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62 FLIGHT, 16 January 1953 HERE AND THERE New Arabian Heights DESPITE criticism from Israel's Am bassador to the United States, Mr. Abba Eban, British plans to sell jet fighters to Arab countries are not likely to be opposed by America. Informal consultation had already taken place between Britain and the United States, and the American official view was that the proposed sale was not likely to lead to a Middle East armament race. Royal Aero Club A.G.M. THE Annual General Meeting of the Royal Aero Club will be held at 119, Piccadilly, London, W.i, on Wednesday, March 25th, at 6 p.m. Election of mem bers to the committee and house committee will be on the agenda. Australian Firsts THE Australian Defence Production Minister, Mr. Eric Harrison, has an nounced that the first Australian-built Canberra is expected to fly next month. The first Sabre built there will also be ready for flight-testing; both aircraft will be pre-production models. The Austra lian-built Avon engines that power the Canberras will be ready for testing in March, and those for the Sabres "some months later." Canberras in N.Z. Race ENTRY fees for two Canberras of the Royal Australian Air Force have been received at Canterbury, New Zealand, by the International England-N.Z. Air Race Council; the aircraft are entered for the speed section of the race. A further entry has been received from two Reserve officers of the R.A.A.F., S/L. A. J. R. Oates and POINT OF NO RETURN: a North American FJ-2 of the U.S. Navy at the crucial moment of being catapulted from the deck of the U.S.S. "Coral Sea." Note the catapult bridle falling away just after disengagement. The FJ-2 is basically a navalized F-86E, and likewise possesses powered, irreversible controls with built-in "feel"; it is armed with four 20 mm guns. F/Lt. D. Swan, who will compete in a Mosquito. It is hoped by the sponsors that one of the two Comets to be delivered to the R.C.A.F. during 1953 may also be entered. A complete list of competitors will be announced by the Royal Aero Club in London shortly after entries close on January 31st. ABOUT HELICOPTERS NEXT WEEK—on Friday, January 23rd—the special Helicopter Num ber of Flight will be published. It will contain articles—some by specialist contributors—on past, pre sent and future aspects of helicopter design and operation, and there will be a number of special illustrations. Headquarters Move TRANSFER of the H.Q. of the 12th U.S. Air Force from Wiesbaden to a new base at Landstuhl, west of the Rhine, will begin early in March and be complete in June. The move has been necessitated by the proximity of American Fighter strength to Communist Czechoslovakia. Headquarters of United States Air Forces in Europe will remain in Wiesbaden, since no base further west with suitable accommodation for families of H.Q. staff has yet been found. Col. C. F. Marston, in making the an- HOLDING-OFF: Mr. T. W. Brooke-Smith (Short Brothers' chief test pilot), ce/ebroting the first flight of the Short S.B.S in company with friends at Belfast, handles a rather different kind of control column; it is to be hoped that the response was equally positive , ,. nouncements, said that transfer of opera tional units of the 12th Air Force was already proceeding well. Although the main bases and supply centres were being moved back, those being vacated would not be abandoned, but would be main tained as forward airfields, A.T.A. Reunion THE annual reunion dinner of the Air Transport Auxiliary Association is to be held at the Clarendon Restaurant, Hammer smith, London, W.6, on Friday, February 27th. Details are obtainable from the hon. secretary, Miss Sidonie Bowell, 25, Luton Road, Luton, Beds. Dept. of Useless Information REPORTING on the personal dimensions of their "corps of 800 stewardesses," an American airline announced recently that "compared with skygirls a decade ago, this year's group averages 5ft 4Jin in height as opposed to 5ft 3 Jin, bust 34m, as against 33m, waist 24m, against 24jin, hips remaining at 35m. Percentage of brunettes has increased from 60 to 70, the remainder mostly blondes . . . Figures courtesy of Air Lines." New Ferry Fares GREATLY reduced summer fares, effec tive from April 1st, on the Lympne to Le Touquet and Southampton to Cher bourg cross-Channel ferries were an nounced by Silver City Airways on Tues day. Examples of the new rates are these single fares on the Lympne ferry (1952 figures in parentheses): Cars up to 12ft 6in long, £7 10s (£16); cars between 14ft 6in and 15ft 6in long, £15 (£20); 250 c.c. motorcycles, £1 15s (£4); pedal cycles, 5s (£1). It is hoped to publish further details next week. To Study the Works AN advance party of six officers and N.C.O.s of the Brazilian Air Force, under the command of Major Eduardo Motta, one of their most experienced pilots, reached Derby this week for a fortnight's course on the Rolls-Royce Derwent. Later they will go on to the Gloster works for two months. Further arrivals will event ually make up the party to about ten pilots and 30 engineers, and some of the latter may remain in this country for as long as six months. Brazil recently ordered 70 Meteors, to be paid for in cotton, and the personnel participating in this course will form the nucleus of the two squadrons scheduled for formation.
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