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1955
1955 - 0858.PDF
856 FLIGHT FROM ALL QUARTERS Visits by King Hussein •THE recent Royal Navy exercise, Operation "Shop Window"•*• was attended last Monday by King Hussein of Jordan. He flew from Northolt to the Fleet Air Arm base at Lee-on-Solent,and from there went by helicopter to the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Centaur in the Channel. King Hussein watched demonstrationsby Avengers and Sea Hawks, an "attack" by four fast patrol boats, and diving by a submarine. Later in the day he visited the Folland works, arriving byhelicopter. He was received by Mr. W. 'A. W. Petter, Folland managing director and chief engineer. King Hussein was shownthe nearly completed Gnat prototype, spent some time in the mock-up department, and went through the main assembly shopsbefore taking tea with Folland directors and executives. Among Folland officials who were introduced were Mr. N.Egan, director and secretary, Mr. D. B. Smith, Mr. Petter's per- sonal executive, S/L. E. A. Tennant, chief test pilot, Mr. D.Walker, experimental manager, Mr. E. W. Taylor, works manager, G/C. S. O. Tudor, senior liaison officer, and Mr. A. E. Lane,assistant secretary. The royal party was accompanied by Rear-Admiral DurnfordSlater and W/C. Dalgleish. During the visit S/L. "Dick" Whit- tington demonstrated the Midge. ,. At Geneva's Show TTAWKER Hunters, English Electric Canberras and a Hunting-*•-*• Percival Provost will be representing the R.A.F. at the international air display to take place at Cointrin Airport, Geneva,tomorrow and Sunday, June 25th and 26th, under the auspices of the Swiss Aero Club and Swiss Air Force Association. TheHunters—a team of four and an individual machine—will be from No. 54 Squadron, stationed at R.A.F. Odiham; the fourCanberras from No. 35 Squadron, R.A.F. Marham; and the Provost from No. 6 F.T.S. Ternhill. The Hunters and theCanberras were to be seen by King Hussein of Jordan when he visited R.A.F. Station Biggin Hill last Tuesday. Othercountries to be represented at Geneva will be Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and America. TheU.S.A.F. will be represented by the Skyblazers, on their North American F-86F Sabres. Geneva radio reported last week that the organizers of theshow have received a letter from the Soviet Union saying that the U.S.S.R. will take part, but, owing to shortness of time,will not be able to exhibit any of the early Russian aircraft in the "fifty years of aviation" section being staged in Geneva fromJune 24th to July 17th. George Edwards to Vickers Board -:I T is announced that Mr. G. R. Edwards, C.B.E., B.Sc,F.R.Ae.S., A.M.I.Struct.E., has joined the Board of Vickers, Ltd. Mr. Edwards is managing director of the Aircraft Divisionof Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd., which will be taken over by Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd., on July 1st, 1955, under thereorganization plan announced early this year. Take-over of the three subsidiary companies, covering aircraft, engineering andshipbuilding, will be back-dated to January 1st, 1955, but their directorships are effective from July 1st. In the case of Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft), Ltd., the directors are: Maj-Gen. C. A. L. Dunphie (chairman) and Messrs. G. R. Edwards (managing),J. Anderson, T. Gammon, E. J. Waddington and R. P. H. Yapp. Before being appointed to his present position, Mr. Edwards TOPIC VISCOUNT?: Was the recent K.L.M. order the subject of Prince Bernhard's conversation on the Vickers-Armstrongs' stand at Paris? On the Prince's left is M. Heurteux, President of the U.S.I.A., and on the right of the picture Jack Rasmussen. . was, as chief designer, the head of the team responsible for theViking, Valetta, Varsity, Viscount and Valiant aircraft. His last design before leaving the chief designer's chair was that of theVickers 1000 four-jet transport, already ordered for the R.A.F., the prototype of which is now under construction. Mr. Edwards,who is 46, is a B.Sc. of London University; he joined Vickers- Armstrongs at Weybridge in 1935, when he was 27. J. F. Arnold T regret to record the death, in a flying accident at Luton,of Mr. Joseph Frederick Arnold, the well-known Hunting I Percival test pilot. The accident took place on Friday last, June17th, after Mr. Arnold and Major Mahdi Salih, of the Iraqi Air Force had taken off in a Jet Provost for a local flight from Luton.Both pilots were killed. Born on December 22nd, 1910, Joe Arnold was a civil flyinginstructor prior to the 1939-45 war. During the war he served in the R.A.F. as a flying instructor and with Transport Command;on the North Atlantic service. From 1945 to 1948 he was manager and C.F.I, of the Luton Flying Club, and manager of the Hunt-ing Flying Club: in 1948 he became a test pilot with the Percival;i company. He had some 5,600 flying hours in his logbook. Shell Buy Helicopters : ^ THE third civil S-55 order to be received within a month byWestland Aircraft, Ltd., has been placed by the Royal Dutch Shell Group, who will use the helicopters to facilitate offshore oil-.;drilling operations in the Persian Gulf. The Shell order brings^ to 19 the total number of S-55s ordered for commercial use since,production of the type began at Yeovil; other recent customers are Bahamas Helicopter, Ltd., and B.E.A. Each of the Shell helicopters will be equipped to carry eightpassengers and two crew, and will be fitted with floats for emer- gency alightings on the sea. The first is scheduled for delivery:in August and the second in October. It is expected that long-, range tanks will be fitted for the ferry flight to the base of opera-tions at Doha. The S-55s will be operated on Shell's behalf by Bristow Heli-copters, Ltd., whose managing director recently returned from the Antarctic with a fleet of four similar helicopters after takingpart in last season's whaling expedition. The Persian Gulf opera- THREEOFTENdeHavil- land Sea Devons which have been delivered in twos and threes to the Royal Navy over the past month or two are seen before departure from Broughton.
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