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1957
1957 - 0570.PDF
572 FLIGHT HERE AND THERE Weighty Record AT Brough last Monday a Beverley flownby Blackburn test pilot Tim Wood para- chuted a 13-ton load of steel and ballast.This is believed to be the heaviest single item ever dropped from an aircraft. M.^.S. Missile Appointment WITH the approval of the Secretary ofState for Air, the Minister of Supply, Mr. Aubrey Jones, has appointed A. Cdre.H. B. Wrigley to be Director of Guided Weapons (Projects). Since 1954 A. Cdre.Wrigley has been engaged with the Air Ministry on radar and radio systems. History at Hendon USE of the Grahame-White hangar at Hendon aerodrome by the Royal Aero- nautical Society as an exhibition hall for a national collection of historic aircraft has been approved in principle by the Air Council. Anglo-Dutch Missiles ? PRESS reports in Holland speak of co-operation between Netherlands and British manufacturers in the construction of guidedmissiles. Firms named are de Havilland and Mullard in England and Philips andthe Hollandse Signaal-Apparatenfabriek in Holland, and it said that they have alreadybeen working together "for a long time." B-52 Rallentando IN Washington recently it was announcedthat production of Boeing B-52s had been slowed down from 20 to 15 a month. Mr.Charles Wilson, Secretary of Defense, said that the number of B-52s ordered by theU.S.A.F. would not be lessened but delivery of the last 603 aircraft orderedwould not be taken until late in 1959, six months after the date set last year. Uphill Work SEVEN injured climbers were carried tosafety from the Alps on April 22 in a Piper Super Cub fitted with a combined wheeland ski undercarriage and flown by the Alpine pilot Hermann Geiger, whose day'srescue work involved seven mountain IROQUOIS—Orenda Engines' supersonic turbojet is now fly- ing—mounted on the starboard quarter of this Boeing B-47, on loan to the R.C.A.F. from the U.S.A.F. landings. [His "uphill landing" techniquewas described in an article of that title in Flight for October 12 last year.] Valuable Source TITANIUM ore deposits near JossingFjord, in Western Norway, have been found to be even bigger than first believed.It is now estimated that there arc 350m tons in the area, 166m tons of which havealready been located. Long Drop A MEMBER of the Abingdon parachutegroup, Sgt. J. N. Hoffman, set up an un- official delayed-drop record of 41 sec onApril 23 when he jumped from a Tiger Moth at 8,400ft above R.A.F. StationWeston-on-the-Green and fell to about 2,000ft before opening his parachute. Aircraft Safety Award FOR the part he played in the flight-test-ing of Martin-Baker ejection seats the com- pany's chief instructor, Bernard Lynch,has been awarded the Alston Memorial Prize for 1956 by the Royal Aeronautical Society. It was Mr. Lynch who made thefirst live ejection from an aircraft in this country when on July 24, 1946, he shothimself out of a special two-seater Meteor at 320 m.p.h. at 8,000ft in a prototypeMartin-Baker ejection seat. Link with the Past A BALLOON ascent was made by Capt.Jan Boesman and members of the Hague Balloon Club at the North London exhibi-tion at Alexandra Palace on April 22. Canadian Training Extension IN Ottawa the Canadian Government hasannounced a three-year extension of its NATO air training plan, providing for thetraining of 155 aircrew from Denmark, Norway and Holland. Canada is alsotraining 360 aircrew from West Germany. H.D.M. 105 Undercarriage IN the description of the Miles H.D.M.105 transport prototype with Hurel-Dubois wing, published on April 19, it should havebeen stated that, like its forerunner the Aerovan, the new machine is Goodyearbraked and shod. X-15 Progress FROM Baltimore, Maryland, comes newsthat construction of the North American X-15 rocket research aircraft has beenstarted. Defence Department officials in Washington are quoted as saying that theX-15 might reach a speed of 4,000 m.p.h. at altitude as high as 200,000ft. It will be"considerably lighter and smaller" than the X-l and X-2 series of research aircraft. TILT-WING proto- type recently com- pleted by Vertol is the Model 76 (above), powered by a single Lycoming 753 of some 800 h.p. BREGUET 1100: Powered with two Turbomeca Gabizo turbojets, Breguet's new "tactical light fighter" (left) is now undergoing trials.- Brize Norton Extensions PLANS for extending Brize Norton Air-field—in use by the U.S.A.F.—were explained by Air Ministry representativesto members of local authorities and interested bodies at a meeting on April 17.The Ministry stated that their plans would not involve closing the BrizeNorton - Bampton road, subject to con- trol of traffic when large aircraft werelanding over it. Several suggestions were made for reducing the effect of the planson local interests, and the Air Ministry agreed to take these, into account as far aspossible in their final plans, on which there is to be further consultation. - •
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