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l62 FLIGHT, 1 August 1953 HERE AND THERE Practical Practice F/L. J. L. C. WHITEMAN, an ex- R.A.A.F. pilot, flying his own Mustang, has set up a new record of 3 hr 31 min for the Tasman Sea crossing—an average speed of 402 m.p.h. The previous best time was by a Stratocruiser, which took 3 hr 43 min. F/L. Whiteman has entered his Mustang for the England to New Zealand Race next October. Up to be Shot At AN unusual type of towed aircraft—partly of delta and partly of orthodox plan-form —has been noticed recently in flight over Southern England. It is, in fact, the new A.S.T. target glider, a model of which was exhibited at the Paris Show (photograph, Flight, July 3rd). The airframe is a stressed-skin shell filled with a foam plastic compound developed by LCI., this method of construction simplifying repair after action. A tail braking parachute is automatically released as the wheels touch the ground. Holiday from the House MR. J. D. PROFUMO, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation, is to take part in the England to New Zealand Air Race. He will be a member of the crew of the Viscount which B.E.A. has entered in the transport handicap sec tion. Before the war Mr. Profumo was a member of the Oxford University Air Squadron and also flew as a private owner. He was attached to an Army Co-operation flight at the beginning of the war and subsequently became a G.S.O. 1 (Air). Service Aeromodellers Compete THERE was a large entry for the United Kingdom Championships of the R.A.F. Model Aircraft Association, held at St. Athan on July 26th. Winners were Maintenance Command, with 224 points, and the runners-up were Technical Train ing Command (115); best individual scorer was Cpl. Burch. Other prizewinners in cluded Sgt. McHard and Cpl. Burch (concours d'elegance); S. A/C. Sharpies (power duration); S. A/C. Pratt (Jetex- powered models); L. A/C. Taylor (Thurs ton Trophy); and S. A/C. Lock (scale flying models). BARNS-STORMER: ?Lt.Col. W. F. Barns with the F-86D Sabre in which he beat the World Air Speed record on July 15th. A test pilot at Edwards A.F.B., he flew at less than 100ft above the course at Salton Sea, Cali fornia, which is 240ft below sea level. His mean speed was 715.7 m.p.h.; his best run, 721.35 m.p.h. Remembering John Derry AT a recent Washington meeting of air- minded young people from 17 nations, the late John Derry was elected "airman of the year" in recognition of his work for the advancement of supersonic flight. They are to present the award medal to his widow. ABTRACTION: Entitled "The Unknown Q.F.I.", this imposing modern sculpture in bright copper wire is a scale model of "a monument, 300ft. high, to be erected in steel and concrete at the intersection of runways 10 and 23 at Little Rissington." SjL. J. S. Lamplugh, of No. 150 Course, presented it to C.F.S. Calshot Folds its Wings R.A.F. station Calshot, home of the British Schneider Trophy teams, and for 40 years a Service flying boat base, is shortly to become a maintenance unit for R.A.F. marine craft. The station's Sunderlands will leave Southampton Water and move to Plymouth and Pembroke Dock. Cal shot was opened late in 1912 as a Royal Navy seaplane station and was taken over by the R.A.F. when that Service was formed in 1918. Princesses Unaffected WE learn that the Saunders-Roe Princess flying-boats, one of which is now at Calshot in its "Cocooned" state, to be followed by the other, are unlikely to be moved else where as a result of the change in the station's function. R.Aux.A.F. in Tattoo THERE will be a Royal Air Force night at the military searchlight tattoo at Chester on Friday, September 4th. The chief guest will be Air Marshal Sir Dermot A. Boyle, K.B.E., C.B., A.F.C., A.O.C.-in-C. Fighter Command, and after his arrival by helicopter in the arena there will be a fly past by Nos. 605, 610, 611 and 613 Sqdns., R.Aux.A.F. To Encourage Research A NEW research studentship, valued at £500, has been established at the Imperial College of Science and Technology by the English Electric Co., Ltd. It is for the study of advanced problems in aeronautical engineering—particularly those of vibra tion, stability and control of aircraft at high speeds. English Electric have already established fellowships at the University of Glasgow and the College of Aero nautics at Cranfield. A Pioneer Dies AN early authority on powered flight, Dr. Richard von Mises, has died at his home in Boston, Mass., at the age of 70. He had retired, only a month before his death, as Professor of Aeronautics and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University. A native of Austria, he had lectured on aeronautics as early as 1913 and in 1915 designed aircraft for the Austrian Army; he flew as an army pilot in World War I. In 1945, he published Theory of Flight, a major work on aerodynamics. PUDDLE-JUMPERS : Photographed at Fairford, Clos.—where their unit, the 305th Bomb Wing, shortly takes over from the 306th—are the crew of a B-47B which recently flew 3,120 miles from Maine in 4 hr 45 min. From the left : Lt.Col. J. M. Smith, Lt.Col. D. H. Frank, Maj. A.'E. Dawson and civilian passenger Bern Haugland, of the Associated Press.
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