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1954
1954 - 2951.PDF
'A 640 FLIGHT, 29 October 1*54 INDEPENDENT SUSPENSION: London motorists immured in Motor Show Week traffic-jams must have wished that something like this could, magically, happen to their vehicles. The ISO ex. Renault (weight, 1,235 lb) is being borne high above the Seine by a Sabena Sikorsky S-55. HERE AND THERE Otters for U.S. Army ? MR. T. E. STEPHENSON, director of the aircraft division of Canada's Depart ment of Defence Production, said recently that an order was expected from the United States Army for a small number of D.H.C. Otters on a "trial" basis. (The Otter was evaluated, in company with American types which included heli copters, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, early this year. The R.C.A.F. equipped its No. 408 Squadron, a photo-recon naissance unit, with 20 Otters last March, and the R.C.A.F. has 20 more on order. D.H.C. Beavers are already in service with the United States Army and Air Force. Change of Scene AS recently reported in these columns, the two Austers of Pest Control, Ltd., which carried out successful spraying operations over the pine forests of the Moray Firth are now engaged on a cotton- spraying operation in the Sudan. Their pilots have lately been joined there by four more of the company's pilots—R. C. Young, Jack Akers, Gordon Brown, and Colin Veitch—who are beginning a new war oh locust swarms. Models in Malta IN Malta, G.C., is a thriving model aero plane club. A correspondent who was recently on holiday there visited its club- rooms at Sliema and learned that it was officially opened last July by S/L. Eric Cable of R.A.F. Station Luqa, who until his posting to Malta was president of the R.A.F. Model Aircraft Association. A marine - aircraft section of the club launches its flying-boats, seaplanes and radio-controlled motor-boats in Sliema IN THE G.C. ISLAND: Part of the club premises of the Sliema Model Aeroplane Club, situated in the house of the founder, Mr. J. Axisa (see paragraph above). j Bay. Our informant remarks that the members—and, indeed, young men in all I parts of Malta—show great interest in I aviation, and he feels that the Air Ministry i is missing an opportunity by not harness- t ing this enthusiasm by forming a George I Cross Island Squadron of the Air Training I Corps. A Phoenix Arising WEST German Radio reported last week I that Prof. Kurt Tank, the famous "Fw" aircraft designer, had arrived in Hanover from Argentina, where he has been head ing a team of some 70 German aircraft designers working for the Argentine Government. Interviewed on his arrival, Prof. Tank expressed the view that it would take West Germany at least three years to build up a tactical air force with modern aircraft. It is also reported from Germany that on October 18th the founda tion stone was laid for the first building of the West German aircraft research, station in Mulheim. It was rumoured;' that Prof. Tank may be appointed director of the station. Loss of a Javelin DURING a routine test flight from Gloster's airfield at Moreton Valence on Thursday last week a Javelin piloted by F/L. R. J. Ross (a Service •pilot attached to the company) got into difficulties and came down in die Bristol Channel. Rescue launches recovered some wreckage, which was landed at, Avonmouth and taken to Hucclecote. .-Although the pilot, who was alone in jiie aircraft, is reported to have baled e'tit, no trace of him was sub sequently found. He had previously been at the R.A.E., test-flying Comet G-ANAV. The Army Climbs AN unofficial helicopter altitude record of 24,500ft is claimed byjJwU.S. Army. The machine concerij£jh*fs the new Sikorsky XH-39 whicb^with the same pilot, W/O. W. WestesrfTrecently gained the as-yet un confirmed speed record of 156.005 m.p.h. Saabs for Ethiopia FOLLOWING the delivery of a number of Saab 91B trainers to the Imperial Ethiopian Air Force earlier this year, an additional order has been placed with the Swedish manufacturers. Car Show in Retrospect ON sale today (October 29th) is the special Show Review Number of The Autocar; contents include a technical survey of design trends as jtCiin at the Motor Show and an appreciation of the cars from a woman's jwfht of view. .,.'"' l\
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