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1954
1954 - 0504.PDF
228 FLIGHT HERE AND THERE Orenda Output LESS than 16 months after the official opening the new gas-turbine plant of A. V. Roe (Canada), Ltd., the 1,000th Orenda turbojet has left the production- line. It was formally handed over to the R.C.A.F. at a recent ceremony at Malton, Ontario, and accepted by A. V-M. D. M. Smith, chief of R.C.A.F. Air Material Command. Spanish Production MADRID RADIO reports that the Spanish Air Ministry has set up a Direc torate-General of Aircraft Industry and Material, with the object of "organizing aircraft production to enable the industry to satisfy national demands, both in peace and war, and to attend to the requirements of the General Staff of the Air Force." Gesture FINED on February 11th for permitting its S-51 helicopter to be flown at low altitude over a populated area (photo graphs were being taken of a Meteor crash in Woolwich Arsenal) the London Evening Standard advertised the machine for sale five days later—"no reasonable offer refused." The newspaper quotes as the reason "indifference in high Ministerial places, amounting at times to hostility, to the use of the helicopter in the London area." Admission ADDRESSING the Montreal section of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, Prof. John D. Akerman, head of Minnesota University's aeronautical department, praised "the flexibility, versatility and ability" of the British aircraft industry, and urged that America place her "arsenal of productive facilities" at its disposal. The professor (who visited Farnborough last year) said that in gas-turbine airliner development America was some years behind Britain, adding that he did not believe she had an aircraft that could com pare with the Viscount. HON. AIRMAIL: Carried by Japan Air Lines' DC-6B "City of Tokio" on the in augural Japanese post war international ser vice, this first-flight cover is a gay affair in red, yellow, blue and black. At It Again FIVE members of the Central Ukrainian Aero Club recently made a group para chute jump from a height of over 7,000 metres (more than 23,000ft). A woman member of the club made an individual jump from a similar altitude. Air tempera ture at that height was minus 54 deg C. SOVIET PARACHUTISTE Lyubov Maznichenko of Kiev, who claims a new 7,000 m record for women (see paragraph above). 3Post» flsstsm' 8aa Fras««fi: - *sr mmr TOKYO ~SAN P&VCiSCO '"•:w* • jmm mums A "504" Reunion THE Avro 504 Club—the old-timers of the A. V. Roe organization—are to hold their third annual dinner on March 5th, at Londonderry House. Of Importance to Industry THE March issue (out today, February 26th) of Mechanical Handling will contain full advance details of the Fourth Mechani cal Handling Exhibition and Convention, to be held at Olympia from June 9th-19th. R.A.E. Alcohol-fuel Experiments ? AUTHOR of an enthusiastic contribution on home-made wines, appearing in the cur rent i?.i4.£. News (journal of the Royal Aircraft Establishment) is Dr. A. N. Mosses—of the Establishment's chemistry department. Hungary's Air Agriculture HUNGARY intends this year to begin the sowing of rice by aircraft. During 1953 successful experiments were carried out with insecticide-spraying, and this year large areas will be treated; attention will be given first to sugar-beet and lucerne fields. As well as rice-sowing, the spread ing of fertilizer and the spraying of orchards are to be attempted this year. Expedition Loses Its "Eyes" THE Australian Antarctic expedition, which left Melbourne on January 4th and reached the Antarctic mainland on February 11th, suffered an early misfor tune which may seriously hamper their operations. Their two reconnaissance Austers, lashed to the deck of the expedi tion vessel Kista Dan, were severely damaged in a hurricane; it is reported that repairs to make them airworthy are likely to be very difficult, if not impossible. Speedy Septet THE U.S.A.F. research aircraft seen in the accompanying photograph are, read ing clockwise from the bottom left, the Bell X-1A, supersonic rocket-powered; Douglas D-558 Skystreak, subsonic, turbo jet; Convair XF-92A, transonic, turbojet with afterburner; Bell X-5, subsonic, variable-sweep, turbojet; Douglas Sky rocket, supersonic, rocket-powered; and Northrop X-4, subsonic, turbojet, tail-less. In the centre is seen the great Douglas X-3, to be a supersonic turbojet-rocket vehicle. The aircraft painted white are on N.A.C.A. aerodynamic research work. CONVOCATION OF SPEEDSTERS : Seven re markable research aircraft of the U.S.A.F. Air Research and Development Command were brought together for this photograph at Edwards A.F.B., California. Details are given in the paragraph immediately above.
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