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1956
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FLIGHT, 16 March 1956 285 HERE AND THERE ... Holiday Race A ROUND-IRELAND air race is beingconsidered as an attraction for next year's Tostal, Ireland's annual three-weekholiday festival. Ayrshire to Australia NEXT month, or early in May, a ScottishAviation Twin Pioneer is to make a development flight to Australia via theMiddle East, India and Malaya. Czech Il-14s : T THE Avia works at Prague are now build-ing Soviet-designed Ilyushin 11-14 twin- engined transports and the first of these isnear completion. The Czech-built version has 27 passenger seats and provision for acrew of five. India/Indonesia Agreement A FIVE-YEAR agreement for the mutualdevelopment of the Indonesian and Indian Air Forces was signed in Djakarta onFebruary 28th. It provides for its own termination in time of emergency withoutobligation on either side. Just Call Me Airimp THE English language, streamlined byour American friends both to its debase- ment and its enrichment, seems now tohave reached compressibility limits. One I.A.T.A. airline may now say to another:"302/9 JONES BB510/10 NN OSL"— which means that Mr. Jones, passenger onflight 302 leaving New York for Paris on the ninth of the month, will want a con-necting reservation the following day on flight 510 to Oslo. The new language,complete with its own syntax and vocabul- ary, condenses every conceivable reserva-tions message into 99 abbreviations. Its own title—ATC/IATA ReservationsInterline Message Procedure—is inevit- ably abbreviated to AIRIMP. The Aerobridge WITHIN two months the U.S.A.F. willhave in use the "aerobridge," a new cargo- loading device developed by Lockheed anddesigned to reduce double-handling of freight by bridging the gap between air-craft floors and loading piers. Each end of its span is mounted on movable dollies,adjustable between heights of 4ft and 10ft. Self-propelled and portable when folded,the aerobridge can be lengthened from 64ft to 84ft by telescopic expansion.Power is electro-hydraulic and several types of conveyor systems can be incor- HARBINGERS of the great missiles and pilotless aircraft of tomorrow are these three: Top, the Napier-built ramjet test vehicle referred to elsewhere in this issue. Centre the U.S. Army's Redstone ground - to - ground guided missile, re- ported to have a range of about 1,500 miles. Right, the new version of the Martin Matador, the TM-61B having a longer nose section and an entirely new airborne guidance system for "tactical missions". porated, including gravity, powered belt,and two-way powered belt for simul- taneous loading/unloading operations.The heavy canvas hood will stand winds of 60 m.p.h. and snow loads of 20 lb/sq ft. Incipient Shimmy ? ACCORDING to a French news release,the S.E.210 Caravelle is fitted with a boogie undercarriage designed and pro-duced by Hispano-Suiza. W.J.A.C Flying Post APPOINTED staff pilot to the Women'sJunior Air Corps is Mrs. Diana Barnato Walker. As an A.T.A. pilot she flew some70 types of aircraft. Aces All THE Czechoslovak press and radio areapplauding "our falcons, our heroic pilots, who have recently repeatedly proved theirbravery by shooting down many American espionage balloons over our country." ALt, Jaroslav Novak was singled out as a shining example: he shot down five bal-loons "without any loss to our equipment." Sowing at Humpty Doo AN experimental first-sowing of rice fromthe air in Australia's Northern Territory was carried out recently at HumptyDoo, some 60 miles south of Darwin, by The Territory Rice, Ltd., a firm financedby Australian and U.S. interests. The firm has 300 acres under cultivation, andrice plants are a foot high in sections already sown by combines. Rice grownin the Humpty Doo area last year estab- lished what is believed to be a world'srecord for amount of grain per stalk. Topdressing Record? WHAT is believed to be a world's aerialtopdressing record was established when 230 tons of lime were spread by a singleaircraft on a property in Central Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, in one day. The pilotbegan flying at 5 a.m. and continued all day until dusk, using an FU-24 Fletcheragricultural aircraft. It is estimated that the pilot made over 300 landings and take-offs during the day. The record was achieved during the execution of the firstlarge-scale aerial lime-spreading contract in the district.
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