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1956
1956 - 0236.PDF
234 FLIGHT, 2 March HERE AND THERE Export Record JANUARY aircraft exports from GreatBritain totalled £7,117,924. This, the highest monthly figure ever recorded, is anincrease of £2,714,986 over the total for January last year. The Little One : i THE Soviet aircraft industry is nowproducing a "triphibian" two-seater heli- copter called Malyutka (the little one) of speeds up to 120 km/hr AERONAUTICS AND ART. Standing before the striking murals on the walls of Mexico City's is given as 2,300 metres and fuel Ministry of Communications building is the Bristol Sycamore after its 2J00-mile fligHt from Winnipeg. After demonstrations before senior government and Service officials the helicopter left for a tour of Mexican cities. consumption "12 kg per 100 km". Dornier Back in Business - THE West German Ministry of Defenceis reported to have ordered no fewer than 428 Do27 single-engined reconnaissance,liaison and communication aircraft for army use. An order is already said tobe in prospect for a jet-propelled recon- naissance aircraft for the new GermanAir Force. Whirlwinds for Fison Airwork EACH equipped with eight lightweightpassenger seats and dual controls, two Westland Whirlwind helicopters havebeen bought by Fison Airwork, Ltd., of Bourne, Cambridge. Initially they will beoperated in Nigeria under charter from the Shell D'Arcy Petroleum DevelopmentCompany, in connection with survey and exploratory activities. Delivery of thesemachines brings Fison Airwork's fleet of helicopters up to ten. A Second F.D.2 LAST week the Fairey Aviation Companyannounced that a second Delta 2 advanced- research aircraft made its first flight onFebruary 15th. Powered, like its stable- mate, by a Rolls-Royce Avon (presumablywith afterburner) the second aircraft "com- fortably exceeded" the speed of sound dur-ing its 25-minute flight; the airfield was Boscombe Down and the pilot Peter Twiss. Research Philosophy THE subject of the Ninth Louis BleriotLecture, to be held in the Hall of La Societe" des Anciens Eleves des Ecolesd'Arts et Metiers, Paris, next Wednesday, March 7th, is A Philosophy of Aero-nautical Research. The lecturer will be Mr. E. T. Jones, C.B., O.B.E., M.Eng.,F.R.Ae.S., president-elect of the Royal SINISTER NOCTURNE: Reminiscent of the imagined scenes in the Qatermass stories, prepara- tions are made for firing a rocket on the U.S. Army's new static-test stand at Redstone, Alabama. The missile is the Redstone, a V.2 derivative, and is considered as a prototype for the new Army INavy medium-range (l^OO-mile) weapon. Aeronautical Society. The annual LouisBleriot Lecture is sponsored jointly by the Society and the Association Francaise desIngenieurs et Techniriens de l'Aero- nautique (A.F.I.T.A.), and is givenalternately by a Frenchman in England and by an Englishman in France. £285,700 for Sarah A CONTRACT amounting to $800,000for Sarah survivor search and homing equipment has been placed by the RoyalCanadian Air Force with Ultra Electric, Ltd. Weight is about 31 lb and a signalis transmitted over a radius of 70 miles for up to 20 hr. Holland's Helicopter Show AN air show devoted solely to helicoptersis planned in Holland for June 16th and 17th at Zestienhoyen airfield, near Rotter-dam. The organizers are the Royal Aero Club of the Netherlands and the Rotter-dam Helicopter Syndicate. The Cairo Canberra OFFICIAL figures for the Canberra B.8'sLondon-Cairo flight on February 16th, announced last week by the Royal AeroClub, are as follows: Time from city centre to city centre, 3 hr 57 min 18.9 sec;distance, 2,182.6 miles; average speed, 551.8 m.p.h. The aircraft was poweredwith Napier-built Rolls-Royce engines, and Napiers say that their contract forthese engines is in its final stage; their Netherton factory is now going over toEland production. Closer Link ANNOUNCEMENT was made last weekof strengthened association between Air Trainers, Ltd., of Aylesbury, Bucks, andLink Aviation Inc., of Binghampton, N.Y. Following a share transaction, the Ameri-can firm now owns just over 50 per cent of the issued capital of the English com-pany; and Mr. Allan Williford, president of Link Aviation, has joined Air Trainers'Board. It is also announced that Mr. W. Makinson, formerly Superintendent ofthe Blind Landing Experimental Unit, Martlesham Heath, and now with theMinistry of Defence, is to join the Board next month.
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