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1958
1958-1- - 0566.PDF
570 FROM ALL QUARTERS Farnborough and Exports ANTICIPATING, no doubt, the usual October crop of "No•**• Farnborough next year" rumours, the S.B.A.C. announced last week that the 1959 Show will be held in the first full week ofSeptember. The Society added that its council had "noted with satisfactioa" that at this year's event there were more overseasguests than ever before and that the number of exhibitors was a record. British aviation exports just prior to the Show—the Augustfigures, just announced—stood at £14,442,549—the third highest monthly figure ever achieved. Of this total, aircraft and partsaccounted for £9,883,835 and engines for £4,130,402. Sales of electrical equipment amounted to £229,667 and those of aero-nautical instruments and tyres to £146,955 and £51,690 respec- tively. Leading customers for August were the U.S. (£2,438,343worth of aircraft and parts), Western Germany (£2,406,474) and Canada (£1,163,879). Formosa Build-up DETAILS have been given by the U.S.A.F. of the "composite"air force deployed in the Far East since the Formosa crisis began. It consists of one squadron of F-104s; two of F-lOODs; oneof F-lOls; one of RF-lOls; one of B-57s; two of C-130s; and one of K-50s. The force, which was deployed "in a matter of hours"from eight bases in the U.S., is separate from other U.S.A.F. and U.S.N. aircraft operating in the area. HUGH MEREWETHER, Hawker test pilot, flew a Hunter F.6 from Duns- fold to Tobruk, 7,879 st. miles, in 3hr 19 min (548 m.p.h.) on October 2. The flight will rank not as a record, but as a "certified performance." Marconi Military Radars SOME 600 NATO, Commonwealth and civil aviation repre-sentatives last week saw a major demonstration of Marconi land and sea defence radar systems at Rivenhall, near Chelmsford.Particularly significant was a new range of ground defence equipment based on integrated S- and L-band high-power radarsusing back-to-back scanners on a single mounting. Logarithmic receivers with pulse-length discrimination and coherent M.T.I,present both radar pictures on a single tube. Fixed-coil display allows maximum use of symbols for rate-aided tracking and dis-play of map and fixed-marker information. Target vectors can be fed to a digital store now being developed. Combined withthis system, which was shown operated by a supervisor and trackers, is the new 3MW nodding, S-band height-finder cap- HEIGHT-FINpERS: First right, a Sounders-Roe Black Knight high- altitude vehicle being hoisted into a rig at High Down, l.o.W. The bull's-eye scored by the first round fired at Woomera was due largely to exhaustive testing here of the vehicle and its four-chamber Armstrong Siddeley motor (more details next week). Second right, Marconi's new radar height-finder (news item above). UGHT RESCUE: A nuclear-war casualty exercise held by the R.A.M.C. near Aldershot last Friday made extensive use of helicopters. The Fairey Ultra-light, flown by Peter Twiss, performed in the ambulance role, and the Rotodyne also appeared; noting that it could carry 48 wounded men, a senior officer described it as "very much the aircraft of our future." The Rotodyne landed on a nearby parade-ground. U.S. RECOGNITION of British achievement: two R.N. officers and three British civilians were recipients of high honours at the U.S. Embassy, •_ London, last Friday, for their aircraft-carrier developments. L. to r., Rear Admiral D. R. F. Cambell, D.S.C., Legion of Merit (co-inventor, angled deck); Cdr. H. C. N. Goodhart, Legion of Merit and Mr. D. Lean, Medal of Freedom (co-inventors, mirror sight); Mr. C. C. Mitchell, • O.B.E., Medal of Freedom (inventor, steam catapult); Mr. L. Boddington, C.B.E., Medal of Freedom (co-inventor, angled deck); and the U.S. Ambassador in London, Mr. John Hay Whitney. j able of taking 15 heights per minute and displaying them insequence with neon digits at the relevant operators' consoles. If a search sector is being jammed, the height-finder can be set to *scan above and below the origin of jamming, the picture being integrated to fill the gap in the main P.P.I, display. AdditionalB- and A-scopes can be used to expand and separate out in- dividual aircraft in a formation and markers can be used to pointout any one of them to an operator on another scope. Closed-circuit TV displays fighter "tote" boards at the supervisor's console. Much of the equipment at Rivenhall, never before publiclyshown, has particular significance in both defence and air-traffic control operations. An alternative transmitter for the height finderis made by the French C.S.F. company. IN BRIEF Following the recent merger agreement between the Dutch and Belgian Air Forces, and the joint plan to train their pilots in the Belgian Congo, the Belgian Air Force has ordered 45 Fouga 170 Magisters. * * * v Nineteen Migs (mark unspecified) flew over Baghdad from Habbaniyah • on October 1. They bore United Arab Republic markings and a radio announcement said that they were to strengthen the Iraqi Air Force. * * * Donald W. Douglas, founder and chief executive officer of the Douglas' Aircraft Company, is to receive the Franklin Medal, highest award of the Franklin Institute, on October 15 in recognition of "his creative engineering in the field of aeronautical design as exemplified in all his work, but particularly in the DC series of transport airplanes ..." * * * -"' A new department, devoted to aircraft materials, has been established at the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield, in order that students of the two-year postgraduate diploma course may read this subject as their main specialization. Advanced short courses in materials for external industry personnel are also envisaged. Head of the department is Prof. A. J.- Kennedy, B.Sc, Ph.D., A.M.LE.E., F.Inst.P.
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