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1952
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6 FLIGHT, 4 January 1952 BOOSTED : This newest version of the French Espadon fighter is desig nated S.0.6026 and made its first flight on October 15th. Supplementing the Hispano Nene is a liquid- fuel rocket, mounted under the jet pipe and fed from the wing-tip tanks. Farnborough Date THE 1952 S.B.A.C. Flying Display and exhibition is to be held from September 2nd (pre-view) to 7th. As usual, the public will be admitted on the two final days. Satellite Migs IT is known that jet fighters of Russian origin have been supplied to satellite countries and a Polish journal has recently published a drawing of (presumably) Mig-i5s with Polish national markings. A Big Turbom ca WITHOUT interruption of its small-tur bine programme the Turbom6ca„. concern is to undertake the design and construction of a unit of 13,2301b thrust. This is intended to power new French fighters. French Nene Production THE Hispano Suiza company of Bois Colombes announces that it has now constructed 500 Nene turbojets under Rolls-Royce licence. Since the first was assembled in France, more than 6,000 hours of test-bed running and 2,300 hours of flight testing have been completed. The C.A.S. RUMOURS of the impending retirement of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Slessor from the post of Chief of the Air Staff have been denied. His three-year appointment dates from January 1st, 1950, and it is now stated "on the highest auth ority" that he will complete his term. Brancker Memorial Lecture THERE have been changes in the arrange ments for the 1952 Brancker Memorial Lecture of the Institute of Transport. The subject is now announced as The Flying- boat and its Place in Aviation, and the lecturer is to be Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Bowhill, Chief Aeronautical Adviser to the M.C.A. He will deliver the paper at 5.45 p.m. on February nth, at the Jarvis Hall, 66 Portland Place, London W.i. Visitors will be welcome. U.S. Canberra Accident THE first of the two English Electric Canberra jet bombers delivered to the Glenn L. Martin company, which will build the type for the U.S.A.F., was destroyed in an accident on December 21st. One of the crew of two—both U.S.A.F. officers—escaped by parachute and he is reported to have said that the tailplane came off in a dive. Commenting on the accident while waiting to leave London Airport for America, on December 26th, W/C. Roland Beamont, English Electric's chief test pilot, is reported to have said: "Too much importance should not be attached to it. We do not know what they were doing with the Canberra over there." HERE AND THERE Payen Delta THE French constructor Payen has de signed a delta-wing aircraft which is almost complete and which will be pre-tested in the Chalais Meudon wind-tunnel. All Laid On THIS week, weather permitting, a heli copter operation new to Britain (though well-tried in America) was due to take place in the Malvern Hills. A power cable in a single 1,250ft span had to be suspended over a densely wooded valley; to follow the normal method of laying the cable on the ground and then pulling it up between the pylons would have involved the felling and/or lopping of hundreds of trees. It was therefore decided to employ a helicopter—a Hiller from Pest Control, Ltd. The plan was for the aircraft to reel out a stout line (weighing about 3 cwt), which, lying on the tree-tops, would then be used to haul a balloon-cable across the valley; this in turn would provide a means of pulling the heavy power-cable across. Folland Appointment IT is announced by Folland Aircraft, Ltd., that Mr. F. H. Pollicutt, F.R.Ae.S., has been appointed chief designer to the com pany, with effect from January 1st. Mr. Pollicutt, who is 42, was apprenticed to the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farn borough, where he served from 1924 to 1930. After leaving Farnborough he joined the Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., as tech nical assistant. He was appointed chief of the stress department in 1938, chief tech nician in 1942, and from 1945 was assistant chief designer. Danes in Canada THE first seven of 23 Danish Air Force Trainees have reached Canada, where they are to fly with the R.C.A.F. under the N.A.T.O. air training scheme. They are receiving a pre-flight course at London, Ontario, and will then go to No. 2 Air Navigation School, Winnipeg. An Escape Route Retraced A FEW weeks ago a member of the R.A.F. Escaping Society, F/O. Barker, A.F.C., D.F.M., went back to the South of France and met again some of the people who helped him to elude the Germans when, in 1942, his No. 102 Sqn. Halifax was shot down near Dunkirk; with their help, he had made a 350-mile journey to the Swiss frontier, then another across Southern France to the Spanish border. His return visit was in company with two film tech nicians, and the various reunions were recorded for inclusion in Issue No. 382 of Pathi Pictorial, on show next week. FOUGA FORECAST: That the Fouga C.M.MOR twin-jet trainer, now under construction, will have a number, of features in common with the Supermarine 508 fighter is shown by this drawing from the makers' Christmas card. The nose appears to have been altered since a model was shown in the Paris Salon, and wing-tip tanks have been added.
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