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1954
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202 FLIGHT, 19 February 1954 HERE AND THERE In Memory of a Victory THIS year's Battle of Britain Week is to be observed from September 13th to 19th inclusive. Bleriot Lecture on Helicopters THE R.Ae.S. announces that the seventh Louis Bleriot Lecture is to be held in Paris on March 10th, when Mr. Raoul Hafner (chief designer, helicopters, Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd.) will speak on The Domain of the Helicopter. The Louis Bleriot Lectures, inaugurated in 1948, are held alternately in London and Paris. Power Jets Directorship THE Minister of Supply has appointed to the Board of Power Jets (Research and Development) Ltd., Mr. V. P. Harries, C.B., Under-Secretary (Contracts) at the Ministry. Mr. Harries replaces Mr. W. F. Jenkins, C.B., C.B.E., who has resigned from Power Jets' Board on his appoint ment to the Department of Atomic Energy. Mr. Harries joined the M.o.S. in 1939 and was appointed Under-Secretary in 1949. Hydraulics Lecture Prize THE Water Arbitration Prize of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers has been awarded jointly to Mr. E. G. Collin- son, B.Sc, A.F.R.Ae.S., and Mr. H. G. Conway, M.A., M.I.Mech.E., F.R.Ae.S., for their paper entitled An Introduction to Hydraulic Mechanism Theory. Mr. Collinson is chief designer of British Messier, Ltd., and Mr. Conway was their technical director until last October. The paper was an account of the company's work in the field of hydraulic servo- mechanisms for aircraft and other applications. Degrees of Safety SPEAKING recently at the annual dinner of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Automobile Division, the president of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Sir William Farren, said he was not sure that the risks in aviation were greater than those in ordinary life. When travelling by train he personally felt the need for as many lives as those of a cat. He added that it should not be thought that the aeronautical world was not taking matters seriously; it was gaining ex perience, but not at the expense of the public. He especially congratulated B.O.A.C. on the steps they are taking. Heavy Load—and Opposition A PROVISIONAL licence authorizing a firm of aerial topdressing operators to make 60 hours of tests with a Bristol Freighter has been granted by New Zealand's Air Services Licensing Authority. The application was opposed by 18 topdressing concerns in the North Island, and by the Aviation Industry Association, but the chairman of the Authority, Mr. E. L. Blundell, said it was FIRST OVER THE ANDES was a Bristol M.1C monoplane. Piloted by Capt. Dagaberto Godoy, of the Chilean Military School of Aviation, it made the crossing on December 12th, 19W, and the scale model of the machine seen in our picture has lately been presented to the National Air Museum, Washington, by the Chilean Air Force. The model is being held by Mr. P. E. Garber, head curator of the Museum; on the left is G/C. Phillip Haynes, the British air attache in Wash ington and, on the right, Colonel Enrique Florez, the Chilean air attache in the same capital. felt that a licence would be in the public interest. The Authority, however, im posed certain conditions, chief of which was that the tests would have to be com pleted by May 31st, and that they would be carried out from Masterton Aero drome. Some 40 firms, mainly operating Tiger Moths, are engaged in aerial crop- fertilization work in New Zealand. HELICOPTERS REVIEWED FOLLOWING the success of last year's Helicopter Number of Flight, which sold out immediately on pub lication, it has been decided to pro duce another such enlarged special issue this year. It will appear on March 12th, and among numerous special features will be a review of the world's helicopters and their power-units. We suggest that readers should place advance orders with their newsagents. Reward for Life-saving IN recognition of the contribution of Mr. Leslie L. Irvin and the Irving Air Chute of Great Britain, Ltd., to the war effort by the design and manufacture of aircrew and supply-dropping parachutes, the Ministry of Supply has awarded the Letchworth company a sum of £68,000. This award— which will be reduced to £37,400 by taxation—is believed to be the largest ever made in the parachute industry. Mr. Irvin, founder of the company, has waived any claim in respect of his own services— which included the very rapid expansion of supply-parachute production for the Burma campaign—and has generously authorized distribution of part of the £37,400 among present employees who were with the company during the war. Flying Training's A.O.C-in-C. FURTHER to recent references to the handing-over of the hundredth produc tion Percival Provost to the Royal Air Force it should be added that Flying Training Command has, of course, been commanded by an air marshal for several years. The officer concerned, Air Marshal L. F. Pendred, C.B., M.B.E., D.F.C., has held that rank for nearly two vears. Helicopter Low-flying Charge FINES totalling £50, with 30 guineas costs, were imposed by Woolwich Magistrates' Court last week on the Evening Standard and their helicopter pilot, Capt. Alan Green. They answered summonses, under the Air Navigation Act, alleging that the helicopter (a Westland-Sikorsky S-51, G-ANAL) flew over a town at less than 1,000ft above the highest obstacle within a radius of 2,000ft and that it thereby caused "unnecessary danger to persons and pro perty on land." The case arose out of a photographic flight on September 11th, when a Meteor crashed in Woolwich Arsenal. Witnesses said that the helicopter descended to 60ft. BY \IK M\l III1 ROYAL MAIL: Stamps commemorating the Royal visit to Aus tralia appeared for the first time recently on letters arriving in this country. The cover shown here, received via Qantas,was posted on the first day of issue. tnmun anmwmt taim ' at m «i«iMH ri itf TI ftFitex The Editor, N" *R **»**, Dorset Baot«j Stamford Street, lOKSQjtf, S«B»1.
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