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542 FLIGHT FROM ALL QUARTERS . . . New Folland Directors TT is announced that Mr. Christopher E. Blunt and Mr. John A.•*- Grace have been elected to the board of directors of Folland Aircraft, Ltd., makers of the Gnat light fighter. Mr. Blunt is adirector of a number of companies, including Philip Hill, Higgin- son and Co., Ltd. Mr. Grace joined Follands as its commercialmanager early this year. Vickers-Armstrongs Special Directorships HPHE appointment of three new special directors was*• announced last week by Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft), Ltd. The three are: Mr. G. R. Bryce, chief test pilot of the company;Mr. A. Greenwood, assistant general manager (service); and Maj. P. L. Teed, deputy chief of aeronautical research anddevelopment. "Jock" Bryce, who is 34 years of age, was commissioned in theR.A.F. in 1939, shortly after leaving Glasgow High School. He joined Vickers-Armstrongs in 1946 and was appointed chief testpilot at Weybridge in 1951. His Service career included duty in Fighter, Coastal and Transport Commands during the war, andhe was later a pilot in the King's Flight. Mr. Bryce, who has flown 45 types of aircraft and has over5,000 hours in his log-book, flew with the late Capt. "Mutt" Summers on the first flight of the prototype Valiant, and has beenin charge of all the main development work on this aircraft and on the Viscount.Allen Greenwood, who is 38, was educated at Cheltenham and the College of Aeronautical Engineering. In addition to hispost with the parent company he is an executive vice-president of Vickers-Armstrongs Incorporated, the American subsidiary.He joined the experimental department of Vickers-Armstrongs at Weybridge in 1939, and was flight test engineer on prototypeaircraft, including the pressurized Wellington Mks V and VI. He joined the Fleet Air Arm and served until 1946, during whichtime his appointments included posts in the Admiralty Delega- tion, Washington, and the Department of Aircraft Maintenanceand Repair. He further served as a pilot in 1832 (R.N.V.R.) Air Squadron until 1950. Mr. Greenwood re-joined Vickers-Armstrongs in 1946 andlater became personal technical assistant to the chief designer at Weybridge, who was then Mr. George Edwards. In 1953 hewas appointed Service Manager (Weybridge) and took over his present post in 1954. He is responsible for the after-sales serviceof all Vickers aircraft, civil and military. Maj. Philip Teed, who was educated at Dulwich, the ImperialCollege of Science, and the Inns of-Court (he is a barrister), is deputy chief of aeronautical research and development, Vickers-Armstrongs—the department of which Dr. Barnes Wallis is thehead. Maj. Teed joined theorganization as long ago as 1924, after previously serving in theR.N.A.S. and the R.A.F. He is an expert on the chemistry andphysics of materials and is the author of a number of publica-tions on the subject. This year he delivered the Roya\ Society CENTRE OF INTEREST: Mr. Stanley Hitler, Jr., and his vice-president, Mr. A. J. McK. Chadwick, discuss a rotor head with Raoul Hafner (Bristol helicopter chief designer) during a visit which the youthful American manufacturer—he is 31 years old—paid recently to the Bristol works. On the right is Mr. Colin Cooper, of Helicopter Sales, Ltd. Hunting Expedition T"HE remaining preparations are now being completed for Hunt--"• ing Aerosurveys' expedition to Grahamland. An aerial survey of this peninsula on the Antarctic continent has been ordered bythe Government on behalf of the Falkland Islands Dependencies in which Grahamland lies. The expedition's ship, the 900-ton Oluf Sven, is scheduled toleave London in mid-October, carrying the main party. She has been at a yard on Tyneside, where the necessary modificationshave been carried out, including the fitting of a helicopter landing deck and extra accommodation. Meanwhile, individual membersof the party have been doing special training here and in Canada, whence the two Canso amphibians will leave in November to meetthe ship at the Deception Island base. One of the most interesting jobs in the expedition will be under-taken by a team of four surveyors responsible for fixing the ground control for the aerial photography—an essential preliminary to themapping subsequently to be done. One of the chief problems which they have to face are the icecliffs which bar the way to the interior. The main function of the expedition's Westland Dragonfly helicopter will be to carrythe surveying parties, in groups of two, to their positions. These points will mainly be decided by astro fixes. In view of the shorthours of darkness of the Antarctic summer, this will entail several nights away from the ship, and the Dragonfly will therefore dropthe surveyors late in ihe evening and pick them up perhaps two or three days later, on receipt of a message sent on their V.H.F.portable sets. Mr. Edmund Sayers \X7E learn with regret of the death, on September 20th, of Mr.* » Edmund Sayers who, until he retired in January, 1953, was manager of the B.T.H. aero equipment sales department. He hadcompleted 48 years' service with the company. In his early days with B.T.H. he had been concerned with salesof meters and other instruments. When, at the outbreak of the 1914-1& -war, it was decided to concentrate the resources of the "Fatigue o^ lAetdls. Ic^e \s acouncil member and vice-presi- dent of the Institute of Metals. Messrs. Bryce and (below, left and right) Greenwood and Teed. lot aucrah, Mr. Sayers was caned on to taVe a share in the work,both in the sales department at Coventry and in the development laboratory, where he assisted with new magneto designs. After thewar he was primarily concerned with sales of both aircraft and car equipment. In the aircraft industry Mr. Sayers was particularly well known,being held in high esteem for his soundness of judgment and knowledge of aircraft electrical equipment. He was selected torepresent aircraft accessory manufacturers when, at the invitation of the American industry, a party of British aircraft executivesvisited establishments in the U.S.A. and Canada in 1951. He was a council-member of the S.B.A.C, a member of its sales andexport committee, and deputy chairman of its accessories committee. He was a Freeman of the City of London, and aLiveryman of the Worshipful Company of Coachmakers and Coach Harness Makers. Mr. Sayers leaves a widow and a son. Godfrey-FairchildA N agreement has been announced between Sir George Godfrey• and Partners, Ltd., of Hanworth, Middlesex, and the Stratos Division (Long Island, N.Y.) of the Fairchild Engine and AirplaneCorporation; both companies are well known as designers and ..-, manufacturers of aircraft pressurizing and air conditioning equip-ment. The agreement, it is stated, provides for the exchange ot ideas and techniques as well as making available to BntiSfland American aviation the products of both organizations.
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