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1952
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8 August 1952 145 HERE AND THERE Germans for Farnborough AMONG German aircraft designers who will attend the S.B.A.C. Display in Sep tember are Professor Ernst Heinkel, Professor Claudius Dornier, and Dr. Fritz Siebel. Dr. Dornier has been working in Madrid for two years and is reported to advocate a "European pool" in aircraft construction for mutual defence. B-36 Orders THE U.S.A.F. has announced that, when existing orders for the Consolidated- Vultee B-36 "global" bomber are com pleted in 1954, no more of these machines will be acquired. This decision, indeed, is hardly surprising in view of the age of the B-36 design and the successful flight- testing of the jet-propelled YB-60 and YB-52. Migs v. Fireflies A NUMBER of Mig-i5s recently flew some 200 miles from their Manchurian bases to attack four Fireflies and four Sea Furies of H.M.S. Ocean which were bomb ing supply and troop concentrations south and west of Chinnampho, the port which serves the North Korean capital of Pyong yang. Three Fireflies were damaged, but no crew members were lost. Of the three machines, one came down in the Yellow Sea, one force-landed, and a third returned to the carrier. "Flight" photograph HORSE FERRY: A York of Lancashire Aircraft Corporation (now to be known as Skyways of London) made several journeys to Helsinki with riders and horses of the British Olympic teams. Seen here at Blackbushe are Mr. Eric Rylands, L.A.C.'s managing director, with his hand on the arm of Col. Llewellyn, whose "Foxhunter" is the horse on the left; the next animal (partly concealing its owner) is Mr. M. M. White's "Nizefela," and the third is "Atherlow," owned by Col. D. M. Stewart (holding hat). In a sports jacket is Col. Talbot-Ponsonby, and on the right is the head groom. Ground Gunnery Trainer THE new T-13 "flexible gunnery trainer," developed for the U.S.A.F. by the Glenn L. Martin Company, is now ready for delivery. Utilizing the same fire-control equipment found in such bombers as the B-36 and B-50, it combines the measuring and scoring devices which continuously summarize tracking, sighting and gun- laying errors; as many as a dozen different kinds of error can be measured simultan eously. Instead of using film, a projector casts the shadow of a scale-model fighter. AT THE SOURCE: A party of Indian, Pakistan and Malayan A.T.C. cadets who are touring this country visited the Auster Aircraft works at Rearsby on My 21st, accompanied by officers of No. 1 (F) City of Leicester Sqn. A.T.C. and by S/L V. G. Hogan, D.F.C., ofR.A.F. Station, Uxbridge. The party is seen here with Mr. R. L. Porteous, Auster's chief test pilot, after he had given an aerobatic demonstration—much appreciated by the visitors—of the Auster Aiglet Trainer. Royal Log A PAGE from the log book of Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, reproduced in our American contemporary Flying, shows that His Royal Highness has flown a Hind, Hurricane 1, 2 and 12, Master 1, 2 and 3, Gladiator, Tutor, Spitfire 1, 2, 5, 9 and 14, Mosquito 9, Gauntlet, Mitchell, Liberator, Mustang, Lancaster, Thunderbolt, Firefly, Mallard, Meteor 7, Sea Fury, Scandia, Vampire and Lockheed T-33, in addition to a string of lower-powered machines. Unusual Accident PILOT and flight engineer of a PanAm aircraft have been suspended following the death of a woman passenger after the cabin door blew open at 15,000ft during a flight between Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo. The passenger is said to have been "sucked" out of her seat just forward of the door. Trunk services on this route are normally flown with Stratocruisers. Washington Apparitions THREE times last week radar observers at Washington National Airport, U.S.A., obtained unidentified blips on their screens for which they could obtain no immediate explanation. So many strange phenomena have been reported over the American continent in recent months that we hesitate to comment; but a genuine trace on a radar screen certainly takes some explanation, if tangible aircraft are ruled out. Explanations so far advanced include: tin-foil "Window" dropped from high flying B-36S; stray meteorological balloons; and, as a kind of last resort, an unexplained atmospheric condition, capable of reflect ing radar waves. The last set of blips were measured at a ground speed of no m.p.h. between 1.30 and 6 a.m. on July 29th, between Andrews Air Force Base, Mary land, and Herndon, across the Potomac in Virginia.
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