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1957 - 0934.PDF
34 FLIGHT NATO VISITORS to Hatfield about to board the Comet 2 in which they flew. First five left to right, then downwards: A Cdre. S. J. Marchbank (U.K.); Col. G. Marini (Italy); Col. W. Kaminiski (Germany); Col. S. Mottez (France); Cdr. R. A. Webber (Canada); Mr. J. A. W. Paludan (Denmark); Lt-Cdr. F. Isin (Turkey); Lt. R. A. Sleeuw (Netherlands); and Col. R. L Matthews (U.S.). See col. 1. FROM ALL QUARTERS New Programme for S.B.5 IT has just been announced that the Short S.B.5, the subsonicresearch vehicle used to explore various configurations for the P.I fighter—and which has since completed a great variety ofother low-speed research programmes—is to undergo a new series of trials with wings swept at 69 deg. This is the greatest sweep angle of any British aircraft. Asadditional power is required with the new wing, and to allow an increase in gross weight, the Rolls-Royce Derwent has beenremoved and is being replaced by a Bristol Orpheus. The new engine, which is smaller and slimmer than the Derwent, will bemounted low down in the fuselage and nearer to the aircraft e.g. E.P.9 Orders f")RDERS worth over £100,000 for nine E.P.9 aircraft and^-^ spares have recently been obtained by Edgar Percival Air- craft, Ltd. Three of the aircraft are to go to Tripoli, whereBahamas Helicopters, Ltd., will operate them on behalf of an oil company which has drilling parties working in the desert; two aregoing to Australia for agricultural work; one has been sold to a French company which will operate it in North Africa; another hasrecently been delivered to Germany; a Swedish company has ordered an E.P.9 for agricultural work; and one has been soldto Canada. Meteorological Merit TWO awards by the Meteorological Office "for long and meri-torious service in the provision of weather reports" were pre- sented by its Director-General, Sir Graham Sutton, at a ceremonyheld by the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators in London- derry House on July 4. The awards, taking the form of brief-cases,went to Captains S. A- Calder of Britavia and R. H. Payne of B.E.A. A number of books have also been awarded to B.O.A.C.and B.E.A. captains and navigators who during the year ended April 15 provided the best series of in-flight, post-flight ordebriefing weather reports. NATO visit to Hatfield COME 60 senior officers from the NATO Defense College in^ Paris, headed by its Commandant, Lt-Gen. Clovis E. Byers (U.S.), last Friday visited the de Havilland headquarters at Hatfieldand flew in a Comet 2 of R.A.F. Transport Command. The pur- pose of the visit by these officers, who were from 13 differentcountries, was to see some of the latest developments within the British aircraft industry. They watched flying demonstrations bythe prototype Comet 4, by the Handley Page Victor, the D.H. Sea Vixen, the Hunting Percival Jet Provost and the Saunders-RoeSkeeter; they saw and discussed the Firestreak; and they went over the D.H. Engine Company's test-beds, seeing the newestversions of the Gyron family and the Super Sprite and Spectre rocket engines. Lord Cherwell the passing of Lord Cherwell—whose death last weekat the age of 71 we record with regret—a link with the early days of British aviation has been severed; for during the firstworld war, when he was on the staff of the physical laboratories at the R.A.E., Farnborough, he proved by research and experi-ment that an aircraft could safely recover from a spin. F. A. Lindemann (as Lord Cherwell was then) learned to fly, evolveda mathematical theory of how an aircraft got into a spin and deduced from this the simplest way of getting out of it; then CONVERTING at Westland's helicopter school at Yeovil, before taking delivery of the first Whirlwind to be ordered for Yugoslavia, is Capt. Glavicic Rodoje, of the Yugoslav Air Force. He is here seen in the cockpit with John S. Fay, the school'i chief instructor. during 1917 he successfully put his theory to the test. From Farnborough he went to a chair of experimental philo-sophy at Oxford in 1919, and apart from his periods as adviser to Mr. Churchill in the war years and from 1951 to 1953,Lord Cherwell never left his university environment, continuing to reside at Christ Church after resigning from his professorshipin 1956. It was during his periods as the Prime Minister's assistantthat Lord Cherwell's ability to expound problems simply and lucidly was so brilliantly demonstrated. He was created BaronCherwell in 1941 and Viscount Cherwell of Oxford in 1956. One of his last public appearances was in a House of Lords debateduring May, when he said he could not understand how anyone with a logical mind could argue that Britain should have thermo-nuclear weapons but should not test them. Interplanetary Simulation IN Washington last week-end the U.S.A.F. announced that nextmonth it would start sending ten teams of five men on simu- lated interplanetary flights to see how human beings could standthe rigours of such journeys. The teams, each cramped together for five days in a chamber not much bigger than a family salooncar, will eat, sleep, "fly" and relax in simulated space-vehicles at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation's Georgia Division plant. Theywill be watched by Lockheed technicians and by university specialists including psychologists, biologists, engineers and adoctor. Britain's Super Radar THE capabilities of Britain's new early-warning radar areinstanced in a Canadian press report, which states that one set of this equipment controls the operations of the CanadianSabres and CF-lOOs flying from Gros Tenquin and Marville in France, and Zweibriicken and Baden-Soellingen in West Ger-many. These units are equipped with a total of 300 aircraft. The radar is under constant and heavy guard, and is so efficient thaiwatchers have seen two aircraft collide in mid-air from more than a hundred miles distant, and have traced the paths of themajor pieces of debris falling to the ground. The report con- • :•& *v
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