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510FLIGHT, 21 Sept.1956 GLIDING CAMP: Each year, a party of cadets from the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, spends ten days at an R.N. air station, where they receive gliding instruction. This year they have been at Bramcote, Warwickshire, where these photographs were taken. On the left, pupils round a Prefect are briefed by Instructor Commissioned Airman B. Gunter (in flying suit); in the second picture, a T.31 two-seater is flown by a trainee above a typical suburban-rural Midland landscape. HERE AND THERE Ouest-Aviation THE French nationalized aircraft com-pany formerly known as S.N.C.A.S.O. has, from September 1, taken the nameOuest-Aviation, Societe Nationale de Constructions Aeronautiques. Its headoffice address is unchanged at 105, Avenue Raymond Poincare, Paris 16E. [OnAugust 28 the S.N.C.A.S.E- company changed its name to Sud-Est Aviation.] Ellehammer Commemoration ON September 12 a replica of the aircraftbuilt by the Danish pioneer J. C. H. Ellehammer in 1909 took off from theisland of Lindholm. Constructed and piloted by Mr. Sylvest Jensen, it flew 20miles across the sea to Vordingborg, where it landed half an hour later. The flightwas in commemoration of Ellehammer's first powered "hop" of 137 feet on Lind-holm, exactly fifty years previously. At Vordingborg, Mr. Jensen delivered 6,000 letters franked with a special Ellehammer stamp issued by the Danish post office. Brigadyr in Production CZECHOSLOVAKIA'S Avia L-60 Briga-dyr utility and agricultural aircraft (see Flight, September 9, 1955) is now in pro-duction—with a Praga Doris B engine of 220 h.p.—at the Orlican State Aircraft Fac-tory. Two examples are being shipped to South America, where "substantial sales"are expected. The Rains Never Came SUCCESSFUL rain-making experimentshave been "going on for years" in the U.S.S.R., according to Soviet radioreports. On August 8 an aircraft equipped for spraying dry ice converted a cloud at12,000ft into rain. Four years ago, on November 7, 1952, anniversary of the COMMON INTEREST exemplified by Russian visitors and English hosts during the recent visit of the Soviet Minister of Aircraft Production, Mr. Dementiev, to the Viscount production line at Hum. In this group are, left to right, Mr. H. E. Handcocke, M.o.S.; Mr. George Edwards, Vickers- Armstrongs (Aircraft) managing director; Mr. Dementiev; one of his aides; A. Cdre. H. D. McGregor, M.O.S-; Mr. W. Comber, Hum production manager; and Mr. H. Henderson, V-A. . :- •.',. customer relations. Bolshevik Revolution, this technique wasapparently put to patriotic use; for "our glorious pilots" intercepted and broke upthe clouds, spraying them with ice and turning them into rain, before they couldreach Moscow and spoil the military parade. For Maximized Salary ? FROM a Radio Corporation of America advertisement for staff: ". . . integration of theory, equipments and environment to create and optimize major electronic con- cepts." Flying Cranes THE Research and Development Com-mand of the U.S. Army Transportation Corps is reported to have awarded a con-tract to the Piasecki Aircraft Corporation for evolving advanced designs of "flyingcrane" helicopters. R.Ae.S. Awards THE council of the Royal AeronauticalSociety has announced awards to the following: G. E. Cook (R.Ae.S. CharterScholarship); R. W. Roberts (Busk Studentship in Aeronautics); D. M.Squires (Geoffrey de Havilland Memorial Scholarship). Grants for further studyhave been awarded to: M. G. Bader, J. T. Black, E. M. Coburn, J. I. Dodds, D. J.Huggett and N. E. Phelps. Dressing Up ANNUAL statistics for aerial top-dressingin New Zealand show a doubling of hours flown per aircraft, acres sown and tons offertilizer distributed on each flight, since 1950. In the twelve months endingMarch 1950,142 hours were flown per air- craft, 22.8 acres sown and 2.34 tons offertilizer distributed each flight. In the twelve months ending March, 1956,corresponding figures were 263 hours, 48.3 acres and 5.06 tons. Skywriting Revival in U.K. ? A WELL-KNOWN German skywritingcompany, R.M. Overseas Luftfahrt Abteilung (associates of Overseas Avia-tion, Ltd.) have brought their AT-6 Harvard D-IGAL to Croydon for a seriesof skywriting demonstrations; they hope to extend their activities to this country.Arrangements are in the hands of Autair, Ltd., 75 Wigmore Street, London, W.I,and Overseas Aviation, Ltd., 26 Hill Street, St. Helier, Jersey.
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