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1955
1955 - 0346.PDF
346 FLIGHT, 18 March 1955 HERE AND THERE Strategic Ride-thumbing FIRST unit of jet reconnaissance/fighterscapable of being carried, launched and recovered in flight, is announced by theU.S.A.F.; it is the 91st Strategic Recon- naissance Squadron and its base is GreatFalls, Montana. The reconnaissance/ fighters are, as many readers will havesurmised, Republic RF-84F Thunder- flashes, and the mother aircraft ConvairB-36s. The latter are based at Fairchild Field, Spokane, Washington. The Winjeel Delivered THE first Commonwealth Winjeel trainerwas delivered last week to the R.A.A.F. An initial order for 60 has been placed, butthis is expected to be increased to 200 very soon. Average cost is said to be about£A20,000 (against £A10,000 for the Wirr- away); rate of climb is given as 2,000ft/min,and top speed is 184 m.p.h. Welcome Guests ON Tuesday last 16 aircraft, from twoNorwegian fighter squadrons which in 1942 operated from North Weald, paid a good-will visit to that station. Equipped with F-84G Thunderjets, the two squadrons,Nos. 331 and 332, were led by Lt-Gen. Finn Lambrechts, D.F.C., C-in-C. of theRoyal Norwegian Air Force. Helicopter Record Attempt ON Tuesday next, Mr. John Crewdsonand Mr. Dayid Hennessy hope to establish the first officially observed helicopter point-to-point record. Flying a Bell 47G they will take oS from the Issy-les-Molineaux heli-port in Paris and cover 342 km to the South Bank site in London, where they are dueat about 2.30 p.m. They expect to beat the best terminal-to-terminal airline time by atleast 1J hr. The sponsors of the flight TURKISH TOUR: A guard of honour awaits the President of Turkey, Mr. Celal Bayar, on his arrival at Karachi, starting point for his tour of Royal Pakistan Air Force stations. Travelling in a P.I.A. Super Constellation, he was accompanied by the Turkish Ambassador; the C-in-C. R.P.A.F.,A.V.-M. L W. Cannon; the general manager of P.I.A.,Mr. F. M. McGregor; and others. announce that "the earliest and latest forms of 'rescue apparatus' will be seen together when the aircraft is welcomed by the famous Hennessy St. Bernard, which will be in charge of Mr. Jack Train, or vice versa." Two-colour 'Chutes THE R.C.A.F. is making experiments to decide on the most distinctive colours for personnel parachutes. A combination of orange and white is regarded with favour, the orange supplying the necessary contrast if a landing is made on snow. Napier Appointment AMONG appointments of which news hasbeen received as we go to press is that of Mr. E. W. Hampton, who joins the com-mercial manager's staff at D. Napier and Son, Ltd., in the newly created post ofaviation export representative. The Old Spirit IN a speech to the Royal Canadian FlyingClubs' Association during his recent tour of the United States and Canada, G/C.Douglas Bader said: "It is, I think, essen- tial that the fun of flying be kept plive, andit is only through flying clubs that this can be done. The cheap light aeroplane inwhich the youngster can fly around the field, and when he gets a bit better take hisgirl friend up too, must remain with us.... We must keep the aeroplane for pleasure,for an afternoon's fun which does not need two or three thousand yards of runway,control towers and controls, and all the SUGG SOLAR: Under this engaging title, a new company has been formed to exploit in England a manufac- turing licence for the American Solar auxil- iary gas turbine. Left, Mr. W. T. Mattock, chairman and manag- ing director of Wm. Sugg and Company, is seen in the Solar Air- craft Company's San Diego factory, together with its president Mr. E. T. Price. paper work that makes life so intolerablethese days for the private aviator. Give me a field with a circle in the middle, and letus still enjoy those things which have almost disappeared with the biplane and the opencockpit." G/C. Bader is advisor on aircraft operations to die Shell Petroleum Com-pany. For Speeding Production A NEW quarterly, Materials HandlingNews, is to appear on July 1st. Its aim will be to assist, with practical informa-tion, the many firms who do not at present use mechanical handling equipment on alarge scale. Associated Iliffe Press, Ltd., will be the publishers. R.N. Air Day Dates THE Admiralty has announced the datesof Air Days to be held at Royal Naval air stations this summer. They are as follows:June 18th, Eglinton, Northern Ireland, and H.M.S. Ariel (Royal Naval ElectricalSchool), Worthy Down, near Winchester; June 25th, Culdrose, near Helston, Corn-wall, and Stretton, Warrington, Lanes; July 2nd, Arbroath, Angus, Scotland;July 9th, Lee-on-Solent and Gosport, Hants (combined); July 23rd, Brawdy,Pembrokeshire, and Ford, Sussex; August 27th, Anthorn, Cumberland. Helicopters and Lifeboats SPEAKING at last week's presentation,by the Duchess of Kent, of Royal National Lifeboat Institution gallantry awards, LordDe L'Isle and Dudley, V.C., Secretary of State for Air, said he believed that althoughthe helicopter would play an increasing part in rescues from the sea, it was unlikelyever to supplant the lifeboat. Among reci- pients of awards was Capt. Curtis E.Parkins, U.S.A.F., who received the R.N.L.I. Silver Medal for his part in therescue, by an S-55, of the sole survivor of the South Goodwin lightship. S.A.A.F. Expansion IT has been officially announced in CapeTown that the S.A.A.F. is to have air- support units for co-operation with arm-oured forces; that a five-year plan for the construction of an extensive radar networkhas been prepared and will cost about £5£ million; that helicopters will replacelaunches for all rescue work; that modern four-engined aircraft will take over "almostcompletely" the work of troop transport; diat a joint operational headquarters forthe armed forces is to be constructed; and that some "defence factories" are to beadded to those now existing.
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