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1955 - 0378.PDF
378 FLIGHT HERE AND THERE Honoured. Guest TOWARDS the end of April Mr. IgorSikorsky will pay a short visit to this country, both to see something of theBritish helicopter industry and 0 on the29th, to receive his James Watt Medal from the Institution of MechanicalEngineers. A dinner will be given in his honour by the Helicopter Association andhe will be a guest at Westlands, Bristols and Faireys. Postal Catalinas TWO Catalinas of the Norwegian AirForce recently flew to ice-bound Spits- bergen and Bear Island in the Arctic withmail for Norwegian miners and meteoro- logists there. The aircraft to Spitsbergencarried more than a ton of letters or parcels for dropping at four different settlements. Canada to California FORMER production engineer of A. V.Roe Canada, Ltd., Mr. A. M. Davis has joined the powerplants division of Mar-quardt Aircraft Co. (Van Nuys, California), as chief of engineering and manufacturingservices. Marquardt are large-scale pro- ducers of ramjets and afterburners. On the Road DATA on many of the world's leadingsports cars will be a feature of the special Sports Car Number which our associatedjournal The Autocar is publishing next Friday, April 1st. Another seasonablepublication for road users is the special Easter Number of the Motor Cycle, appear-ing on Thursday, March 31st. Leaving the S.B.A.C. THE Society of British Aircraft Construc-tors will shortly lose the services of Mr. M. G. Ionides, B.A., M.I.C.E., their deputydirector since 1949. He is returning to Iraq (where he was Irrigation Engineerfrom 1926 until shortly before the war) as the outcome of a request to the Govern- STANDING UP TO IT: This highly unorthodox helicopter is the work of aircraft engineer Lewis C. McCarthy, of West- chester County, New York. Lesson one seems to be not to step off while the contra-rotors are in motion. ment from Baghdad to nominate a British' specialist to join the Iraq Government Development Board. The Board is carry-ing out a £30m development scheme, based largely on industrial expansion, irrigationand the provision of hydro-electric power. Mr. Masefield I. of T. President AT last Friday's annual dinner of theInstitute of Transport the president, Sir Gilmour Jenkins, announced that his suc-cessor for the session commencing October 1st, 1955, would be Mr. Peter Masefield,chief executive of B.E.A. Mr. Masefield, who was elected a vice-president in 1953,has made many contributions to the pro- ceedings of the Institute, the most note-worthy being his Brancker Memorial Lec- ture in 1951. For Popular Flying CONSTRUCTION of the first amateur-assembled aircraft under the new "ultra- light" certification system will have aceremonial send-off at Hatfield Technical College tomorrow, March 26th, when Mr.Peter Masefleld "lays down the keel" of a Druine Turbi (Walter Mikron). Studentsof the College hope to complete the two- seater at a cost of £300. Chipmunks Reinstated THE de Havilland Aircraft of Canada,Ltd., is once again to build D.H.C.l Chip- munks, over 1,000 of which have been pro-duced to date by D.H. Canada and D.H. England. This is disclosed in a recent ^uw»«™»a announcement, which adds that produc-tion of a substantial number of Chipmunks for the R.C.A.F. will start immediately,with first deliveries scheduled for July this year. The "Chips" will be distributedthrough four Service flying training schools to provide indoctrination flying prior tocommencement of basic flying training on Harvards. Evaluation has been under wayfor the past year at No. 1 S.F.T.S., Cen- tralia, Ontario. Factory Equipment on View SIR MILES THOMAS, chairman ofB.O.A.C., is to open the National Factory Equipment Exhibition next Monday (EarlsCourt, London, March 28th-April 2nd). Admission to the exhibition—a feature ofwhich is to be mannequin parades of in- dustrial clothing—is either by trade invita-tion or on payment (2s 6d) at the doors; hours are from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. (6 p.m. onthe Saturday). Warton Appointments ENGLISH ELECTRIC announced lastTuesday that W/C. R. P. Beamont, while continuing to carry out duties of chieftest pilot, is promoted to the post of manager flight operations, in which he willbe responsible for the co-ordination of all flying activities and liaison with the AirMinistry, Ministry of Supply and estab- lishments. Mr. D. de Villiers (portraitbelow) is appointed chief experimental test pilot, responsible to the manager flightoperations, and Mr. J. W. C. Squier is appointed chief production test pilot. WELCOME AT GOSSELIES: Bringing a Hawker Hunter—a manufactur- ing "sample"—from England on March 16th, Avians Fairey test pilot P. I. R. Andersen was welcomed at the company's airfield by Mr. E. O. Tips, the managing director. Avions Fairey are beginning production of Hunters for NATO. CHIEF TEST PILOT to de Havilland Propellers, 5/L Desmond de Villiers—seen in this photograph, it will be observed, in a Swift—is shortly going to English Electric as a chief experimental test pilot under W/C Roland Beamont. He will be succeeded by Michael Kilburn, o D.H. Aircraft production test pilot at Chester.
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