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1951
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FLIGHT, i June 1951 637 Shackletons at Kinloss TAST Tuesday, May 29th, Mr. Aidan Crawley, Under- Secre--•—' tary of State for Air, was to make a dawn sortie from Kinloss, Morayshire, in an Avro Shackleton general-reconnaissance aircraft(four Rolls-Royce Griffon engines). The first Shackleton squadron is now fully operational at Kinloss. Fairey Production Post R. ALAN VINES has been appointed production manager of the Fairey Aviation Co.; in this capacity he will be respon- sible for production at all factories and in particular for putting the Fairey 17 into production. He will be responsible to the general manager, Mr. Richard Fairey. Mr. Vines joined the firm in September, 1934. In February, 1936, he was appointed assistant works manager at Stockport, and in January, 1940, he became works manager of the Fairey Company's Errwood Park "shadow" factory. He returned to Hayes in June, 1944, as production development engineer in charge of experimental aircraft and tooling. In February, 1947, he was appointed deputy chief engineer. Avro CanadaTlight-staff Appointments TO assist in the flight-testing of the C.F.100, Peter R. Cope,who for the past fifteen months has been a test pilot with Armstrong Whitworth at Baginton, Coventry, has transferred to Avro Canada, another member company of the Hawker Siddeley Group. Much of Mr. Cope's test-flying experience has been on Mk 8 and Mk n Meteors, but he has more than fifty aircraft in his logbook and a total of nearly 2,000 hours. He passed through the Empire Test Pilots' School at Cranfield in 1946-7 and, while holding a short-term commission with the R.C.A.F., worked with experimental flight sections at Farnborough. During the war he served with an R.A.F. Mustang squadron. Born in England in 1921, he is married and holds a London B.Sc. Another appointment of a British-born (Edinburgh) pilot is also announced by Avro Canada. Mr. Sydney Howland, who has com- paratively wide experience in the aircraft industry, has taken on the duties of flight analyst and staff pilot. Trained by the R.C.A.F. during the war, and at present a member of the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve, he has some 2,500 hours, including recent experi- ence as co-pilot on the Jetliner. Insurance Exhibitions LAST week, in a reference to two Festival of Britain exhibitionsJ in London, both concerned with insurance, it should have been made clear that the British Insurance Association's con- tribution is to be viewed at the Royal Exchange, while "Two Centuries and a Half of Lloyds"—enabling visitors to see what Lloyds Coffee House looked like and to examine many relics from Lloyds archives—is at Lloyds in Leadenhall Street. Soundness of the Brabazon Conception SPEAKING at last week's annual general meeting of the BristolAeroplane Co., Ltd., Sir William G. Verdon Smith (chair- man) remarked, inter alia, that the publicity which the Brabazon project had attracted had given it an importance out of proportion to its place in the firm's business as a whole, and that it was desirable that the firm should restate its attitude to the project. Whether the project would succeed, he continued, time alone would show. In these circumstances no operator was—nor could reasonably have been—placed under immediate obligation to JuneJune June June June June June June June June June June July June June June June June July JuneJuly JulyJuly July 2.2. 3.6-16. 6-23. 8-I0. 8-15. 9. 9-I0.10. I5-I8.15- I.23. 24.24. 27-28. 30-I. 30-2. 1. 4-11. 7. FORTHCOMING EVENTS R.N. Air Station Anthorn: Navy Day and Air Display. Auster Flying Club: Rally, Rearsby. Auster-Ragosine Homing Trophy, Rearsby. British Plastics Exhibition, Olympia. Royal Tournament, Earls Court. Air Circuit of Sicily. Spanish International Rally. Rally and Race, Fair wood Common Aerodrome, Swansea. Royal Air Forces Association: Annual Conference, Torquay. Lancashire Aero Club: "At Home" (sponsored by A.B.A.C). Royal Danish Aero Club: International Rally. Paris Aero Show. R.Ae.C: Festival of Britain National Air Races, Hatfteld. International Rally, Pisa, Italy. Northern Heights Model Flying Club: Gala Day, Hawker Airfield, Langley. Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences: Annual Summer Meeting, Los Angeles. Cognac International Rally, France. Ae.C: Members' Deauville Rally. International Rally, Savona, Italy. F.A.I. Committee Meetings, Brussels. Aero-Club de Savoie: International Rally, Aix-les-Bains, France. order a fleet of Brabazons or undertake to operate them. The period of experiment was by no means over. It would have been encouraging had operators felt by this time inclined to com- mit themselves; but they had not done so. Nothing had so far occurred, however, to throw doubt on the soundness of the original conception. The ultimate adoption of the type would depend in part on the firm's skill and determination, in part on the courage and vision of potential operators, and in part, perhaps, on the conflicting claims of civil aviation and defence. Discussing other Bristol developments, the chairman said that the Olympus turbojet had made a most promising start, and they hoped to see production in quantities which would make a major Anglo-American contribution to the defence programme of the western nations. Today, said Sir William, even the smallest degree of expansion was a major undertaking and, if a firm was to be successful, the difficulties arising from prevailing conditions of industrial activity demanded new solutions. There were three critical factors—new plant, sufficient materials, increased man-power—and none of these factors was under the company's control. Lockheed Airscrew Brake HFHE high rotational inertia of the turboprop power unit, •*• coupled with the low frictional drag of a purely rotary mechanism, has made it necessary for an airscrew brake to be incorporated in turboprop power installations, particularly those of naval aircraft. The lengthy "run-down" time of a turboprop after landing makes it difficult for the aircraft to be quickly struck down into the hangar, whilst the windmilling of the airscrews in the wind over the deck when the aircraft are parked is an untoward risk for the flight deck crews. To this end, Armstrong Siddeley Motors, Ltd., and the Lock- heed Hydraulic Brake Co., Ltd., have collaborated in the design of an airscrew brake for the Python, Mamba and Double Mamba turboprops. The brakes are of light alloy, and are hydraulically actuated in an essentially similar fashion to the famous Lockheed brakes used on so many cars, but differ from the car brakes in that they are of two-trailing-shoe type and have lin- ings of a material suitable for opera- tion when totally immersed in oil at high temperature. Operation of the brake is tied in with the engine isolator control so that, when the engine is shut down, the air- screw is not only automatically feathered, but the brake is also applied: a stopping time of under 15 seconds is achieved. An accumulator is embodied in the system to serve as a pressure reservoir for keeping the brake "on" in a parked aircraft. It is, however, not unlikely that a positive mechanical lock will be in- corporated as the ultimate means of holding the airscrew stationary. The new Lockheed airscrew brake. EXERCISE OMBRELLE (Continued from page 635) the day's activities. B-50S, as we had already learned first-hand, had operated from England during the morning and were followed at intervals by R.A.F. Mosquitoes and Wellingtons and by C-82 Packets of the U.S.A.F. in Germany. What we did not know was that, after picking up their fighter escort, the Superforts had approached Western Europe from several directions to attack targets in Belgium, France and Holland. Medium bombers (presumably the "Mossies" and "Wimpeys") made diversionary attacks. Weather had been fine over most of the area, though cloud in some areas favoured the bombers. All attacking forma- tions were claimed to have been successfully identified, and with few exceptions the bombers were intercepted and brought to battle. Though it was admitted that the work of the defending forces was "complicated" by low flying attacks on airfields and defence installations, it was asserted that, had anti-aircraft guns been deployed, these might have inflicted heavy casualties. And so the Ombrelle was lowered and furled until 0900 hr on May 24th. To be concluded next week.)
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