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860 FLIGHT, 24 June 1955 ALL MOD. CON.: A six-storey air-condi- tioned hotel is among features of the new $15m (£5m) airport at San Juan, Puerto Rico. Shown here is the terminal area as it appeared during the recent three-day opening ceremony, which was attended by 250,000 people. The airport has a single runway of 7J&00H. HERE AND THERE Viscount to Royal Launching PROMINENT guests at the launching ofof the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Britain were scheduled to travel to andfrom the ceremony in a Viscount of Hunting-Clan Air Transport. H.M. theQueen, accompanied by H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, was to perform the launch-ing ceremony in Glasgow at 3 p.m. on Wednesday. Hunting-Clan took deliveryof the second of their five Viscounts last week. ...;•.. ..•-"" • :.:..:•: ..: K.L.M. to Explore THE air survey department of K.L.M. isto begin to map out the Merauke area in Netherlands New Guinea, in preparationfor an irrigation project. After this work has been completed the next move will bea survey of the extensive Lake Plain, which is still an empty space on maps. American Appointment : : : AT one time chief engineer of the SanDiego division of Convair, Mr. Frank W. Fink has joined the Ryan AeronauticalCompany as vice - president and chief engineer. Down to Earth THE American correspondent of ourassociate journal The Autocar reports that Chrysler have announced completeseat-belt installations as additional equip- ment on their current car models. Thebelts are said to meet functional specifica- tions quoted by the C.A.A for commercialairliners. Coventry Victor Flight Trials FROM Southend comes news that the55 h.p. Coventry Victor Flat-four, installed experimentally in a Piper Cub, is perform-ing well. Some 35 hours of a 50-hour schedule have been completed; fuel con-sumption is about 2.4 gal/hr; throttle response is good. G/C. E. L. Mole withH. Best Devereux and B.K.S. Engineering Ltd. are responsible for the experiment.The engine weighs 220 1b and is in pro- duction for industrial users. It is hoped toget clearance for the ultra-light installation —the Turbi is in mind. Norwegian-Swiss Aluminium THE Norwegian firm Elektrokemisk,Ltd., and the Swiss Aluminium Co., Ltd., plan to establish an aluminium fac-tory, with a production—to begin in 1958 —amounting to some 20,000 tons a year, inthe Northern region of Norway. Woman Pilot's Australia Flight THE first woman pilot to fly a single-engine aircraft from England to Austra- lia for many years arrived last week atDarwin airport. She is Mrs. Nancy Lee- bold, who flew a Miles Messenger withher husband as navigator. Mrs. Leebold is said to have some 2,500 hours on her log-book, mainly accumulated as a pilot of freighters in Australia early in the war. Herhusband was an R.A.F. air gunner. Getting the News Through WE trust that all Flight subscribers re-ceived their copies safely during the period of the railway strike; every possibleeffort was made by the publishers, in the face of the postal restrictions imposed, tomake sure that they did so. Incidentally, in the early stages of the strike the News-paper Proprietors' Association was spend- ing approximately £2,000 a day in flyingpapers from London. This figure—which excludes air charter fees to Scotland andthe cost of flying papers from Manchester —was later increased to £2,500. R.A.F Benevolent Fund News SUBSCRIBED for by American AirForce officers attached to R.A.F. units in Britain, a new artificial-grass cricketpitch has been given to the boys of Van- brugh Castle, the R.A.F. BenevolentFund's residential school at Maze Hill, Blackheath. General J. M. Sterling, U.S.Air Attach^ in London, inspected the new pitch on Thursday of last week.Contributions to the Fund from the R.A.F. Officer Pilots' Tie Club nowamount to £500. This sum represents a levee of one shilling on every tie, togetherwith the club's profit. G/C. G. A. R. Muschamp is hon. secretary of the club,which was formed in 1937. R.A.A.F. Sabre Armament AUSTRALIAN-BUILT Sabres, accord-ing to a Sydney report last week, "will be equipped with guided missiles as theirprimary offensive weapons." More Flying-Doctor Bases THE Royal Flying Doctor Service, whichnow covers nine-tenths of Australia, is being further developed by the setting-upof new bases at Carnarvon and Derby in Western Australia and at Miles in Queens-land. New bases are also planned for Papua and New Guinea. The ultimate aimis to provide for day and night landings. Grand Tour ON Tuesday last the Bristol Sycamoredemonstrated at Le Bourget was due to leave for Stuttgart, where it was to ap-pear at a three-day helicopter convention. Next Sunday, June 26th, it will be flownby test pilot Peter Moore from Stuttgart to Innsbruck, where it will give a series ofalpine rescue demonstrations. U.S.S.R.'s Big Twin A LENINGRAD broadcast last week,dealing with the development of avia- tion in the U.S.S.R., mentioned that "thegiant twin-rotor helicopter," seen over the city recently, is capable of lifting "a detach-ment of 40 troops, fully equipped." No further information about the machine wasgiven. H.P. Directors LEGAL Advisor to Handley Page, Ltd.,since 1921, Mr. F. S. Gaylor has resigned his directorship of the company, datingfrom 1948, but will continue to offer his services in an advisory capacity. Last week the announcement was madethat Sir Thomas Stuart Overy has been appointed a director of Handley Page, Ltd.—also in a legal capacity. For Photographers AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER, one ofour associate journals, is publishing on June 29th a special guide containing acomplete buying reference to all cameras on the British market. Included are de-tails of price, lens, shutter and other equipment, country of origin, and name ofmanufacturer or importer. Copies of the issue, price Is as usual,can be obtained from all newsagents, or direct from Dorset House, StamfordStreet, London, S.E.I. Gold Braid Needed UNIFORMS designed for Lufthansa (therevived German airline) were intended to be distinctive by their lack of gold braid,polished buttons and unnecessary badges. But it was found that these unobtrusiveuniforms had quite the wrong effect on the public, who—it is said—like to be im-pressed, and given confidence, by a multi- plicity of gold rings on a captain's sleeve.Lufthansa captains now sport rings at least as wide as those of rival companies. Industry v. Airlines at Golf IN a recent competition at WimbledonPark Golf Club, the Aircraft Golfing Society (members of the aircraft industry)defeated the Foreign Airlines Golfing Society by seven matches to six. Playingin great form for the A.G.S. team (cap- tained by Mr. B. Songhurst) was Mr. M.MacCready: his round of 64 is understood to be a record for the course. At a dinnerfollowing the day's play, the Foreign Air- lines G.S. secretary, Mr. W. Whelan, pre-sented a cup to the winners. Captain of the defeated team was Mr. N. Croucher.
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