Undersea Aircraft?
In the course of a broadcast discussion in Washington, the famous explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins, who has recently been investigating polar defence problems with Col. Bernt Blachen, stated that submarines could carry aircraft under the Arctic ice to within 900 miles of all principal Russian targets. The idea is not quite so fantastic as it sounds: over 20 years ago, H.M. submarine M.2 carried a small biplane, the Parnall Peto, in a watertight deck-hangar.
Hypothesis
A statement in London last week, attributed to Viscount Hinchingbrooke makes somewhat strange reading, although on consideration facts could scarcely be otherwise. It said that if war broke out between the United States and the Communists, Britain could control the use of American bombers based in this country for so long as she was not involved in the struggle. We should have an absolute right to insist that no American warplane taking off from this country would be allowed to return to its base here - if, indeed, it was allowed to take off at all. Obviously, the case is what would be termed an extremely hypothetical one.
Radar Approach Aid
Last Monday, February 4th, at Southend Airport, a convincing demonstration was given of the new simplified radar approach system developed by E.K. Cole Ltd. In effect a one-man G.C.A. system, the equipment combines a 3 cm radar installation with a V.H.F-D/F, receiver, the radar dish being mounted on a rotatable shaft in common with the D.F. aerial, so that the axis of the beam coincides with the null direction of the D.F. aerial. The radar dish is independently controllable in elevation, but is permanently coupled to the D.F. aerial in azimuth. A general description of the system will be included in a forthcoming issue.
Source: Flight International
