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134 FLIGHT, 31 January 1958 HERE AND THERE Swiss Hunter Approval ON January 21 the military committee ofthe Lower House of the Swiss Federal Parliament voted in favour of buying 100Hawker Hunters, and it was expected that the House itself would give final consentto the purchase—which was agreed to by the Upper House last December. High Society A WOMAN lieutenant-colonel in theU.S. Civil Air Patrol, Miss Ruth Nichols, reached a height of 51,000ft on January21 in a Convair TF-102. She claims to have broken the world's altitude "record"for women by 3,000ft. Martin Research Director APPOINTED director of research for theMartin Co., Dr. Albert C. Hall will be in charge of technical activities associatedwith the Titan ICBM project at Denver. Noted for his work on missile control andguidance systems, Dr. Hall has been associated with Bendix Aviation Corpora-tion since 1950 and was previously at M.I.T., where he founded the dynamicanalysis and control laboratory and did considerable research and developmentwork on servomechanisms. U.S.A.F. Leaving Manston MAJOR U.S.A.F. operational and ad-ministrative units and personnel based at R.A.F. Station Manston are to bewithdrawn by the middle of this year. Manston, which is equipped with Fidoand has a 3,000 yd runway, is a master diversion airfield and the nearest R.A.F.base to the Continent. Air Ministry are considering its future use. U.S.A.F. unitsat present there include the H.Q. of No. 406 Fighter Intercepter Wing, Nos. 513and 514 (Fighter Intercepter) Sqns. and No. 92 (Fighter Bomber) Sqn. Lockheed Orpheus Order A NEW order has been placed with Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd., by the Lockheed Air- craft Corporation for Orpheus turbojets for the second prototype Jetstar, which RECOGNITION RECOGNIZED: Members of the Dutch team who (as recorded below) won four trophies in the Aircraft Recognition Society's contest, seen with Lt-Col. J. B. H. Bruinier, Netherlands Air Attache (second from left), and Mr. Peter Masefield (centre) who as president of the Society presented the trophies. The team members are (left to right) Pvt. A. van Niekerk; Lt J. Valette; and Sgt. W. Kroese. it had been expected would be fitted withAmerican engines. Last October, Lock- heed announced that a twin-Orpheus ver-sion of the Jetstar would be offered for sale as an alternative to the four-engined ver-sion using American units of lesser power. Initially the Orpheus was fitted to bringforward the date of the Jetstar's first flight, which was made on September 4, 1957. Airborne Washing Machines A PILOT scheme for the export of 2,000washing machines by truck-air services to Belgium, under a contract between theRubery Owen Group and Sabena, started last Monday. Transport by air means thatthe goods arrive in Brussels 48 hours after leaving Wolverhampton, compared with10 to 14 days by the land-sea route. Mr. Alfred Owen, chairman of Rubery Owen,said that the group was examining costs for a similar service to distributors inGermany, Austria and Scandinavia. Dutch Recognition Success FOUR trophies were won by the RoyalNetherlands Air Force in the Aircraft Recognition Society's tenth annual all-England contest, held at the Royal Insti- tution on January 18. The Dutch teamgained the Silver Hurricane trophy, which is awarded to the outright winnersof the contest and this year was taken abroad for the first time; it carried off theViscount trophy (awarded to the best Ser- vices team competing); one of its members,Pvt. A. van Niekerk, won the Bristol Britannia trophy as the highest individualscorer—with 33 points out of a possible 35; and the team took back with it toHolland a Fokker D-21 trophy which had earlier been presented to the Society bythe Dutch Chief of Air Staff, to be awarded to the Services competitor with the highestscore—on this occasion Lt. J. Valette of the R.N.A.F. The H. P. Heracles trophywas won by No. 276 (Chelmsford) Sqn. of the A.T.C., who with 90 points out of 105were only one point behind the Dutch team; and Cpl. C. M. Hewlett of No. 276Sqn. won the Air Pictorial trophy as the highest individual A.T.C. scorer. Mr.Peter Masefield, managing director of Bristol Aircraft, Ltd., who is presi-dent of the Recognition Society (and who donated the Britannia trophy), pre-sented the awards; and earlier in the afternoon he received from Lt-Col. J. B.H. Bruinier, the Netherlands Air Attache, the Fokker D.21 trophy presented by theDutch C.A.S. Moscow Flap ORNITHOPTERS—flapping-wing air-craft—are occupying the attention of two Russian designers, according to a Moscowreport. One, Smirnov, has modelled his wing-shape on that of a bird and the other,Rybnikov, has followed an insect pattern. Their research is being carried out underthe Eegis of the so-called "flapping wing flight committee" attached to D.O.S.A.A.F.(Voluntary Society for Co-operation with the Army, Air Force and Navy). U.S.S.R. Hypersonics IN a Moscow Radio broadcast Prof.Vladimir Pyshnow, described as an aero- dynamics expert, said that in the nearfuture Soviet engineers would be able to build aircraft capable of flying at Mach 5.Excellent turbojet and rocket engines suit- able for this purpose and developing"hundreds of thousands of horse-power" were already in existence, Prof. Pyshnowclaimed; and the problems of flight at hypersonic speeds were being studied. RUSSIAN ORNITHOPTER models are seen in these pictures received by wire from a Soviet official source. The one on the right, said to be designated OH-EM-3, was photographed during wind-tunnel tests (see "Moscow Flap," above).
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