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1958
1958 - 0460.PDF
476 FLIGHT, 11 April 195S VIEWER of closed-circuit television screen in the control-room of the new Blackburn high-speed wind tunnel is the First Sea Lord, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten, who performed the opening ceremony on March 24. He is accompanied by Mr. Eric Turner (chairman); and in the background are, I. to r., Mr. A. G. Smith, head of aerodynamics, and Mr. N. E. Rowe, technical director. The equipment of the tunnel was described in "Flight" last week. HERE AND THERE First Swiss Hunter Delivered THE first of the 100 Hawker Huntersordered by the Swiss Air Force was delivered on April 3. It was flown fromDunsfold to an airfield near Lucerne by a Swiss test pilot, Hans Hafliger. The 517-mile flight took 54 mins, an average speed of approximately 575 m.p.h. The contractfor the supply of 100 Hunters at a cost of £13m was signed in Geneva on January 31.Deliveries are due to be completed by the end of next year. Thrustful Trident A SUD-AVIATION Trident 2, piloted byJacques Guignard, climbed from ground level to 60,000ft in 2 min 50 sec in theMarseilles area on March 31. This was 56 sec faster than the time-to-height recordset up by the Nord Gerfaut 2 last year. PR.9 Order Cut IT was announced on April No Fuel Shortage A U.S.A.F. KC-135 tanker landed at theR.N.Z.A.F. airfield, Ohakea, on March 27 after making the first non-stop trans-Pacific flight from California to New Zealand—a distance of about 5,000 miles—in 15 hours. WORLD AIR TRANSPORT NEXT week's issue of Flight, datedApril 18, will be the annual "Airlines of the World" number. Reviewingworld transport operations in detail, this enlarged special issue will forma valuable work of reference. 1 by Short Brothers and Harland, Ltd., that theMinistry of Supply have reduced the num- ber of Canberra PR.9 aircraft on order fromthem. Shorts have been responsible for the engineering development and production ofthis, the most advanced type of Canberra. A number of PR.9s are expected to fly thisyear. Escaper's Lecture LECTURES on Second World War Fly-ing and Escape from Stalag Luft III will be given to members of the Kronfeld Clubby Mr. O. L. S. Philpot on April 16 (8 p.m., 74 Basement, Eccleston Square, London,S.W.I). Underwater Ejection DEVELOPED by Lt-Cdr. J. Rawlins,R.N., an escape system based on the orthodox ejection seat enables pilots to AD ASTRA: On an exchange posting to the 83rd Fighter- Intereepter Squadron at Hamilton A.f.B., Calif — ML. John Nichols of the R.A.F. Wearing an MC-4 pressure suit, he is seen with one of the squadron's Lockheed F-104A Starfighters. escape from aircraft under water. Follow-ing a special drill, the pilot is shot through the canopy and some 15ft away from theaircraft; he then floats to the surface wilt the aid of his Mae West. Operation Caterpillar EDGAR PERCIVAL E.P.9 aircraft ownedby Super-Spread Pty., Ltd., have been spraying farmland varying from four to2,000 acres in extent following a plague of caterpillars in the Melbourne and southernVictoria areas of Australia. R.A.F. Anniversary Concert IN the presence of the Duchess of Kent,the R.A.F. Anniversary Concert will be held at the Festival Hall, London, onApril 18. Her Royal Highness is president of the R.A.F. Benevolent Fund, in aid ofwhich the concert is given. This will be the third R.A.F. concert at which Sir JohnBarbirolli has conducted the Halle Orches- tra and the Central Band of the R.A.F. Bloodhound Inspection WHEN the Minister of Supply, Mr,Aubrey Jones, visited the guided weapons establishment of Ferranti, Ltd., at Wythen-shawe, Manchester, recently (see picture below) he said that the Bristol/Ferranti MODEL BLOODHOUND studied by Mr. Aubrey Jones during a visit (see above) to the Ferranti works. With him is the model's maker, champion apprentice Arthur Jackson. Bloodhound would go into R.A.F. servicethis autumn. The Minister was met by the company chairman, Sir Vincent de Ferranti,and shown round by Dr. Norman Searby, head of the establishment. Instrumentation Lecture LECTURING on April 18 during theconference being held in connection with the Instruments, Electronics and Automa-.'tion Exhibition at Olympia (April 16-25) is E. B. Dorling, Ph.D., of the R.A.E.Farnborough. His subject is Instrumenta- , tion and High Altitude Rockets. Holidays by Road A ROAD map and touring guide, coveringholiday areas in Great Britain and North- ern and Southern Ireland, and consistingof four 16-page loose insets, is being pre- sented with four consecutive issues of ourassociated journal The Motor Cycle, start- ing with the special Holiday Numberappearing next Thursday, April 17. Each map is supplemented by a guide to placesof historic and scenic interest, and a town- to-town mileage chart is included.
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