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1957
1957 - 0093.PDF
18 January 1957 The sprayed metal ele- ments in the Napier Spray- mat fitted to the Fokker Friendship (see text) are shown, left, being checked for uniformity. Superslumber - Sleeperseat —the Microcell seat newly ordered by B.O.A.C. to their "Slumberette" speci- fication. It is light, 21in wide and adjustable over a range of angles. Pairs of seats form a double berth. PUTTING ON THE HEAT AMONG the satisfying quantity of British equipment on the• Fokker Friendship is Napier's electrical anti-icing "Spray- mat." Although on the prototype aircraft Napier's ice-protectioncontribution was limited to the alternator cooling-air intakes, the second prototype will rely on Spraymat de-icing for the completetail unit and sections of the wing leading edges—this involves the alternator cooling intakes as before, and the air intakes to thecombustion heater units. Two alternative de-icing systems are offered for the Friendship;the standard arrangement provides inflatable rubber overshoes on the leading edges; the optional system is hot-air thermal de-icingfor the wings and cyclic electro-thermal de-icing on the tail unit. The electro-thermal system, which is to be a Napier design,includes ancillary equipment manufactured by Rotax, Rolls- Royce, Rotol and Teddington Controls. It has yet to be flown;the first series of flight tests will take place towards the end of the year, when Napier and Fokker technicians will co-operate toobtain official clearance of the system in the second prototype. The Spraymat (a photograph of which appears above) consists of a series of flame-sprayed metal elements embedded betweenlayers of insulating material. In most cases the base insulation acts as an adhesive to secure the heater to the structural com-ponent, but the Friendship is particularly suited to Spraymat application, as the tail surface's leading edges are constructed frompolyester-resin-reinforced glasscloth material, and the base insula- tion layer is no longer necessary. JAPANESE YEN FOR DOUGLAS EQUIPMENT 'T'HE Export-Import bank have credited Douglas with $24.2mA to assist their sale of DC-7Cs and DC-8s to Japan Air Lines, who have four aircraft of each type on order—the DC-7Cs fordelivery this year and in 1958 and the DC-8s for delivery in 1960 and 1961. The financial arrangements for Japan's Douglas ordersstipulate that 25 per cent of the purchase price ($29m for the jets, and about $13.5m for the DC-7Cs) must be provided as a downpayment by the buyer and a further 25 per cent as participation by the supplier. The credit to Douglas for the sale of DC-8s is forseven years, repayable from 1960, and for the DC-7Cs five years, repayable in instalments from 1958. BREVITIES TORD DOUGLAS OF KIRTLESIDE has been reappointed-*—' chairman of British European Airways for a further period of three years from March 14, 1957. Lord Douglas, who is alsodeputy chairman of Aer Lingus and Alitalia, and a member of the A.R.B., the Institute of Transport and President of I.A.T.A., hasbeen chairman of B.E.A. since 1949. * * * Qantas introduced Lockheed Super Constellations on theirweekly Hong Kong - Sydney service on January 6. * * * The first prototype Fokker Friendship has flown 325 hoursbetween its maiden flight on November 24, 1955, and the end of 1956. * * * B.K.S. have been granted permission to operate a passengerair service from Newcastle to Dublin. The company expect to carry a substantial holiday traffic.* * * The C.A.A. have borrowed two F-80Cs and a T-33 from theU.S.A.F. for training their key aviation inspectors and flight-test engineers. * * * Last Friday, January 11, the first Britannia 312, G-AOVA, madein endurance flight of 13 hours from Filton, during which it rovered over 4,300 miles.* * * Hong Kong Airways have been granted temporary permission >y the Philippine Civil Aeronautics Administration to operate >etween Manila and the Crown Colony. They will start a Viscount ervice on February 25. * * * General Aldo Urbani, the new president of L.A.I., has said thathe airline—which, he added, intends to merge with Alitalia— opes to compete with other companies' transatlantic services bymrchasing jet airliners. * * * A big increase in vehicle, freight and passenger traffic was ecorded on Silver City's Stranraer - Newtownards air ferry in 956. Cargo (419,000 1b) increased 175 per cent; passenger traffic 7 per cent and vehicle traffic 69 per cent. . • The price of the Convair 880 (30 of which have been orderedby T.W.A. and ten by Delta) is now given as £1,155,000. * * * Dutch-American negotiations on K.L.M. landing rights at Los Angeles and Houston are to be resumed in Washington on March 18. * * * Air-India International produced 20,155,267 capacity ton-miles—an increase of 14.3 per cent over the previous half year—in the first six months of 1956. * * * Business transactions through the Airlines Clearing House were23.52 per cent greater in October 1956 than in the same month last year. * * * Mr. John Kinch, B.W.I.A. reservations officer in Barbados, hasbeen promoted to the post of district sales manager. His place has been taken by Mr. Cecil Ince.* * * An agreement permitting an increase in civil landings and take-offs from the R.A.F. base at Wahn airport, near Bonn, from 94 to 162 per week, has been reached between the R.A.F. and theGerman civil authorities. * * * Eagle Airways will begin a new "Swiss Eagle" Coach/air Viking service between London Airport and Basle on April 18. The mid- week return fare (including refreshments) will be £16. Other new Viking services will operate to Jersey, La Baule and Saragossa. Encouraged by the response to their newly announced cheaper "Blue Arrow" coach-air-rail services, Air Kruise are now offering first-class rail travel at no extra cost on their Aix-les-Bains, Turin and Milan routes. * • *Manston Aerodrome, Kent, which has been transferred from R.A.F. to U.S.A.F. control, can no longer be made available to chartered civil aircraft, but it will continue to provide master diversion facilities and will be available as a supplementary aero- drome for scheduled-service aircraft on transatlantic and European routes. . :..,.-,-. —/ .••...-.•. ••••:..• ••- •- ..-;-\ •-.:<..:-.
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