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1951
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FLIGHT, 2 November 1951 HERE AND THERE . . . Hellenes. After the ceremony, Her Majesty was presented by the company with the golden key used for the formal opening. The entire building, in 130 cases, vrei&hing 50 tons, was shipped from VPeston-super-Mare. Blown Home ROTOR downwash is often considered an awkard characteristic of helicopter opera- tion, but it was put to good use recently in San Francisco Bay : two children adrift on a play-raft were carefully "blown" to shore by a helicopter pilot. New Oil from Old IT is claimed that about a million gallons of used aircraft lubricating oil have been reclaimed for U.S. Air Materiel Command during the past year by a special "re- refining" process said to yield an oil equal in every respect (and superior in some) to the original lubricant. \ 559 MR. CRAWFORD GORDON, nr., who. as recently announced, has been appointed president and general manager of A. V. Roe I *..^Canada, Ltd. , _ , • "i ***<*, .r.-> . '."••'-..,'. .' Big Douglas Contracts DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT have given a contract of several million dollars' value to the Plymouth Division of the Chrysler Corporation for the building of complete tail units and outer wing sections of C-124 Globemaster Us. The tail unit measures 50ft to the tip of the rudder and has a span °f 45ft- Another big Douglas contract goes to.the Texas Engineering and Mfg. Co., of Dallas, for A2D Skyshark major sub- assemblies. SOVIET CLOSE-UPS: Portraits of Russian pilots seldom reach this country nowadays. The two here are amateurs who have recently broken records in various F.A.I, categories; on the left is N. Golovanov, with a Yak advanced trainer comparable with the Harvard but of greater power, while on the right is Vladimir Panchenko, with a Yafc-18. IN BRIEF A NEW facade will transform the war-time frontage of the Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, section of the BritishIndustries Fair. Next year the Fair is being held from May 5th to 16th. * * * •• " : • •"••• The British Aluminium Co., Ltd.,announces that Mr. R. M. Warrington is shortly relinquishing his position with thecompany as assistant sales manager and will be succeeded by Mr. S. M. Lawrence,formerly responsible for the technical service section of the development depart-ment. Mr. O. M. Bruce Payne succeeds Mr. Lawrence. ^ * * * When Lord Ogmore, Minister of Civil Aviation, and Sir Arnold Overton, Per- manent Secretary, M.C.A., paid their recent visit to Cowes to see the Princess flying-boat they landed at Isle of Wight Airport, Sandown. There they were met by Capt. E. D. Clarke, M.C., and other executives of Saunders-Roe, Ltd., accom- panied by Miss Mary Wilkins, the airport manager. * * * Guests of honour at the recent dinner of the Aerauto Association in London were Hugh Kendall, winner of the recent Daily Express Race, and John Heath, designer and producer of H.W.M. racing cars. Members of the Aerauto Association are old boys of the College of Aeronautical and Automobile Engineering, Chelsea; Hugh Kendall was an aeronautical student there in 1934-7 and John Heath took an automobile course in 1933-4. The Associa- NSIDt INFORMATION on the 80 mm Oerlikon ™CKet Projectile—a group of which, mounted " a Mustang, was depicted in our issue of "note: Sth—is provided by the sectioned "rawing on the rjght The pnotograpn shows n slight variation of the projectile. NEW V.H.F. EQUIPMENT: Well known in the radio and electrical industry, Burndept, Ltd., of Erith, Kent, have produced this 10-watt V.H.F. transmitter for the M.C.A. tntended for air-traffic control on 117-133 mc/s, it consists of rack-mounted, mains-operated equipment divided into power and R.F.jmodulator units. Overall dimensions are 21 in x 19/n x 16in. tion has recently introduced a technicalinformation bureau for the use of ex- students, particularly those abroad.* * * Claimed to be the largest aerial banner (68ft by 7ft) ever flown, the slogan "Demand Bonderized Cars" was towed over the Earls Court Motor Show last week by a Gemini piloted by Hugh Kennedy. Bonderizing is the rustproof- ,ing process spoitsored by Pyrene, Ltd. PROPELLANT -PROPULSIVE SECTION EXPLOSIVE WARHEAD - FUSE
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