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1957
1957 - 0754.PDF
760 FLIGHT, 7 June 1957 FROM ALL QUARTERS ... . The Olympus 510 series is a 16,000 lb-thrust engine suitable forthe largest types of current jet transport, and already almost completely developed except for endurance-flying. With Bristol'sco-operation, Curtiss-Wright in America are developing a similar engine, designated TJ38, derated to 12,500 lb (to give long lifeand quietness) with the extremely competitive s.f.c. of 0.718. The Conway RCo.10 is a 16,000 lb-thrust commercial enginefirst ordered by T.C.A. for the DC-8 (delivery March 1960) and for jet transports of Air-India, Lufthansa and B.O.A.C, thelast-named operator having ordered 50 aircraft each powered by four RCo.lOs. Quarles on Russia ASKING for restoration of half the £923m cut in the U.S.• defence budget, Mr. Donald Quarles, the Deputy Defense Secretary, expressed concern at Russia's rapid build-up of modernweapons. The following are extracts from his statement, which was madeon a TV programme from Washington D.C.: Jet fighters—"the K.LM.'s VISCOUNT 803—of which this is the first air-to-air picture —is about to be delivered to Schiphol. This is the second 800-series Viscount to be exported; the first, EI-AJI, "St. Gaul," was delivered to Aer Lingus on May 22. Russians have larger numbers. Qualitatively I would say we stillare somewhat in front, although car lead today is somewhat less than it was three or four years ago"; jet bombers—"they areahead quantitatively and qualitatively"; submarines—"they are ahead quantitatively, we lead qualitatively"; atomic weapons—"Ifeel we have a pretty good position there"; missiles—"on the whole I would say we are ahead, although I cannot say we are ahead in allof them." Mr. Quarles conceded that the Soviet Union was probablyahead with the IRBM (1,500-mile-range missile); regarding the ICBM he said he was "quite confident in my own mind that wewon't be beaten." New U.S.A.F.-Lockheed Contract A CONTRACT worth £l^m has been awarded by the U.S.A.F.Air Materiel Command to the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation for the completion of "laboratories and other nuclear facilities"at Lockheed's experimental installation in Georgia, where con- struction began a year ago in connection with a U.S.A.F. researchproject. Recently Mr. Robert E. Gross, Lockheed chairman, said thathis company could build a nuclear-powered aircraft "within three years" if the Government were to give the "go-ahead signal." Thenew contract brings the total allocated by the U.S.A.F. to the Georgia facility to £4im. U.S.A.F. General Post TOURING recent weeks long-awaited changes in the top*-* structure ef the U.S. Air Force have been announced and several high-ranking officers have been reassigned. The followingare the more important changes: New posts, with previous positions in parenthesis: Lt-Gen. ThomasS. Power, elevated to full general and given command of Strategic Air Command (previously Commander, Air Research and DevelopmentCommand); Gen. Curtis LeMay, vice-chief of Staff, U.S.A.F. (Com- mander, Strategic Air Command); Lt-Gen. Frank H. Everest,Commander, U.S.A.F. Europe, with promotion to full general (Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations, and previously Commander, Air Force FlightTest Center at Edwards); Lt-Gen. William H. Tunner, Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations, in the Pentagon (Commander, U.S.A.F.E.); Lt-Gen.Samuel E. Anderson, Commander, Air Research and Development Command (Director, Weapons System Evaluation Group, Office ofDefense Secretary); Maj-Gen. William E. Hall, Commander, Con- tinental Air Command and senior A.F. member, Military StaffCommittee, U.N. (A.C.O.S., Reserve Forces); Maj-Gen. Walter E. Todd, C.O.S., U.N. Command, Korea (vice-cmdr. and C.O.S., F.E.A.F.);Maj-Gen. John K. Gerhart, D.C.O.S., Plans and Programs (Commander 12th A.F., Europe); Lt-Gen. M. M. J. Asensio, Comptroller (D.C.O.S.,Comptroller); Maj-Gen. Robert B. Landry, asst. deputy C.O.S., per- sonnel, replacing Maj-Gen. William S. Stone. It may be remembered that, upon the retirement of Gen. Nathan F.Twining a few weeks ago, Gen. Thomas Dresser White was appointed Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force. DAY AND NIGHT in Sycamore Canyon, north-east of San Diego, California—two of the first official photographs of the static-test tower which Convair use for system-checks and short-period engine runs of their intercontinental ballistic missile Atlas. This is one of three Atlas test facilities: engine funs are conducted at Edwards Air Force Base, California; component tests are made at Point Loma, San Diego; and actual launchings—the first of which is due as these words are written—will be from Patrick A.F.B.
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