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132 FLIGHT, 3 August 195; HERE AND THERE R.Ae.C. Awards THE Royal Aero Club announces thatA. Cdre. Sir Frank Whittle has been awarded the Gold Medal of the FederationAeronautique Internationale for his work on development of jet power plants. TheLouis Bleriot Medal for 1950 goes to Mr. R. R. Paine, of Wolverhampton Airport,for attaining a 100-km closed-circuit speed record of 192.83 m.p.h. last year. Hismount, of course, was the familiar Miles Hawk Speed Six. Stand from Under ... A BULLDOZER (weight 9 J tons) has been successfully parachuted from a Fairchild C-119 Packet of the U.S.A.F. The first heavy-cargo drop of this kind, incidentally, is claimed to have been made at Wright- Patterson Air Force Base in 1946, the subject being a one-ton field gun. Willing Horse PILOTS of the U.S.A.F. 16th Troop Carrier Squadron (Assault) interpreted the word "accelerated" literally by completing 276 hours' flying during the three-week accelerated service - test programme scheduled for a single Chase C-122 twin- engined assault transport. In one week 115 hours' flying was logged, and on several days the C-122 was airborne for more than 20 hours. Professor Heinkel on the Mig THE famous German aircraft designer, Professor Ernst Heinkel, who now owns a small farm-tractor factory outside Stutt- gart, is of the opinion that the Russian Mig-15 fighter is the work of Siegfried Gunther, with whom he worked closely for more than ten years. The professor claims to recognize the style of Gunther in various design features. Gunther is known to have worked for the U.S. Army WELL AWAY: WjC. R. Falk gets off smartly from Boscombe Down for one of the early test flights of the Avro 707A delta-wing research aircraft, ground views of which were published last week. at Landsberg in 1945. His subsequentoffer of his services to the U.S. authorities is said to have been refused, and in April,1946, after he had moved to Berlin, he was taken to Russia with his wife. ProfessorHeinkel believes that Gunther is now working at Kalinin, near Moscow. Braking Turboprops ON July 23rd, the Mamba-Marathonmade the world's first landing using turbo- prop braking airscrews. The aircraft wasflown by D. de Villiers, chief test pilot of de Havilland Propellers, Ltd., and thelanding was made at Hatfield. The air- screws were of D.H. manufacture. Canadair Wins AN UNSPECIFIED number of T-36 aircraft has been ordered by the American government from Canadair Ltd. Announc- ing this, Mr. John Jay Hopkins, chairman and president of Canadair, revealed that the type would also be produced for the Royal Canadian Air Force. The T-36 is an entirely new design of twin-enginedtrainer-cum-transport, and Mr. Hopkins states that the order marks the first occasionon which the U.S.A.F. has placed a con-/ tract of such magnitude outside its ownborders. Civil-Defence Helicopters MR. GEOFFREY DE FREITAS, Parlia-mentary Under-Secretary for Air, an- nounced in the Commons on July 26th thatthe use of helicopters for civil defence is under consideration by the Home Office.It is evident that rotary-wing aircraft would be invaluable for reconnaissance, rescueand communications work. Ambulance Service Cancelled THE R.A.F. Ambulance Service between Korea and Britain has been cancelled as a result of the Persian crisis. All available aircraft of R.A.F. Transport Command have been concentrated in Middle East airfields for the evacuation of British subjects from Persia. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS of test-flying was completed by Capt. i. ("Mutt") Summers, O.B.E., of Vickers-Armstrongs, on July 27th. To mark the occasion he made a routine test flight in a Varsity trainer (left) and subsequently received the congratulations of his colleagues G. E. Lowdell, A.F.M. (left), and Q. R. Bryce, with whom he is seen. Capt. Summers is now chief liaison officer and Mr. Bryce (right) is^chigptMt-pttBir. "> "Flight" photographs
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