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1958
1958 - 0006.PDF
FLIGHT, 3 January 1958 HERE AND THERE Tu-104s for Brazil? IT is reporred that the Brazilian airline Panair do Brasil are considering the pur- chase of Tu-104s. No further details are available as Flight goes to press. France's New Carrier THE first aircraft carrier to be built inFrance since the war was launched at Brest on December 21. Named Clemenceau, the27,000-ton vessel will have the British angled deck, steam catapult, and mirrorlanding aid. She will carry 60 aircraft. Breguet-Dornier Agreement CO-OPERATION in the production ofcivil and military aircraft is the purpose of an agreement to be drawn up between theWest German Dornier works and the French Breguet company. The plan wasannounced by the German Association of Aircraft Industries. Griffon Excelsior DURING recent test nights from Istresa Nord 1500 Griffon, powered by an Atar E3 and a ramjet, achieved Mach 1.85 in aclimb; its best performance to date has been a vertical speed of 1,250 m.pJi. whenflown by Armand Jacquet. This the manu- facturers believe to be the highest speedever aciiieved by an aircraft in vertical flight after taking off under its own power. Aluminium Enterprise FIRS T metal was poured at the new alu-minium smelter of the Canadian British Aluminium Co., Ltd., at Baie Comeau,Quebec, on December 23—less than 20 months after work on the site began. This JETTISONING the remains of its fer- tilizer load after a recent topdressing demonstration at Rearsby, an Auster Agricoia gives an unintentional but spectacular imita- tion of a rocket- assisted take - off. The Agricoh can carry three-quarters of a ton of dry agricultural chemi- cals or 144 gallons of crop-spray fluid. marked the completion of the first of thefour production stages of the £50m plant, which will eventually have an annual out-put of 160,000 long tons of virgin alu- minium ingot. Mark of Esteem TO mark his 40 years' association withBoulton Paul Aircraft, Mr. J. D. North (chairman and managing director) has beenpresented with a piece of antique silver. Works personnel from cleaners to direc-tors subscribed to the presentation, which was made at the annual Christmas lun- UNVEILED in the officers' mess at the R.A.F. Technical College, Henlow, last month was this portrait of Lord Trenchard. Air Marshal Sir George R. Beamish, A.O.C-in-C. Technical Training Command, performed the ceremony. Looking on are Sir Frederick Handley Page (right) who presented the portrait to the College, and G/C. D. Smythe, station commander at Henlow. Sir George Beamish, a former pupil of the College, is shortly retiring from the Service. cheon by Mr. Geoffrey Haynes (directorand secretary). At the same function, the Rex Farran Memorial Trophy was pre-sented to D. E. Johnston, best all-round senior apprentice for 1957. Scrapped Meteors SIXTEEN Gloster Meteors of the RoyalDutch Air Force have been sold for scrap at 1,600 guilders (about £150) each. Theyhad no instruments, armament, radio, or cameras. C.P.A.'s Britannias BRISTOL AIRCRAFT have undertakento deliver the first of Canadian Pacific Air Lines' six Britannia 314s on February 15.They will be used on the airline's polar services between Canada and Europe. T.W.A.'s President Resigns THE president of T.W.A., Mr. Carter L.Burgess, has resigned as a result of a "dis- agreement" with Mr. Howard Hughes,T.W.A.'s largest shareholder. Until re- cently, notwithstanding Mr. Hughes' in-fluence on T.W.A.'s re-equipment policies, the two men had never met. The Big Recognition Contest ON Saturday, January 18, the eleventhannual All-England Aircraft Recognition Contest takes place at the Royal Institution,London. Some details of entries received were given in Flight last week, but appli-cations may still be made to the hon. secretary of the Aircraft RecognitionSociety at 15 Tavistock Street, London. W.C.2 (Temple Bar 7238). Hercules for Germany SOME thousand Hercules piston engine?are being built by the French S.N.E.C.M.A. company, under Bristol licence, and it wafannounced last week that deliveries to Ger- many had begun, to meet the needs O'German-built Noratlas airframes. Over 60C engines have already been delivered foithe French Noratlas programme. Overhau period is 1,000 hr in military service, buthe Armee de l'Air are proving ten engine for 1,200 hr.
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