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746 FLIGHT, 9 November 1956 HERE AND THERE Gnats for Finland IT was announced last Tuesday that theGovernment of Finland have signed a con- tract "for a number" of Folland Gnat lightfighters for their air force. Deliveries will begin towards the end of next year. TheGnat order, the first to be placed by a European country, follows India's recent£3m contract. Finland, whose air strength is limited by the 1947 Paris treaty, has amixed force of largely obsolescent equip- ment. Dutch Commemoration ON June 10 next year a new internationalaviation show is to be held at Ypenburg airfield. It will form part of the 50thanniversary commemorative celebrations— culminating on October 17,1957 (not 1956,as previously reported)—of the Royal Dutch Aero Club. S.BJV.C. and Free Trade Area ONE of the 128 trade associations whichhave indicated their support for the pro- posed European free trade area is theSociety of British Aircraft Constructors. A letter summarizing replies on the subjectfrom 128 out of 287 trade associations and 525 of the 7,400 individual member com-panies of the Federation of British Indus- tries was handed to the President of theBoard of Trade on November 1. Aviation Medicine Discussed THE first European Congress of AviationMedicine, held last week (October 30 to November 1) at The Hague, was attendedby 167 participants. This total included 55 from Holland, 33 from the U.S.A.(mainly members of the U.S.A.F. in Europe), 19 from Sweden, 11 fromCanada, 6 from Germany, 9 from Great Britain and 5 from Switzerland. Underthe presidency of Dr. J. Jongbloed the delegates discussed a number of topical SLEEK CAT: This new—F11F-1F—version of the U.S. Navy's Grumman Tiger is fitted with a General Electric J79 turbojet in place of the former Wright J65 (Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire licence). Its area-ruled configuration is admirably displayed. subjects, among them pilot-fatigue, theeffect of extreme accelerations, and the for- mation of a European body on the lines ofAmerica's Aero Medical Association. Gliding Angles A DISCUSSION on gliding between AnnWelch, Cdr. Nicholas Goodhart, R.N., and Philip Wills is to be broadcast on theB.B.C. Home Service at 7.45 p.m. on Friday next, November 16. The chairmanwill be Peter Scott, the well-known ornith- ologist and artist, who is a member of theBristol Gliding Club. Dial WR4 5555 THE telephone number of Vickers-Arm-strongs (Aircraft), Ltd., at Weybridge— Byfleet 240—which they were given onAugust 17, 1917, when they were starting design work on the Vimy, has beenchanged. It is now Weybridge 5555 (the dialling code is given above). No Badger by Beech THE name of the Beechcraft Badger twin-engined executive aircraft has been changed to Beechcraft Travel Air. Says the com-pany: ". . . the Air Force authorities feared that in the event of an attack on theUnited States there might be some con- fusion between identification reports ofthe Russian Badgers (bombers) and the Beechcraft Badgers by some spotters onthe defense network. This could involve an additional hazard to our national securityand possibly some hazard to the occupants RECIPIENT of the first award under the Helicopter Associa- tion's Alan Marsh Memorial Trust is Mr, M. A. P. Willmer (right), seen here with his flying instructor, Mr. R. Hazlehurst, and an Air Service Training Hiller 12C. The award—a full basic course of tech- nical instruction—was made to Mr. Willmer "for his exceptional ability in the techni- cal study of rotary- wing flight whilst a student at the Col- lege of Aeronautics." He also won the 1955 Cierva Memorial Essay competition. of a Beechcraft Badger, which might be theunintentional target of missiles or other projectiles. . . ." The first aircraft tocarry the name Travel Air were designed by the late Walter H. Beech in the mid-twenties. New Guinea Helicopters FOUR of the new Netherlands-builtKolibrie helicopters are to be taken on the big Dutch expedition to the NewGuinea interior in early 1958. Other air- craft will include D.H.C. Beavers and,possibly, the Twin Pioneers of de Kroon- duif, the K.L.M. New Guinea company. Aircraft Golf IN their final meeting of the season, a teamfrom the Aircraft Golfing Society defeated the Foreign Airlines G.S. by 3| matches to2\. In the top match, S. M. McCready and B. D. Songhurst, round in 67, werebeaten one up by E. May of Trans-Canada Air Lines and Byron Rogers of AmericanAirlines. S.LJV.E. Special Meeting A SPECIAL meeting of the Society ofLicensed Aircraft Engineers, on the sub- ject of "Non-destructive Testing andInspection" is to be held at Southampton University tomorrow, November 10.Details from the secretary (Maidenhead 3621). Single-Channel *•: LATEST design of the Custer Channel"1Wing Corporation, of Hagerstown, Mary- land, the CCW-2 single-engined two-seateris to be manufactured under licence by the newly formed Custer Channel Wing Mfg.Corp., of McAllen, Texas. The company claim that the new machine, developed fromthe twin-engined Custer, will be capable of taking off and landing at 5 m.p.h. in lessthan its own length (18ft), will fly at about 200 m.p.h., and will be ready for test bymid-1957. It will have a 240 h.p. engine. R.Ae.S. Branch Appointment AT a meeting of the newly formed Lon-don Airport branch of the Royal Aero- nautical Society on October 30 it wasannounced that Mr. G. W. Hall, A.F.R.Ae.S., assistant managing directorof the Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd., had been elected first president. A lecture on DesignProblems of a Large Helicoper, by Dr. G. S. Hislop (Fairey Aviation), was re-ceived with obvious interest by the 90 members present. The next meeting(November 27) will include a lecture by Dr. K. C. Bergin of B.O.A.C. on AviationMedicine.
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