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1957
1957 - 0720.PDF
726 FLIGHT HERE AND THERE Spirited Successor IN its flight to commemorate the 30th anni-versary of Col. Charles Lindbergh's solo Atlantic crossing, the Super Sabre F-100FSpirit of St. Louis II flew from McGuire A.F.B., New Jersey, to Le Bourget in 6 hr40 min on May 21. Piloted by Maj. R. Risner of the U.S.A.F., it was refuelledtwice en route. Lindbergh's crossing took 33 hr 27 min. S.A.C. Command SUCCEEDING General Curtis E. Lemay,new U.S.A.F. Vice-Chief of Staff, Lt-Gen. Thomas S. Power has been nominatedCommander-in-Chief of Strategic Air Command. Forty-nine to Go SANDTOFT, a war-time bomber airfieldnear Doncaster, is being released by the Air Ministry and sold. It is one of the fiftyService aerodromes mentioned by the Air Minister in his recent Memorandum assurplus to R.A.F. requirements. Highest Yet ? IN an attempt to exceed die world altituderecord for balloons—set up in 1935 by Capts. Anderson and Stevens, whoascended to 72,375ft—Capt. J. W. Kittinger of the U.S.A.F. is preparing to make aflight during which he hopes to reach a height of over 95,000ft. The balloon, oftwo million cubic feet (helium) capacity, has a pressurized gondola and plasticenvelope. (The 1935 record is also the F.A.I, official record for any type of air-craft.) Lighter-than-air Race STARTING from Hengelo, a balloonrace will take place in Holland on June 16. Premier award will be the Coupe Jhr.I. L. van den Berch van Heemstede, replacing the Coupe Andries Blitz, wonoutright last year by Mrs. Boesman. Lesser Lights MR. E. T. JONES, Director-General ofTechnical Development (Air), M.o.S., was invited to Ottawa to lecture at last Mon-day's (May 27) annual general meeting of the Canadian Aeronautical Institute. Thetitle of his address was Some Lesser Lights of Aeronautical Glamour. R.A.F. at the Tournament AT this year's Royal Tournament, beingheld at Earls Court, London, from June 5 to June 22, the major R.A.F. item will bethe portrayal of a day in the siege of Malta during May 1942. In addition, 138 officersand men of the R.A.F. Regiment will give "a display of versatility," demonstratingwork in the field when on operations and also arms drill, in varied time withoutcommand. Pointing the Way NOTICES with letters 15ft high, warningpilots to "keep off," are being painted on the disused runways at the Harwell atomicresearch establishment, which was formerly an R.A.F. station. Recently a U.S.A.F.T-33 which had landed there by mistake crashed during a JATO-assisted attempt totake off again. Arrows are being painted in the middle of the letters pointing to R.A.F.Benson, which is 10 miles away. WORLD'S LARGEST wind tunnel of wooden construction, Bristol Aircraft's new low-speed unit will be used, in conjunction with the supersonic tunnel completed in 1952, for development work on missile, helicopter and fixed-wing projects. The working section is 12ft wide X 10ft high X 25ft long, and will accommodate models of up to 9ft span. The building, seen here, also houses drawing offices, workshops and instrumentation laboratory. (Official opening: page 723.) S.L.A.E. General Meeting LORD BRABAZON is to be guestspeaker at the a.g.m. of the Society of Licensed Aircraft Engineers tomorrow,June 1 (2 p.m., 26 Portland Place, London, W.I). Overshooting—in Style AN Egyptian pilot, Abdel Monel elShennawy, landed at Schwechat airport near Vienna recently in a Mig-15 of theCzechoslovak Air Force. He told the Austrian authorities that he had takenoff from Pardubice airfield (about 80 miles east of Prague) on a training flight in thedirection of the Austrian frontier, which he had mistakenly overshot. He had beenforced to land at Schwechat after running out of fuel. E. J. Pope WE regret to learn of the death, on May25, of Mr. Eric John Pope, flying instruc- tor to Denham Flying Club. He wasshortly to take up a post as C.F.I, at Car- diff. The funeral is at Golders GreenCrematorium at 2.45 p.m. today, Friday, May 31. Dr. Otto Bohm WE also regret that Dr. Otto Bohm,who during the war devised a radar system which enabled low-flying German aircraftto be intercepted, died on May 17 at Beaconsfield. Dr. Bohm, who was 72, cameto Britain from Berlin in 1936 and joined Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd.From 1941 to the end of the war he served with what is now the Admiralty Signal andRadar Establishment; also the radar aerial equipment which played an important partin the interception and sinking of Scharnhorst was largely his work. "Dreidecker" Erratum OWING to a transposition of captionnumbers during printing, two of the World War I triplanes illustrated on page 666 ofour May 17 issue were wrongly identified. The photograph numbered 5 actuallyshowed the Brandenburg L.I6 and picture No. 6 the Oesterreichische-Aviatik (Berg). NATURALIZED: After seeing service in West Africa (as VR-NAZ) and as a War Office trooper (G-AIMA), this Bristol Mk 21 Freighter has received a German regis- tration. It is seen here in its new paint at Frankfurt-Main Airport after overhaul and con- version for Lufttrans- port Union fay Eagle Aircraft Services of Blackbushe. It has been equipped as a combined passenger-freighter with provision for up to 52 seats and has been pro- vided with a completely new radio installation.
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