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608 FLIGHT, 13 May 1955 HERE AND THERE U.S.A.F. Mission to Australia FOUR U.S.A.F. jet fighters and four bigtransports are due to arrive in Australia next Wednesday, May 18th, on a goodwillmission. The Australian Minister for Air, Mr. Townley, has said that the visit willbe the second of a series of U.S.A.F. long- range training flights to Australia; the firstwas made a year ago. All the aircraft will fly non-stop from Japan to Australia, andthe Thunder jets will be flight-refuelled over Guam and Manus Islands. Honour for S.M.A.E. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH has con-sented to become patron of the Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers, the bodywhich, under the sanction of the Royal Aero Club, controls model flying in theUnited Kingdom. The Society recalls that when His Royal Highness visited theModel Engineer Exhibition in 1952 he dis- played particular interest in the S.M.A.E.exhibit. The organization now embraces over 400 clubs and thousands of individualmembers. Yeadon at Whitsun LEO VALENTIN, the French parachu-tist who, using a pair of wings, makes "gliding" delayed drops, will be amongthe attractions at the S.S.A.F.A. air display at Yeadon, Leeds, on Whit-Monday, May30th. It will be his first appearance in this country. Other events—interspersed withthe classes in the second round of the National Air Races—will include demon-strations by Meteors of No. 609 Sqn., a Hunter, a Canberra and a Provost; it ishoped that a Sipa Minijet will come over from France; Gerard Smith will give asailplane demonstration; and "Dumbo" WiUans will make a delayed drop. FASHIONABLE ACCESSORIES for the heli- copter-about-town are floats and a silencer: the second of B.E.A.'s WS-55s, to be used on the London Airport - South Bank service, being tested at Yeovil by Westland pilot John Fay. •r.r LAURELS AND GILT: Marching past in Moscow's Red Square on May Day are officers from Russia's Zhukov Engineering Academy. Their uniforms are said to be more ornate than any hitherto seen on a Soviet officer. The tunic is light blue with epaulettes; the belt and ornamental cap are gold-braided; the collars and cuffs are embroidered with gold laurel leaves; a gold- and-white striped belt carries a buckle, bearing a five-pointed golden star; and from the belt there hangs a short gilt-scabbarded sword. S.A.C. on the Screen DAILY work at Carswell and MacDillA.F.B.S, with flying in B-36s, B-47s, KC-97s, T-33s, H-19s and other aircraft,is featured in a new Paramount picture, Strategic Air Command. It opens at thePlaza, London, on June 17th. Manpower for Production EMPLOYMENT in the British aircraftindustry continues to rise at a rate of about 2,000 a month. January figures, recentlyissued, showed a total of 240,900—an in- crease of 1,900 on the previous month andof 11,700 since January 1954. The figures relate only to men and women employedon airframes, engines, airscrews and under- carriages; they do not include other com-ponent or sub-contract work. Trans-Alpine Soaring " REFERRING to the French claim-quoted in our April 22nd issue—that the sailplane flight by Rene Branciart on April14th was the first-ever glider flight over the Alps, a correspondent points out thatthis is fallacious. Five such flights were made from Salzburg on May 30th, 1937,he recalls, and a sixth on the following day. In the Picture IN connection with the first British PhotoFair (New Horticultural Hall, London, May 16-21), Amateur Photographer is pub-lishing a special number next Wednesday, May 18th. Contents will include a com-plete survey of the exhibits, and details will be given of a free-entry photographiccompetition in which some £250 in prize money is being offered. DERBY TO SAN DIEGO: This Rolls-Royce turbojet is shown being received by Clyde Cordner, Ryan chief of test facilities, and Robert Lankard, supervisor of engineering shop. The engine— obviously a late-model Avon—was chosen by Ryan to power the XF-109 vertical take-off prototype, owing to its good thrust/weight ratio. This engine is believed to be the first Avon exported to the U.S.A., and the XF-109 is certainly the world's first true V.T.O. jet-fighter.
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