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1955
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892 FLIGHT, 16 December 1955 HERE AND THERE B.E.25—a Going Concern THE first run of the Bristol B.E.25 two-spool turboprop, intended for late-model Britannias and the projected Bristol/Con-vair/Canadair 500 m.p.h. airliner, was suc- cessfully completed last week-end. Norwas it a bare engine on test, but a complete powerplant. . Raising the Mach THE Chance Vought Crusader is reportedto have flown last month at a speed of 1,050 m.p.h., at an unspecified altitude.For security reasons, no official confirma- tion of this performance has been givenby the U.S. Navy authorities. Rocket Propulsion Appointment IT was recently announced by the Minis-try of Supply that Mr. J. E. P. Dunning has been appointed chief superintendent,Rocket Propulsion Department, Royal Air- craft Establishment, with effect fromDecember 1st, to succeed Dr. T. P. Hughes. Canadair Expansion ON December 1st the Canadair, Ltd., divi-sion of the General Dynamics Corporation opened their recently extended test anddevelopment installations, which now in- clude a completely new engineering build-ing and a guided-missile facility. The establishment is situated close to the mainplant in Montreal. At present the major commitment of the guided missile engin-eering section is the development of the Velvet Glove, an air-to-air test vehicleoriginally designed by the Canadian Arma- ment Research and Development Estab-lishment at Valcartier. Large numbers of test programmes on the missile are cur-rently in progress in the new laboratories. Structural test demonstrations put on forthe benefit of the many distinguished visi- tors on opening day included the integrity ROTOR SCHOOL: Pupils and instructors at Hamble—(l. to r.) F/L. N. D. Glover, S/LG.Webb (C.F.I.), M.PIt. W. Irving, R. Hazlehurst (instruc- tor), Sgt. W. Booth. Flying the two Hillers are F/L. S. R. Kendal and F/L. W. H. W. Spencer. (See"A.S.T. Helicopter Contract.") of a Sabre tailplane, the aeroelastic be-haviour of a missile fin and the resonance of a missile wing (sonic exciter) and a com-plete missile (electro-magnetic vibrator). There was also evidence of the considerabletest programme now under way on the Canadair CL-28 (Britannia M.R.) and amock-up was exhibited of the cockpit of a proposed side-by-side twin-jet trainer. Javelin Lost WHILE on a test flight from the A. andA.E.E., Boscombe Do"'n, last week, a Gloster Javelin piloted ; v :^/L. A. D.Dick was destroyed in an accident at Row- borough Corner, between Ryde and San-down, Isle of Wight. The pilot baled out and landed unhurt in marshy ground ashort distance away, and was picked up by a Naval helicopter from Lee-on-Solent.He is reported to have been flying at about 45,000ft in company with other air-craft when the Javelin went out of control. A.S.T. Helicopter Contract A "CONSIDERABLE number" of heli-copter pilots are to be trained for the R.A.F. at the new helicopter school of Air ServiceTraining. The Service is sending trainees to the school on three-week courses, whichare followed by advanced training by the manufacturers of the types of helicopter to WILLING STRIKERS: The newest carrier-borne strike squadrons of the Fleet Air Arm are Nos. 830 and 831, now operating from H.M.S. "Peregrine" (R.N.A.S. Ford), where the disbanded 813 and 827 Wyvern Squadrons were commanded by Lt-Cdr. Crossley and Lt-Cdr. Richardson. This picture shows the Commanding Officers of the new squadrons, Lt-Cdr. Stanley Farquhar and Vivian Howard, with officers, C.P.O.s and P.O.s. In the background are some of the squadrons' Westland Wyvern S.4s (Armstrong Siddeley Python). be flown operationally. The initial courseof four R.A.F. pilots has already passed out at A.S.T., and another course is inprogress. Flying training—Hiller 360s are the aircraft employed—averages 20 hr, in-cluding about 8 hr dual and 12 solo. Next year, incidentally, A.S.T. will be celebrat-ing their first 25 years in business. German Air Force Training SEVEN pilots of the West German AirForce, the first to begin military flying again since the war, have reported to theU.S.A.F. base at Landsberg for training as instructors. All are former GermanLuftwaffe pilots. Courageous Rescue AN exceptionally skilful casualty pick-upwas achieved last Monday by a Naval Whirlwind pilot, Lt. A. Hudson, R.N.V.R.He landed on the 36ft x 36ft roof of St. Helen's fort, in Spithead, in order totake off the light-keeper, who was seriously ill. Lt. Hudson achieved the operationsuccessfully, in spite of the fact that a gale was blowing and that his rotor bladeshad only 4ft clearance from a roof-top mast; and from the roof to the sea was a50ft drop. He then flew the sick man to hospital at Newport, I.o.W., landing in thegrounds. A Folland Post WELL known in the aircraft industry formany years, Mr. Derek Brade has joined Folland Aircraft, Ltd., as chief flight de-velopment engineer. He was apprenticed to Armstrong Whitworth in 1930 and waslater employed in the company's design department. From 1941 to 1946 he was amember of the staff of the Director of Technical Development, M.o.S. Mr. Bradethen joined General Aircraft, Ltd., as chief flight development engineer, remaining inthe same post when the company merged with Blackburns. Survey Prince—Strike Aircraft AN air-directed "strike" of valuable de-posits of ore in Norway is the outcome of a contract awarded last year to HuntingGeophysics, Ltd., by Titania A/s, for the aeromagnetic survey of some 300 squaremiles in Norway's south-west. The ob- ject was to discover the location and ex-tent of a titanium ore, ilmenite. For three weeks last year the magnetometer wasflown up and down the area in a Hunting Percival Prince at 500ft and 300ft abovethe rocky, jagged terrain. The aeromag- netic records and other data were sentback to England for interpretation, and a drilling programme drawn up. It is nowlearned that, in the first area thus sur- veyed, the Titania company's diamonddrills have encountered over 100 million tons of good-quality ilmeaite.
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