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1957
1957 - 1644.PDF
732 VISITING staff and students from the R.A.F. College, Andoyer, seen recently at the works of Armstrong Siddsley (Brockworth), Ltd., Gloucester. With the party are A. Cdre. D. W. Lane, Commandant of the College, and G/C. C. H. Simpson, Assistant Commandant. The students include officers from the R.A.F. and Air Forces of the U.S.A., Finland, Pakistan, Portugal, Jordan, Germany, Italy, Indonesia, Burma and Thailand. HERE AND THERE High-level Exports DURING the first nine months of thisyear, British aviation exports amounted to nearly £78.4m, the S.B.A.C. states. Ofthis total, aircraft and parts accounted for over £45m and aero-engines for almost£29m. The total of engine exports for the third quarter of 1957 was the highestquarterly figure ever achieved in this country. Bastan-Beech SUD-AVIATION announced on October25 that two Turbomeca Bastan turboprops are to be fitted to a Beech D-18S ("TwinBeech") which will start service as a test- bed next summer. The conversion will beeffected by S.F.E.R.M.A. at Bordeaux- Merignac. The Bastan, a very neat unit of750 h.p., was described in our world engine review issue of July 26 last. Mitchell Memorial BUILT in memory of R. J. Mitchell,designer of the Spitfire, the Mitchell Youth Centre at Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, wasopened by G/C. Douglas Bader on October 28. This project, together with the Mitchellscholarships at Southampton University, was financed by a fund started by the LordMayor of Stoke-on-Trent in 1943. Hanley was Mitchell's birthplace. U.S. Spanish Bases IN Spain the three bases built for the U.S.16th Air Force—newest component of the Strategic Air Command—are now readyfor use. Each of these American-built bases—Torrejon, Zaragoza and Moron—has facilities for a wing of B-47s plus two squadrons (one U.S.A.F. and one Spanish)and 20 refuelling tankers. The main run- way at Torrejon—13,400ft in length—is said to be the longest in Europe. Hungarian Air Ambulance A NATIONAL air ambulance service hasbeen started in Hungary, operating with three aircraft from Ferihegy Airfield,Budapest. It is claimed that they can get a patient to Budapest within an hour. Vampire Variant THE first of 68 Australian-built de Havil-land Vampire Trainer 35s for the R.A.A.F. was handed over at the company's factoryat Bankstown, N.S.W., recently. The Aus- tralian Minister for Supply, Mr. HowardBeale,took delivery on behalf of the Service. Northern Pioneer PILOT in the first round-trip flight betweenLiverpool and Manchester in 1911, Mr. Henry Greg Melly died in Great Crosby onOctober 28 at the age of 89. His Bleriot monoplane took 40 and 63 minutes respec-tively for the out and return legs, which were made between Waterloo beach, Liver-pool, and Trafford Park, Manchester. Missile Award AMONG recent awards made by theUnited States Army to civilian scientists for work in missile development was oneto Dr. Wernher von Braun, who took a leading part in the development of theGerman V-2 weapon during the war and is director of the Development OperationsDivision at the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Redstone Arsenal. U.S. Target Missile DESCRIBED as a new target missile, the Q-5—designed to test the effectiveness of ROT I MARK 2 (record- ing optical tracking instrument) is the name of the imposing Ameri- can device on the left. It weighs over eight tons and can photo- graph missiles at be- tween 50 and 100 miles distant. At ten miles range it has pictured a C-118 (upper right); and as an instrument for lunar reconnais- sance it produces such results as shown on the immediate right. U.S. supersonic weapons — is beingdeveloped by the Lockheed Aircraft Cor- poration. In the role of an "enemy" missileor aircraft attacking from a great height, the Q-5 would be instrumented to registernear misses and theoretical hits without being destroyed and thus be recoverable. Cool Assignment A WELL KNOWN war-time A.T.A. pilotand one of only four women to hold the full R.A.F. flying brevet, Mrs. JackieMoggridge has joined Lee Refrigeration, Ltd., and is with their staff pilot Mr.George Farley on the company's current business trip to Africa (referred to inFlight for September 20, p. 492). Mrs. Moggridge is acting as co-pilot in thecompany's Anson 19. Vital Acoustics AMONG subjects for discussion by theAcoustical Society of America, which held its 54th annual convention at the Univer-sity of Michigan recently, were "the noise nuisance of jet engines" and "the problemof making oneself heard at crowded cock- tail parties."
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