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1955
1955 - 1805.PDF
928 FLIGHT, 23 December 1955 HERE AND THERE P.I Record Attempt ALTHOUGH there is no official con-firmation that definite arrangements are being made for an English Electric P.I toattack the world's speed record next year, as reported in the Daily Telegraph, thelikelihood of such an attempt is obviously strong. Of the reported Avon power units,all that can be said is that such an installa- tion is feasible. Sir Miles Thomas Joins A.R.B. THE Air Registration Board announcedlast week that Sir Miles Thomas, chair- man and chief executive of B.O.A.C., hadbeen appointed a member of the Board. He fills the vacancy caused by the resig-nation of Mr. Whitney Straight. Vulcan Base THE Avro Vulcan is due to go into R.A.F. service in the very near future and the base has been prepared for the first squadron at Waddington, near Lincoln. Handley Page Victors will begin to reach squadrons soon afterwards. ••,•„•.. For Australian Airfield Safety THREE power-driven saws and "a fire-fighting chemical not previously used in Australia" are among the equipment of anew crash tender recently demonstrated in public at Laverton R.A.A.F. Station. Fiveof these tenders have been ordered by the Australian Civil Aviation Department. S.A.S. Furlough Flights NO fewer than ten DC-6-loads of U.S.Servicemen have taken advantage of special leave flights offered by Scandinavian Air-lines System between four German cities —Nuremburg, Frankfurt, Stuttgart andBremen—and New York. Fares for the return trip are in the region of £105-£110.As S.A.S. have no traffic rights for the direct journey, flights were routed via Copen-hagen, continuing to New York with dif- ferent flight numbers. OVER CHESAPEAKE BAY, near Baltimore, is this Martin Mariner, modified to incorporate a hydroski to decrease the impacts encountered during rough-water landings and take-offs. The ski was designed and built by the Edo Corporation, and is located slightly forward of the e.g. Tests have been made with the ski in three different extended positions—close to the hull bottom, partially extended and fully extended. HLP.'s New Herald HIGHEST-PRICED bull at an annualshow and sale of Dairy Shorthorn cattle at Banbury was bought by Sir FrederickHandley Page. It was appropriately named Hindwell Herald. XH-17 Swan Song :^ :^ THE world's largest single-rotor helicop-ter, the Hughes XH-17, has completed its final tests by carrying a 7,800-lb trailer van.With this load it was airborne at a height of about 20ft for 5 min. Mr. Hopper, thecompany's general manager, said that the test opened the way for helicopters whichwould carry 75 troops with combat equip- ment, a 155 mm howitzer, a 2^-ton truck,a bulldozer, or even an assembled bridge. The XH-17 is powered by two J-35 turbo-jets, feeding rotor-tipped burners. A Dak Goes Topdressing THE biggest aerial topdressing venture inNew Zealand will soon get under way when James Aviation, Ltd., of Hamilton, start tooperate an ex-R.N.Z.A.F. Dakota carrying five tons of granulated fertilizer. The....... machine will be operated from Ardmore Aero-drome, and will work over a radius of 40 to "There's something strange about the way that chap reads a drawing." 50 miles. Mr. O. G.James, managing direc- tor of the company, saidthat from Ardmore the machine would spread about 100 tons aday in 20 flights; and, with the use of a loader costing £4,000, five tons of fertilizerwould be loaded into the aircraft in two minutes. MINISTER SITS IN: The Minister of Sup- ply, Mr. Reginald Maudling, in the Avro Aircraft CF-100 dur- ing his recent visit to Malton, Ontario. Explaining the cock- pit layout is Mr. Harvey Smith, vice- president manufac- turing, Avro Aircraft. Distaff Pilots :? SEVERAL women jet pilots are serving in the Czechoslovak Air Force, says Prague Radio, and one of them, Eleonora Bacova, has received a State decoration for outstanding achievements in flying. Flying Film in Birmingham A FILM show "open to all who are in-terested" is being held by the Birmingham and District Aviation Club at the Inter-national Centre in Suffolk Street, Birming- ham, on Friday next, December 30th, at7.15 p.m. The principal film will be the American picture We Saw it Happen,covering the first 50 years of powered flight from the American angle. Recce Exhibition TO publicize President Eisenhower's"Open Skies for Peace" plan, under which the United States and Russia would makephotographic flights over each other's terri- tory, the United States Air Force is holdinga special display of reconnaissance photo- graphs in New York. Both high- and low-altitude pictures are on view and the main feature of the show is a strip of film 200ftlong by 9in wide covering a track 2,700 miles long and several hundred miles wide,from Santa Barbara, Calif., to New York.
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