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1951
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IA 102 FLIGHT, 27 July 1951 HERE AND THERE International Exercise A SQUADRON of Vampires of the RoyalNorwegian Air Force, based on the R.A.F. station at Giitersloh, has been participat-ing in Exercise Scandia One in the British zone of Germany. Danish, Norwegian andBritish troops were engaged. Elementary Navigation WITH nothing more than a K.L.M. pas-senger route map with which to navigate, W/C. Zahir Ahmed, C.F.I, of the NorthernIndia Flying Club based at Lahore, re- cently flew solo from Rearsby to his base atLahore in an Auster Aiglet. His flying time was 41 hrs 45 min, spread over eight days. Express Delivery THE D.H. Comet which flew recentlyfrom London to Johannesburg, carried a letter of greeting from the South AfricanHigh Commissioner in London to the Union's Prime Minister, Dr. D. F. Malan.It was delivered within 24 hours of being written and contained good wishes for thespeedy introduction of Comet Springbok services. Wings to Wheels CAPTAIN Geoffrey Greenhalgh, B.E.A.'sFlight Captain at Liverpool, is apparently equally proficient at the wheel of airlineror motor-car. Driving a ij litre M.G. in the Welsh Rally, he literally "cleaned up"the trophy table. Capt. Greenhalgh con- siders bis success as being due to a perfect"met." forecast. Leicestershire Display THE organizers of the Leicestershire AeroClub rally, which is to be coupled with an air display at Leicester East airfield onAugust nth, have had the happy notion of displaying veteran and modern cars inaddition to aircraft. Visitors will also be treated to displays by R.A.F. jet fighters,parachute exhibitions and aerobatics. UP FOR THE FESTIVAL: An Auster used by the Anglo-Scandinavian Antarctic Expedition has been added to the Festival exhibition "Fifty Years of British Antarctic Exploration""aboard the "Discovery." This stout-hearted old ship is moored to the Embankment a few hundred yards across the river from "Flight's" offices. AFTERBURNER CRAWLER-UPPERER: The busi- ness-like gentleman installed in the General Electric afterburner on the right is Mr. Harold Kirkendall who is 3ft 11 in tall and is em- ployed by G.E. to get inside information on the internal state of these devices. U.S. Bases in Morocco IT is announced by the U.S.A.F. thatarrangements have been completed for the use by Strategic Air Command of sevenbases in French Morocco. Casablanca, Rabat, Sidi Slimane, Mechra Bel Ksiri andNouasseur are named and two sites remain to be selected. Rotax Factory in Canada A NEW factory for the manufacture ofturbojet components is to be built in Canada by Rotax Canada, Ltd., an associatecompany of Joseph Lucas, Ltd., in co- operation with the Dominion Government.Six hundred workers will be employed and the cost will be i\ million dollars. A PALPABLE HIT: This is what Lt. Col. R. D. Saltsman, Jr., U.S.A.F., saw, and what the camera gun ofhisMustang recorded, as a Communist 11-10 ground-attack aircraft "brewed up" on receiv- ing a well-directed burst of "fifty-calibre" fire. The 11-10 is heavily armoured. ^ „. Sensitive Altitude Control THE Minneapolis-Honeywell RegulatorCo. claims to have developed an altitude- control device by which aircraft may beflown automatically at great heights to within limits of plus or minus 3 ft.Previously, 25-506: has been considered, good. American Employment THE U.S. Labour Department states thatemployment in airframe plants rose by 12,299, and in engine plants by 2,176during March, 1951, to totals of 263,931 and 58,610 respectively. A later releasegives the April combined total as 413,200, which is expected to be increased by 18per cent by October. The average hours worked per week during April were 44.8,as against 43.7 in January. Ford Wings THE Ford Motor Co., of Michigan, isnegotiating contracts to supply B-47 Stratojet wings to Boeing, Douglas andLockheed, as part of their £350 million rearmament programme. It is estimatedthat, in order to comply with the com- pany's production policy, 40 per cent of thewing components will be sub-contracted.
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