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1955
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536 FLIGHT, 23 September 1955 CIVIL AVIATION . . . Following the example of B.O.A.C., El Al Israel Airlines have specified the Smiths Flight System for their Britannia 300 LRs. The company has three Britannias on order (with delivery begin- ning early in 1957), and an option for a further two. * * * American Airlines announce the appointment of Mr. EdwardA. Challis as European sales representative. Mr. Challis joined T.W.A.'s London staff in 1950 as sales representative and waspreviously with American Overseas Airlines. * * * The first airline flight evaluation of the Boeing 707 was madeat Seattle on September 14th by three Pan American captains, each of whom flew the aircraft. Announcing the flight, PanAmsaid no decision had been reached on the purchase of jet trans- ports, adding that data obtained from the flight would be used in making the final decision. * * * American Airlines and B.O.A.C. have announced interline agreements with Seaboard and Western Airlines, who were recently certificated as America's only scheduled transatlantic all- freight airline. The company has not yet begun scheduled services, but is continuing to operate frequent non-scheduled transatlantic cargo flights with Super Constellations and DC-4s. * * * The first lodge of the Guild of Air Traffic Control Officers wasformed at Birmingham on September 9th. It will be known as the Midlands lodge. At a ceremony at Birmingham (Elmdon) Airport,W/C. G. E. Lillywhite, A.F.C., A.F.M., the Master of the Guild, presented a warrant of constitution to the Master of the lodge—Mr. Maurice Smart, who is an A.T.C.O. at Elmdon. F/L. William Hannant, who is S.A.T.C.O. at Honiley, was elected deputy master. CLUB AND GLIDING NEWS TNTENDED as a meeting place for gliding and light-aircraft••- enthusiasts in the London area, a converted basement flat in Victoria, to be known as the Kronfeld Club, is expected to beopened at the end of October. The process of cleaning and re- decorating the premises—which had been empty for 2\ yearswhen "discovered" by the Surrey Gliding Club early this year— is now well under way. The work is being done by members ofgliding clubs and Popular Flying Association groups near London. It is planned that the club will be open five nights per week,and that talks by gliding and light-aircraft experts will be given at fortnightly intervals. Among the amenities will be a bar, and it isfairly certain that the subscription will be only 10s. per year with a 5s. entrance fee. At present there are ten more vacancies forfounder-members, who are invited to donate £5 apiece towards the initial expense of furnishing. In providing the only club premises in London available to theyounger flying enthusiasts, the Kronfeld Club project deserves active support. Those willing to assist in the work of redecoratingwill be welcome on Mondays and Thursdays from 6 to 8.30 p.m.; the address is 74 Eccleston Square, London, S.W.I. Membershipand other queries should be addressed to Hugo Trotter (chair- man of the Surrey G.C.) at 56 Victoria Street, London, S.W.I(Victoria 6056). THE removal of a major part of the tax on aviation fuel, forpurposes of domestic flights, engine ground trials and test-bed trials, was announced recently in a French Government decree.The price of aviation petrol has correspondingly been reduced, it is reported, from an average of 76 to 39 francs per litre. Anexpansion of internal air services is expected to result from this step, which is also widely welcomed by the flying clubs andengine maintenance organizations. Hourly fuel cost of a typical light aircraft using an engine of approximately 100 h.p., con-suming 20 litres per hour, will now be reduced by half to about 800 francs. No. 28.670 28,671 28,672 28,673 28,674 28,675 28,676 28,677 28,678 28,679 28.680 28,681 R.Ae.C. PILOT! Nome B. Watson J. S. Simson R. J. Snell R. H. Whitley P. S. MacGregor F. J. Ibbotson A. V. H. Sturman B. P. Price H. B. Lindsay P. D.Jerden S. J. Marshall J. R. Kilner Cl. 2 1 1 2 4 3 1 3 24 2 1 >> CERTIFICATES, APRIL-JUNE Date 1/4/55 6/4/55 13/4/55 18/4/55 21/4/55 25/4/55 4/5/55 4/5/55 9/5/55 11/5/55 11/5/55 13/5/55 No. 28,682 28,683 28,684 28.685 28,686 28,687 28,688 28.689 28,690 28,691 28,692 28,693 Name V. J. Dalton D. F. Speck L. E.G.Seagroatt K. M. Hall R. O. Altmann H. A.Bridgman J. R. West D. C. Fortun J. D. Scarlett R. H. Mclntosh J. S. H. Morrish J. D. Irving Cl. • 4 1 4 1 1 4 4 4 41 4 1 Date 13/5/55 16/5/55 19/5/55 24/5/55 24/5/55 1/6/55 2/6/55 3/6/55 3/6/55 10/6/55 17/6/55 20/6/55 FOR the second year in succession Mr. W. H. Mitchell was thewinner of the Fair Oaks Cup flying competition, held this year on September 4th. Pilots Dall and Bish were respectively secondand third. During August twelve P.P.L.s were obtained and nine first solos were made, the Vickers-Armstrongs group and theA.T.C. being well represented in these achievements. Exceeding 600 for the third month in succession, Fair Oaks' flying timeamounted to 630 paid flying hours, bringing the total to date for 1955 to 3,298 hr. ANNUAL dinner dance of the Surrey Flying Club will be held• at Croydon Aerodrome Hotel on Friday, October 21st. A group flight to Shoreham took place on Sunday last, and onSeptember 25th the club is host to the Elstree Flying Club (which itself was visited by Surrey Club pilots on August 25th). It ishoped to arrange night flying operations during the coming winter. A source of much interest during the period of this year's National Gliding Championships, the Slingsby Motor Tutor (Aeronca J.A.P. J99 engine) is now syndicate-owned at Lasham. . ~M"EXT special date in the Surrey Gliding Club calendar is-L^ November 5th when, "now that the club-house is insured, we will hold our festivities at home." A firework display is planned,and members of other clubs are very welcome—at their own risk. Lasham's Christmas Party will be on December 17th this year. THE theme of the September issue of Weather is Meteorologyand Flight. Among the contents of this issue are Flight in a Thunderstorm, by Derek Piggott; Clear Air Turbulence andTopography by H. S. Turner; Some Effects of the Weather on Aircraft Design and Operation by David Rendel; The "Mystery"of Soaring Flight by Dr. A. E. Slater; and Condensation Trails by Dr. R. S. Scorer, who also gives an account of this year'sNational Gliding Championship. Weather is published (2s) by the Royal Meteorological Society, 49 Cromwell Road, London, S.W.7. FORTHCOMING EVENTS Sept. 19-23. Institute of Metals: Annual Meeting, Buxton. Sept. 23. Yorkshire Aeroplane Club: Annual Ball, Harrogate. Sept. 24. Aircraft Golfing Society: Brown Bros. (Aircraft) Trophy. Sept. 25. St. Albans Model Aero Club: All Britain Model Aircraft Rally, Radlett Aerodrome. Sept.28-30. Institute of Physics: Ninth Annual Conference of the Stress and Analysis Group, Sheffield. Sept. 29. Northampton Polytechnic: "Fatigue of Metals" (first of series of 12 lectures). Sept.29-30. Aerodrome Owners Association: Annual Conference, Manchester. Oct. 1-2. Innsbruck Air Rally: Innsbruck, Austria. Oct. 4. R.Ae.S.: Graduates and Students Section: Informal Talk on Aircraft Structural Fatigue, by Dr. P. B. Walker, C.B.E., M.A., Ph.D., F.R.Ae.S. Oct. 6. R.Ae.S.: British Commonwealth and Empire Lecture: "The Growth of Aeronautical Research in Canada during the Post-War Decade," by Dr. J. J. Green, M.B.E. R.Ae.S. Branch Fixtures (to October 6th):— Sept. 23, Birmingham, Branch area meeting: "Application of a Digital Computor to Gas Turbine Engineering," by G. C. Best. Sept. 26, Halton, Paper by an aircraft apprentice. Oct. 1, Halton, Annual general meeting and main lecture, "Compound Engines," by A. C. Clinton. Oct. 3, Halton, Films. Oct. 6, Isle of Wight, "Recent Develop- ments in Production Processes," by W. E. Goff.
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