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30 May 1952 649 task in hand, there are many other ferrying operations in progress. Other United Kingdom - F.E.A.F. flights include the delivery of D.H. Hornets to replace the Brigands in Malaya. The Hornets fly down from Mauripur direct to Ceylon and thence direct to Singapore. These last two legs are 1,536 and 1,862 miles respectively and entail flying for four to five hours in an aircraft with no automatic pilot. The Brigands are brought back over the shorter stages of the northern route and are delivered for further service in the Middle East. Vickers Valettas have also been flown out to replace the Dakotas in the F.E.A.F. transport squadrons. For the Middle East Air Force Vampire 9s are also being flown out to replace the Mk 5s. Mosquito night fighters are being delivered, as are P.R.10 Meteors to replace the P.R. Mosquitoes, some of which are returning to Britain. Another Mosquito-ferrying task is the delivery of a large number of various marks to Yugoslavia. These fly via Linz, in Austria, to Zagreb or Belgrade in convoys of six to nine, escorted by a Valetta which returns with the aircrews. These deliveries require very accurate navigation, as the route lies close to Russian, Rumanian and Hungarian territory. A rather more leisurely job is the bringing back of a number of well-worn Ansons from the Air Navigation School in Rhodesia. Anything from ten days upwards is allowed for FROM ALL The National Air Races FORTY-THREE entries have been received by the Royal Aero Club for the National Air Races, which are to be flown from Newcastle-upon-Tyne Airport on July 1 ith and 12th Certain changes have been made in the regulations. The most important is that the Air League Challenge Cup will not now be competed for in a race of that name : instead, it will be awarded, with £100 of prize money, to the competitor achieving the fastest lap speed during the whole meeting. Aircraft originally entered for the Air League Race will now fly in the Kemsley Trophy event. On the first day of the meeting there will be three races, for the Grosvenor Challenge Cup (aircraft up to 1,653 lb), the Norton- Griffiths Challenge Trophy (1,654 lb-2,205 lb), and the Kemsley Challenge Trophy (over 2,205 lb). All three are international contests (though support from abroad is poor this year) and will also, in effect, form eliminating heats for the King's Cup Race on the following day. This event, as usual, is confined to British competitors, and its entry will consist of the first four such com petitors to finish in each of the three races in the previous day, plus (or including) the four fastest aircraft in each of those events. We shall publish full details of the entries at a later date. Meanwhile, the pilots and aircraft constituting the 43 entries for the first day's races are as follows :— Grosvenor Challenge Cup Race.—R. J. D. Hamilton (Moth), G. F. K. Donaldson (Globe Swift), H. M. Kendall (Chilton DW.i), D. F. Ogilvy (Club Cadet), C. Gregory (Taylorcraft Plus D), P. B. Cash (Autocrat), D. D. Dempster (Chilton DW.ia), D. R. Robertson (Moth Minor), T. W. Hayhow (Tiger Moth), P. W. E. Heppell (Tiger Moth), K. C. Millican (Autocrat), N. F. Duke (Hawker Tomtit), B. J. Snook (Tiger Moth), J. M. Donald (Tiger Moth), A. W. Bedford (Miles Whitney Straight), C. G. Alington (Comper Swift), W. P. I. Fillingham (Chipmunk), L. S. Loveridge (Hawk Trainer). Norton-Griffiths Challenge Trophy Race.—G. A. Farley (Auto car), T. W. Hayhow (Aiglet), R. Matthews-Naper (Messenger), W. P. Bowles (Messenger), A. R. Moore (Whitney Straight), D. J. Jemmett (Hawk Trainer), J. H. Christie (Leopard Moth), M. R. T. Chandler (Hawk Trainer), F. Dunkerley (Mercury), J. Rush (Falcon Six), R. R. Paine (Hawk Speed Six). Kemsley Challenge Trophy Race.—G. C. Marler (Falcon Six), S. B. Oliver (Proctor V), T. G. Knox (Proctor I), J. de M. Severne (Vega Gull), P. G. Lawrence (Proctor I) C. F. Hughesdon (Proctor I), D. J. Bennett (Proctor V), H. Wood (Proctor V), W. I. Lashbrook (Proctor III) J. N. Somers (Gemini III), F. Eullen (Han), G. A. Ferrari (Ambrosini Supersette), F. Dunkerley (Gemini la), G C. J. Cunning ham or J. W Wilson (Vampire 5). Birthday Party A COUNTRY mansion set in Arcadian beauty; a beaming sun in a cobalt heaven; tableclothe—fluttered by the breeze that rippled a lake where swans floated —laid in a shady marquee which vied with them in whiteness . . . That was Arle Court, Cheltenham, as we saw it last Thursday, when we were to lunch there with Mr. George Dowty to celebrate his company's attainment of its majority. And into this delectable the journey back to Britain. For a pilot to qualify to join a Transport Command ferry unit—and from June 1st all ferrying, both home and over seas, will be in the hands of Transport Command—he must have at least 400 hours in his log-book. A White Ticket is admissible, though one White Ticket pilot in a formation lowers the standard of the whole formation to white. New pilots must obtain the Transport Command ferry qualification, which takes three to four weeks to secure. They are first given a flying test on a basic type of aircraft— Harvard or Valetta—the test including a general flying check, asymmetric and night flying and basic instrument-flying. Ground subjects on which tests are also given include meteorology, rescue and survival, air-traffic control, pilot navigation, radio aids, ferry-route procedure and general aircraft instruction. A marking of 70 per cent plus is required. In addition, a technical examination must be passed, as ferry pilots must be capable of doing routine daily servicing of their aircraft. An interesting safety precaution is the requirement that, before leaving on an overseas ferryfflight, each pilot must fly his aircraft type for five hours if it is piston engined or three hours if it is a jet. Normally this flying is done at the Main tenance Unit on the actual aircraft the pilot will fly. QUARTERS setting came luminaries of aviation—all smiling. "The Firm" was proposed by Sir Archibald Rowlands, G.C.B., M.B.E., Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Supply, who, repre senting himself as the "chief customer," conveyed his felicitations with customary breeziness. In his response Mr. George Dowty recalled the deeds which we chronicle on other pages, and paid tribute to famous aircraft designers—Messrs. Camm, Carter, Davenport and Hagg, all of whom were seated around him—and Mr. H. P. Folland, who was responsible for the decision to adopt Dowty undercarriages on the Gauntlet and Gladiator. Acknowledging the encouragement given by Gloster director Mr. Hugh Burroughes, he disclosed that Mr. Burroughes is to be the next president of the S.B.A.C. Mr. Dowty paid particular tribute to his colleague Mr. Rowland Bound for the heavy burden he had shouldered during the early war years, and he did not forget the Government departments and local offices who, 17 years ago, permitted the company to establish its business at Arle Court. To this co-operation he attributed "the complete absence of labour troubles." Mr. Bound's reply was punctuated by Meteoric thunderings above the marquee, and—having heard the Mayor of Cheltenham pay graceful tribute to the gratitude and admiration entertained by the people of Cheltenham for Mr. Dowty's "wisdom, courage and foresight"—the guests rose and walked out into the sunlight to watch the gyrations of F/L. Gordon of the C.F.S. in a Meteor 7. F/L. Gordon paid his respects to Mr. Dowty by lowering the Meteor's undercarriage as he passed over the buildings where— like many others of like reputation—it was developed. Canadair's Parent Changes Name STOCKHOLDERS of the Electric Boat Co. have voted in favour of changing that name to "General Dynamics Corpora tion." The old title was adopted in 1899 when this big American company was founded as successor to three constituent concerns, the Holland Torpedo Boat Co., who developed the world's first practical submarine, Electro-Dynamic Corporation, makers of electric motors and generators, and the Electric Launch Co. "The first submarine was electrically driven—hence the name, 'Electric Boat'," explained John Jay Hopkins, chairman and president. "This name no longer adequately describes the nature and scope of a large segment of the business." The company, he pointed out, is not only a builder of sub marines, but also, in its Canadian subsidiary, Canadair, Ltd., in Montreal, possesses an aircraft manufacturing organization with a distinguished record of accomplishment in point of on-time delivery and quantity and quality of production. The company is also a leading producer of special-purpose generators, while, through a recently organized subsidiary, the General Atomic Corporation, it is ready to engage in industrial applications of atomic energy. "The company," continued Mr. Hopkins, "is, or soon will be, engaged in engineering and manufacturing activities in which are applied practically every phase of the science of the dynamics: hydrodynamics and thermodynamics at the Electric Boat
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