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1957 - 0168.PDF
170FLIGHT, BACKSLIDING: Trials have recently been made or a fabric escape- chute designed to facilitate emergency ground-exit from the parachute door of the Blackburn Beverley. The door is 19ft from the ground, and a damaged nosewheel could increase this distance to 24ft. Contained in a valise, the 30ft chute can be quickly anchored to the floor near the exit and inflated to a trough shape by CO, bottles in 15 sec. HERE AND THERE Hustling Heavyweight FIRST cross-country flight by a DouglasC-133 logistic transport, powered with four Pratt and Whitney T34 Turboprops, wasmade recently from Long Beach, Calif., to Dayton, Ohio. This distance of 1,900 mileswas covered in 5 hr 45 min at an average speed of approximately 350 m.p.h. Bristol Proposal A REQUEST by Bristol Aircraft, Ltd., tobuild Sycamore helicopters at the Govern- ment Aircraft Factory, Fishermen's Bend,Melbourne, is being considered by the Aus- tralian Department of Defence Production. S.A.C. Lecture A SENIOR officer of the U.S.A.F. is toaddress an Air-Britain meeting in Caxton Hall, London, S.W.I, at 7 p.m. nextWednesday, February 13. His subject will be the U.S.A.F. Strategic Air Command. Timeo Danaos ... AN 11-14, gift of the Soviet Governmentto President Sukarno of Indonesia, was recently delivered by a Russian crew toDjakarta airport for the official handing- over ceremony. Solo Fright AT Des Moines, Iowa, on January 29 a 22-year-old clerk, Roy Soderquist, com- mandeered a single-engined aircraft at pistol point after a flying lesson. He thenflew back and forth at low altitudes over the town, bringing everything to a stand-still, before crash-landing widiout seriously hurting himself. W.J.A.C. at Oxford A UNIT of the Women's Junior Air Corpshas been formed at Oxford. Ex-R.A.F. Pilots Recalled AMONG the Polish Air Force officers re-called to duty after being dismissed during the "Stalin period" are S/L. IgnacyOlszewski and S/L. Waclaw Krol, both of whom commanded Polish fighter squad-rons in the R.A.F. during the war. Whirlwind for Yugoslavia AN order for a Whirlwind helicopter hasbeen placed with Westland Aircraft, Ltd., by the Yugoslav Government. It is the firstto be placed by any Balkan country for this type. In addition spares have been orderedfor the ten Westland Dragonflies operated by the Yugoslav military forces. Aerodrome Adoption A PLAN for schools to "adopt" aerodromeswithin the Commonwealth, on similar lines to the present adoption of Merchant Navyships by 900 schools, is being sponsored by the Air League of the British Empire in JOS, in Northern Nigeria, was the ob- jective of a recent solo flight from Elstree by Tiger Moth owner Peter Jordan, a tin- mining engineer. Mr. Jordan started learning to fly in June. 1956, obtained his P.P.L. in July, and then purchased G-ANZY for £350. A total of 47 stops were made on the 5J00- mile journey, which was completed in 33 days, using some 350 gal of petrtA. co-operation with the Ministry of Educa- tion. A "pilot" scheme is to be run this year, with 24 selected schools taking part, and if it proves successful an aerodrome adoption society will be formed. Private View HELICOPTERS are being employed atAlesund, centre of the Norwegian herring fisheries, for rescue duties and to give tour-ists an opportunity of seeing the fleet of some 2,500 boats at work among the shoals. Synthetic Rubber Symposium AN international symposium on syntheticrubber is to be held at Church House, Westminster, from March 26 to 28. Appli-cation forms may be obtained from the organizers, The Rubber and Plastics Age,Gaywood House, Great Peter Street, Lon- don, S.W.I. Spares by Air DURING 1956 the Automobile Associa-tion despatched over 700 sets of spare parts by air to motorists and motor-cyclists tour-ing abroad. The highest number of de- liveries, 378, was made to A.A. membersin France; other destinations to which spares were flown included Poland, Fin-land, Southern Rhodesia and West Africa. Accident Inquiry Procedure - IN answer to recent Parliamentary ques-tions asking for a statement on changes in the procedure of aircraft accident inquirieswhen both Service and civilian depart- ments were concerned, the Prime Ministersaid that as several "complex and difficult points" were involved it would be sometime before a statement could be made. Beech Distributors A COMPANY registered in Ireland—Air-craft Associates, Ltd. (formerly Irish Sales and Commodities Co., Ltd.)—have beenappointed distributors for that country and for the U.K. by Beech Aircraft Corporationof Wichita, Kansas. The current basic prices of Beechcraft models are: Super 18,Model E185, $106,975; Twin Bonanza, Model E50, $88,000; Twin Bonanza, ModelD50, $77,000; Travel Air, Model 95 (Twin), to be announced; Bonanza, ModelH35, $22,650. A demonstration Bonanza is now at Liverpool Airport.
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