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1952
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148 FLIGHT, 8 February 1952 • HERE AND THERE igmr • ":-J3^^E»™tfH^BI!tf& ' ^^^jmt/M ||RJ "wBIHF^*^^^^™ Jet Endurance A REPUBLIC F-84G Thunderjet fighter of the U.S.A.F. is reported to have remained airborne for 12 hr 5 min. This mark of Thunderjet is equipped for flight refuelling and there is little doubt that such a technique was used. Getting the Evidence MOSQUITO DZ 414—in several ways a unique aircraft—is one of the two "heroes" of a founded-on-fact novel, Crispin's Day, to be published next week. DZ 414 gave long and faithful service with the R.A.F.'s Operational Film Unit, and the story— written by Leigh Howard, who was the navigator and camera-operator—centres on an imaginary low-level day flight across 400 miles of enemy territory to film the damage to the Mohne and Eder dams. The Brancker Lecture NEXT Monday, February nth, Air Marshal Sir Frederick Bowhill, Chief Aeronautical Adviser to the M.C.A., is to deliver the tenth Brancker Memorial Lec ture to the Institute of Transport; his sub ject will be The Flying-boat and its Place in Aviation. The lecture will be U.S.A.F. FLIES CANADIAN : First air-to-air picture of two of the Beavers ordered from the Canadian de Havilland Company for the U.S.A.F. Several "samples" were purchased early in the year (at least one is now operating in Korea) and last November it was stated that "a large number" had been ordered. In the civil field, D. H. Doves—exported from this country for dollars—are reported to be in considerable demand in the United States. at 5-45 p.m. in the Jarvis Hall, 66, Portland Place, London W.i, and visitors may attend without ticket. Inside Story ON Wednesday next, February 13th, S/L. A. E. Callard, of transatlantic Can berra-flight fame, is to lecture to members of the Royal United Service Institution on Long-range Jet Flying. Plan Forms THERE is already a great demand for British Aircraft to Scale, a compact pic torial and tabular guide to 85 British civil, military and research aircraft. Reprinted in booklet form (with additions to bring it fully up to date) from a feature in the S.B.A.C. Show Number of Flight last September, this publication is obtainable from newsagents at is 6d, or by post at is 8d, from Iliffe and Sons, Ltd., Dorset House, Stamford Street, London, S.E.i. COCKPIT MOCK-UP of the Vampire N.F.10 night fighter, illustrating the instrumentation for pilot (port) and radar observerjnavigator (starboard). There are detail differences in the actual aircraft installation, which we shall describe in a forthcoming issue. Incidentally, it was stated last week that a maximum speed of 519 m.p.h. was attainable at 45,000ft, whereas this speed corresponds to a height of 40,000ft. The minimum radius of turn at a Mach number of 0.7 and ajieight of 40,000ft, quoted as 0.5 nautical miles, should have read 0.95. Undersea Aircraft ? IN the course of a broadcast discussion in Washington, the famous explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins, who has recently been investigating polar defence problems with Col. Bernt Balchen, stated that submarines could carry aircraft under the Arctic ice to within 900 miles of all principal Russian targets. The idea is not quite so fantastic as it sounds: over 20 years ago, H.M. submarine M.2 carried a small biplane, the Parnall Peto, in a watertight deck-hangar. Exemption for Apprentices ? THAT the possibility of exempting skilled aircraft apprentices from call-up is "under examination" by the Government was stated in the Commons on January 29th by the Minister of Labour, Sir Walter Monck- ton. He was replying to Mr. W. A. Steward, who had complained that the call-up of such apprentices was retarding the production of aircraft for the rearma ment programme. Mr. Ellis Smith observed that any exemptions granted should not be applied to one section of industry, but to all sections. Hypothesis A STATEMENT in London last week, attributed to Viscount Hinchingbrooke makes somewhat strange reading, although on consideration facts could scarcely be otherwise. It said that if war broke out between the United States and the Com munists, Britain could control the use of American bombers based in this country for so long as she was not involved in the struggle. We should have an absolute right to insist that no American warplane taking off from this country would be allowed to return to its base here—if, indeed, it was allowed to take off at all. Obviously, the case is what would be termed an extremely hypothetical one. Strategic Retirement GERMAN airfields along the Iron Curtain have not enough "elbow room," and the U.S. Twelfth Air Force is moving most of its units to France in consequence. Announcing this, Maj.-Gen. Dean C. Strother, commander of the Central Tactical Air Force—which includes the U.S. 12th Air Force and the 1st French Air Division—said that the move would be made as bases in northern France became available. His command would continue to use German bases, but would rotate squadrons so that most strength would lie
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