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5 April 1957 431 HERE AND THERE ALL THE WINNERS: After the R.Ae.C. general meeting on March 27, Lord Brabazon presented the Club's annual awards. Top, I. to r.: Lord Brabazon with Peter Twiss (Britannia Trophy and Geoffrey de Havilland Trophy); M. Paul Mora'tn (Breguet Trophy); model- aircraft champion Ray Gibbs (bronze medal). Lower, I. to r.: "Brab" and gliding silver medal- lists Tony Goodhart, Frank Foster, and Nick Goodhart. Details of the awards were given on pp. 128-9 of "Flight" for February 1. Exports Up Again BRITISH aviation exports during the firsttwo months of this year totalled £16,742,595, exceeding the January-Feb-ruary total last year—itself a record amount —by more than £1,500,000. M.o.S. Britannia Orders IN the House of Commons on March 28the Minister of Supply, Mr. Aubrey Jones, said that in addition to one Bristol Britannia100 and one Britannia 300 which had been delivered to his department for develop-ment work, the M.o.S. had orders outstand- ing for 13 Britannia 253s for TransportCommand and three Britannia 252s intended for trooping. Delivered to User TWO supersonic "Century" aircraft areabout to enter service with the U.S. Air Force. The McDonnell RF-101 strategicreconnaissance machine will equip the first of two squadrons of the 363rd Tac ReconWing at Shaw A.F.B., South Carolina, late this month. They will probablyreplace the Wing's Republic RF-84F air- craft and not the Martin RB-57s. Late inMay Lockheed will start delivering the first F-104A Starfighter day fighters toHamilton A.F.B., Cal. They will be the first of their type to enter squadron ser-vice. A total of 30 Starfighters, possibly including a small number of two-seatF-104Bs, has been ordered by the Royal Australian Air Force for delivery in a littlemore than a year's time. Other news of U.S. military aircraft appears on p. 446. Squires Gate Tenancy NO alternative use for the Hawker Aircraftfactory at Blackpool has yet been found, the Minister of Supply, Mr. AubreyJones, stated in a written Parliamentary answer on March 27. He added that withthe company's agreement he had asked the President of the Board of Trade toseek another tenant on the termination of the Hawker Aircraft Company's currentprogramme. Two Cities' Record A RECORD time of 5 hr 24 min 26 sec fora flight from Los Angeles to New York was achieved recently in a Douglas A3D-1Skywarrior piloted by Cdr. Dale Cox with a U.S. Navy crew. The aircraft flew fromLos Angeles to New York and back and although it did not set up a new record onthe return journey it lowered the figure EVALUATION: To assess the possibility of its meeting their requirement for a light two-seater heli- copter, the U.S. Army has been evaluating the Fairey Ultra-Light. During the discus- sions its manufac- turers have been represented by the Piasecki Aircraft Cor- poration of Philadel- phia. Fairey Aviation are also intending to undertake a com- mercial sales pro- gramme for the air- craft. In this new picture the Ultra- Light appears with two additional fins. for the combined trip by 1 hr 42 min 39 sec,with a time of 11 hr 18 min 27 sec. The Skywarrior's time for the 2,500-mile LosAngeles-New York flight was 9 min 28 sec better than the previous best, in 1955. Photographers' Show NEXT week's (April 10) issue of AmateurPhotographer will be a special number devoted to the British Photo Fair atOlympia (April 11-17), in the activities of which our associated journal will be takinga prominent part. Quarter Century ON March 25 Mr. Max Conrad, of Cali-fornia, completed his 25th Atlantic cross- ing in a light aircraft when he landed atShannon in a Piper Apache after flying solo from Gander, Newfoundland, in12 hours 50 minutes. Eland-Electra? ACCORDING to American AviationDaily Lockheed aircraft are no longer con- sidering the Rolls-Royce Tyne as an alter-native to the Allison 501 in the Lockheed Electra. It is predicted that the Americanmanufacturer will substitute a late-model Napier Eland. Vampires for Austria THREE de Havilland Vampire trainers,the first to be fitted with both Marconi A.D.F. and I.L.S. equipment, were onMarch 27 delivered to the Austrian Air Force. Austrian pilots had previouslytaken a short conversion course at the de Havilland Servicing School. Nationalist Helicopter A REPORT from Formosa says that thefirst helicopter built by Nationalist China —described as a "flying banana type de-signed by Maj-Gen. Chu Cmia-Jen, a Chinese Air Force aeronautics specialist"—has made a successful test flight. Discussing Plastics Progress TWENTY-TWO authorities on plasticswill speak at the convention to be held in conjunction with this year's inter-national British Plastics Exhibition at Olympia, London, July 10-20. Subjectswill include new extrusion and injection moulding techniques, and recent develop-ments in polythenes, polyvinylchloride and foamed plastic materials. Tickets for theconvention may be obtained from the organizers, British Plastics, Dorset House,Stamford Street, London, S.E.I, England.
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