PLANE NAMES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 16, 20 January 1944, Page 4

PLANE NAMES

STANDARDISATION AIM

Rec. 12.30 p.m. RUGBY, Jan. 19.! To avoid confusion, Allied aircraft produced in future will be largely standardised. This is the work of a sub-committee of a joint aircraft committee on which the British and American military and naval services hold membership. Names will be assigned only to types which have reached the production stage and those already existing m considerable numbers. Each basic model will retain the name originally assigned. For instance, Airacobras will be P39, A, B. C, and D. The keynote of new names will be simplicity with meaning. Thus, fighters will have names indicating speed, manoeuvrability;, fighting characterisI tics, or aggressiveness. The bombers' names will indicate size, weight, power, range, or destructive characteristics. Patrol types will use seafaring terms. —8.0. W.

WARNING SIGNALS

NORMANDALE CROSSING

The Automobile Association (Wellington) reports that after numerous interviews with the various authorities concerned the Railway Department has decided to install a comprehensive! system of warning lights to serve the i four approaches to the Normandale railway crossing. There will be two sets of lights facing along the Western Hutt Road (north and south), one facing along Parliament Street, and one facing the Normandale Road. This will ensure adequate warning to traffic approaching the crossing from all directions. In addition, the Lower Hutt City Council is proceeding immediately iwith the sealing of the crossing, and the association has requested the council to erect also white approach barriers as a guide to traffic, particularly at night. I Another improvement in this locality is the completion of the sealing between Petone and Normandale.