The incident echoes the landing, reported recently in these columns, of a Russian pilot in the French sector of Berlin—with the difference that the Russian realized his mistake in time, and got away. NON-VITAL HIT: What one cannon-shell from a Mig-15 can do to a nacelle-fillet and flap of a 6-29. Fortunately the damage was mainly confined to the skin, the internal structure escaping. The picture was taken recently in North Korea. IN THE ASCENDANT: Though closely resembl- ing Mr. Russell Adams's earlier vertical-climb studies, the subject of this new picture is actually of a Meteor powered experimentally with two Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire turbo- jets. In level flight it can attain its limiting Mach Number with only one Sapphire running. IN BRIEF TJOLLOWING the acquisition of ex- JT tended premises at Croydon Airport, W. A. RoUason, Ltd., have closed their repair depot at Eastleigh, Southampton. * * * Paris Show visitors are already finding good use for the new pocket-size English- French, French-English aeronautical glos- sary lately issued by Rotol, Ltd. * * * A new edition of Engineering Education in the Region (London and Home Counties) has been published, price is., by the London Regional Advisory Council, Tavis- tock House South, London W.C.I. * * * Mr. Basil C. Hawke states that he has resigned his post as chief designer (aircraft division) at Western Manufacturing Estate, Ltd., in order to join F. G. Miles, Ltd., Redhill, in a design capacity. * • * Rotax, Ltd., state that they are the first firm to receive approval under the design- approval scheme for aircraft instrument and electrical equipment announced by the M.O.S. last year. * * * In connection with the accident to a' Wyven near Boscombe Down on June 8th, in which Lt. Cdr. Hansen lost his life, the M.L. Aviation Co., Ltd., state that the ejection seat used was not of their design or manufacture. * * * In issuing a list of its committee- members (reproduced in Flight of June 1st) the R.Ae.C. inadvertently described Mr. F. Rowarth as senior handicapper; in fact, that officer is Mr. D. J. Lyons, while Mr. Rowarth is the consultant.
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