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1957
1957 - 1824.PDF
914 FLIGHT, 13 December 1957 PASSENGER'S EYE VIEW from a Bell 47G-2 approaching Eastleigh (Nairobi) Airport. Flown by Mr. Lincoln Lord, managing director of Autair, Ltd., the helicopter had been on a trial flight preparatory to a power-line-patrol contract. Autair (Africa), Ltd., were recently appointed sales representatives for Bell helicopters in the area. HERE AND THERE Swiss Hunter Order Postponed A DECISION by the Swiss Governmentto purchase 100 Hawker Hunter 6s— reported in our issue of November 22—was postponed last week when it was decided to discuss the matter further onJanuary 28. Hebrides Range Cutback "CONSIDERABLE curtailment" of thescheme for a missile range in the Hebrides has been announced by the Minister ofDefence. The scheme, which was to haye cost £20m, will now cost £5m and willprovide facilities for surface-to-surface firing only. It is considered that thefacilities at R.A.E. Aberporth and the Army range at Anglesey are adequate forthe testing of air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles. Safety in the Service THE R.A.F. accident-rate has again gonedown during the past year. This was announced by Air Marshal Sir GeoffreyTuttle, Deputy C.A.S., at the Air Ministry last week, with the comment that this con-tinued a downward trend which had been continuous since the birth of the R.A.F.Actual figures are not normally made public. Silver Dart Replica AMONG tentative plans for com-memorating the 50th anniversary of powered flight in Canada is a re-enactmentat Baddeck Bay, Nova Scotia, of the Hon. J. A. D. McCurdy's take-off from the icethere on February 23, 1909, in Alexander Graham Bell's Silver Dart—a full-scalepiloted replica of which is being built by the R.C.A.F. TWO WIDGEONS are shortly to work in the Persian Gulf with Bristow Helicop- ters, Ltd., who are to operate them under charter from the British Petroleum Co., Ltd. Mr. and Mrs. Alan Bristow are seen with one of the eye- catching new West- lands before its shipment. With them (right) is Mr. David Collins, works direc- tor of Westland Air- craft, Ltd. H-3C. of A. AN airworthiness certificate has been issuedto the Nederlandse Helicopter Industrie's Kolibrie H-3. Some Kolibries are now inproduction for use in New Guinea and for spraying duties in Holland. Back to Germany LARGE numbers of British and Germansoldiers and civilians attended a ceremony at which a former Luftwaffe airfield atCelle-Weitzenbruch, which had been in use by the R.A.F. since 1945, was handedover to the West German Air Force. Fourteen for the Ferry FOURTEEN Avro Aircraft CF-lOOs willbe flown across the Atlantic from the R.C.A.F. station at Uplands later thismonth. They are the first of a batch of 53 being supplied to the Belgian Air Forceunder the joint Canadian - United States mutual aid plan. Poetic Injustice THE inventor of the "scoop-net" hen-copter air/sea rescue device, Lt-Cdr. John Sproule, was himself in need of assistancewhen his helicopter descended into Southampton Water while on a night-flying exercise. He was rescued—by boat. European Aeronautical Conference IN Brussels next year (September 22-27)the third European Aeronautical Confer- ence is to be held under the patronage ofAICMA (International Association of Aeronautical Manufacturers). It will beorganized by the aviation group of the Brussels Universal Exhibition in collabora-tion with GEBECOMA, the Belgian divi- sion of the international association.Details can be obtained from the Confer- ence Secretariat, 1470 Chausee de Haecht,Harm, Brussels. ''. Belfast in the Future A DEPUTATION of four M.P.s, repre-sentatives of the Association of Engineer- ing and Shipping Draughtsmen, and of theShort Brothers and Harland works com- mittee was received last week by Mr.Aubrey Jones, Minister of Supply, and Lord Glentoran, Northern IrelandMinister of Commerce. Its purpose was to discuss the future of the company inview of the labour situation in Northern Ireland and the technical loss due to dis-missal of skilled labour. The Minister emphasized that nearly all TransportCommand's Britannias were being made by the firm and undertook to acceleratedecisions on requirements which Shorts might fulfil. MEMORIAL to a pioneer: On the grave of Graham Gilmour at Mickleham, Surrey, may still be seen this representation (a not very accurate one) of the Martin- Handasyde mono- plane which he was flying when he met his death in a crash in the Old Deer Park, Richmond, Surrey, on February 17, 1912, while on a cross-country flightfrom Brookhnds,
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