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1958
1958 - 0807.PDF
CRANE-DRIVERS: Westland chief test pilot W. H. ("Slim") Sear, on left of group, with co-pilot Leo Devigne and flight-test observer Gerry Smallridge, after they had given a 64-minute maiden outing to the "crane" version of the Westland Westminster— seen airborne at right—at Yeovil last Sunday. (News item, opposite page.) Air Ministry; G. W. Pitt, director, Eagle Aviation, Ltd.; L. Riley, worksmanager, Burnley Aircraft Products, Ltd.; H. G. Roberts, senior tech- nical superintendent, No. 33 M.U., R.A.F. Lyneham; C. P. V. Roche,lately airport commandant, Jersey; S. J. O. Sarr, station manager, West African Airways Corporation; J. I. T. Scallon, secretary, Vosper, Ltd.;H. B. Stewait, chief photographer, B.E.A.; Maj. J. Stokes, technical director, Louis Newmark, Ltd.; R. Thurley, station superintendent,B.E.A., Belfast; S. T. Warne, higher executive officer, Air Ministry; G. T. White, works manager, guided weapons division, Sir W. G.Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft, Ltd.; E. A. Williams, secretary of committee, No. 936 (Hertford) Sqn., A.T.C. Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air—Capt.N. R. G. Barker, sen. capt. 2nd class, B.E.A.; S/L. J. S. Booth (deceased), lately chief test pilot, Saunders-Roe, Ltd.; Capt. R. F.Caspareuthus, staff pilot, Civil Aviation Directorate, E. Africa; Capt. D. W. Fenton, chief pilot and operations manager, Malayan Airways,Ltd.; Capt. H. L. M. Glover, sen. capt. 1st class, B.O.A.C; G. L. Howitt, test pilot, Air Registration Board; Capt. J. Munro, sen. capt. 1st class,B.E.A.; Capt. A. C. J. Scadding, sen. capt. 1st class, B.O.A.C. Sailplane-collision Escapes AT Lasham gliding centre last Saturday, June 14, a Surrey' Gliding Club Slingsby Eagle T42A collided in cloud with a privately owned Sky at an altitude of 4,200ft.The crew of the Eagle, Geoffrey Barrell and Julian Merfield, both qualified pilots, baled out and landed uninjured about threemiles from the airfield. The pilot of the Sky, Lasham full-time instructor and ground controller John Messervy, found after pre-paring to bale out that the aircraft would fly laterally level at 65 kt, so he decided to attempt a landing at that speed. Usingfull opposite aileron, he achieved flat turns with his rudder, and made a normal landing although over 14ft of his port wing, includ-ing all the aileron, had been removed. Royal Visit to Air Trainers LAST Friday the Duke of Edinburgh toured the Aylesbury' factories of Air Trainers Link, Ltd., and sampled several of the simulators and trainers being made there. Main productionfor the Services is centred on simulators for Hunter 6 and 56 (the latter for the Indian Air Force), Vulcan, Scimitar and P.1B. LONG-RANGE MEMENTO: Air Marshal Sir Gilbert Nicholetts (right), Inspector-General of the R.A.F., visiting the recent Napier exhibition in London, was presented with a model of the Fairey Long-range Mono- plane (Napier Lion) in which, with S/L. 0. R. Gayford, he made a 5,309-mz/e record flight to Africa in 1933. A.V-M. Sir Conrad Collier, Napier director, is seen making the presentation. NO WAVE-OFF: The Duke of Edinburgh making a simulated deck landing in the Air Trainers (Link) general purpose deck landing trainer. With him is Mr. M. Cox, project manager, deck landing trainer. Mechanical analogue computers for industry and trainers forcar driving, single- and two-seat aircraft and deck-landing are also being developed or produced. The company was the first toemploy D.C. as distinct from A.C. computation and this has been taken up by several companies in the U.S.A. Comet 4B andVanguard simulators are to be delivered to B.E.A. next year. Winter Hill InquiryL AST week evidence was heard at the public inquiry in London•* which is concerned with the accident to a Silver City Bristol Freighter on February 27. The aircraft, which was on a charterflight carrying Isle of Man motor traders to Manchester, struck the ground three-quarters of a mile from the TV mast on WinterHill, Bokon, with the loss of 35 lives. The crew survived. As with most inquiries of this kind, piecemeal summarizing ofthe day-to-day evidence does not always give a fair picture of the proceedings. As we go to press, however, with the inquiry still inprogress, it is apparent that the main contentions of the Crown are that (1) the first officer had tuned in his A.D.F. to the wrongbeacon—Oldham instead of Wigan, and (2) that a turn had been made on the instructions of Manchester Control, whose radar hadshown the aircraft—which was cleared to Wigan at 1,500ft—to be off course. The Freighter, which had been in cloud, struck Winter Hill(1,498ft) less than half a minute later. IN BRIEF A production order for "a substantial number" of Wessex helicoptersfor the Royal Navy has been placed with Westland Aircraft, Ltd., by the Ministry of Supply. Delivery is expected to begin early next year. A world altitude record for helicopters is to be claimed for a Sud Aviation Alouette which attained a height of 36,360ft—in only 35 min —from Bretigny on June 13. The Avro Arrow was involved in an accident at Malton Airport onJune 11 when a tyre burst on landing. The aircraft swerved off the run- way and its undercarriage collapsed. There was not much damage, andtest pilot Jan Zurakowski was uninjured, R.A.F. Hunters of No. 56 Sqn. aerobatic team (which is led byS/L. R. J-. S. Dickinson), a Vulcan of No. 617 Sqn. and the C.F.S. Jet Provosts are among Service aircraft participating in the R.A.F.A.displays at Exeter Airport (South-Western Area) and Staverton Airport (Midland Area) on June 28. The only surviving Gloster Gladiator isalso due to make an appearanoe at Staverton.
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