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1953
1953 - 0952.PDF
io6 FLIGHT HERE AND THERE Down High Up A LANDING at 13,200ft on Mount Rosa, made last week by the Swiss pilot Hermann Geiger, is believed to be the highest ever achieved in Europe. Flying a ski-equipped Piper Cub, Geiger was carrying equipment to a geological survey party. He made five flights, on one of which he flew out a sick member of the party. Sabre Simulators for R.A.A.F. THE Royal Australian Air Force has ordered, from Redifon, Ltd., two Avon- Sabre flight simulators. One will be in stalled in a special building at No. 2 (Fighter) Operational Training Unit, Williamtown, N.S.W. The other will be a mobile installation to be sent wherever squadrons equipped with Avon-Sabres are operating in Australia or overseas. Ale* **r "Are we agreed, then, gentlemen, that our tur bine is worth two tons of soya beans, ten crates of pomegranates, and six dozen hand-tinted woodcuts of The Return of Salome'?" England-Venezuela in a Day ANOTHER notable Canberra delivery flight from England to Venezuela was accomplished, on July 14th, by Capt. John Hackett and Nav/Off. D. J. Moneypenny (photograph below), both of Silver City Airways. Leaving Warton Airfield at 3.52 a.m. G.M.T., they circled over Caracas at 7.5 p.m. the same day. They had flown from Warton to Gander in 4 hr 46 min, Gander to Baltimore in 2 hr 50 min and Baltimore to Maracay, near Caracas, in 4 hr 42 min. Flying time for the 5,862-mile journey was 12 hr 18 min, represent ing an average speed of 487.5 m.p.h. The Atlantic crossing in 4 hr 46 min compares with W/C. Beamont's official east-west record (Aldergrove to Gander) of 4 hr 18 min in August 1951. Helicopter Venture KNOWN as Bensen Aircraft Corporation, a new helicopter firm has been founded at Raleigh-Durham Airport, North Carolina. Its primary activities will be "development, research, consulting and sub-contracting services to the helicopter industry." The president, Igor B. Bensen, was until re cently chief of research at Kaman Aircraft Corporation. Show Success ATTENDANCE at the recent British Plastics Exhibition in London, was up by 20 per cent compared with the first Exhibition two years ago. There were overseas visitors from 51 countries. The organizers—British Plastics—plan to hold the next Exhibition and Convention in 1955. For Brazil's Air Force FOLLOWING the signing of the military agreement between Brazil and United States, the Brazilian Air Force has re ceived five B-17S, its first four-engined aircraft. In addition to a helicopter, de signed by an Austrian engineer and built at the Galeao factory, the F.A.B. has also acquired two modern helicopters from the Bell Aircraft Company, for use on life- saving services. Oh, well . . . ACCORDING to Aviation Age (U.S.A.), which is devoting its next issue to Soviet guided-missile production, Russia can pro duce 24,000 "improved V2" weapons a month; the estimate is attributed to a Ger man technician who has escaped from Russia. Also mentioned are, first, a launch ing ramp which can release missiles at the rate of 800 an hour and, secondly, a 97-ton multi-stage rocket with a range of 2,500 miles. DAY TRIP: Capt. John Hackett and Nav/Off. D. J. Moneypenny, whose high-speed delivery flight of a Canberra to Venezuela is reported above. CAPTAIN H. A. A. KOOPER, who is to command the K..LM. D.C.6A entered in the Transport Handicap section of the New Zealand Race. He joined the line as a flight engineer in 1930; since then he has logged over 18,500 hours. A.F.I.T.A. Amendment AN amendment is due concerning the two illustrations in last week's issue (page 92) to Mr. A. Black's A.F.I.T.A. lecture on High-strength Light Alloys: as our more technically knowledgeable readers will have realized, the captions were inadvertendy transposed. Showing the Queen SINCE our account of the Royal Review went to press we have learned that the model by means of which the fly-past was explained to Her Majesty was the work of the M.L. Aviation Co., Ltd., White Waltham. It comprised a series of Perspex sheets (not a ground-glass screen, as origin ally understood) upon which were shown the various tracks of the aircraft converging on Leavesden. A second model was made to the design of W/C. G. H. Wass and displayed the recognition characteristics of each type of aircraft; it was controlled from behind the dais. A. Cdre. J. Grandy, D.S.O., was primarily responsible for ex plaining the fly-past to Her Majesty. LADY CAMM, wife of Hawker's chief design er, presents the hand some Queen Elizabeth Cup to Mr. L. Barr, at the Northern Heights model-flying meeting, described last week. In the background are Mr. Neville Spriggs (Haw ker director and general manager) and Dr. A. P. Thurston, president of the N.H.M.F.C.
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