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1959
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152 FLIGHT, 30 January 1959 HAWKER SIDDELEY DIRECTORSHIPS MEMBERSHIP of the Board of Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd.,the new subsidiary company in which the corporate structure of the recently formed Hawker Siddeley Aviation Division isvested, was announced this week. Sir Roy Dobson is chairman and Mr. Hugh Burroughes deputy chairman; the joint managing direc-tors are Mr. J. A. R. Kay and Mr. J. T. Lidbury; and the directors Mr. J. F. Robertson, Mr. S. D. Davis, Sir William Farren, SirSydney Camm and Mr. H. M. Woodhams. The secretary is Mr. T. E. Haynes. Sir Roy Dobson has been managing director of A. V. Roe andCo. Ltd. since 1941 and is also chairman of A. V. Roe (Canada) Ltd. and managing director of the Hawker Siddeley Group. Mr.Burroughes is deputy managing director of the Hawker Siddeley Group and is also on the Boards of the Glos'er Aircraft Co. Ltd.,Armstrong Siddeley Motors Ltd. and H. M. Hobson Ltd., among other companies. He was president of the S.B.A.C. from 1952 to1954 and is chairman of the Aircraft Research Association Ltd. Mr. Kay, who is 44 and a former Armstrong Whitworth andAvro apprentice, has been director and general manager of A. V. Roe and Co. Ltd. since 1950. After serving his apprentice-ship he remained with A. V. Roe in various appointments before leaving to become managing director of Northern Aircraft andEngineering Products Ltd., but in 1941 he returned to Avro as general superintendent, responsible for co-ordinating subsidiaryfirms and sub-contractors engaged on Lancaster production. He Lett to right: Mr. J. A. R. Kay, Sir Roy Dobson and Mr. J. T. Lidbury was made executive assistant to Sir Roy Dobson in 1947 andbecame a director in 1950. Mr. J. T. Lidbury joined the secretarial staff of Hawker AircraftLtd. in 1940, after twelve years with an insurance group in London, and in the following year was made assistant secretary.He is 46. In 1948 he became secretary of both Hawker Aircraft Ltd. and its subsidiary company, Hawker Sanders Ltd.,and subsequently of Hawker Aircraft (Blackpool) Ltd. on its formation in 1951. He was appointed to the Boards of HawkerAircraft Ltd. and Hawker Aircraft (Blackpool) Ltd. in that year and in 1953 became general manager of Hawker Aircraft Ltd.,assuming a similar post with the Blackpool company in 1956. Commenting on the new organization. Sir Roy Dobson said:"The Hawker Siddelev Aviation Division is now one single integrated unit combining research, design, development and pro-duction in the largest organization of its kind in this country and, indeed, in the Commonwealth. Our new executive team has a bigjob ahead. I think it is very encouraging to see our young execu- tives taking the lead." FRANK HILLIER f E record with regret the death last Sunday of Frank NortonHillier, formerly secretary-general of the Air League of the British Empire and editor of Air Pictorial. He had been very illfor over a year and last August it was announced that his successor in the Air League would be A. Cdre. G. J. C. Paul. A. Cdre. Paultook up his post last October. Frank Hillier was born in 1894 and had a busy and variedcareer in journalism before becoming foreign editor of the Daily Mail in 1935. In 1938 he was appointed press and publicityofficer of the Ministry of Home Security, and during the period 1941-48 was publicity controller at B.O.A.C. For a year thereafterbe was with British South American Airways, and he joined the Air League in 1950. BALLISTIC RESULTS N January 25 the U.S. Defense Department stated that theUnited States had at that time launched 65 ballistic missiles. The list was broken down as follows: Convair SM-65 AtlasICBM, 18 fired, 4 failures, 3 partially successful and 11 successful (two of which went the full range, one becoming an earth satellite); Douglas SM-75 Thor IRBM, 30 fired, 7 failures, 7 partiallysuccessful, 16 successful; Chrysler SM-78 Jupiter IRBM, 13 fired, 1 failure, 4 partially successful, 8 successful; Lockheed Polarissubmarine-launched IRBM, 4 fired, 1 failure, 3 partially success- ful. It was emphasized that launchings rated as successful did notnecessarily take place at the scheduled time nor achieve the programmed range. ADROITE ALOUETTE OPERATING from the fantail of the U.S. Navy destroyerEverett F. Larson, a Sud-Aviation Alouette II recently demonstrated its anti-submarine capabilities in the Pacific tosenior U.S. Navy officers. The helicopter carried dummy torpedoes and its take-off in less than a minute after sonar contact, andwithout previous warming-up, impressed observers. It was found that the destroyer's fantail (40ft by 28ft) served "more thanadequately" for take-off and landing, and another feature of the tests was that the Alouette used standard diesel fuel drawn fromthe Larsorfs tanks. The Alouette II, for which Republic Aviation Corporation holdsa U.S. manufacturing licence, is the only jet-powered helicopter certified by the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Administration. "I BENDIX IN PARIS ^T is claimed to be "the largest symposium and exhibitionever held by a private company in Europe" will be that sponsored by the Bendix Aviation Corporation at the HotelGeorge V in Paris from February 9-11. Intended principally for leaders of the French aircraft industry, the exhibit will be sup-ported by demonstrations and numerous papers read on such subjects as communications, hydraulics, selective calling and data-link systems, liquid oxygen systems, survival kits, aircraft starting and air-turbine drives. Invitations to participate are being ex-tended to Bendix customers, foreign affiliates, distributors and representatives in Western Europe. Enquiries may be addressedto Bendix Service Exportation, 144 Avenue des Champs Elysees, Paris 8. Commemorating the R.34"s first East to West and first double crossing of the Atlantic by air. this memorial was unveiled by A.V-M. J. G. Elton, Chief of Staff to the Chairman, British Joint Services Mission, at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, U.S.A., last month. The Memorial (a bronze plaque on a marble plinth) was donated by the Air League of the British Empire and the site (where the Airship moored) by the American Bosch Arma Corporation
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