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1956
1956 - 1820.PDF
984 FLIGHT, 28 December 1956 HERE AND THERE Sabre Shopping AN order has been placed by the WestGerman Federal Ministry of Defence with the Canadian Government for 225 Sabresfor the West German Air Force, and the Canadian authorities have declared them-selves willing to train German pilots to fly them. Soviet Protest * IN a note to the State Department theRussian Government has protested to the United States about a "violation of Sovietair space" in the Vladivostock region by three U.S.A.F. B-57s on December 11.The note alleges their flight was made for reconnaissance purposes and "cannot butaggravate the international situation in the Far East." Another Balloon Protest A BROADCAST from Prague recentlysaid that the U.S.A. had been photo- graphing Czechoslovakia from the air bymeans of remotely controlled balloons carrying cameras. Ballon D'Essai THE French scientist M. Leprince-Ringuet has shown the Academie des Sciences photographs he has obtainedwith cameras lifted by balloons to a height of 20 miles. Malayan Survey IT was announced in Ottawa recentlythat Canada is to make an aerial survey of 35,000 sq miles of Malayan jungle as partof a search, under the Colombo Plan, for mineral deposits. The cost of this survey,which is expected to be complete by May, 1957, will be about £143,000 and theexpenditure is to be divided equally between the two Governments concerned. UPHILL WORK: One of a number of Italian Meteor F.L.55s sold to a Swiss operator for Alpine flying; it is seen after an uphill landing on skis, of the kind described in "Flight" of October 12. The location here is high in the Bernina Alps. I.R.A. Precaution FOUR Hastings of R.A.F. TransportCommand last week flew 150 men of the R.A.F. Regiment to Northern Ireland,where they will be responsible for defending R.A.F. installations during thepresent border disturbances. M.o.S. Appointment WITH the agreement of the Secretary ofState for Air the Minister of Supply has appointed A.V-M. C. D. C. Boyce to beAssistant Controller of Aircraft in succes- sion to A.V-M. H. D. MacGregor. Giving the Girls a Ride DURING this year over 1,650 officers andcadets of the Women's Junior Air Corps have flown in the new W.J.A.C. aircraft, anAuster Aiglet called Grey Dove II, and in the course of these flights over 50 aero-dromes in the United Kingdom were visited. Ring in the New ON January 1, 1957, the Texas division ofthe Bell Aircraft Corporation at Forth Worth officially becomes the Bell Helicop-ter Corporation. Mr. Harvey Gaylord, general manager of the division since 1951,has been elected president of the new sub- sidiary company. N.S.W. Aero Club Presidency AT the annual general meeting of theRoyal Aero Club of New South Wales, held on December 8, Mr. G. A. Lloyd, Jnr.,was elected president in succession to Maj-Gen. D. Macarthur Onslow, who hasretired after holding the office for six years and is now a member of thecommittee. ASCENDING STAR: bearing little resem- blance to its stumpy predecessor is the Chance Vought Regulus II, a new surface-to- surface missile of the U.S. Navy. The revised machine is supersonic, and its turbojet needs a double-shock shark's-mouth intake. Test firings—probably not yet from submarines— are proceeding with success.
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