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1952
1952 - 2165.PDF
8 August 1952 "Flight" photograph Some of the experts concerned with communications, wind and sound measurement. The N.P.L. was called upon for the noise recordings, which were made at several points in the area. flew on the trials; next day, Lord Douglas of Kirtleside. The Bell helicopter (illustrated below) carried by Canada's polar supply-ship C. D. Howe is proving valuable in guiding the ice-breaker through the heavy pack ice that hems-in the settlements strung out along the coast of Canada's "Eastern Arctic." It is also proving invaluable in ferrying personnel between ship and settlement when the coastal ice is beyond penetration or too dangerous to penetrate. The C. D. Howe is well into her third annual round of the meteorological and radiosonde stations dotted along Canada's north-eastern coast, R.C.A.F. stations, Royal Canadian Mounted Police posts, mission stations, Eskimo and Indian settlements and fur-trading posts. She carries for them supplies sufficient to last another twelve months, and person nel to relieve men whose spell of duty in the Arctic is over. Also aboard are doctors and dentists engaged on checking-up upon the health of Eskimo, Indian and "white." When necessary the helicopter is used to put them ashore, and it is also used to fly to inland locations the geologists and other scientists engaged in studying the many problems concerned with life in the Arctic. The waters of Canada's Eastern Arctic are among the most dangerous anywhere in the world. The power in moving sea-ice is almost beyond description. There are records of pack-ice being forced in house-sized blocks as much as half a mile inland by the pressure of wind-driven floes out to sea, and the turmoil of heavy "pack" grinding along a rocky shore is frightening. Built for the Department for Transport in Ottawa, the C. D. Howe is specially strengthened for her contests with the ice. But probably her greatest insurance against damage by ice is the helicopter housed on a specially strengthened deck forward. And it is probable that helicopters will soon become standard equipment for all polar supply-ships of a size sufficient to accommodate one. 161 During his recent tour of the aircraft industry in the West Country, the Minister of Supply, Mr. Duncan Sandys, visited Rotol, Ltd., at Gloucester, where he was met by Sir John Evetts, managing director and Mr. D. A. Tomlinson, secretary. He arrived by air from Yeovil in the Westland- Sikorsky S.5S, seen in the background. This aircraft is similar in type to the two n-achines which recently completed the first long-route crossing of the North Atlantic by helicopter. (Belo v) Three delightful action studies of the Bell helicopter which has thoroughly earned its keep on Canada's polar supply ship the "C. D. Howe." One of its principal duties is to guide the ship through pack ice; another is to set down and pick-up scientific observers.
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