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1958
1958 - 0490.PDF
506 ON COURSE: Members of the Royal Aeronautical Society's third air transport course at Oxford (report, p. 510). Left to right: Front row: Capt. N. J. Robb, B.O.A.C; Capt. J. Cuddeford, B.O.A.C; D. C. Tennant, T.C.A. (resident lecturer, operations); S. F. Wheatcroft (resident lecturer, economics); Miss E. B. Croad (secretary); Dr. A. M. Bollantyne (director); K. G. Wilkinson (resident lecturer, operations); A. R. Barrowclough (resident lecturer, air law); F. N. Young, Vickers-Armstrongs; F. P. Stanton, Bristol Aero-Engines. Second row: N. A. Barfield, Vickers-Armstrongs; Capt. R. E. Hallam, B.O.A.C.; G. Yacoub, M.E.A.; J. R. Finnimore, B.O.A.C.; A. B. Lowe, English Electric; Capt. A. M. Carroll, B.O.A.C.; J. M. Eardley-Simpson, B.P.; Capt. B. C. Frost, B.O.A.C.; U. Vongsekamalasai, Thai Government; A. Stathalos, B.P., Greece; R. A. J. Kiddle, B.E.A.; F. M. Pisters, Air Research Bureau. Third row: A. Letts, Handley Page; W. A. Hamzeh, M.E.A.; Capt. C. A. Butler, B.O.A.C.; K. Pereesan, Air-India; E. P. D'Silva, Air-India; J. Nivison, B.O.A.C.; R. E. Thomas, Vickers-Armstrongs; R. Emoe, Aer Lingus; B. G. F. Bartlett, B.E.A., H. McL. Kendall, Shell-Mex and B.P. Back row: N. Birch, Rolls-Royce; A. H. Arbabi, Government of Iran; M. E. L. Spanyol, Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft; J. M. Ramsden, Flight; D. S. Warburton and E. Wilks, both Blackburn and General Aircraft; J. da S. Medina, Portuguese West Africa; L. C. Balderamos, British Honduras. FROM ALL QUARTERS . . . Royal Visit to Shoreham A VISIT by the Duke of Edinburgh to Shoreham Airport, pre-viously arranged for last year, will now take place on May 20. He is to drive there from Shoreham in the afternoon, after openingthe nuw harbour installations in the morning and then lunching with the Harbour Trustees and their guests. At the airport theDuke will visit F. G. Miles, Ltd., whose two latest aircraft, the Student and the HDM. 105, will be on view. He is to meet the heads of companies in the Miles group andinspect their premises and products. Dr. Cockburn on Guided Weapons ON April 10, a Royal Aeronautical Society main lectureentitled "Guided Weapons and Aeronautics" was read by Dr. R. Cockburn, C.B., O.B.E., Ph.D., the controller of guidedweapons and electronics, Ministry of Supply. His paper, which was in no sense intended to form an official statement, was a dis-cussion of "the impact of guided weapons on our concept of air power and on the field of aeronautics as a whole." Discussing the use of nuclear weapons, Dr. Cockburn said"military strength will depend more on resources accumulated in peace than the ability to out-produce the enemy in war; and moreon technical progress than on the size of front-line forces . . . There is thus little justification for maintaining capacity in peace-time solely for wartime expansion . . . For this country, at least, there can be no longer any question of duplication or of alterna-tive approaches to an operational requirement." He went on to review the interception of bombers by piloted fighters, one of hisconclusions being that "the ground-to-air guided weapon must SWISS HUNTER: As from April 3 last, when the first Hawker Hunter F.6 was delivered to Switzerland, the foregoing term assumed an aero- nautical as well as an horological connotation. The aircraft is seen below before leaving Dunsfold, and on the right Hawker chief test pilot Bill Bedford (left) and test pilot David Lockspeiser (right) are wishing bon voyage to the Swiss pilot Hans Hafliger. take over the task of air defence; it is no more dependent onits radar environment than the collision-course fighter, and it is superior in performance, lethality and economy of operation."Dr. Cockburn then discussed guided weapons (concentrating almost exclusively on anti-aircraft defence) and ballistic missiles,and concluded his paper with some comments on manned aero- planes. The latter, he said, "are still the only means of providingtransport, surveillance and tactical support, and the require- ments of peripheral war are likely to increase, rather thandecrease, the importance of these roles." Breguet Trophy Awarded FOR "many achievements of great value" in the sphere of heli-copters, Mr. Raoul Hafner has been awarded the Louis Breguet Trophy for 1957. Presented to the Royal Aero Club by the lateSir Richard Fairey to commemorate the work of Louis Breguet, the trophy is awarded annually to the Frenchman or Briton makingthe most meritorious achievement in the development of vertical- lift aircraft. The award to Mr. Hafner, who is chief designer(helicopters) of Bristol Aircraft, Ltd., is the second to be made, the first recipient being M. Morain of Sud-Aviation in 1956. Shorts Receive G.W. Contract (~* ONTAINED in a letter from the Parliamentary Secretary,^ Ministry of Supply, to Mr. A. McKibbin, M.P. for Belfast East is the information that Short Brothers and Harland havebeen awarded a development contract for "a small ship-to-air guided weapon." This is doubtless an outgrowth of the ShortSXA.5 missile programme. In October last year Sir Matthew Slattery, Short's chairman and managing director, announced anM.o.S. contract for the development of a test vehicle. Both the Short GPV and SXA.5 were described in our December 6 issue. «*«.
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