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1952
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25 January 1952 89 FROM ALL QUARTERS FRANCASTER: As reported on page 90, the French Naval Air Arm is acquiring 54 Avro Lancasters for anti-submarine duties. Seen in the cockpit of one of them, at Woodford, is Capitaine de Corvette Henri Aragnol, senior pilot responsible for acceptance and ferrying of the aircraft, delivery of wh.ch has tegun. I.Ae.S. Annual Meeting THE twentieth Annual Meeting of the Institute of the Aero nautical Sciences is to be held at the Hotel Astor, New York City, from January 28th until February ist. At the Honours Night Dinner, on January 28th, two Honorary Fellowships will be presented, the American Hon. Fellow for 1952 being Mr. Leroy R. Grumman, chairman of Grumman Aircraft, and the Foreign Hon. Fellow Mr. John Hamilton Parkin, Director of Canada's National Aeronautical Establishment. Ten Americans will also receive I.Ae.S. Fellowships and the Losey, Jeffries, Reed and Sperry awards will be presented. Mr. Peter G. Masefield, inci dentally, is named as principal luncheon speaker for one of the sessions. Ashton forDecca Route Trials AS a result of several unforseen circumstances, it will not be 1 possible tp equip the Comet for Decca Integrated Track Range experiments during the next week or two as had been intended. The trials with this aircraft will not now be made before March. In order, however, that tests may be made in time for the I.C.A.O. European Mediterranean Regional meeting on navigation aids, to be held in Paris on February 26th, an Avro Ashton is to make the first high-altitude trials. The equipment was being installed this week and the flights are to begin as soon as possible. English Electric Directorship AS briefly announced on page 91, Sir John Woods, G.C.B., • M.V.O., has been appointed to the boards of both the English Electric Co., Ltd., and Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd. Sir John joined the English Electric group of companies in 1951. Before that, from 1945, he had been Permanent Secretary of the Board of Trade. His Civil Service career started thirty years ago as an assistant principal in the Treasury, and he was later secretary to the Trade Facilities Act Advisory Committee, principal private secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and a principal assistant secretary in the Treasury from 1940 to 1943. From 1943 to 1945 he was Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Production. SUPER TROOPER : Illustrated is a transport variant of the Russian-built copy of the Boeing 8-29, seen at the annual flypast at Tushino last July. From the two hatches observed fore and aft 33 parachutists emerged, though there is no reason to suppose that this is a maximum load. Full C. of A. for Comet AS we close for press we learn that a notable event in British • civil aviation occurred last Tuesday, January 22nd, when the Minister of Civil Aviation, Mr. J. S. Maclay, handed to the de Havilland Aircraft Co. Ltd. at Hatfield a full Certificate of Air worthiness for the Comet. This signifies that the Comet, as a type, is now officially approved for commercial operation and so becomes the first turbojet civil airliner in the world. Further Hunting Group Appointments AFORTNIGHT ago we announced three new appointments within the Hunting Group, and now others are notified. Mr. Lindsay Clive Hunting, son of Mr. C. L. Hunting, (governing director of the Group) and nephew of the chairman, has been appointed to the Board of Hunting and Son, Ltd., the parent company. Mr. Clive Hunting, who was born in 1925, was educated at Loretto School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he obtained an Honours Degree in history. He served in the R.N.V.R. from 1944 to 1947, mainly in H.M. destroyers Obedient and Zest. In the former, Mr. Hunting was on the Murmansk run, guarding the Arctic convoys. On demobilization he spent a year travelling in South Africa and then returned to Cambridge to complete his studies before joining the Hunting Group in 1950. Since then he has done a tour of duty with all the United Kingdom companies and is now based at the Newcastle office. Administrative changes made in the organization of Hunting Air Travel, Ltd., include the appointment of Mr. R. W. Wingrave as traffic manager and of Mr. F. H. Heneage-Finch (late of B.O.A.C.) to take over sales liaison and publicity duties on the managing director's staff. Percival Aircraft, Ltd., who are also a Hunting Group company, announce the appointment of Mr. K. Miller as general works manager. Recognition Winners THE Post 19/Y2 (Cheam) R.O.C. team were winners of the Aircraft Recognition Society's Hurricane Trophy Competition last Saturday. West London Aviation Club, last year's winners, were the runners-up, and No. 4F (Ilford) Sqn. won the Handley Page trophy for the best performance by A.T.C. cadets. The winners accurately identified 30 out of 35 aircraft views, each projected on a screen for one second. There was a record entry of 51 teams. Re-entering the Arena ALL who remember the Gladiator—the single-seat, single-bay - Gloster biplane with enclosed cockpit, single-strut cantilever undercarriage and four-machine-gun armament—will be inter ested to hear that two specimens have been purchased from Air Service Training, Ltd., by Flightways, charter operators at Eastleigh. Flightways' chief, Mr. V. H. Bellamy—an old Fleet Air Arm Sea Gladiator pilot—hopes to "cannabilize" the pair and produce one airworthy machine in time for this year's R.Ae.S. Garden Party; he may also enter it for the King's Cup Race. The two aircraft were originally given to A.S.T. by the Gloster Company for use in their engineering training school. Mr. Clive Hunting.
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