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1957
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FLIGHT, 23 August 1957 271 placing of a contract by Canadian Pacific Air Lines for a DC-6Bflight simulator—the first simulator to be ordered by a Canadian airline and the first commercial simulator to be built in Canada.Congratulating the company on its production of the CF-100 simulator at the official acceptance ceremony of the first machinein February, Air Marshal R. Slemon, Chief of the Canadian Air Staff, disclosed that, excluding development costs, each simulatorcost about the same as a CF-100 aircraft. Including the cost of development, the price was increased some 50 per cent. Soon to be opened at the company's main plant on Cote deLiesse Road, Montreal, is a new computing centre, following the purchase of a PACE analogue computing system. Thenew installation will be used by the C.A.E. design and develop- ment group, mainly in studying flight-simulation, weapons-system simulation, missile and trajectory simulation, radar fire- control and missile components, precision non-linear servo andstability-and-control systems; and will also be available for rental to other companies. Other important aspects of the company's work during the pastyear have been an extension of the radar fire-control repair and overhaul programme for the R.C.A.F.; expansion of instrumentrepair, overhaul and development facilities; extension of radar- warning line maintenance, repair and overhaul programme (bythe Western Division of C.A.E. at Winnipeg); development of improved radio-communication system; manufacture of accelero-meters and similar components of fire-control and aircraft systems; and the design and manufacture of new industrialinstrumentation systems and nucleonic instruments (Western Division, Winnipeg).President of Canadian Aviation Electronics is K. R. Patrick. Canadian Marconi Company, Montreal 8. 970 McEachran Avenue, THE aviation department of Canadian Marconi was formedin 1952 to provide aeronautical equipment and service to civil airlines, charter and private operators, and those departments ofthe government and armed forces concerned with aviation. The department's group of development engineers, concernedsolely with aviation products, has specialised in designing and producing equipment to the various Canadian and U.S. specifica-tions dealing with form factors, engineering practice, environ- mental testing, performance characteristics and airworthinesscertification. Canadian Marconi claims to be the first electronic company in Canada to have designed and produced an item ofcivil airborne radio equipment as a private venture. The three major products of the department to date have beenthe CMA-301 automatic direction-finder; the CMA-402 loud- hailer; and the CMA-101/201 HF transmitter-receiver. TheADF was developed to meet the design objectives for such equipment set by Aeronautical Radio, Inc.; the loudhaileremploys a fully transistorized amplifier and weighs 55 lb; and the HF set was designed to meet the requirements of the small-and medium-size aircraft used in bush operations. Nearing the final stages of development is an interesting lineof transistorized equipment, notably power supplies for dyna- motor replacement and a complete system of aircraft audiocontrol panels, cockpit and cabin loudspeakers, isolation ampli- fiers and passenger-address power amplifiers. These items givepromise of a wide application in aircraft use. Collins Radio Company of Canada, Ltd., 11 Bermondsey Road, Toronto 16. IN its second year of manufacturing in Canada, Collins hascontinued to consolidate its position. During 1957 production has begun for the R.C.A.F. of the ARC-38 35,000-channel HF trans- The Aviation Electric ball reso/ver, recently developed at Montreal, being prepared for testing at sub-zero temperatures. Air Marshal R. Slemon, Rt. Hon. C. D. Howe and K. R. Patrick of C.A.E. view the company's first production CF-100 simulator. ceiver and the ARC-552 1,750-channel UHF transceiver. Export business has increased, and equipment manufactured in the Toronto plant has been shipped to 30 countries in the past year. Executive vice-president is A. V-M. J. L. Plant. Computing Devices of Canada, Ltd., P.O. Box 508, Ottawa 4.THE Mk 3 version of the C.D.C. Position and Homing Indicator is now in production. This is an automatic dead-reckoning navigation system, designed for single-seat high-speed aircraft, which provides the pilot with a continuous indicationof his position relative to his home base or any one of several selected alternates. The system normally operates independentlyof radio aids, but provision is made to display and use radio-aid data when this is available. The Mk 3 version of the P.H.I.is completely transistorized, weighing less than 25 pounds, and has a power consumption of about 100 watts. Also in production is the ANTAC system—a long-range navi-gation system coupled to an integrated tactical display designed by C.D.C. for the Canadair Argus maritime-reconnaissance air-craft. ANTAC is a dead-reckoning system with provision for external references from a variety of electronic radar and radioinputs. A co-ordinated picture of the tactical situation is dis- played for the navigator. Steering signals are made availableto the auto-pilot either automatically or semi-automatically, and the aircraft's ground position is displayed in latitude and longi-tude. Some of the equipment associated with the ANTAC system is applicable to the long-range problems of commercialaircraft. The instrument development group at C.D.C. has for some time been carrying out studies concerned with this applica-tion of dead-reckoning navigation systems. Consideration has also been given to the terminal-area problem and air trafficcontrol. The company also has a contract to develop a navigation andinterception computer for the Avro Aircraft CF-105. This will be a new system based on an expansion of the principles on A photographic mosaic being laid down by technicians of Canadian Aero Service, Ottawa, an associate of Spartan Air Services.
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