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4(1 Air Cdre E. M. Donaldson, who achieved a world absolute speed record of 6/6 m.p.h. in a G/oster Meteor in 1946, samples the cockpit of an F-I04C Starfighter at the Fckker works. With him is chief test pilot A. P. Moll. This NATO aircraft—an earlier version of which held the absolute speed, height and rate-of-climb records simul taneously—is over twice as fast as the 1946 record-breaker. Air Cdre Donaldson is now a member of the "Daily Telegraph" air staff WORLD NEWS... H.P. Reading Factory to Close Handley Page Ltd announced last week that their Woodley, Reading, factory is to close down progressively, during the next six months. It has been operated by their subsidiary, Handley Page (Reading) Ltd, since 1948, when it was acquired—together with manufacturing rights for the Marathon —from Miles Aircraft Ltd. For the past seven years the factory has been largely concerned with design and manufacture of the Herald, but for several months this work has been in process of transfer to the Handley Page factories at Cricklewood and Radlett. Fuselages are now being assembled at Cricklewood and taken by road to Radlett for finishing; wings and engine nacelles are being made at Radiett; and tail units and various other assemblies are handled at Cricklewood. The flight-deck and forward-fuselage section is still being built at Woodley, but this work also will shortly be moved to one of the other factories. A Handley Page spokesman said that "every effort" was being made to find employment for the Reading personnel at Cricklewood and Radlett. Touring Contest Postponed The Royal Aero Club's International Business and Touring Aircraft Competition, due to be held at Kidlington on July 20-21, has been postponed until next year. The chairman of the club's competitions com mittee, Air Cdre Allen Wheeler, states that the postponement was decided on because insufficient entries had been received for Classes 1 and 3 of the contest. Air-Cushion Aircraft It is reported from Los Angeles that the General Dynamics Corporation, after four years of study, is ready to produce an aircraft that will take off and land on an air cushion. The aircraft, called GETOL —ground effect take-off and landing— was described at a meeting of the Institute of Aerospace Sciences by Mr Walter Reeder, FLIGHT International, 12 July 1%: design specialist, and Mr R. W. McDon.iiu. aerodynamics engineer to the corporate oi- It will be amphibious, without the los*. of payload usually associated with aircraft having this capability. Mr Reeder said it would be able to operate from a variety of surfaces, including a jungle clearing, an ice floe, a ploughed field, or flotsjni. laden water. He added, "Further testing and analysis are required to establish the concept's practicality completely, but w« believe that we can put a prototype in the air within the next three years." S- Armchair Reconnaissance with the aid of an Ahuette—an item in the programme of the Army Air Corps display at Middle Wallop last Saturday Free-fall Guests In England for the Army free-fall parachute contest at Hen ford on June 30, six Canadian Grenadier Guards reservists were guests of British Executive Air Services Ltd and used one of the company's aircraft for practice. They are seen here with a Brant/y 8-2, for which BEAS are sole UK distributors WJAC Recruiting Drive The Women's Junior Air Corps is to hold a national recruiting week from September 29 to October 7. The WJAC. which is in some degree a feminine counter part of the boys' Air Training Corps, offers girls of 12 to 21 a general training programme of aviation interest, with opportunities for practical flying. They now wear a uniform of Air Force blue. Colour Photography One of the most noteworthy development* in the field of photography, particularh so far as amateurs are concerned, has been the enormous increase in the popularity of colour work during the past few years. No one interested in this rewarding hobby should miss next week's (Wednesday, Jul) 18) issue of Amateur Photographer, which will be a special Colour Number reviewing latest methods and equipment.
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