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234 FLIGHT, 22 February 1957 HERE AND THERE Mediterranean Terriers ON February 13 the U.S. Navy announcedthe first firing of a guided missile from an American warship in the Mediterranean.The vessel, the cruiser Boston, armed with Terriers, was taking part in her first NATOmanoeuvres. Sweden's Jindiviks SALE of ten Jindivik target aircraft toSweden for £A500,000 was confirmed in Canberra last week-end by Mr. Beale, Aus-tralian Minister of Defence Production. Swedish Air Force Cuts? PROPOSED cuts in Sweden's defenceexpenditure may result in the Air Force suffering a reduction of one-fifth. TheGovernment has proposed that during the coming fiscal year the Service should receiveKr.91m (just over £6m) less than it requested. Mr. E. T. Jones Visits India LAST Tuesday Mr. E. T. Jones, Director-General of Technical Development (Air), Ministry of Supply, and president of theRoyal Aeronautical Society, left London by air for New Delhi to attend the ninthannual general meeting of the Aeronautical Society of India, at their invitation. Aircraft Employment Increase EMPLOYMENT figures for October andNovember last year showed a steady increase in the number of those employedin the "manufacture and repair" of aircraft. The previous highest monthly total,257,300, was in September 1956; in October it rose to 257,600 and in Novemberto 258,300. Education Conference A WEEK-END conference on AdvancedAeronautical Education has been arranged by the Royal Aeronautical Society forMarch 23-24 at the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield. As a basis for discussion, paperswill be read by Prof. A. J. Murphy, Mr. R. L. Lickley and Prof. A. V. Stephens, SEEHABICHT: Ger- man naval officers receiving instruction at Coventry on an Armstrong Whit- worth-built Hawker Sea Hawk naval tighter/bomber, an order for 68 of which is expected to be signed in Bonn week. next while Prof. A. R. Collar will be chairmanof the meeting. Enrolment (details from the R.Ae.S.) should be made by March 15. Ion Propulsion OFTEN featured in science-fiction, ion-propulsion (reaction obtained by ejecting a steady jet of high-potential ions) is gradu-ally becoming fact. The U.S.A.F. Office of Scientific Research has placed two con-tracts-—the contractors are not named—for research into the applicability of such pro-pulsion to space-flight. France's New Carriers AT Saint Nazaire, the keel has been laidfor the new French aircraft carrier Foch. With her sister ship Clemenceau, underconstruction at Brest, she will be the lar- gest vessel built for the French Navy sincethe war, and she will have steam catapults and an angled deck. Each of the two shipswill carry 50 aircraft. Helicopter Heavy Transport TWO Sikorsky S-58s, on charter to theAustralasian Petroleum Co. (from a com- pany named in an Australian report asWorld-Wide Helicopters) reached Port Moresby, New Guinea, this month. Theywill be used to fly heavy oil-drilling equip- ment to sites in Papua. R.Ae.S. Louis Bleriot Lecture ON Thursday, March 7, the Louis Bleriot lecture is to be given by M. Paul Badre, production director of Quest Aviation SUPER BROUSSARD: A "Flighf copyright impression of the Max Holste M.H.250 Super Broussard, to be powered with Pratt and Whitney Wasps or—later—Turbomeca Turmo 3 or Lycoming T53 turboprops. The Wasps will give a maximum cruising speed of 225 m.p.h. and the distance to clear 50ft will be 290 yd. S.N.C.A., who will speak on New Methodsof Aircraft Production. The lecture will be at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers,1 Birdcage Walk, London, S.W.I, at 6 p.m. World Gliding Venue AT an F.A.I, meeting in Paris last week itwas decided to hold the next world gliding championships at the Leszno gliding centrein Poznan, Poland, during June 1958 Vimy" Memorial IT is now confirmed that, as a memorialto Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith and their crew, the Vickers Vimy which they flewfrom England to Australia in 1919 is to be preserved at Adelaide. Hopes for Hendon IN answer to a Parliamentary question, theMinister of Transport and Civil Aviation, Mr. Harold Watkinson, said last week thathe was consulting with the Air Minister about an airfield for club and privateaircraft when Croydon closes, and Hendon was one of those being kept in mind. Barnwell Lecture Alteration IT has been announced that the BarnwellMemorial Lecture at Bristol on March 13 will not now be given by Sir AlfredPugsley, who is recuperating from an ill- ness. Instead, Prof. A. R. Collar, Pro-fessor of Aeronautical Engineering in the University of Bristol, will give a paper onEducation in Industry. Waveforms Discussion AT the measurement and control sectiondiscussion on The Analysis of Waveforms at the Institution of Electrical Engineers,Savoy Place, London, W.C.2, next Tuesday at 5.30 p.m. the discussion will be openedby Mr. A. Cooper, B.Sc., and Mr. D. A. Drew, B.Sc., chief vibration engineer,Rolls-Royce, Ltd. Lucky Number Drawings ALREADY almost fifty sets of drawingsfor the Druine Turbulent have been sold, less than a year after its introduction tothis country in April last year. The Popular Flying Association, which is en-couraging the amateur construction of Turbulents and the two-seater Turbi,intends to make a presentation of the 50th set of drawings. Kaman HU2K KAMAN AIRCRAFT have received adevelopment contract for a new helicopter, with the above designation, for the U.S.Navy. The company entered both a single- rotor and a twin-rotor design in competi-tion with other firms and won with the former project—the first Kaman machineof such configuration. Power is to be pro- vided by a General Electric T58.
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