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330 FLIGHT, 19 March 1954 HERE AND THERE Royal Adventures AT the controls of a TF-86 Sabre over the Mojave Desert last week, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands put the aircraft into a supersonic dive. Later, flying a North American T-28, he had an engine failure over the Pacific Ocean; his co-pilot brought the trainer in to a dead-stick land ing at Los Angeles Airport. Seeing How It's Done WEST GERMANY'S Transport Minis ter, Dr. Hans Seebohm, arrived in Britain by B.E.A. last Sunday on a week's visit as a guest of the Government. His pro gramme included meetings with Mr. Eden, Mr. Sandys and Mr. Lennox-Boyd, talks with B.E.A. executives, visits to the de Havilland, Vickers-Armstrongs and Rolls- Royce works, and a tour of London Airport. Burmese Freighters FLOWN by Mr. R. Ellison, the first of two Bristol Freighter Mk 31 Ms ordered by the Burmese Air Force left Filton for Rangoon on Friday, March 12th. Mr. Ellison will remain in Rangoon for two months to train Burmese pilots. The second Freighter—piloted by Mr. J. How- man and carrying Burmese Air Force per sonnel who have been attending technical courses at Filton—will follow shortly. PANTECHNICON : The vast cross-sectional area of the cargo hold is revealed by this study of the Blackburn Beverley prototype, showing the rear doors removed and the safety net in place. This Beverley, and the Brough factory, where the type is in production, were lately inspected by the Controller of Aircraft, M.o.S., Air Chief Marshal Sir John W. Baker, G.B.E., K.C.B., M.C., D.F.C. Roles in which die Freighters will operate include freight transport, supply dropping, casualty evacuation, trooping, aerial photo graphy and paratrooping. V-Bombers in R.A.A.F. Planning MR. WILLIAM McMAHON, Australian Air Minister, said in Sydney last Saturday that the long-term plans of the R.A.A.F. provided for 24 V-bombers operating from a ring of airfields in Northern Australia. Saying that each bomber would cost £lm sterling, the Minister estimated that 24 of them, with the necessary spares and addi tional manpower, would involve an initial outlay of between £A30m and £A35m (about £24m to £28m sterling). Those Close Formations AIR-GUNNERY sequences taken with Air Ministry co-operation at R.A.F. Station Leconfield are a feature of a colour film now in production by Group 3 Studios. Stated to "bring to the screen for the first time in a feature film the R.A.F. in a peace-time role," it bears the title—a little surprisingly—Conflict of Wings. A CLOSE-UP LOOK at a model of a projected Saunders-Roe maritime reconnaissance flying-boat is accorded Air Marshal T. C. Pike, C.B., C.B.E., D.F.C., Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, on the occasion of his recent visit to Saunders-Roe, Ltd. Model-bearer is Mr. W. A. Crago, the tank superintendent. An earlier picture of the model being demonstrated in the Company's "free alighting" tank was published in our issue of February 26th. Model-contest Appeal FROM its H.Q. at Londonderry House, Park Lane, London, W.l, the Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers has issued an appeal for subscriptions to its fund for sending a British team to America for the Wakefield Cup contest in July. £2,000 is required. Brit.I.R.E. Convention THE whole of the 1954 convention (Ox ford, July 8th-12th) of the British Institu tion of Radio Engineers is to "be devoted to the application of electronics to industrial control, processes and computation. I.A.F. Conies of Age ON March 28th, at Dilpat Ranges, 14 miles from Delhi, the Indian Air Force will celebrate its 21st anniversary by a large-scale display of fire-power. There will be demonstrations of gun, bomb and rocket attacks on ground targets, and a mass paratroop descent Civil Defence Reconnaissance AT Middle Wallop, Hants, last week several members of the Civil Defence planning staff took part in tests to investi gate the effectiveness of air-to-ground re porting of raid damage and of movement on roads. Action was taken on messages received from an observer flying in an Auster over a supposed devastated area of Salisbury. The Home Office said later that the possibilities of light aircraft and heli copters for such duties were being studied. Air Ministry Please Copy THE R.C.A.F. treats its historic aircraft in a way that might well be emulated nearer home. From Ottawa comes news that their four remaining Ansons are now being retired and that while three are being broken up, one will go to the R.C.A.F. veteran-aircraft store at Chater, Manitoba. This hangar—the contents of which may form the nucleus of a museum—already houses a Tiger Moth, Lysander, Battle, Hurricane and Mosquito. Professor from Power Jets SENIOR Consultant of Power Jets (Re search and Development), Ltd., Mr. James Hodge, M.A.,A.M.I.Mech.E.,A.F.R.Ae.S., is now in America, where he is acting as visiting professor in gas turbines at Columbia University. Last year, in a similar capacity, he spent four months there; this time his visit will be shorter, as Power Jets are unable to release him for the whole semester. Mr. Hodge has been associated with the Power Jets' School of Gas Turbine Technology since its inception in 1944.
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