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440 FLIGHT, 4 April 1958 FROM ALL QUARTERS CHASING THE ICE GREMLIN: Under this title Walter Gibb, Bristol chief test pilot, describes Britannia icing trials on pages 452-453 of this issue. Seen here are two of the three ice-detectors mounted on the vertical pylon. The tube in the foreground is the "oxometer," used for measuring water concentration. Arrow AirborneO N March 25, Janusz ("Zura") Zurakowski, senior developmentpilot of Avro Aircraft, Ltd., of Malton, Ontario, took the first pre-production CF-105 Arrow intercepter into the air for thefirst time. This great 34-ton aircraft, powered in its present form by two afterburning Pratt and Whitney J75 engines and designedfor a Mach number of some 2.3, is on order for the R.C.A.F. Production Arrow 2s are scheduled to have Orenda Iroquoisengines. There was no prior publicity to the first flight (picture below),but the Avro work-force of some 10,000 were released by the management just before the take-off. It was an overcast day atMalton, and Zura did not fly above 10,000ft; nevertheless it was not until 37 minutes after that he brought the white delta back tothe airfield, having checked the mass of instrumentation on board. He was "paced" by his former R.A.F. colleague "Spud" Potockiin a CF-100 and by F/L. Jack Woodman, R.C.A.F., in a Sabre. Zura's comments: "It handles very nicely; there were no troublesat all." America's Third Satellite 'THE third artificial earth satellite to be successfully launched by-*• the U.S.A. was fired into orbit by the U.S. Army from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday, March 26. Projected by a Jupiter Cfour-stage rocket, the satellite is known as Explorer III and is similar to the first Explorer launched on January 31. Initial reportsstated that the satellite's maximum altitude was approximately 2,000 miles: this implies a more eccentric orbit than scheduledand a relatively short lifetime was forecast. Other research-iocket news announced last week included thefiring in Russia of a single-stage rocket weighing almost 1£ tons to a record height of 294 miles on February 21. Malayan Twin Pioneer Handed Over N Thursday of last week the twenty-ninth Twin Pioneer fromthe Scottish Aviation production line was officially handed over to the High Commissioner for the Federation of Malaya,H.E. Tunku Yaacob, at a ceremony at Prestwick Airport. Accept- ing the machine, His Excellency said he hoped it might form thenucleus of a Royal Malayan Air Force. The aircraft, with a crew of four, was due to begin its delivery flight this week. A 16-passenger transport, this Twin Pioneer has been suppliedwith a conversion kit which allows rapid transformation of the cabin into a V.I.P. layout, for four passengers, two crew-membersand four attendants. The main units of this conversion attach to the standard seat-rails and include cabinets for refreshments andcocktails, desks and a decorative bulkhead; all are designed and made by Scottish Aviation, except for the four main seats, whichare made by Rumbold. There is a possibility of a further Federation Governmentorder for Twin Pioneers which will be fitted for such roles as supply-dropping, photography, jungle rescue, anti-piracy andoperations in support of ground forces. Prestwick Pioneers have long been carrying out such tasks in Malaya with the R.A.F.,operating from jungle strips as little as 150 yd long. This week's delivery to Malaya brings the number of TwinPioneers for civil customers to 12, with nine firm orders scheduled for delivery soon. In addition, the R.A.F. have ordered some,the first two of which are complete. The Malayan machine was No. 29 on the production line, but had been brought forward. "The Glory of Their Times" THE present issue of Flight commemorates the formation of theRoyal Air Force, on April 1, 1918, by the amalgamation of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service. Ourgreeting is mainly a pictorial one, and it is appropriately intro- duced, on page 454, with the first of a new series of drawings byLeonard Bridgman depicting historic Service aircraft. Mr. Bridg- man's choice for the occasion is the Sopwith Camel, probably thebest known of all the 1914-18 fighters. He will be continuing the series at intervals, choosing his subject as the spirit moves him,and in no particular sequence. Mr. Bridgman has a world-wide reputation for his ability toreconcile technical accuracy with artistic merit, and Flight welcomes his work to its editorial pages with the greatestsatisfaction. Suspension of P.16 FOLLOWING the loss of yet another of the prototypes of theF.F.A. P. 16 attack fighter, the Swiss Federal Military Depart- ment has suspended an order for 100 for which funds have beenvoted (Flight, March 14). The powerplants chosen are Armstrong Siddeley 200-series Sapphires, licence-built by Sulzer Bros. Catapult Trials EAD-LOAD trials," to test the operation of steam catapultsat various weights and end speeds, are being carried out on board H.M.S. Victorious at Portsmouth. The method used is tofire wheeled tanks (picture opposite), of various weights, which fall into the water some 200 yd ahead of the ship, where they floatand are then retrieved. Each of the carrier's steam catapults is being fired between 20 and 30 times a day and each one will befired about 250 times during the trials, which are to last five weeks. Apart from testing the catapults and analysing results, another ARROW IN THE AIR: First ground -to- air photograph of the Avro Aircraft Arrow, secured as Jan Zurakowski lifted it from the Malton run- way for the first time on March 25, as recorded on this page. The Arrow was fully described an^ illustrated in "Flight" ot October 25, 7957.
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