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1956
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Twelve of these 44 h.p. machines have been ordered.of 65 m.p.h., a range of about 150 miles, and able to carry a load of about 300 Ib. HERE AND THERE Exports Up Again BRITISH aircraft exports for Novembertotalled £6,524,363. This is almost double the figure of £3,460,983 for November,1954. For the first eleven months of 1955 exports stood at £59,472,801—over £8mmore than in the corresponding period of 1954. One-Dart Viscount WITH only one of its four Darts oper-ative, a B.E.A. Viscount made a successful emergency landing at the military airfieldof Cazaux, near Bordeaux, on Monday dur- ing a scheduled flight from Gibraltar toLondon. First reports attributed the failure of three power-units to fuel contamination.The aircraft, carrying 31 passengers—who continued their journey in another Vis-count, from Bordeaux—was piloted by Capt. E. Watts. Vampires for Jordan— AS foreshadowed in our issue of Novem-ber 18th, 1955, the Royal Jordanian Air Force (previously known as the ArabLegion Air Force) is being given de Havilland Vampire F.B.9s by the BritishGovernment. Six were delivered by R.A.F. crews on December 31st and fourmore should by now have followed. These aircraft will form the nucleus of theR.J.A.F. and will operate in co-operation with R.A.F. squadrons based at Ammanand Mafrak. —and for Indonesia THE Indonesian Air Force announced inDjakarta on January 1st that six Vampire Trainers had arrived in Indonesia by sea.These, it was remarked, were the first British jets supplied to the IndonesianAir Force, and they are being assembled at a base near Bandung, West Java. Theywill be flown by British-trained pilots. Amy Johnson Scholarship Winner THE Women's Engineering Society, whichadministers the Amy Johnson Memorial Fund, announces the award of the AmyJohnson Flying Scholarship for 1955 to Miss Janet L. Ferguson. Miss Ferguson,who was chosen from 13 candidates, is secretary and timekeeper at the DenhamFlying Club; she is also hon. secretary of the recently formed British Women Pilots' Association. The scholarship, which is valued at £150, was offered to assist a woman holder of a Private Pilot's Licence to qualify for an Assistant Flying Instructor's Certificate. A Great Story Attracts AN inquiry conducted by a film tradejournal to find which films shown in Great Britain in 1955 had earned the mostmoney has shown that The Dam Busters was the most profitable of the year. Metropolitans for R.A.A.F. A DECISION by the Royal AustralianAir Force to purchase two Convair 440 Metropolitans for the R.A.A.F. TransportCommand was announced recently. The decision has caused considerable surprisein Australia, since the R.A.A.F. have been considering the use of Viscounts forits V.I.P. operations for some time. The Old Honours the New THE Worshipful Company of Coach-makers and Coach Harness Makers has recently "adopted" the light fleet carrierH.M.S. Centaur, which was launched by the Duchess of Kent in April 1947 and firstcommissioned in September 1953. The event was marked by a Court and Liverydinner at the Tallow Chandlers' Hall, London, last Tuesday, when staff, sash andgauntlets for use by the drum major of the ship's volunteer band were presented tothe Captain and officers. Al Mooney Joins Lockheed SOMETIMES known as "the Dean oflight aircraft designers," Al Mooney has joined Lockheed's Georgia Division atMarietta. Mooney, who designed his first aircraft when he was 19, was responsible forsuch celebrated types as the Mooney Mite, Mooney Mark 20, the Culver Cadetand the Eaglerock. The Mite still holds the under-500kg world class record of morethan 1,300 miles for an unrefudled flight. Eyes Over The Ice IN a cable to London last week, Dr.Vivian Fuchs, leader of the Common- wealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, wasable to report that one of the Austers carried in the expedition's vessel Theronhad soon been instrumental in assisting the ship to find her way out of thick ice- floes. He cabled: "After encounteringheavy ice 25th, finally reached im- penetrable area 26th . . . First air recon-naissance flight made 2200 hr 25th December. Successful in finding routethrough impasse." The Auster pilot was S/L. John Lewis. Mr. Profumo Indisposed THE Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Avia- tion, Mr. John Profumo, entered a Lon- don hospital on Monday for a minor operation. He expected to be away from his desk for about ten days. Communist Strength Assessment THE commander of the United StatesFar East Air Force, General Laurence Cuter, said in an article in a Servicejournal last week that the Communists in the Far East had more than 7,000 air-craft, about half of them jets, compared with some 2,000 American aircraft. Pussyfoot Prowls Again THE U.S. Methodist Board of Temper-ance has started a campaign against the sale of alcohol in airliners. Two membersof Congress, say the Board, are to press for a Federal ban unless the airlinesthemselves take voluntary steps. Adds the Board: "The pilots, stewards and steward-esses say liquor is a menace to flying. They ought to be in a position to know." India and the Gnat A MISSION from the Indian Govern-ment is to visit Folland Aircraft, Ltd., to discuss an agreement, already reached inprinciple, for the construction of the Gnat in India. It is understood that arrange-ments are being made for the manufacture of Gnats at the factory of the HindustanAircraft Company in Bangalore. South Bank Air Freight AN urgent consignment of dresses forthe Christmas trade was flown down by B.E.A. from Glasgow to London Airporton December 21st and then collected by an Agusta Bell helicopter, flown by JohnCrewdson of Helicopter Services, Ltd., and transported to the South Bank site.This was the first air-freight delivery to the London helicopter site.
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