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1954
1954 - 2037.PDF
68 FLIGHT GRACIOUS VISITOR: These pleasant photographs, taken during Princess Margaret's recent visit to the factory of Hawker Aircraft (Blackpool) Ltd., show Her Royal Highness with Sir Frank Spriggs and (right) in interested conversation with employees while accompanied by Mr. £. H. Jefferson. FROM ALL QUARTERS . . . Danish and Swedish Hunters NEGOTIATIONS between Hawker Aircraft, Ltd., and the Danish Government for the supply of Hunter jet fighters to the value of £3,000,000 were finally completed on the afternoon of July 6th, and all the aircraft involved should be delivered to Denmark within the next two years. This is not, of course, the first Hunter contract from overseas, for Hawkers already have on their books NATO orders worth $182m (£65m) for Hunters to be built in the United-Kingdom, Holland and Belgium. Less than 24 hours after the announcement of the Danish order came news of a £12-million order from Sweden—the out come of negotiations which have extended over the past six months. Again, deliveries are expected to be spread over two years. The new Scandinavian orders follow Ministry of Supply clearance—on June 24th—for delivery of Hunters to the R.A.F. "Little Farnborough" in Germany FOR the benefit of military and technical representatives of the European Defence Community Interim Commission, an exhibition of British military aircraft was put on at Wahn air field, near Bonn, on July 7th. It was presented by the S.B.A.C. under the sponsorship of Her Majesty's Government, and repre sentatives of the E.D.C. were afforded an opportunity of studying in more detail some of the machines they saw in flight at Farn borough last September, and-which, it was considered, might be of interest to them in their work of planning the equipment of future European defence forces. Spectators numbered about a hundred and included Herr Theodor Blank, head of the German delegation for the' organization of European defence, General Heusinger, andyf group of specialists from the Federal German Defence Officpf Mr. Nigel Birch, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of JDefence, acted as host. Drawn ffp on the tarmac for static exhibition (there was no flying) were examples of the following aircraft: Armstrong Whit- worth (Gloster) Meteor N.F.14; Auster Aiglet Trainer; de Havilland Chipmunk T.10, Vampire Trainer and Venom F.B.I; de Havilland Canada Beaver 2; English Electric Canberra P.R.7; Handley Page Navigational Trainer (Marathon); Hawker Hunter F.l and F.2; Hunting Percival Pembroke C.l and Provost T.l; Saunders-Roe Skeeter; Scottish Aviation Prestwick Pioneer; Short Seamew A.S.I; Vickers-Supermarine Swift F.3; Wesdand Whirlwind. After a display .the guests attended a reception in the officers' mess at R.A.F.Station Wahn. Comet False Alarm ANUMBER of local residents telephoned de Havillands at Hatfield on July 8th saying that they had seen a Comet over Hertfordshire trailing smoke and apparently on fire. The true nature of the "smoke," it transpired, was water ballast which was being jettisoned. The aircraft, a Comet 2, had taken off from Hat field loaded to full all-up weight with water ballast in the course of routine C. of A. tests. Before it could land again the ballast had to be jettisoned to reduce weight. The company later explained that the ballast jettisoning was a routine operation and that the aircraft, piloted by G/C. John Cunningham, was carrying out certification tests entirely uncon nected with investigations into the Comet 1 accidents. These tests, after a lapse of a Jew weeks, are now being continued as part of the normal programme for obtaining a C. of A. for Comet 2s. FIRST OUTING: Taken during the period of initial test flights at Luton, these snaps show the Percival Jet Provost in its bare state. The close-up reveals such details as nosewhetl design, boundary layer bleed in the air intake, and the step provided on top of the intake- When, soon, it re-err.erges, this prototype will be painted and complete with markings. Being the first basic jet trainer to fly—it is powered by an Armstrong Siddeley Viper ASV.5 producing 1,640 lb thrust—the Jet Provost has around interest all over the world.
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