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1951
1951 - 1681.PDF
26O FLIGHT FROM ALL QUARTERS Col. C. F. de Porto Folland Aircraft Changes FROM Folland Aircraft, Ltd., comes the announcement thatG/C. J. Noakes, A.F.C., M.M., has resigned from the company and that G/C. S. O. Tudor, D.F.C., has been appointed seniorliaison officer as from August 20th. G/C. Tudor has been repre- sentative of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors, Ltd., FarEast, since 1946. He had a distinguished war-time career with Bomber Command. The New Italian Air Attache DURING his tour of duty in this country as Italian air attach^,Col. D. S. Fanali has made many friends among the aviation commdnity. A keen pilot, he has led Vampire delivery flights to Italy and, incidentally, was instructor to Signor Ferrari, who was to pilot an Ambrosini S.7 originally entered for the Daily Express Race. Col. Fanali has now returned to Rome, where he has been appointed to a post in the Italian Air Ministry. His successor is Col. C. F. de Porto, who has had a distin- guished record with the Italian Air Force, in which he was commissioned in 1931. At the outbreak of war he was a major, and flew operationally in the Mediterranesn area, gaining two silver medals for valour and a Military Cross. In 1941 he was promoted to command the 29th Bomber Squadron, Towards the end of the war. when air attache in Bucharest, he was interned by the Germans, but returned to Italy in 1945. In the following year he was given command of the "Baltimore" wing of the I.A.F., and in 1948, as a colonel, he received a staff appointment. Col. de Porto, who has flown about 2,4oohr, is married and has a 13-year-old son. He is fluent in four languages besides his own—English, French, Spanish and Roumanian. Speeding-up Administration MR. W. R. VERDON SMITH, assistant managing director ofthe Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., is to open the South- Western Business Equipment and Management Exhibition at the Victoria Rooms, Bristol, on September 25th. The exhibition is being organized by the Office Appliance and Business Equipment Trades Association, the representative body of the office equipment industry. A feature of the show will be a variety of sound-recording imchines, among which will be one measuring only 4A in. by 9J in. by 12J in., introduced by the firm that some time ago installed the equipment at Northolt and London Airports for recording R/T. conversations between aircraft crews and control towers. The office machine records both sides of a telephone conversation. Also of interest to airport operators will be visual-control installations for showing aircraft-maintenance progress, terminal- building intercommunication equipment, electric typewriters which will make twenty carbons in one operation, and duplicators which switch themselves off automatically after the exact number of copies required have been run off. Swedish Turbojets SWEDEN entered the aircraft gas-turbine field at an early stage,and the name of Professor Lysholm will always be associated with some ingenious pre-war designs. Facilities were, however, limited, and de Havilland Goblins in an advanced state of develop- ment became available for purchase and production under licence before Sweden could develop a turbojet of her own. Originally two development contracts were placed by the Swedish Air Board, one with S.T.A.L. for an axial compressor unit, and the other with Svenska Flygmotor Ab, with which company Lysholm was working. Both were to give about the same thrust as the Goblin. Today the Swedish Goblin production order has been almost completed by Flygmotor, and Ghosts are coming through for the Saab J-29 fighter. Flygmotor and S.T.A.L. have pooledresources in order to speed the development of a new large axial turbojet to replace Ghosts in some later J-29S and possibly forother machines to follow. One of these S.T.A.L.-designed axial units has been installedbelow the fuselage of a Lancaster flying test-bed, and an illustra- tion appeared in Flight of July 6th. The work was done inEngland by Air Service Training of Hamble, and the aircraft, known in the Swedish Air Force as the Tp8o, was delivered a fewweeks ago. Mr. Peter Fowler of the Air Service Training was the pilot for the delivery flight, and he was accompanied by a Swedishengineer and two other crew men—one Swedish, one British. The route taken was from Hamble to Hamburg, Hamburg toAngelholm, and from there to the destination, Malmen/Malmslatt, 20 miles SJuth-west of Stockholm. Flight development is nowproceeding. Turbomeca Licence for America A LICENSING agreement has been signed between the Stratos •**• division of the Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation and the Turbomeca concern for the building and selling of the Oredon turboprop, designed and manufactured by the French company. This new unit, exhibited at the last Paris show, delivers 160 h.p. at the shaft. Incidentally, F. G. Miles is known to be interested in the possibilities of Turbomeca units in this country. At the Radio Show AS a contribution towards the British Radio Show, which is nowtaking place at Earl's Court (August 28th to September 28th) the Ministry of Civil Aviation is exhibiting a 14ft x 8ft scale model of London Airport as it will appear when the present development plan is completed. It is, in fact, the exhibit that was shown at the Paris Salon earlier this year. A number of radio manufacturers are also showing items of aviation interest, although, naturally, most of them will be con- centrating their main exhibits of this kind at the forthcoming S.B.A.C. Show at Farnborough. S.B.A.C. Scholarships and Grants THE Society of British Aircraft Constructors announces the fol-lowing names of students and apprentices to whom educational awards have been made under its scheme for the purpose: University Scholarships Continuation Awards.—D. Howe, R. C. Wallin and G. R. Jones tocontinue at College of Aeronautics, Cranfield; G. A. Sellars and J. J. Cripps to continue at Imperial College.New Awards.—J. F. H. Goddard (Hawker Aircraft, Ltd.) and J. D. Mann (Blackburn and General Aircraft, Ltd.) to go to College of Aero-nautics; R. A. Saundcrs (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.) to go to Imperial College. Educational Grants C. W. Hicks (awarded the John de Havilland Scholarship) to serve hisapprenticeship with Saunders-Roe, Ltd.; B. M. L. Rampling, to serve his apprenticeship with Handley Page, Ltd.; W. H. Corner, to serve hisapprenticeship with the Airspeed division of the de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.; J. W. Sowerby (Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd.) , to continue histraining with the company; B. H. A. Summers, to serve as a student apprentice at the de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd. FORTHCOMING EVENTS Aug. 31. Helicopter Association: "Operational Employment of the Piasecki Helicopter," by F. N. Piasecki. Lecture followed by Fifth Annual Dinner. Sept. 1. R.N. Air Stations Gosport and Lee-on-Solent: Air Display. Sept. 2. A.B.A.C. Summer Convention. Sept. 3-7. R.Ae.S. and I.Ae.S.: Third Anglo-American Aeronautical Conference, Brighton. Sept. 3-8. British Interplanetary Society: International Congress on Astronautics. Sept. 9. Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers (Northern Area): Model Flying Festival. Sept. 10. R.Ae.S.: 39th Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture—"The Well- tempered Aircraft," by A. E. Raymond. Sept. 10-16. Battle of Britain Week. Sept. 11-16. S.B.A.C.: Flying Display and Exhibition, Farnborough. Sept. 15-16, International Rally, Parme, Biarritz, France. Sept. 22. Daily Express South Coast Air Race, Shoreham. Sept. 25. Milan International Grand Prix. Oct. 4. R.Ae.S.: Seventh British Commonwealth and Empire Lecture, "Air Transport in New Zealand and the South Pacific,' by A. V-M. Sir L. M. Isitt, R.N.Z.A.F. Oct. 21-28. Aero Club of Algeria: Tour of Algeria. Oct. 31. R.Ae.C: Jubilee Ball.
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