FlightGlobal.com
Home
Premium
Archive
Video
Images
Forum
Atlas
Blogs
Jobs
Shop
RSS
Email Newsletters
You are in:
Home
Aviation History
1953
1953 - 1274.PDF
43° FLIGHT, 25 September 1953 HERE AND THERE Royal F.R.Ae.S. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH has ac cepted an invitation to become an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. The announcement was made by Sir William Farren, R.Ae.S. president, at the Anglo-U.S. Conference dinner on September 17th. Expensive Beat-up A U.S.A.F. B-47 pilot who caused con siderable public alarm last June by circling Cardiff several times at low altitude has been punished by being permanently grounded, reprimanded, and deprived of £70 pay. For Indian Defence ACCORDING to a report from India, attributed to Mr. Mahavir Tyagi, Minis ter for Defence, his Government intends to set up a factory to produce aero engines. In addition it is probable that an order will be placed for Fireflies for the Indian Navy. Polar Piasecki Flight Cancelled IT was reported in Washington on Sep tember 17th that two U.S.A.F. twin-rotor Piasecki helicopters were at Thule Air Base, about 900 miles from the North Pole, await ing weather suitable for a flight to the Pole and back. Four days later die flight was abandoned as "not worth while." The Sun Rises Further SLOWLY, but very surely, Japanese aviation is rising from the dead. Last Sunday, September 20th, a national avia tion day was celebrated, and all the dozens of simple, conventional, back-yard prototypes built in Japan during the past year took part in an air festival, together with the airliners operated by Japan Air Lines on domestic routes and, in the near future, international services also. News papers, radio and television companies and ouier sponsors put on a meeting of pilots— "Flight" photograph TEMPORARY TERMINAL: Pending completion of the ultra-modern terminal illustrated on pages 432-3 of this issue, London Airport's administrative, passenger-handling and control services will remain in the area immediately south of the Bath Road. This view of the buildings and marshalling apron was secured recently from a Bristol 171 helicopter. of whom 200 hold current licences—and aircraft manufacturers. The order of 1945 forbidding the Japanese to fly powered air craft was, of course, rescinded last year. Several colleges and universities are ex pected shortly to offer glider training in their sports curricula. Turkish Airfield Programme APART from military air bases now under construction, Turkey is going ahead with die construction of a number of civil air fields. Contracts are reported to have been signed with an American firm for the preparation of sites at Diarbakir, Kenya ad Eskisehir, at a cost of £T32,000,000. Pilotless Prang A ROBOT target aircraft, of unspecified type, crashed into a house at Stiffkey, Norfolk, last Sunday, without causing serious damage or casualties. As die local inhabitants know well enough, there is a ground-to-air firing range in the area, and both British and American army units have been operating pilotless target air craft there since 1951. A U.S. Air Force spokesman said mat, last Sunday, the target in question did not "pop its chute" and, proper radio control having been lost, it went into a steep dive at 400ft over the sea, finally passing over the U.S. Army camp and into Stiffkey village. TO BOOM DOWN-UNDER: This first air-to-air view of the prototype Commonwealth Sabre shows the increased fuselage depth, bigger intake to feed the Rolls-Royce Avon, and the blast tube for the starboard 30mm gun. Like the F-86F and H, this Sabre can carry an underwing offensive load. In the hands ofFjLt. Bill Scott this fine aircraft has exceeded Mach one many times. Austers for Antarctica TWO Austers fitted with floats are to be attached to this year's Australian Antarctic Expedition. They will be used to guide the Expedition ship through ice packs and for reconnaissance of the Antarctic mainland. F/L. D. Leckie, who was with 77 Squad ron in Korea, will be in charge; the second pilot will be Sgt. R. S. Seaver, and Sgt. K. W. Duffel will look after maintenance. An R.C.A.F. Loss ONE of die best-known demonstration pilots of the R.C.A.F., S/L. Ray Greene, was killed on the Canadian National Air Day last Saturday, September 19m. He had been giving a Sabre exhibition before a crowd of 60,000 at Toronto; after loop ing, die Sabre dived towards Lake Ontario apparently out of control and, after skip ping along the water for some hundreds of feet, blew up. More Molybdenum ON Monday last, September 21st, restric tions on the use of molybdenum in certain forms of alloy steel, imposed by the Minis try of Supply in June 1952, were removed. Restrictions on the use of nickel continue. The Advance of Titanium FOR use in a "special research proiect for the U.S.A.F.," an 8ft 4in airscrew blade— designed by Hamilton Standard Division of United Aircraft—has been forged in titanium 140-A high-strength alloy. The forging was made by the Ladish Co., of Cudahy, Wisconsin, in what is claimed to be the largest closed-die hammer in the world. W-S 51 in Wales NEWPORT, Monmouthshire, had its first experience of the helicopter when, on September 18th, the Mayor and members of the Council made flights in a Westland- Sikorsky 51 widi Mr. John Fay, the makers' instructional pilot, at the controls. The progressive Town Council has already selected a site at Shaftesbury Park for use as a helicopter station some time in the future. Witnesses at the demonstration were Mr. Mostyn Davies, a B.E.A. repre sentative (he had no direct interest), and W/C. R. A. C. Brie, in charge of B.E.A.'s Helicopter Experimental Unit.
Sign up to
Flight Digital Magazine
Flight Print Magazine
Airline Business Magazine
E-newsletters
RSS
Events
