...SPACEFLIGHT
DEVELOPMENT MICHAEL PHELAN / LONDON
Rutan bids for $10 million X-Prize
Preparation of two-stage design under way in California as Scaled Composites works to win private rocket contest
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...TECHNOLOGY
MARS PROBE
UAV copies
how insects
navigate
An unmanned air vehicle incor
porating information-
processing technology based on
how insects fly and navigate has
been demonstrated to N...
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...HEADLINES
DEFENCE
Air 9000
inquiries clear
probes breach
allegations
Two investigations into alleged
probity breaches on Australia's
Air 9000 military helicopter ratio
nalisation project have...
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...SPACEFLIGHT
EXPLORATION GRAHAM WARWICK / WASHINGTON DC
NASA tells Mars Spirit to
head for hills via crater
Agency analyses touchdown to plan for landing of second rover on Red Planet this Sunday
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...HEADLINES
SPACEFLIGHT
FAA issues
suborbital
licence
Scaled Composites has been
issued with the US Federal
Aviation Administration's first
licence to perform manned sub
orbital rocket flights,...
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...697
WHITE
KNIGHT
AND a valiant knight forsooth; even a knight at arms
alone, in a place where no birds sing; but assuredly not
one palely loitering . . .
Our V-bombers are now being turned out with a
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...It PARIS SHOW REPORT
AIR TRANSPORT
Turboprop tussle for Oantas deal
Australian airline launches contest to replace Bombardier Dash 8s but ATR admits race could be skewed
Turboprop manufacturers ar...
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...40 FLIGHT. JULY 2, 1936.
MODELS
By M. R. KNIGHT
Power and Speed
WE illustrate this month the low-wing monoplane Hornet with which Mr.
H. E. White, B.Sc, of the Northern Heights
Model Flying Club...
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...CONGRATULATIONS
ON A
JOB WELL DONE
THE
RECRUITMENT
AWARDS
£
TMEN g
PPO
*
86
The Winners of the Recruitment Ad A
FLIGHT
.wards were announced and 1 honoured at a s
held at the Grosvenor H...
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...FLIGHT, 28 November 1958 825
KINALOG . . .
aircraft attitude and position symbols on the screen in the mannershown in the drawing.
The generation of the Kinalog picture seems to require straight-forwa...
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...HEADLINES
SPACEFLIGHT
Rutan set for
suborbital
attempt
Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites
plans to attempt the first non
government spaceflight on 26
June with a suborbital flight of its
privatel...
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...158 FLIGHT International, 23 July 1964
Conceived at the Royal Aircraft
Establishment, and developed and
constructed by a team led by the Saunders-
Roe Division of Westland Aircraft and
Bristol Siddele...
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...minute, remaining at
this height for quarter
of an hour. After
filling up, he repeated
this performance. In
evening, up half hour,
finishing with spiral
volplane from 1,000ft.
Monday, early
m...
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...JkS THE WORK of land reclamation in the Ijsselmeer (once
M\ better known as the Zuider Zee) area of Holland
progresses, so more aircraft which met their end
in these water wastes during the 1939-19...
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...SPACEFLIGHT
MANNED SYSTEMS GRAHAM WARWICK / WASHINGTON DC
NASA to accelerate space plane
Capsule or lifting body would meet crew rescue vehicle requirements, but modifying launch facilities will be...
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...FLIGHT, 4 April 1958 459
1918 1958
A.W. DAY FIGHTERS: Armstrong
Whitworth Siskin (1924-1931)
A.W. NIGHT FIGHTERS: Armstrong
Whitworth (Gioster) Meteor N.F. (1951—)
DARK LADIES: Vickers Virginia (1924-...
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...458 FLIGHT. NOVEMBER 4, 1937
MODEL AIRCRAFT
Machines and Materials
on Exhibition : A Beau
tifully Constructed Non-
scale Model
By M. R. KNIGHT
On Show
THE Society of Model Aero nautical Enginee...
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...ADVE5 USING SUPPLEMENT mm
Composite newcomers
THIS YEAR'S NBAA show, held in Dallas
during October, saw the introduction of
two new turboprops.The starlets are, of
course, Beech's Starship 1 and ...
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...TECHNICAL: GENERAL AVIATION
Pinguino trainer
readied for clubs
General Avia of Milan is about to start demonstrating a new
primary and aerobatic trainer to
flying clubs. The firm says that
initi...
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...JULY 14. J938- FLIGHT. 49-
MODELS
Wakefield Selection : Scale-
model Performance : Tail-less
Record : Airflow Study
By M. R. KNIGHT
In the heading picture is seen Mr. S. R. Crow's
flying scale-mo...
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