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214 FLIGHT, 16 August 1957 HERE AND THERE Under-Secretarial Solo ON Wednesday last week the Under-secretary of State for Air, Mr. Charles Orr-Ewing, made his first solo flight whenhe took off from White Waltham in a D.H. Chipmunk. Since his appointment asunder-secretary last January, Mr. Orr- Ewing has been given flying instruction byS/L. D. P. Boulnois. Shoulder Blades A REPORT from America says that theU.S. Services are studying a "strap-on" helicopter — weighing about 68 lb —developed by Eugene Glubareff, a Cali- fornian aeronautical engineer. It consistsof a gas turbine powering two 10ft rotor blades and is "slipped on in much thesame way as a rucksack." Argentine Air Minister AN announcement in Buenos Aires lastweek said that Commodore Jorge Landa- burn has been appointed Air Minister insuccession to Cdre. Eduardo McLoughlin, who recently resigned. No official reasonwas given for Cdre. McLoughlin's resig- nation, but an amnesty he granted to offi-cers concerned in an abortive Peronista coup last year had been opposed by someAir Force commanders. Lockheed C-130B A SECOND version of the C-130 Herculefi—to be known as the C-130B and with! '"greater payload, greater range, and greater!utility"—was announced jointly by the U.S.A.F. and Lockheed last Monday. Chiefdifferences are the adoption of Allison T56 A-7 engines (with four-bladed propellersand higher engine/propeller gear ratio) and additional fuel tankage. The gross weightof the C-130B is 135,000 lb (C-130A, 124,000 lb). Swedish Approval IN Melbourne last week Hr. Sten Joste,leader of a four-man Swedish technical delegation visiting Australia to study theJindivik, said Sweden considered it to be the best target aircraft of its type in theworld today. The delegation is to spend eight weeks getting first-hand experiencein operating and maintaining Jindiviks, ten of which have been sold to the RoyalSwedish Air Board (with ground control equipment) for £400,000. THE V/HIPSNADE LION — a landmark familiar to London Gliding Club members, whose site is nearby—is a background feature to this pleasant impression of the second Hunting Percival Pembroke for the West German Air Force (thirty-three are on order). U.S.A.F. Policy IN Washington on August 4 the Air ForceSecretary, Mr. James Douglas, said that the U.S.A.F. "did not intend to follow theBritish lead and make a clean jump from planes to missiles." It expected to develop"an advanced heavy bomber and a nuclear- powered bomber" to follow the B-52. Mr.Douglas revealed that the Air Force was faced with a reduction of $ 1,000m (£3 57m)in its appropriation compared with the last fiscal year. Sailplane Aerobatics A SAILPLANE aerobatic contest is to beheld at the site of the London Gliding Club at Dunstable Downs on Sunday,September 22, beginning at 11 a.m. Mem- bers of the Lockheed International Aero-batic Trophy panel of judges will award marks for accuracy of flying and showman-ship. The Jack Hanks Trophy will be awarded to the winner and, it is planned,will be competed for each year. Indoor Aerial CONAD—Continental Air Defense Com-mand — has revealed the fact that a Goodyear non-rigid airship, designatedZPG-2W (modified) is equipped with the largest search-radar aerial ever to be air-borne. Also constructed by Goodyear, the aerial is carried inside the helium-filledenvelope (drawing at top of this page). As INNER EAR: An artist's impression—no exact details have been released—of the search - radar aerial inside the enve/ope of a Good- year ZPS-2 airship (see "Indoor Aerial,' below). Overall length of the envelope is 343ft in other ZPG airships, a radome on topof the envelope houses height-finding radar, but the usual search radome under the con-trol car becomes unnecessary. Similar ships have made some notable enduranceflights: last March a Goodyear ZPG-2 remained airborne for over 11 days with-out refuelling; and in January several of them maintained a ten-day radar watch200 miles off America's eastern seaboard in weather which was said to be the worstfor 75 years. European Extension? REPORTS from The Hague say that theCurtiss-Wright Corporation is planning to set up an assembly plant in Holland—atHaarlem, Utrecht or Den Bosch—to manu- facture the company's products for deliveryto Western Europe. Curtiss-Wright already has a small establishment at SchipholAirport. Australian-U.S. Co-operation IN Sydney last week the Australian PrimeMinister, Mr. Menzies, said that the recent defence mission to the United Stateshad achieved "more than he thought pos- sible." As a result of it, Australia couldcontinue effectively her own aircraft pro- duction and would be in a position to co-operate with the U.S.A.—"at no real expense to ourselves"—on the developmentof aircraft which could be used by both countries. Porsche Engine for XRON-1 THE Porsche company states that follow-ing a successful test installation of their Super engine in the American GyrodyneXRON-1 ultra-light helicopter they have been given an order for a powerplant basedon their light aircraft engine type 678. Porsche say this will give the XRON-1[described in Flight for April 27 last year, p. 491] a cruising speed of "about 62m.p.h." and make it "capable of lifting one man up some 13,000ft."
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