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1952
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652 FLIGHT, 30 May 1952 HERE AND THERE H.P. Post for M.P. A. CDRE. A. V. HARVEY, M.P., has been appointed deputy chairman of Handley Page, Ltd. Another Triangle THE Republic Aviation Corporation is reported to be working on yet another development of the original straight- winged Thunder jet. Designated XF-103, the new variant is stated to have a delta wing. Smoky Trails in Essex WETHERSFIELD near Braintree, is now the home of 75 F-84G Thunderjets of the U.S.A.F. 20th Fighter-Bomber wing; they arrived last week after flying from Hampton, Virginia. This unit forms the defensive part of the 49th Air Division, U.S. 3rd A.F., whose commander, Col. J. D. Stevenson, is setting up his head quarters at Sculthorpe, Norfolk. The offensive side is the 47th Bomber wing, equipped with 45 B-45C Tornadoes, to arrive very shortly. Tea on the Lawn AS in past years a "peaceful" atmosphere, with the accent on private flying, will be the keynote of the Royal Aeronautical Society's Garden Party, to be held at White Waltham, on June 15th. There will, nevertheless, be some "border-line" contributions, including trainers from this country and abroad. One feature will be a gliding display, some of the pilots in which will be leaving shortly afterwards to compete in the International Contest in Spain. Admission to the Garden Party is strictly confined to R.Ae.S. members and their guests. MILITARY TARGET: Showing little sign of pulling out of his dive, in spite of the tall tree marly in his path, a U.S.A.F. F-80 pilot in Korea releases a napalm tank towards enemy vehicles parked in a factory yard. At Whitsun TWO air displays are scheduled for Whit- Monday. At Yeadon, near Leeds, in aid of the Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Fami lies Association, the programme will in clude, in addition to R.A.F. and Naval Aviation items, a de monstration by a Yugoslavian stunt team, one member of which (to the delight no doubt, of the 100,000 crowd expected) will hang by his teeth from the under carriage of an old Soviet PO-2 trainer. Yeadon's show begins at 2 p.m. (gates open, 10 a.m.) and admission is 2s 6d (children is 6d, cars 5s). The Birming ham event, organized by the Midland Aero Club at Elmdon, promises to be more in the nature of an orthodox club display; it will include an inter-club "bombing" competition.. It starts at 2 p.m., and admis sion is is (children 6d), or 5s (children 2s 6d) to the special enclosure. Historic Bale-out AN Australian pilot who has just logged his millionth mile of airline flying is Joe Herman, who, while in the R.A.A.F., had one of the most extraordinary escapes of the war. When his bomber was destroyed over Germany at night he fell several thousand feet with a faulty parachute (some records say no parachute at all); then he contacted something, and held on hard—it was "Irish" Vivash, another member of his crew, floating earthward. The pair landed safely, to be taken prisoners. Scottish Potential THE factory of Blackburn (Dumbarton), Ltd., where 4,000 workers were employed on Sunderland production during the war, has had nine-tenths of its capacity switched from "pre-fab" to aircraft production : the first components—Vampire wings—began to leave the factory early this month. Though present sub-contract orders are sufficient to keep the plant going for three years, it is hoped ultimately to make capacity available for the building of Blackburn and General Aircraft Freighters. As elsewhere, the biggest problem is that of manpower—toolmakers especially. Some 1,250 are already engaged, and it is hoped to find another 1,750 in two years. EXPRESSIVE: Visiting the Bristol works last week, Lord Douglas of Kirtleside, B.E.A.'s chairman, listens intently to Mr. Raoul Hafner designer of the Type 173 twin-engined helicopter. High Hook-up AMERICA'S National Broadcasting Com pany is planning a London-America television relay of the Coronation, using micro-wave links between ten aircraft spaced out over the Atlantic. Collector's Piece ONE of the rarest air-mail stamps in existence, a 60-cent Newfoundland black on a cover carried in the Marquis de Pinedo's Savoia flying-boat on its Italy- America-Italy flight in 1927, has been sold in London for £850. Torch-bearer S.A.S.—Scandinavian Airlines System— has been entrusted with the transport of the Olympic Torch from Athens to Aalborg, whence relays of runners will carry it to Helsinki, where the Olympic Games begin on July 19th. No fire hazard will arise, for before the DC-6 takes off from Athens the flame will be transferred to a Davy lamp. Australian Aluminium and Oil A FIRST shipload of men, building materials and machinery left Darwin, Australia, at the end of April, for an un named island off the coast of the Northern Territory, where substantial deposits of aluminium ore are to be examined. Aus tralian oil is also in the news : Mr. F. J. Watson, from the London firm of Seismo graph Services, Ltd., is leader of a party who are soon to survey for oil in the Ex- mouth Gulf area of Western Australia. Truth is Stranger . . . LAST week, events following the P.A.A. Stratocruiser crash in the Brazilian jungle (on April 29th) assumed a character rival ling the plot of a Graham Greene novel. All 50 occupants of the aircraft—which was said to have valuable diamonds on board— had lost their lives in the accident. Mem bers of an official search-party organized by the American and Brazilian authorities, and equipped with a U.S.A.F. helicopter, went to the scene. A few days later their leaders were made captive by an unofficial search- party of 30 armed men who had parachuted in before them. Some were released, but
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