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1954
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722 FLIGHT, 4 June 1954 HERE AND THERE Former C.A.S. Joins Industry THE appointment is announced of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Slessor as a director of Blackburn and General Aircraft, Ltd. From 1950 to 1952 Sir John was Chief of the Air Staff. Tigers for France SEVERAL flying clubs overseas have recently profited by the sale—very cheaply—of Chipmunks from the Southern Rhodesian Training Group; and now ex- R.A.F. Tiger Moths are going to France; R. A. Peacock (Aviation), Ltd., of Croydon, are ferrying out large batches to a private company there. New Danger-Point ? TWO C-124 Globemasters of the U.S. Military Air Transport Service were be ing prepared last week at Mobile, Ala., for the carriage of 50 tons of weapons, ammunition and jeeps to Nicaragua and Honduras. This follows a recent shipment of arms from Poland to Communist-dominated Guatemala. Washington Post THE M.o.S. announces that A. Cdre. L. R. S. Freestone, O.B.E., A.F.R.Ae.S., has been appointed to succeed A. Cdre. C. L. Dann, C.B.E., as Director (Air) of Tech nical Services, British Joint Services Mission, Washington, U.S.A. A. Cdre. Freestone has been Director of Armament Engineering, Air Ministry, since late 1952. NINE-DAY WONDER—in the most complimentary sense: The U.S. Navy airship which landed at Key West (Florida) on May 27th, after cruising, unrefuelled, for 200 hr 4 min. The previous endurance record, by a Goodyear M-type ship, was 170 hr 20 min, in 1947. The present craft, described as a Goodyear ZPG-2 of 342ft overall length, carried a crew of 15. Waterloo Helicopters, new Version SABENA are operating regular Sunday tourist flights with S-55 helicopters over the battlefield of Waterloo. MILITARY AIRCRAFT REVIEWED THREE weeks from now—on June 25th — the Military Aircraft of the World number of Flight will appear. There is certain to be a heavy demand for this greatly enlarged, pro fusely illustrated special issue, and we suggest that readers should place ad vance orders with their newsagents. This Name Makes News FORMER chief test pilot of the Gloster Aircraft Co., Ltd., S/L. "Bill" Waterton has joined the staff of the Daily Express as air reporter. FIAT AT FILTON: Senior members of the famous Italian firm visited the Bristol Aeroplane Co. last week. Seen in this group, photographed in a Britannia's interior, are (left to right):— Mr. R. S. Brown, Bristol aircraft division general manager; Sgr. F. Prossio, Fiat London manager; Mr. L. S. Armandias, British Messier deputy managing director; Prof. V. Valetta, Fiat president; Sir Reginald Verdon Smith, Bristol joint managing director; Dr. Ing. G. Gabrielli, Fiat chief engineer; and Dr. A. E. Russell, Bristol chief designer. Ulster Date-Change POSTPONEMENT of the Newtownards flying rally from July 10th to Saturday, July 31st, is announced by the Ulster Flying Club. Model Occasion LADY BOYLE, wife of Air Marshal Sir Dermot A. Boyle, A.O.C-in-C. Fighter Command, is to present the Queen Eliza beth Cup at the annual gala day of the Northern Heights Model Flying Club (Hawkers' Langley Airfield, June 20th). Cranfield Ball FORMER Cranfield students who have not yet received notice of the Student Society's presentation ball (July 9th) can obtain tickets (£1 5s single) from F/L. A. H. Craven, Lanchester Hall, College of Aeronautics, Cranfield. Held Captive THE M.T.C.A. last week partially re laxed the ban which they had placed on the flying of a helicopter built by Mr. John Murray, of Salford, Lanes, without A.R.B. supervision. They will now allow him to make tethered flights, and these will take place shortly at Barton Aerodrome. Bella! LARRY BELL, president of the Bell Air craft Corporation, describes as a "good show" completion of the first Model 47G helicopter by the Italian licensees, Con- struzioni Aeronautiche Giovanni Agusta, of Milan. The machine will shortly be delivered to the Italian Air Ministry. With sales restricted to Continental Europe (ex cepting France) Agusta hold one of two foreign manufacturing agreements nego tiated by Bell. The other is held by the Nippon Machinery Trading Co., of Tokyo. Up and Up LESS than three weeks after the Glenn Martin/U.S.N. Viking No. 10 rocket had equalled the altitude record of 136 miles achieved by both No. 7 and No. 9, Viking 11 was fired from White Sands proving ground on May 24th. It attained a new record of 158 miles. A Viking rocket is 42ft in length and weighs 7$ tons; powered by a 20,000 lb-thrust unit made by Reaction Motors, Inc., and burning alcohol and liquid oxygen, it reaches over 4,000 m.p.h. at its "all burnt" altitude.
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