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1951
1951 - 1565.PDF
188 FLIGHT, 17 August i9i! HERE AND THERE B-47 Distance Record A U.S.A.F. B-47 recently flew 2,800 milesfrom Fairbanks, Alaska, to Wichita, Kan- sas, the greatest distance yet announced fora flight by one of these six-turbojet bombers. The object of the journey wasofficially quoted as being "to collect long- range cruise-control data." The flight wascompleted in 5 hr 36 min (almost exactly 500 m.p.h.). Military Jet Route ? AN R.A.F. Valetta recently made a surveyflight from the Suez Canal Zone to Pre- toria and back, flying over Egypt, theSudan, Kenya, and Northern and Southern Rhodesia. The purpose of the 8,500-mileflight was to examine facilities on a route which might be used by jet aircraft. Someof the landing-grounds visited were of a very undeveloped type, operated almostentirely by natives. Among the Valetta's passengers were the officer commanding aVampire squadron in the Canal Zone and Capt. K. C. Kuhlmann, D.F.C., of theS.A.A.F. PiasecM Lecture MR. F. N. PIASECKI, chairman of thePiasecki Helicopter Corporation, is to lec- ture before the Helicopter Association ofGreat Britain on Friday, August 31st (5.30 p.m.), at the Institution of CivilEngineers, Great George Street, London, S.W.I. His subject will be The Operational HERE . . . Twenty-five staff officers of the Turkish Air Academy visited the Bristol Works at Filton last week. Here Mr. C. F. Uwins (managing director, aircraft division) is seen explaining Brabazon features to Lt.-Gen. Menjuc and other members of the party. Employment of the Piasecki Helicopter, and much of the paper will be devoted to the large transport type of rototating-wing air- craft, of which the successful Piasecki tandem-rotor PV-14 is an outstanding example. In view of the big attendance expected, non-members of the Association will be admitted by ticket only, obtainable on application to the assistant secretary at Londonderry House, 19, Park Lane, London, W.i. Following the lecture, and also at Londonderry House, the Associa- tion is holding its fifth annual dinner. . . . AND THERE: An R.A.F. delegation visiting the U.S.A. in connection with the acquisition of P2V-Ss recently inspected some of the aircraft at the Lockheed works. Among them are G/C.s R. 1. Carvell and L P. Moore, W\C. F. C. de la P. Beresford-Peirse and S/L R. S. Boast, all from Coastal Command, and S/L. J. C. Cracroft-Rice, who is Assistant Director of Equipment with the British Joint Services Mission in Washington. Later, R.A.F. crews are to visit the works. Model Flying at Radlett RADLETT airfield is to be used (by per-mission of Sir Frederick Handley Page) for the sixth annual rally of the St. AlbansModel Aero Club, to be held next Sunday, August 19th. In the past, representativesof over 100 model clubs have attended this event. The meeting begins at n a.m.,and public admission is is. New U.S.A.F. Bomber THE swept-wing heavy bomber to beproduced for the U.S.A.F. by the Con- solidated Vultee Co. is reported to bedesignated YB-60. It will be powered by eight turbojets. Although this aircraft is adevelopment of the B-36D (which has six piston engines and four turbojets), it is saidto have been given this advanced designa- tion by reason of its dissimilarity andsuperior performance. At present only one prototype is to be built. Defensive and Offensive A BERLIN correspondent reports that anunderground aircraft factory at Herold, near Chemnitz, started in 1943 by theJunkers company, has recently been com- pleted by the Russians and equipped forthe construction of Mig aircraft. The same correspondent reports that "great numbers"of Mig-15 fighters are now stationed in the area surrounding the Peenemiinde guided-missile establishment, there being some 250 on two airfields alone. He also says thatthe airfield of Brand-Briesen is now being prepared to handle big aircraft such as theTu-4, this being the first intimation that bases are being prepared for strategicbombers in the Soviet Zone of Germany. Rocket's 130-mile Climb A GLENN MARTIN Viking rocket firedat the White Sands (New Mexico) proving ground on August 7th reached an altitudeof 135 miles. This is 21 miles higher than the previous maximum attained by a single-stage rocket, a German A-4 ("V.2") fired during experiments at White Sands in1946. It also exceeds by 28.6 miles the height reached by another Viking, firecs
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