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1954
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286 FLIGHT, 12 March 1954 HERE AND THERE Exports Up Again JANUARY figures, published last week, show that British aviation exports totalled nearly £5£ million—£lm more than for January last year. Engine exports, listed separately for the first time since October 1951, brought nearly £2m of the £5im. Bristol Chief for N. America LAST Friday Sir Reginald Verdon Smith, joint managing director of the Bristol Aeroplane Co., left London Airport for the U.S.A. and Canada. He would not say whether his talks in America would con cern Britannia production, but in Canada he will discuss the building of the maritime version. Farnborough—the Date WE continue to receive many enquiries as to the date of this year's Farnborough Show; so we repeat—Tuesday, September 7th, to Sunday, the 12th, inclusive. R.A.F. Helicopters in Malaya THE only operational helicopter squadron of the R.A.F., No. 194, has just celebrated its first birthday. Formed at Singapore, it took over the duties of the former Far East Casualty Evacuation Flight, then moved to its present base at Kuala Lumpur. During the twelve months its Westland-Sikorsky Dragonflies have flown over 3,000 operational sorties in Malaya, mainly on casualty evacuation, but also in searching for terrorist hide-outs. The CO. is S/L. C. R. G. Henderson. Heli copter operations in Malaya—by a Naval squadron—are described in this issue. Production in Print A JOINT "conference on production in formation" is to be held by the Institution of Production Engineers and the aeronauti cal and engineering groups of A.S.L.I.B. at the College of Aeronautics from April 2nd to 5 th. Among the speakers will be Prof. J. V. Connolly (head of the U.S. SENATORS Stuart Symington and Styles Bridges at Dunsfold after a Hunter demonstration by S/L Neville Duke. Accom panying them are: (Left) J. T.Lidbury (general manager) and Sir Sydney Camm (chief designer) and (right) Neville Spriggs (managing director). 1,000th ORENDA is handedtotheR.C.A.F. by Avro Canada. (Left to right) Crawford Gordon Jnr., president; A. V-M. Smith, Air Member for Technical Services; W. R. McLachlan (vice- president, gas-turbine divi sion); and Harold Robins, the employee who made the presentation. College's Department of Aircraft Econo mics and Production), G/C. G. W. Williamson (technical adviser to Short Bros, and Harland, Ltd.) and W. E. Goff (editor, Aircraft Production). Reservation forms—which must be completed by March 25th—are obtainable from C. W. Cleverdon, Librarian, College of Aero nautics, Cranfield, Beds. M.T.C.A. and M.Inst.T. AT the recent annual dinner of the In stitute of Transport, the president, Sir John Elliot, M.Inst.T., announced that his suc cessor in office for the session commencing on October 1st, 1954, would be Sir Gilmour Jenkins, K.C.B., K.B.E., M.C., M.Inst.T., Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of JAP CONTENDER: The Kawasaki KAT-1, of which the first prototype is seen below, is intended as a trainer for the National Safety Force. It is thus a direct competitor of the very similar Mentor, 30 of which are being built this year by Fuji under licence from Beech Aircraft. Kawasaki are repairing U.S.A.F. F-51s, F-80s and T-33s, and will shortly build the T-33 and F-94C. Transport and Civil Aviation. Sir Gilmour, who was present at the function, was elected a member of the council in 1951 and became a vice-president in 1952. D.H. Engine Company's Move AS from next Monday, the registered offices and administrative H.Q. of the de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd., will be moved to the main production factory at Leavesden Airfield, Herts (Garston 2261). The engineering division, with its design and experimental staffs, remains at Stone-grove, Edgware. Atomically to Australia A REMARK by Sir Arthur Gouge at the recent dinner given by Mr. James V. Martin suffered an error of transcription in our report of the event. His reference to atomic power and its possibilities, and the statement that it would open the way to flights outside the atmosphere with nil resistance, should have concluded with the words "Vehicles of this sort will probably fly to Australia in three to four hours." New World Speed Record ALTHOUGH it was set up as long ago as last October 29th, the present world ab solute speed record has only just been ratified by the F.A.I. The record was established by Lt-Col. Frank K. Everest, U.S.A.F. (of the Flight Test Center at Edwards A.F.B.), flying a North American YF-100 Super Sabre; his speed over four runs is confirmed at 755.149 m.p.h. This was the first record to be estab lished over a 15-km course and there fore did not have to beat the previous figure (Lt-Cdr. Verdin's 752.944 m.p.h. in a Douglas Skyray) by the usual 1 per cent.
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