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1947
1947 - 1973.PDF
NOVEMBER 13TH, 1947 FLIGHT 543 THE BLOSSOMING FORTH : An air unit, of which Mrs. F. G. Miles is County Officer, has been formed by the Berk- shire branch of the St. John Ambu- lance Brigade. The unit has 20 members, all with flying experience, and a Miles Aerovan is used as an air ambulance. Kenward Memorial FundA S a memorial to the late Sir Harold Kenward, a director of Dunlops, a research fellowship in industrial administration is to be founded at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. The trustees are Sir Miles Thomas, Sir George Beharrell, Sir Reginald' Rootes, Mr. C. E. Wallis and Mr. K. C. Johnson-' Davies. An appeal for ^25,000 to endow the memorial is being made. Approved AgencyO FFICIAL confirmation has been r,e- ceived that the Royal Air Forces' Association has been appointed an ap- proved employment agency under the terms of the Control of Engagements Order, 1947. Over 5,000 officers, airmen and airwomen have been found jobs by the Association. High-speed Tunnel IT is reported that a new wind tunnelnow under construction at the Tech- nical Institute in California—presumablythe California Institute of Technology at Pasadena—will give air speeds of 3,600m.p.h. Although there is no intrinsic reason why this should not be done, thespeed is so very high that we wonder whether a typographical error has notoccurred in the report. In any event, if the power input to the driving fan isto be kept within reasonable bounds, for a speed of this order the tunnel dimen-sions would need to be so small that the real value of any results obtained mightbe questionable. • : Interplanetary FlightR OCKET propulsion and inter-planetary flight is to be the subject of a talk by Mr. A. V. Cleaver at theNovember meeting of the Aircraft Recognition Society, to be held in thelibrary of the Royal Aeronautical —Society, 4, Hamilton Place, London,W.i, on November 19th at 6.30 p.m. The meeting will be open, and visitorswill be welcomed. Mr. Cleaver is a member of the Councily' of t,he British Interplanetary Society. Arctic Film PHOTOGRAPHED in part from a fly--*• ing boat, an interesting film of the arctic zone of Norway will be releasedin February by Gaumont-British Film Distributors. The cameraman responsibleis Mr. Sydney Bonnett, who will be remembered for his work in photograph-ing the flying expedition to Mount Everest in 1933. The film, which is apictorial survey of Norway, starts at Stavanger, traverses Bergen and Oslo,moves northwards via Trondbeim to Tromso and onwards to Kirkenes. The Chinook ON display at the Canadian NationalExhibition, held at Toronto this year, was a full-scale mock-up of the Avro Chinook, an axial-flow gas turbine manufactured by A. V. Roe Canada Ltd., and the first jet engine to be designed, AIR-BRAKING AND DRAG-TURNING: The tri-motor Northrop N-23 Pioneer transport employs full-span flaps—the ailerons drooping for this duty—in addition to supplementary retractable surfaces above the ailerons which act as air-brake/spoilers. These can be used independently for drag-turning moment, or simultaneously for aerodynamic braking. The device is referred to in Capt. R. Lucien's lecture, which is reported on pages 554-556. developed and manufactured entirelywithin the borders of Canada. Also displayed was a model of the AvroCanada C-102, a projected transport, for which orders have been placed for Rolls-Royce gas turbines. Reports from Canada state that the Chinook has sixcombustion chambers, a 9-stage axial- flow compressor and single-stage turbine.The diameter is 32m, length 125m, and weight 1,2501b. Thrust is given as 2,5901b. Busy in India TY4.KOTAS and Yorks of the R.A.F.*-J have continued their '' mercy '' flights by carrying, at the request of theIndian and Pakistan Governments, refugees, personnel vital to public ser-vices and British families. Over 20,000 passengers were carried between August15th and October 27th. The two trans- port squadrons of Dakotas loaned to thetwo Governments flew 5,926 hours and three Transport Command Yorks sentfrom England flew 294 hours, all aircraft flying between them a distance of over amillion miles. News in BriefW E regret to record the death of AirCommodore Hugh Leedham, who field the post of Director of Radio Pro-duction at the M.A.P. from 1939-43, and later became Director of Radio Research.On retirement he was appointed Manag- ing Director of Ericsson Telephones.* * # The possibilities of transpolar flying arebeing investigated in America, where military Superfortresses have flown morethan 5,000 hours over the Arctic regions. , . . Ten passenger coaches were recentlyilown in a Bristol Freighter in a series of twice-daily flights from Melbourne toLaunceston, Australia. On each trip one coach 22ft in length and weighing6,ooolb was carried, plus an additional i,ooolb of freight. Transport chargestor each amounted to approximately £60. • * * A Viking of the Contract CharterDivision of Airwork, Limited, recently Hew Sir Robert Howe, K.C.M.G., to theSudan to take up his new appointment as Governor-General. The trip waspart of the Sudan Government Leave Service, which is run on an ad hoc basisfor Sudan Government officials by Air- work, Limited.
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