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62 FLIGHT, 15 January 1954 HERE AND THERE Earliest Radio AT the request of the Science Museum, die Marconi Company have provided a working replica of the apparatus used by Marconi in his early experiments. It consists of a spark transmitter, coherer receiver and morse inker. Curiouser and Curiouser On January 10th the Short S.B.5 adjust able-wing research aircraft first flew in its third configuration, with 60 deg of sweep and a low tailplane. The horizontal tail consists of conventional elevators with large tabs and a delta tailplane with a wide range of angular movement, the whole being attached under the rear fuselage. A large triangular portion of each wing-root leading edge is also modified with con siderable fixed droop. Later the S.B.5 will receive a new wing with 69 deg sweep. Danish Award for Neville Duke YESTERDAY, January 14th, at a Londonderry House ceremony, S/L. Neville Duke was due to receive the Royal Danish Aero Club's golden plaque; the presentation was to be made on behalf of the Club by Mr. Vagn Christensen, general manager of Scandinavian Airlines. S/L. Duke recendy demonstrated the Hawker Hunter at Kastrup, Copenhagen. All But MR. H. B. SHOWELL, who began his return business-trip from Australia to England in his Auster Aiglet G-AMRL on December 17th, returned to his Norfolk fruit farm last Sunday; but he was forced to complete the last lap by airline, for he experienced an engine seizure, it is reported, shordy after taking off from Naples. He got back to the airfield, and left the Auster there; he intends to collect it when a new engine has been installed. Mr. Showell made the outward trip, last autumn, in an overall time of 25 days and flying time of about 150 hours. Target Practice? IT was disclosed last week that a DC-3 of Eagle Aviation, Ltd., had been fired on by an unidentified fighter while on a journey from Belgrade to Blackbushe on December 31st after delivering a cargo of pigs to the Yugoslav Government. The incident occurred at a height of 10,000ft near the Yugoslav frontier; the fighter made one attack, whereupon the DC-3 pilot promptly and successfully sought TORQUE INTO THRUST: One of a recent series of Turbo - Hydromatic airscrews developed by the Hamilton Standard division of United Air craft. It is shown fitted to a Pratt and Whitney T34 turboprop (about 5,500 h.p.) mounted in the nose of a 8-/7 Fortress. The United Aircraft Corporation are one of the few organiza tions in America pre pared to back the turbo prop in public; the air lines appear still to be undecided. cloud cover. The British Embassy in Belgrade said later, after enquiries, that die fighter was clearly not a Yugoslav aircraft. New I.A.S, President ELECTED president of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences for 1954 is Mr. John Leland Attwood, president of North American Aviation, Inc. CD. Aircraft A SCHEME for mobilizing Canada's 2,000-odd light aircraft as a civil defence force has been outlined by Mr. R. N. Redmayne, manager of the Air Industries and Transport Association. Crash Rescue Award THE QUEEN has approved the award of the George Medal to two Canadians, A. R. Decuyper, aged 36, and R. T. Waters, aged 14. When a Lancaster crashed near R.C.A.F. station Comox, B.C., on November 24di, 1952, the man and the boy ran to the burning wreck and freed the pilot and co-pilot. The fuel tanks blew up while diey were extricating the co-pilot. Patrick Johnson joins Solar FOLLOWING his retirement from the Board of Power Jets, Ltd. (as recorded in these pages a fortnight ago), Mr. Patrick Johnson is to develop the European interests of Solar Aircraft Co., the well-known Californian makers of gas-turbine components. He will remain free to serve die various British organizations and com mittees of which he is a member, and to act as adviser to Power Jets and odiers. He leaves for America at the end of this mondi and will return to open a London office in the spring. H.D.A. Acquisition TWO sheet-aluminium mills in South Wales—Wern Works, Briton Ferry, and Byass Works, Port Talbot, formerly owned by Richard Thomas and Baldwins, Ltd.—have been acquired by High Duty Alloys, Ltd., of Slough. Famed for its Hiduminium alloys, this member of the Hawker Siddeley Group will thus have its resources further strengthened. Instruments on Exhibition THE Physical Society is to hold its annual exhibition of scientific instruments and apparatus from April 8th to April 13th. Imperial College, South Kensington, will be the venue. Condensed History MAINLY consisting of photographs, of which there are 45, an excellent little summary of aeronautical history has been published by the Science Museum, South Kensington, under the title The Conquest of the Air. The booklet is obtainable at Is (postage 2d) from the Museum or from branches of H.M. Stationery Office. R.S.A. Prize Competition DETAILS of three 1954 endowed-prize competitions are issued by the Royal Society of Arts. They concern the Benjamin Shaw Prize for Industrial Safety, Fothergill Prize for Fire-preven tion or Fire-fighting, and Howard Prize for Mechanical Motive Power. Details are obtainable from the Society at John Adam Street, London, W.C.2. CONTRACTORANDCUSTOMER: Photographed last week in the Willesden factory of Rotax, Ltd., during the visit ofM.o.S. officials referred to on page 59 of this issue (left to right): Mr. £. R. Legg, Rotax service director; Mr. G. M. P. Myers, private secretary to Mr. A. R. W. Low; Mr. C. H. Dutton, vice-chairman, Rotax; Mr. A. R. W. Low, Parlia mentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply; Mr. A. 8. Waring, chairman of Joseph Lucas (Industries), Ltd.; Capt. M. Luby, Rotax director and general manager; Mr. K. F. Brown, Rotax finance director; and Mr. R. H. Woodall, Rotax engineering director.
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