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1946
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JANUARY IOTH, 1946 FLIGHT 33 Norwegian NucleusB RITISH aircraft will be the mainstayof the Norwegian Air Force which requires a total of 187 machines to equipa nucleus of six squadrons. At present tlje N.A.F. has 35 Spitfires,ten Mosquito.es, ten Sunderland flying- boats, and three Catalirias. Radar RecommendedU SE of radar by aircraft for the detec-tion and avoidance of dangerous clouds in thunderstorm areas to minimisethe danger of collision with other aircraft is recommended in the Montreal reportof the Communications Committee of the Provisional International Ci-^1 AviationOrganisation. Recommending the use of radar onlarge transport aircraft, the report points out that such equipment wouldalso be an aid to navigation without visual reference to the ground. . N.E. Coast Exhibition 'THE National Trades Technical Socie--•- ties, whose address is St. George's Square, Sheffield, 1, is staging a North-East Coast Exhibition of Scientific and Engineering Inspection Equipment atNewcastle-on-Tyne from Feb. 12th to Feb. 22nd. It is to be held in the localdrill hall in Northumberland Rd. A particularly interesting exhibit willbe the British electron microscope which magnifies 50,000 times, while theNational Physical Laboratory and the Naval Ordnance Inspection Dept. willshow—and in some cases demonstrate— examples of their latest and mostaccurate equipment. Power-Assisted AN ultra-light, low-powered two-seater, described as a " powered glider," is reported to be undergoingtests in California and is expected to be marketed in due course at a price notexceeding £250 by Nelson Aircraft Cor- poration. The little engine is a 16 h.p. " pusher "air-cooled two-stroke of the "flat-four" type, and the machine is said to take-offat 38 m.p.h., cruise at 75 m.p.h. and climb at 300 ft./min. Its three-gallon,Saei tank gives a duration of ij hr. at full throttle, empty weight is 465 lb.,and passenger load allowance 350 lb. The glider characteristics are indicatedhy a span of no less than 47ft. for an overall length of 23ft. and a height of5ft., so, even allowing for a fairly high aspect ratio, wing-loading would beextremely low, possibly in the region of 4 lb./sq. ft.Another feature is the retractable undercarriage (manually operated), andit would seem that, under reasonably favourable conditions, soaring flightshould be possible, which, doubtless, was the designer's intention. INAUGURATION : Lord Winster f ormally opening Heath Row airport beforeA.V-M. Bennett took off for the first civil flight (reported elsewhere in this issue). Next to the Civil Aviation Minister "at the mike " is A.V-M. Bennett inmufti, and, end but one, Miss M. S. Guthrie, ex-A.T.A. pilot, the first air hostess of British South American Airlines. Carried ForwardI T is good to see the team spirit, whichwas so strong in R.A.F. squadrons during the war, being carried on in apractical way into peace. An excellent example of this is pro-vided by No. 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron—one of the first of the oldAuxiliary Air Force squadrons to meet the Luftwaffe over Britain — whichstarted its own benevolent fund during the war; subscriptions, mainly fromEdinburgh citizens, now exceed ^5,000, and the fund is being administered byrecently appointed trustees. A '' 603 Squadron Association '' isbeing formed right away, but already an advisory committee has been set upby newly demobilised personnel to help other wartime comrades on their returnto civil life, and has already tackled requests from some of the ex-airmen whocannot find homes. That, emphatically, is the right spirit. B.T.H. Progress ^TECHNICAL developments and war--L time products of the British Thom- son-Houston Co., Ltd., set forth in somenotes just issued by the firm include some important contributions to avia-tion. There was, for example, the initialdevelopment work on the Whittle jet engine, and it was a unit built by thisfirm which was sent to the U.S. in 1941 for the General Electric Co. of New Yorkto study and copy. Radar was another sphere in whichthis British firm played an important role, while among their wartime muni-tion output were thousands of bomber parts, • aircraft magnetos, cameras,servo-motors and other electrical equip- ment. At tlie present time work is proceed-ing on the development of gas furbines for land and marine application wheremoderate power is demanded. The School of Aircraft Recognitionhas been absorbed into the School of A.A. Artillery at Manorbier, Tenby,Pembrokeshire, and becomes the Aircraft Recognition Wing there.# # * Mr. C. A. Oakley, B.Sc, M.A.P.Regional Controller (Scotland), will address the Glasgow branch of the RoyalAeronautical Society on Thursday, January 17th, in the Royal TechnicalCollege, Glasgow, at 7.30 p.m., on " History of the Aircraft Industry inScotland." * • •The Imperial Defence College is to be reopened, and the first post-war course,to begin next spring, will be attended by representatives of the three fight-ing Services, the civil defence, the Dominions, and India. Gen. Sir WilliamSlim has been appointed Commandant, and Air Vice-Marshal Sir Hugh P. Lloydwill be Senior Instructor for the air per- sonnel. News in Brief According to Major Cortez F. Enloe,U.S.A.A.F. surgeon who edited the Medical Branch report of the U.S.strategic bombing survey, the fire effects of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki "werenot nearly as bad as the effects of the R.A.F. raids on Hamburg on July 27th,1943." After this triple strike, he said, Hamburg burned out of control for sixweeks with a death roll of more than 40,000. * * * Wing Cdr. Barrie Heath, who hasserved in the R.A.F. throughput the war (he gained the D.F.C. as a Spitfire pilotin the Battle of Britain), has now been released from the Service and has beenappointed to the board of Hobourn Aero Components, Ltd., Coventry.» » • The Manchester office of Geoige Salterand Co., Ltd., has now been re-opened at 131, Corn Exchange Buildings (Tel.:Blackfriars 8551) under the management • of Mr. A. Tonks.
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