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38 FLIGHT, 8 July 19551 "Flight" photograph HERE AND THERE Canadian Gift for Germany IT was made known in Bonn last week thatCanada is to present three squadrons of jet fighters to West Germany "in the nearfuture." Two squadrons will be of twin- engined fighters (presumably CF-lOOs) andone of single-engined fighters (presumably F-86 Sabres), to a total of 36 machines. V.I.P. Integration DURING Exercise Carte Blanche (re-ported on pp. 66-67 of this issue), Air Chief Marshal Sir Basil Embry, C-in-C. AlliedAir Forces Central Europe, piloted a twin- engined communication aircraft whileMarshal Juin, Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Central Europe, acted as navigator. Fast Last THE F.A.I. decided that from July 1stthere would be no more separate women's and men's air records; but, on the daybefore the new regulation came into force, Mme. Jacqueline Auriol attained 687m.p.h. in a Mystere IVN—a speed which just exceeds the previous women's absolutespeed record (held by the American, Miss Jacqueline Cochran) by the necessary oneper cent. This final women's record has yet to be confirmed by the F.A.I. Civil Helicopter Development IT is officially stated that a contract hasbeen placed for a gas-turbine-powered Westland S-55 which might interest civiloperators. A gas-turbine version of the Bristol 173, capable of carrying up to 27 passengers, is also planned, and the FaireyRotodyne is of such size and power as to be readily adaptable to meet B.E.A.'s30/40-seater requirement. The Hunting Percival reactionless drive should beattractive in respect of noise reduction. Exports Up FIGURES for May last, recently issued,show that British aviation exports totalled £5,460,721 in value—an increase of morethan £lm over the figure for May 1954. Antarctic Otters AN order has been received by The deHayilland Aircraft of Canada from the United States Navy for four Otters. Theaircraft are to be delivered this month and they will then be taken to the Antarctic onnaval ice-breakers. The R.C.A.F. already use Otters for supply and rescue duties inthe far north, and a large order for Otters is also being executed for the U.S. Army. Helicopter Homecoming THE Bristol Sycamore flown by test pilotPeter Moore (with flight engineer D. Vickery) returned to Filton on Sunday,July 3rd, from Innsbruck in the Austrian Tyrol, where it had given demonstrationsthat included casualty rescue from a peak 8,000ft above sea level. After appearingat the Paris Show the aircraft had flown to Stuttgart for the three-day helicopterconvention there, and continued to Inns- bruck via Munich and Rosenheim. Inaddition to casualty rescue, the Tyrolean demonstrations included power-line in- DEMONSTRATION MODEL of a vertical-take-off airliner, as shown to more than 400 of America's aviation executives who visited the N.A.C.A.'s Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, on June 27th. The wings are moved to the horizontal position for normal flight. SYLVAN SCENE: An interlude of peace and quiet at the helicopter garden party given on June 30th by Westland Aircraft—to celebrate their 40th anniversary. The setting is the R.A.C. Country Club at Woodcote Park, Epsom, and the helicopters are two SSls and an S-55. spection and V.I.P. flights. Present at thedemonstration were Mr. Raoul Hafner' (Bristol chief designer, helicopters), Mr.Colin Harvie (assistant sales manager, rotating-wing aircraft), and Mr. Alex Lang-field (sales demonstration engineer). Sicilian Air Race .' WINNERS of the Seventh "Tour offSicily" air race last month were Robert" Goemans of Belgium and Fiorenza deBernardi of Italy, flying a Piper Tri-Pacer. The race, for which there were 40tentrants, was marred by the death of Hans Ruemmedel, of Zurich, and his threepassengers, when their Norecrin crashed on approaching to land at Palermo aftercompleting a practice circuit : GOOD COMPANY: Famous pilots, a famous aeroplane. G/C. Leonard Cheshire, V.C. (left) and G/C. John Cunningham at Denham last week with the veteran Cirrus-Moth G-EBLV. The occasion was a TV broadcast, "It's Fun to Fly," which featured aircraft of the Vintage Aeroplane Club. For Cheshire, incidentally, it was the first flight in three years. •'.' Mediterranean" Record TO be submitted as a capital-to-capitalrecord, a flight from Ciampino, Rome, to Luqa, Malta, was made by a D.H. SeaVenom of the Royal Australian Navy last Saturday. With Lt. J. R. S. Overbury,R.N., as pilot and Lt-Cdr. G. Kable, R.A.N., as navigator, it covered the 422statute miles at a (provisional) speed of 538 m.p.h. Another Sea Venom accom»panied the record-breaking aircraft. Towards Mach 18 THE associate director of the N.A.C.A.laboratory, Mr. J. F. Parsons, has told a Press conference that "tiny" model aircraftwill be fired at speeds from Mach 9 to Mach 18 at Moffett Field, California. Thetests will be made in a pressurized tank, so that all altitudes can be simulated andmodels as small as |in long would be employed. The investigations were des-cribed as part of research into problems that will arise when man achieves hyper-sonic travel and space flight.
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