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Aviation History
1955
1955 - 0795.PDF
Napier Eland. Napier Oryx. Rolls-Royce Awn 521. Sapphire. A 9.5 h.p. 208v A.C. motor, designed and manufac-tured by Rotol, will be shown coupled to a British Messier hydraulic pump Type 4814 Mk 11. British Messier undercarriageunits on exhibition will be those for the Folland Gnat and Short Seamew. A model will demonstrate powered flying controls.Rotol, Ltd., Cheltenham Road, Gloucester. Saunders-Roe This company will have no stand in the staticexhibition but have entered the Skeeter Mk 6 light helicopter for demonstration and display in the open air. The Skeeter 6is powered by a de Havilland Gipsy Major 30 engine, weighs 2,200 lb all-up, and has side-by-side seating with dual control.Duties coming within its scope are listed as: personal transport; training; air mail; crop spraying; traffic control; survey work;photographic reconnaissance; airborne inspection of power- and pipe-lines; forest fire patrol; radar calibration; and air observa-tion. Saunders-Roe, Ltd., (Helicopter Division), Osborne, East Cowes, Isle of Wight. Short and Harland (Stand No. 17) A Seamew A.S.I lightanti-submarine aircraft, as now in production for the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy, will take part in the flying displayand will be featured on the company's stand. This aircraft is notable for its cheapness, lightness, simplicity and easy handling.It is powered with an Armstrong Siddeley Mamba and the under- carriage is fixed. No gun armament is incorporated in the anti-submarine version, but this could be supplied were the machine to be used for second class warfare, e.g., tribal control. As ananti-submarine machine the Seamew can carry one heavy, and still-secret, store in the bomb bay in addition to four sonobuoys,and four rocket projectiles and eight marine markers under the wings. Another representative load is two depth charges and fivesonobuoys in the bomb bay, and four R.P.s and eight marine markers beneath the wings. Additionally, Short's electronic analogue computer will beon view. Short Brothers and Harland, Ltd., Queen's Island, Belfast, N. Ireland. Standard Telephones and Cables (Stand No. 57B) Anentirely new piece of equipment, exhibited for the first time, will be the SR.32, an airborne' navigational and landing aid,receiving VOR, ILS and marker-beacon information. It is capable of receiving the following frequencies: (a) any one of100 channels in the I.C.A.O. navigational frequency band 108- 117.9 Mc/s; (b) any 20 spot frequencies in the I.C.A.O.navigational frequency band 329.6-335 Mc/s allocated for the glide path portion of the ILS system; (c) 75 Mc/s, the frequency Saunders-Roe Skeeter. 793 Rolls-Royce Soar. Rolls-Royce Dart Short Seamew AS.1. allocated for the marker beacon. The SR.32 comprises threemain units—the localizer/VOR receiver, the glide path and marker receiver, and the power supply—and a control unit.Making its first appearance at Paris will be the STR.20 560/623- channel VHF airborne communication equipment, specificallydesigned for military use as a successor to the STR.9X, of which more than 20,000 are in service with some 23 of the world'sair forces. Other items on view will be the STR.18C. 100-channel pilot-operated high-power HF RT airborne com-munication equipment, STR.18B-2 24-channel pilot-operated high-power HF RT airborne communication equipment,STR.12D 140-channel VHF airborne communication equip- ment, STR.30B frequency modulated radio altimeter, A.2208miniature display unit for cathode-ray direction finders, and radio interference suppressors. Standard Telephones and Cables,Ltd., 10 Essex Street, Strand, London, W.C.2. Thermionic Products (Stand No. 102) Together with theirFrench licensees, Compagnie des Compteurs, of Montrouge, this company will show multi-channel airport recorders Mks 2and 6 and a range of quartz crystal units manufactured by their associate company, the Brush Crystal Co. The French licenseeswill show a multi-channel recorder made under licence in France, and there will be R.A.N.A. radio navigation equipmentand a cloud telemetering system. Thermionic Products, Ltd., Hythe, Southampton. Vickers-Armstrongs (Stand No. 64) There is a possibilitythat an Air France Viscount will make an appearance, but other than this, Vickers-Armstrongs aircraft will be representedonly by models—of the Valiant four-Avon bomber, the Vis- count, the V-1000 four-Conway transport and the Type 525fighter. The last-named is the precursor of the N.I 13 twin- Avon fighter for the Royal Navy. Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd.,Vickers House, Broadway, London, S.W.I. Henry Wiggin (Stand No. 25) A variety of gas turbinecomponents made in the Nimonic series of alloys by French and British manufacturers will be shown by this company. Thecomponents will include turbine discs and blades, flame tubes, rings and an afterburner assembly. Also on display will beheat-insulating blankets encased in Inconel foil, and an air intake provided with an electrothermal de-icing system, embody-ing Brightray S and Ferry electrical resistance alloys. For the first time the company's technical periodical Wiggin NickelAlloys, will be available in French. Henry Wiggin and Co., Ltd., Wiggin Street, Birmingham 16. Wickers-Armstrongs Viscount.
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