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626 FLIGHT, 22 May 1953 HERE AND THERE Appointed THE QUEEN has approved the appoint ment of Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst, K.B.E., C.B., A.F.C., as Lieutenant- Governor of Guernsey. He retired from the R.A.F. in 1950. Elected AMONG five vice-presidents of the Institute of Transport recently elected for 1953-54 is Mr. Peter Masefield, chief executive of British European Airways. Family Outing B.O.A.C. and one of their pilots, Capt. Gerald Austin, lay claim to a novel "double record": an Argonaut on a pilgrim flight from Bahrain to Israel carried 24 passengers, all closely related and including four generations; the great-grandmother was 105 years old ! Film Hustler IT is now known that the helicopter which will be used on the first stage of the Coro nation-film "airlift" (see Flight, page 596, last week) will be one of the Bristol Sycamore Mk 13s supplied to R.A.F. Fighter Command. The Command's Helicopter Unit is moving to North Weald, where it will remain until after the Coronation; it is shortly to be inspected by the Secretary of State for Air. TERMINUS TERMINAL: B.E.A.'s new London terminal, situated on the north side of Waterloo Station; it was formerly one of the entrance buildings to the South Bank Exhibition site. First used by passengers early this week, it was due to be officially opened vesterday, May 21st, by the Minister of Transport, Mr. Lennox Boyd. Korea Flare-up PANMUNJOM talks notwithstanding, considerable air activity has continued in Korea. On May 13th some 200 American Thunderjets and Sabres used both bombs and rockets to attack a big supply centre 60 miles from the Manchurian border. There was no Communist fighter opposition, but in operations during the next four days 23 Mig-i5s were claimed as destroyed. Canadair-Consolidated Chiefs FOLLOWING the recent news (see Flight, April 17th) of an arrangement whereby General Dynamics Corporation— the American parent company of Canadair, Ltd.—will acquire majority holdings in Consolidated Vultee Aircraft, it is now announced that Frank Pace, Jr., has been appointed executive vice-president of REVEALING VIEW of a Proteus for Air Chief Marshal Sir John Whitworth Jones, Air Member for Supply and Organization, who recently visited the Bristol works. With him is Dr. S. G. Hooker, director and chief engineer, engine division. General Dynamics. Formerly Secretary of the U.S. Army, Mr. Pace will also become a vice-chairman of Canadair. Vernon J. Welsh, formerly of General Electric, be comes vice-president (communication) of General Dynamics and chairman (com munication) of Canadair. Gliding in Miniature AFTER recent final trials at Kidlington Airfield the British team for the World Model Gliding Championships (Jugo slavia, August 23rd) has been chosen by the S.M.A.E. as follows : G. C. M. Boyd and G. W. Linford, of Loughborough College; M. Hanson, of Solihull; and A. J. Brooks, of the R.A.E. Apprentices' Hostel, Farnborough. Even Numbers "TO promote the adoption of a consistent procedure in the presentation and inter pretation of numerical values, particularly in regard to the number of figures to be used and the procedure for rounding" is the object of a new British Standard pub lished by the B.S.I. Copies are obtainable, price 3s, from the Institution's sales branch at 24, Victoria Street, London, S.W.i. Warned Off HEADED "Flights over Large Assemblies of People", an M.C.A. Information Circular issued last week observes that during the next few weeks "there will be numerous occasions on which large assemblies of people will gather in the open air to watch public events," and reminds pilots that the Rules of the Air expressly forbid flight over such gatherings. Permissible excep tions—such as air displays and races—are quoted from the regulations. Destructive Supersonics IN a letter to The Times on the aural effects of supersonic flight, Mr. A. H. Yates (a senior lecturer in aerodynamics at Cran- field, and an occasional contributor to Flight) gives it as his opinion that an aircraft flying low at supersonic speed— perhaps only 100 m.p.h. faster than at present—"would create havoc not only with our eardrums but by material damage to our homes." He calculates that the shock-wave from a machine flying super- sonically at 1,oooft represents a sudden pressure-change of about 10 lb/sq ft.
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