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1951
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53° FLIGHT, 26 October i95,. HERE AND THERE Royal Visit to Canadair ON the afternoon of October 30th theirRoyal Highnesses Princess Eh'zabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh will visit theCanadair plant at Montreal. They will meet the president and directors and willmake a tour of No. 1 and No. 2 plants before inspecting a completed F-86 Sabre. French Tay THE first Rolls-Royce Tay turbojet to be built in France by the Hispano- Suiza company left the Colombes workshops recently, and it is now learned that it has passed its acceptance tests satisfactorily. Rocket Acceleration ACCORDING to Mr. Beale, Australian Minister for Supply, Britain has been pressing for a greatly accelerated pro- gramme of trials over the long-range rocket proving grounds at Woomera. Turboprop Constitution ? ASKED in an interview by our contem- porary American Aviation whether the once-mooted idea of a turboprop version of the Lockheed Constitution was still alive, an executive of the company replied : "From Lockheed's standpoint it most certainly is. The Constitution was origi- nally designed so that it could take turbo- prop power. It would make a crackerjack airplane with, for example, P. and W. T-34S." (The Constitution is a four- engined long-range naval transport of 189ft wing span.) Stout Show THE films which should have accom- panied Mr. Ernest G. Stout's R.Ae.S.- I.Ae.S. Conference paper, A Review of High-Speed Hydrodynamic Development, were held up on entry to this country. CZECH HELICOPTER: Designed by Ing. ]. Slechta, this experimental helicopter has flown success- fully at Zbraslav on the power of a 75 h.p. Praga D engine. They are now to be shown, under the auspices of the Royal Aeronautical Society, at the Institution of Civil Engineers, Great George Street, London, S.W.I, on Novem- ber 1st, at 6 p.m. The programme lasts for approximately an hour, and tickets are obtainable through members of the Society. An abstract of Mr. Stout's paper appears on pages 542-544 of this issue. Fairly Bristling ACCORDING to Saab Sonics, a new weapon was seen for the first time at the Maknslatt air display. Fitted to a Saab 21R ground-attack jet fighter, it comprised "a streamlined nacelle mounting a great number of guns in addition to the standard armament. Hubert Scott-Paine Here IN Britain on a short visit, for the first time in 12 years, is Mr. Hubert Scott- Paine, pioneer flying-boat designer, airline operator and pilot and designer of high- speed marine craft. He was the designer of the Napier-engined Supermarine flying- boat with which, at Naples in 1922, Capt. H. C. Biard won the Schneider Trophy from the Italians. Mr. Scott-Paine, owner of the Supermarine Aviation Works in 1922-23, founded the British PowerCompany—famed for air-sea-rescue and other high-speed launches—in 1927. Lat-terly he has been living in America, and has been the victim of illness since 1947. So Nice when You Stop SENOR MACIEL, instructor of the Aero Club of Huinca Renanco, in Argentina, claims a "world record" of 1,090 consecu- tive loops, performed in a Piper PA-II trainer. Institute of Navigation A.G.M. THAT H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh had accepted honorary membership was an- nounced at the recent annual meeting of the Institute of Navigation. On the same occasion the year's work was reviewed, and it was mentioned that the activities of the technical committee had included an extensive study of the problem of optimum flight-paths, while preliminary work on map requirements for civil-aircraft opera- tion had been undertaken with a view to an inquiry into the subject. Annual awards for 1951, also announced at the meeting, in- cluded the Institute's Gold Medal, to Mr. H. C. Pritchard, "for valuable contribu- MISGUIDED MISSILE: According to a leading daily paper, this is a "guided missile larger than a V-2", and one that was "on the secret list" until thepicture was "made officially available" to the paper last week. In fact, it is one of Britain's earliest supersonic research rockets which, even with its booster, was only 24ft long, whereas the V-2 measured 46ft. ON MANOEUVRES : For participation in Exercise "Surprise Pac^~', „ the area round Salisbury Plain, the Auster Ambulance/Freighter n.f»js. given a provisional camouflage finish (though it retains its cms • s . tration letters) and the double-tier stretchers have been msw<
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