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1955
1955 - 0512.PDF
512 FLIGHT HERE * AND THERE Queen's Birthday Fly-past FROM the balcony of Buckingham Palacethe Queen will take the salute of a fly-past of R.A.F. aircraft on Thursday, June 9th,Her Majesty's official birthday. Well-earned .- ACCOMPANIED by Lady Churchill,Lord Cherwell and members of his staff, Sir Winston Churchill flew to Sicily onApril 12th in B.E.A. Viscount G-AMOH Harry Hudson. The aircraft, which flewthe standard of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, covered the 1,267 miles fromLondon to Catania in the record time of 3 hr 48 min. It was the first occasion onwhich a B.E.A. aircraft has flown a standard in honour of any passenger other thanroyalty. Canada's New Tunnel TO assist Canadian development of jetaircraft and guided missiles a wind tunnel, having a speed range of 200-3,000 m.p.h.and costing $3i million, is to be built as part of the National Aeronautical Estab-lishment at Uplands Airport. Created in 1951, the Establishment is financed by theDefence Research Board. Soaring High FLYING a Breguet 900 glider on April14th, Rene Bransiart crossed the Alps at a height of 5,900 m (19,357ft). This isclaimed as the first-ever glider flight over the Alps. Although he could have climbedhigher, Bransiart decided against this as he had no oxygen or special clothing.Astonishingly enough, on the same day INTERCEPTER: This new in-flight view of the Convair F-102A supplements those published in our issue of January 14th of this year. Production F-102As now on the line at San Diego will serve with U.S.A.F. Air Defense Command, armed with six Hughes Falcon homing missiles. Miss Betsy Woodward soared to a heightof 40,160ft over America's High Sierra mountains. Her flight had been sponsoredby the U.S.A.F. Research Centre in con- nection with investigations of jet streamsand high-altitude winds. Over the same mountains Dr. Joachim Kuettner, directorof the U.S.A.F. Research Centre, has reached 43,000ft in a single-seat Schweit-zer. This is said to have been 800ft above the record height reached by Bill Evans, ofSan Diego, in 1950. Beating the Bottlenecks THE congestion along Route A4, fromMaidenhead to the Bath Road, by way of London Airport, is no worry to Mr.Richard Fairey, general manager of the Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd., and eldest sonof Sir Richard Fairey. At his home at Maidenhead he steps into the ex-EveningStandard Sikorsky S-51, now owned by his company, proceeds along the route atsome 85 m.p.h. and alights 10^ minutes later on a small area inside the precincts ofthe factory. Mr. Fairey is almost certainly SUCTION IN SERVICE: As described on page 509, the new Lockheed T2V-1 trainer tor the U.S. Navy employs boundary-layer control. This reduces the unaccelerated full-load stalling speed to rather less than 100 m.p.h.; the maximum level speed is 600 m.p.h. In the background is the earlier TV-2 (U.S.N. version of the T-31A), the only director in the United Kingdomto use a helicopter for business travel; he went solo last October after only 1 hr40 min instruction, and his experience should be of very great value whenFairey's Rotodyne 40/50-seater and the two-seater ultra-light helicopter are flyinglater this year. For Easy Spotting AMERICA'S Civil Aeronautics Adminis-tration has requested the opinion of aircraft owners concerning a proposed new systemwhich would eliminate identification mark- ings on the wings of aircraft, but wouldrequire numbers at least 12in high on the side of the fuselage or tail, for easier check-ing by investigating intercepters. Five Grand EARLIER this month it was announcedby the Curtiss-Wright Corporation that more than 5,000 J65 turbojets had beendelivered to the U.S.A.F. and U.S.N. The J65, which is derived from the ArmstrongSiddeley Sapphire, is built by the Wright Aeronautical division in New Jersey state,and also by the Buick division of General Motors in Michigan. An increasingproportion of the J65 deliveries have afterburners. Britannia Parts By Air FUSELAGE stringers for the Britannia250 L.R. production line at Short and Harlands' Belfast works have been de-livered from Bristol by a Freighter of Silver City Airways. The stringers are nearly10 yards long and had been found difficult to pack for surface transport. Three Bri-tannia 250 L.R.s have been ordered by the Ministry of Supply for trooping duties, andthe Bristol Aeroplane Company are laying down a further five in anticipation of futuredemand. Mk 300s are also on order. :' Pensioned Off WHEN the Walt Disney ElementarySchool at Tullytown, Pennsylvania, opened last Monday, a Douglas Skyrocketwas already established there as a play- ground toy. It is one of the second batchof machines from which the turbojets were removed to allow increased rocket tank-age; this particular machine once reached a height of 13 miles. It seems strange thatso advanced an airframe—though no doubt unairworthy—should thus be. virtuallyscrapped.
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