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1956
1956 - 0695.PDF
8 June 1956 695 Hon. Treasurer, A. Cdre. J. Swire-Griffiths, reported the WelfareFund to be "fairly prosperous," last year's Wings Day having contributed £55,697 and the collections at cinemas where the DamBusters film was shown, £23,451. Further details of the conference will be given next week. F.D.2 Record Confirmed 'T'HE F.A.I, has confirmed the world air speed record set up on•*- March 10 by Peter Twiss in the Fairey Delta 2 (Rolls-Royce Avon) at 1,822 km/hr (1,132 m.p.h.). Vulcans to Enter Service first Avro Vulcan bombers are about to go into R.A.F.•*• service at Waddington, Lines. The station has been recon- structed for a training unit which, on lines similar to the Valianttraining station at Gaydon, will produce the crews for the opera- tional squadrons. Waddington is commanded by G/C. P. Connolly. Johannesburg Races Off THE Johannesburg Festival Air Races, which were to have been•*- held next September over courses from the United States and the United Kingdom to Johannesburg, are not to take place. TheAero Club of South Africa has informed the Royal Aero Club that the Festival management committee is unable to guaranteethe prize money, which was to have totalled £75,000. Cranfield Anniversary AS part of the celebrations of the tenth anniversary of the**• College of Aeronautics, Cranfield, a public Open Day is to be held at the college tomorrow, Saturday, June 9. Visitors will beable to inspect the various departmental facilities from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m., and it is possible that demonstrations will includethe operation of wind tunnels, ramjets and rocket motors. To mark this anniversary occasion, next week's issue of Flightwill include two special feature articles. Engines in the News "PROGRESS reports on various lines of engine development•*• include the following: de Havilland are installing a second Gyron in the Sperrin flying test-bed; when Valiants are fittedwith D.H. Super Sprites they will have one of these take-off rocket motors under each wing; the Napier Eland NE1.1 has passed itstype-test; the Bristol Proteus 755s now being tested in the Britannia 100 are in the outboard nacelles; an Orpheus is to be test-beddedin the Avro Ashton; two Rolls-Royce Dart RDa.7s, developing 1,800 s.h.p. each, are ready to be flown in a Dakota; and an R-R.Tyne/Elizabethan conversion is in hand. The Birthday Honours CEVERAL members of the aircraft industry are named in the^ Queen's Birthday Honours, announced last week. They in- clude Lt-Gen. Sir Ronald Weeks, who has just retired from thechairmanship of Vickers, Ltd., and upon whom is being conferred a barony, and Mr. G. H. Dowty (chairman of the Dowty Group),who is to be knighted: he is cited in the list as chairman of a disablement advisory committee, this signifying a cause in whichhe has given much valuable service. Appointed K.B.E. is Capt. I. N. Holyman, managing director ofAustralian National Airways, and one of the founders of the airline's predecessor; Saunders-Roe's managing director, Capt.E. D. Clark, is appointed C.B.E.; and especially worthy of note among technical executives in the list is the name of Mr. L. H.Bedford (C.B.E.), chief engineer of the English Electric guided weapons division. Too seldom do names of test pilots appear inthe Honours, so it is gratifying to see included Mr. J. H. Orrell (O.B.E.), who recently retired as Avro chief test pilot. Given below are names noted in the first sections of the civilHonours; M.B.E.s and other appointments we shall list in our THE SIXTH MARK of the Hawker Hunter, a production example of which is seen, is now going into squadron service with the R.A.F. next issue. Also published next week will be the names ofrecipients of Honours in the military lists; among these are Air Marshals R. B. Jordan and T. N. McEvoy, who are respectivelyA.O.C-in-C. Maintenance Command and Chief of Staff A.A.F.C.E.; both are being made K.C.B. Appointed K.B.E. areAir Marshal R. L. R. Atcherley, A.O.C-in-C. Flying Training Command; Air Marshal G. E. Nicholetts, A.O.C. Malta; andA.V-M. J. R. Whitley, A.O.C. No. 1 (Bomber) Group. Baron.—Lt-Gen. Sir Ronald Weeks, chairman, Vickers, Ltd.Privy Councillor.—A. H. E. Molson, M.P., Joint Parliamentary Secre- tary, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, since 1953.Knights Bachelor.—W. F. Beale, chairman, board of management, N. A. A.F.I.; G. H. Dowry, chairman, Cheltenham and North Gloucester-shire Disablement Advisory Committee; Prof. W. J. Pugh, director, Geological Survey of Great Britain and Museum of Practical Geology. Order of the Bath.—C.B.: J. Anderson, chief scientist, AdmiraltySignals and Radar Establishment, Portsdown; L. H. Curzon, Under- secretary, Ministry of Supply; Col. A. Halkyard, chairman, Leicesterand Rutland Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association; J. E. Keel, Under-Secretary, M.T.C.A.; G/C. M. Robinson, chairman, GlasgowTerritorial and Auxiliary Forces Association. Order of St. Michael and St George.—K.C.M.G.: A. Cdre. J. A.Easton, R.A.F. (Ret.), for official services. C.M.G.: D. H. Black, chief scientific officer, M.o.S.; R. O. Wilberforce, Q.C., senior legal adviserand British delegate to I.C.A.O. Order of the British Empire.—K.B.E.: I. N. Holyman, managingdirector, Australian National Airways; V. H. Raby, Deputy Under- secretary of State, Air Ministry. C.B.E.: L. H. Bedford, chiefengineer, guided weapons division, English Electric Co., Ltd.; L. Bod- dington, deputy chief scientific officer, M.o.S.; Capt. E. D. Clark, manag-ing director, Saunders-Roe, Ltd.; R. M. Currie, head of work study department, I.C.I., Ltd.; E. W. Hicks, Secretary, Australian Depart-ment of Air; A. W. Isherwood, Director of Contracts (air), M.o.S.; C. H. McKay (for services to Victorian branch of the Returned Sailors',Soldiers' and Airmen's Imperial League of Australia); S. P. Peters, Deputy Director (Forecasting), Meteorological Office; Capt. M. Sorsbie,lately general manager, East African Airways Corporation; C. Sykes, managing director, Thomas Firth and John Brown, Ltd.; A. B. Watts,director of British Ropes (Southern Sales), Ltd. O.B.E.: F. Belcher, dep. dir., supplementary ground services (civilaviation), M.T.C.A.; R. W. McG. Boswell, of Salisbury, S. Australia, for outstanding public services in the guided weapons field; L. E. Caygill,Assistant Director, Civil Aircraft Research and Development, M.o.S.; J. D. Douglas, operations planning manager, B.O.A.C.; A. F. Fitness,principal, Air Min.; H. Frost, chief executive officer, Air Min.; Lt-Col. R. G. G. Harvey, secretary, Londonderry, Tyrone and FermanaghTerritorial and Auxiliary Forces Association; C. Heyes, superintendent mechanical and electrical engineer grade 1, Air Min.; A. R. Jackson,chairman, Manchester Wing committee, Air Training Corps; M. L. Jofeh, deputy chief engineer, Sperry Gyroscope Co., Ltd.; A. H. Layhe,manager (purchasing), British Insulated Callenders Cables, Ltd.; Col. A. J. Masterson, for services as secretary, County of Warwick Terri-torial and Auxiliary Forces Association; J. H. Orrell, lately chief test pilot, A. V. Roe and Co., Ltd.; S. Partington, internal head of works,Salford Electrical Instruments, Ltd.; H. G. Sturgeon, chief engineer, Ultra Electric, Ltd.; J. R. Vezey, prin. scientific officer, Coastal Cmd. IN THE HONOURS LIST, names from which are quoted above, are the following (left to right): Sir Ronald Weeks (Baron), Mr. A. H. E. Molson (P.C.), Mr. G. H. Dowty (Kt. Bachelor), Capt. I. N. Holyman (K.B.E.), Capt. E. D. Clark (C.B.E.), and Mr. L H. Bedford (C.B.E.).
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