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Aviation History
1951
1951 - 2095.PDF
5O2 FLIGHT, 19 October I9JI HERE AND THERE Avro Canada Appointments FOLLOWING the resignation, owing toill-health, of Mr. Walter Deisher, Mr. Crawford Gordon is to become presidentand general manager of A. V. Roe (Canada), Ltd. Mr. Gordon has been in charge ofarmament production for the Canadian Government. Sir Roy Dobson becomeschairman of the Avro Canada Board. Korea's Yuletide Mail CHRISTMAS letters and cards sent by surface mail to H.M. ships in the Korean war zone, says the Admiralty, should be posted by October 24th. The final day to ensure parcel deliveries was yesterday, October 18th. By Helicopter to Guernsey . . . POSSIBLY the longest sea flight to beattempted by helicopter was successfully completed last week when F/L. D. C. L.Kearns, with Lieut. D. T. J. Stanley, R.N. as navigator, flew a Royal Navy Westland-Sikorsky helicopter from Gosport to Guernsey—a distance of 115 miles. Thehelicopter, which was escorted, returned to Gosport the same afternoon. . . . but Not to Sark IT HAD been intended that the helicoptershould fly the further eight miles from Guernsey to Sark, but as no previous noticehad been given of the intention, the deputy Seigneur, daughter of La Dame de Sark,refused permission because of the fear that the arrival might have stampeded the cowstethered on parts of the island. Livestock, particularly the feathered variety, do not FOR FRENCH RESEARCH: The second prototype of the Arsenal VG-90 naval jet fighter, seen here, will be used for research flying, including the air-testing of Arsenal ramjets, to be mounted at the wing-tips. The first VG-90 was lost last year when a main undercarriage leg came unlatched in a high-speed turn, broke off and carried away the tailplane. Like the first machine, the second is also powered with an Hispano-Suiza Nene of 5,000 Ib thrust. take at all kindly to helicopters, and it has been suggested that the beat of the blades overhead may be instinctively associated with the wing-beat of a large bird of prey. Telling America PRODUCED by the British Information Services in New York and printed in England, a booklet entitled "British Air- craft" is being given wide circulation throughout America. Primarily it is a collection of photographs—and very excel- lent ones—of current machines, but there is an altogether admirable introduction by Mr. Christopher Clarkson, the civil air attache at the British Embassy in Washington. Abadan Aftermath SOME 60 per cent of all high-octanepetrol produced outside America came from Abadan. The loss of this supply isaffecting, or is expected to do so for a while, several air services. India in par-ticular is concerned, and B.O.A.C. has CHESTER'S 1,000th: As related on this page, a Chipmunk was the 1,000th aircraft to leave the de Havilland Chester factory. Seen here with the aircraft are (left to right) Mr. D. B. Taylor, test pilot; Mr. F. Fifield, test pilot; Mr. J. Hanslip, chief test pilot; F/Lt. T. W/'er, who holds the Polish Cross of Valour and the Polish Air Force Medal; Mr. ]. C. Corby, general manager of the Chester factory;, and Mr. J. Mackenzie, production manager. cancelled two freighter services to Singa-pore and some charter services in India. Australia has only three weeks' supply ofioo-octane fuel. Companies are reluctant to create new refining capacity for high-octane fuel because of the increasing use of turbojets and consequent reduction inhigh-octane fuel consumption. Fokker Transport Plans IT IS learned on good authority thatFokker Aircraft intend to re-enter the field of commercial aviation as soon as pos-sible, and a new twin-turboprop airliner has been mentioned as the probabledesign. It will be recalled that immediately after the war Fokkers announced that theywere designing a two-Nene transport and that a model was subsequently shown atthe Paris show. U.S. Interest in the Valiant ACCORDING to Aviation Week, a newU.S.A.F. competition for a medium jet bomber may be a means of getting theVickers Valiant into U.S. production. The type has already been highly praised by U.S.military officials and Vickers-Armstrongs are reported to be carrying on "an activesales campaign" within the U.S.A.F. Another possibility suggested by ourAmerican contemporary is the use of a modified version on the U.S. Navy's supercarrier (see page 503), since the Valiant is believed to have a much lower landing speedits principal competitor, the Boeing A special Valiant/B-47 pictorialappears on pages 510 and 511 ™'"3 Helping Hatfield THE 1,000th aircraft to be produced atthe de Havilland factory at Chester—a Chipmunk—left there on October 9th (seeaccompanying photograph) for delivery to one of the Reserve Schools. Since it wentinto production in the early summer 01 1948 this important "outstation" of theEnterprise has averaged more than one aircraft for each working day, contributingseveral different military and civil types to the home and export markets. Incidentally)it is stated that export and licence business from the English factories of the D.n.aircraft, engine and airscrew companies) together with the Airspeed division, hasamounted to a value of £30 million since the war ended, while overseas orderstotalling £15 million are on the books.
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