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1957
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12 April 1957 465 HERE AND THERE Redundant Carriers TWO of the Navy's light aircraft carriers,Triumph (13,000 tons) and Perseus (12,000 tons), are to be sold abroad or scrapped. Ceylon Bases Transfer IN Colombo last week the Prime Ministerof Ceylon, Mr. S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, said that the British air and Naval bases inCeylon (at Katunayake and Trincomalee) would be formally handed over to theCeylonese Government next November. Philatelic Flights SEVERAL stamps associated with earlylong-distance flights were sold at H. R. Harmer's, the London philatelists, lastweek. One, a 60-cent black issued in 1927 to commemorate the Marchese de Pinedo'sdouble Atlantic crossing, fetched £520; another, a used Newfoundland 3-centstamp from the mail carried by Harry Hawker on his unsuccessful Atlantic flightin 1919, was sold for £450; and an unused block of four of a Mexican 1935 AmeliaEarhart issue realized £300. Computation-piece A REPORT from the U.S.A. says thatwhat is described as "a computer readout and intervention system," making possiblethe introduction of human logic midway in a problem's computation by an "elec-tronic brain," is to be produced for the U.S.A.F. It will be the first applicationin commercial operating equipment of a concept developed at the Massachusetts CONVENTIONAL TAKE-OFF by the Short SCI research aircraft for its first flight, made at Boscombe Down by Tom Brooke-Smith (Short and Harland's chief test pilot) on April 2. Only one of the five Rolls-Royce R.B. 108 turbojets gives thrust for forward flight, the others providing vertical lift; and the faired-in underside of the fuselage apparent in this picture suggests that they may have been replaced by ballast for the in'tial development flights preceding transla- tional and VTO tests. Airborne for 75 min, the SC.l made several circuits at about 2,000ft. Institute of Technology "to facilitate thetransmission of general ideas, as in a con- versation, between a human and acomputer." No Advertisement FOR the second time there was no quorumpresent when a Standing Committee of the House of Commons met on April 3 to con-sider the Aerial Advertising Bill, a private Member's measure. The chairman orderedthe clerk to put it at the bottom of the list of private Members' bills. Metals Conference THIS year's Spring Meeting of the Insti- tute of Metals will be a joint one, held in London from April 29 to May 3, with the Associazione Italiana di Metallurgia, Asso- ciation Suisse pour l'Essai des Materiaux KICKING UP A DUST: Blackburn Beverley D-dog of No. 47 Sqn., Transport Command, operating from Beihon airstrip near the Yemen border, makes a spectacular landing, confidently arrested (lower view) by the D.H. braking airscrews of its four Bristol Centaurus engines. and the Societe Suisse des Constructeursdes Machines. Members of the Iron and Steel Institute are also being invited to takepart and there is to be an extension of the meeting for members of the Italian andSwiss associations from May 4 to May 8, when factories in the provinces will bevisited. Dutch Missiles GUIDED missiles—of American manu-facture, but of a type so far unspecified— are shortly to form part of the equipmentof the Royal Netherlands Army. Sea Slug— AT a Mansion House dinner last week theU.S. Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Arleigh Burke, referred to a British surface-to-air guided missile, the Sea Slug, about which he said the U.S. Navy had "heardencouraging reports." This weapon had not so far been named here and theAdmiralty and Ministry of Supply have not yet officially confirmed its existence. —and Ding Dong SINCE 1954 or earlier, Douglas Aircraftand other firms have been developing Ding-Dong, the "ultimate" air-to-airmissile. Exceptionally large and long- ranged, it has a nuclear warhead and istherefore lethal at a considerable radius from its target. It is now learned that themissile bears the designation ZMB-1, and that it will form the primary armament ofthe Convair F-106A, the McDonnell F-101B and Northrop F-89J intercepted.Each machine will carry two Ding-Dongs, as well as a number of the small GAR-1Falcon missiles. Expert Opinion SOME reasons for the delay in Britishguided-missile development were given by Sir Owen Wansbrough-Jones, Chief Scien-tist at the Ministry of Supply, and Dr. Robert Cockburn, M.o.S. Controller ofGuided Weapons and Electronics, when they spoke to the Parliamentary and Scien-tific Committee last week. Dr. Cockburn said that although it would have been pos-sible to have re-equipped all three Services by now with guided weapons, the Govern-ment had been well advised to hold its hand while more rigorous methods of con-trol and guidance were being developed.
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