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1951
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558 FLIGHT, 2 November 1951 HERE AND THERE The Royal Visit to Australia SO extensive is the programme of visits to be made by Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh during their Australian tour that only air travel will make the itinerary practicable; between March 1st and May 1st they are to fly some 6,000 miles round the continent. Woomera Rumour SPEAKING in the House of Representa-tives last week, Mr. Beale, Australia's Minister of Supply, denied rumours thatthe British Government were thinking of transferring their rocket development workfrom the Woomera Range to America on the grounds that it had fallen behindschedule. Its Weight in Gold THE Canadian Minister of Defence Pro- duction, when handing over the first CF- 100 to the R.C.A.F., remarked that the cost of one recent experimental American high-speed aircraft, at 35 dollars an ounce, was equal to its weight in gold. He was thankful to say that the CF-100 was pro- duced considerably more cheaply. R.Ae.C. Film Shows AGAIN this winter the Royal Aero Club is to hold periodical film shows at London- derry House. The first is on Thursday, November 15th, at 6 p.m., when Southern Cross—about Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and his famous Fokker monoplane—will be screened. On December 18th, the Howard Hughes 1914-18 war classic, Hell's Angels, will be shown. Tickets are avail- able only through members. Thin Spin FOR the testing of high-speed airscrews, Aero-products Division of General Motors have developed a "spin pit" in which it is possible to rotate airscrews at maximum design r.p.m. for a minimum power input. This is achieved by evacuating the pit— actually a closed chamber—to any desired SPEED-UP: An Allison J-33 turbojet is hoisted for test installation in a "slave" fuselage at the Lockheed Burbank plant; beyond is the silencing duct which, like the fuselage, is trolley-mountzi to facilitate the coupling-up process (see paragraph on this page). low-density condition; it is possible to reduce the density to an altitude-equivalent of 13,000ft. The power unit employed for rotation is a 450 h.p. Pratt and Whitney Wasp Junior which can, for short periods, rotate a given airscrew at 3,900 r.p.m. Future plans include the investigation of resonance frequency and blade deformation. Hired and Fired ? "FLIGHT engineer (guided missiles). Applicant should be of degree standard " —from a "situations vacant" advertisement. In a Worthy Cause IN spite of its financial requirements for new premises, the R.A.F. Reserves Club has been able to present £801 to the R.A.F. Benevolent Fund. A cheque handed over last week to A. V-M. Sir John Cordingley, controller of the Fund, by Mr. W. F. Tuckwell, chairman of the Club, brought up to this total the proceeds of the Reserves Club Ball on October 19th. "Slave" Test Bed TO accelerate production of the two-seat Shooting Star variants F-94 and T-33, Lockheeds are pre-testing the Allison J-33 turbojets in an unserviceable fuselage— thereby cutting, it is claimed, as much as three days off the deli very- time of each aircraft. Stripped of wings and tail unit, the airframe is mounted on a track so that the tail pipe protrudes into a large efflux silencer. This supplants the previous practice of installing the turbojet on the assembly hue and moving each completeaircraft to the run-up section. Obvious advantages of the new method include theease with which troublesome engines may be replaced, the simplified fuel couplingsystem and the saving of space in the run- up area. Bristol's North-East Venture FROM Sunderland last week came news that a local trading-estate factory is to be taken over next month by the Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., for gas-turbine manu- facture. Six hundred workers will initially be employed, ultimately rising to 3,000. Aneurin Answered A SPEECH last week by Mr. Aneurin Bevan, in which he was reported to have said that Vickers, Ltd., paid their directors "£166,933, an average of £13,900," has brought a denial from the company. They state that the figure of £166,933 is taken from the consolidated profit and loss account for 1950, and represents the total sum paid to the 49 executive and non- executive directors of Vickers, Ltd., and subsidiary companies; the average figure on this basis is, they point out, £3,4°° ^ not £13,900. Bristol-Built Gift PRESENTED to Greece by the Scottish Fund for the Children of Greece, a £12,000, 50-bed hospital, prefabricated in alumini- nium by the Bristol Aeroplane Company (Housing), Ltd., was opened in Athens recently by Queen Frederika of the TO GUARD Tr\l NORTH: Two of the four Avro Canada CF-1W long-range, all-father fighters which are w* on test. The Orenda- powered prototype neare' the camera we: Iw handed over to t"e R.C.A.F., which Service » standardizing on tne W for the protection • °l Canada's fronwts-
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