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FIRST AERONAUTICAL WEEKLY IN THE WORLD FOUNDED 1909 ^ and AIRCRAFT ENGINEER No 2536 Vol 72 FRIDAY 30 AUGUST 1957 Editor MAURICE A. SMITH D.F.C. AND BAR Associate Editor H. F. KING M.B.E. Technical Editor W. T. GUNSTON Production Editor ROY CASEY Iliffe and Sons Ltd. Dorset House Stamford Street London, S.E.I Telephone • Waterloo 3333 (60 lines) BRANCH OFFICES Coventry 8-10 Corporation Street Telephone • Coventry 5210 Birmingham 2 King Edward House, New Street Telephone • Midland 7191 (7 lines) Manchester 3 260 Deansgate Telephone • Blackjriars 4412 (3 lines)Deansgate 3595 (2 lines) Glasgow C.2 26B Renfield Street Telephone • Central 1265 (2 lines) Toronto 1, Ontario Thomas Skinner of Canada, Ltd. 67 Yonge Street Telephone • Empire 6-0873 New York 6, N.Y. Thomas Skinner and Co. (Publishers), Ltd. Ill Broadway Telephone • Digby 9-1197 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Home and Overseas • Twelve Months, £4 10s. U.S.A. and Canada, $14.00 IN THIS ISSUE From All Quarters 286 Foretaste of Farnborough ... ... 287 Civil Aviation 290 Bloodhound 1 British Aircraft, 1957: Armstrong Whitworth 293 Auster 294 Aviation Traders 296 Avro 297 Blackburn 298 Bristol 9 de Havilland 302 English Electric .., 305 The Mirror of Farnborough DOUBTLESS to the puzzlement of our visitors, the British AircraftIndustry will be reflecting a not unhealthy appearance in the mirror ofthe eighteenth S.B.A.C. Display. For a mirror this occasion most cer- tainly is—more so than the shop window it is generally considered to be. A mirror, moreover, which is not of the distorting kind, such as delegates to the Anglo-American Conference might encounter when, with the Display behind them, and the day's business over, they seek diversion on the South Coast promenades. Puzzled, as we say, our friends may very well be; for they recall that in the twelve months since they were last among us the constitution of our industry has been rudely shaken up. But here may lie, in part, the explanation; for a good shake-up can prove a salutary exercise as well as an opportunity for clinical observation. In the long run the patient may be all the healthier for both. So, while our friends are not likely to come upon us flexing our muscles in front of the mirror and banging our chests in confident exuberance, they will not, on the other hand, discover us cringing in some dark corner, quaking in fear of the future. The truth is that we know what has been wrong with us— and what is still wrong. Certainly we should by now, for we have been told with sufficient frequency and authority. But we are setting about the cure, even though details of the treatment are not agreed by all concerned. Mean- while, our metabolism is undergoing a marked alteration—which is only to be expected in these days of shifting emphasis, acute competition and financial stringency. Such constitutional changes as may come about, we reassure ourselves, can occur without the onset of atrophy or decay. The "croakers" we have to worry about are not the medical kind. We know that more pains will be assailing us in the months ahead—con- stricting, griping, sometimes, perhaps, a little frightening. No doubt we shall continue to be plied with good advice, awful warnings and shock treatments: and we shall probably come out of it little the worse. Perhaps all the better. For the present, then, we report ourselves as being pretty well, all things considered. And we hope that our visitors find themselves the same. Fairey 307 Folland 9 Gloster 310 Handley Page 311 Hawker 313 Hunting Percival 314 Jackaroo Aircraft 5 F. G. Miles 316 M.L. Aviation 7 Saunders-Roe 318 Scottish Aviation 319 Vickers-Armstrongs 321 Westland 325 British Sailplanes 327 British Missiles: Fairey 328 de Havilland 328 Vickers-Armstrongs 329 Bristol 329 English Electric ,.» . ... 329 British Aero Engines: Alvis 331 Armstrong Siddeley 331 Blackburn 333 Bristol 4 de Havilland 336 Napisr 337 Rolls-Royce 339 Accessory Developments 341 The Ancillary Industry 349 Tabulated Data: Military Aircraft 369- Civil Aircraft 370 Helicopters 0 • Engines 371 . Missiles 1 • Correspondence 372 Service Aviation ... 373 Farnborough Visitors' Guide ... 374 Show'Stand^Numbers ... ,.. 379'
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