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1959
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594-595 FLIGHT, 1 May 1959 FROM ALL QUARTERS Berlin Corridor RightsD EFINING Britain's attitude on high flying in the Berlincorridors the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, said in a written Parliamentary answer last week that the Government heldthe view that Allied aircraft "had the right to fly in to Berlin along the air corridors at any altitude." The Government con-sidered that this right "should be exercised from time to time as necessary;" it was the responsibility of individual Alliedgovernments to decide what orders should be given to the pilots of their aircraft flying along the corridors. King Hussein Flies Hunter and Victor TOURING a flight from Dunsfold on Monday, King Hussein ofU Jordan (who had already earned the title of world's fastest monarch by being flown in a Lockheed F-104B two-seater at1,420 m.p.h.) himself piloted a Hunter two-seater and exceeded the speed of sound, reaching Mach 1.03. He was accompanied byFrank Bullen, Hawkers' chief production test pilot. The aircraft was one for India, powered by a Rolls-Royce Avon 203 and armedwith two 30 mm cannon. Afterwards King Hussein said that he was greatly impressed with the Hunter's handhng qualities andthat he had been to 45,000ft. He added that the Jordanian Air Force was to receive perhaps two more squadrons of Hunters andsome Hunter Trainers. Col. Othman, Jordanian C.A.S., also flew in a T.7 on Monday, with Duncan Simpson. On the previous Friday the King had visited R.A.F. StationCottesmore and flown in a Handley Page Victor with W/C. C. Owen. He spent some 70 min in the air and took the controlshimself. The landing was made at Farnborough. Among those who met him at Cottesmore were Mr. Airey Neave, Air ChiefMarshal Sir Hubert Patch, Air Chief Marshal Sir Harry Broad- hurst, and A.V-M. K. B. B. Cross. THE QUEEN'S BEASTS: Viewing a display which included seven English Electric Thunderbirds, during her tour of Stevenage New Town on April 20, Her Majesty is seen with Mr. H. G. Nelson, chairman of English Electric Aviation Ltd. Four of the Thunderbirds—destined for Australia—had been brought from the packing bay German Orpheus Production AN agreement for the licence-manufacture of Bristol Siddeley•**• Orpheus 803 engines in West Germany was signed in Coblenz on April 22 by the West German Defence Ministry and the com-pany. The 803 powers the Fiat G-91, the NATO standard light- weight tactical fighter aircraft, 150 of which are to be built underlicence in West Germany. The engine contract is said to be worth £434,000 sterling. Bristol Siddeley Engines Ltd. announced last week that two oftheir directors, Dr. S. G. Hooker and A.Cdre. F. R. Banks, had resigned from the Board of the Bristol Aeroplane Co. Ltd. "inorder to devote themselves exclusively to their duties as executive directors of Bristol Siddeley Engines Ltd." The company also announces that Mr. F. T. Blakey has beenappointed a special director and joint business manager, and that Mr. Frank Shutt has been appointed secretary in succession toMr. Blakey. Date with Venus A BRAVE French attempt to have a closer look at Venus, nowat its nearest point to the Earth, proved unsuccessful on April 24. It was made by M. Audouin Dollfuss, head of the astrophysicallaboratory at Meudon Observatory, who took off at dusk on April 23 from Villacoublay airfield near Paris in a sealed aluminiumgondola suspended from a "chain" of a hundred hydrogen-filled weather balloons. He hoped to reach a height of 70-80,000ft andto remain aloft for about 12 hours; but his flight ended at two o'clock the following morning when he landed safely in a fieldabout 100 miles south-east of Paris. His maximum altitude had been given as about 38,000ft. Sperry at Bracknell THE new factory built for the Sperry Gyroscope Co. Ltd. atBracknell, Berks, by the Bracknell Development Corporation was officially opened by the Minister of Supply (Mr. AubreyJones) last Friday. It stands on a site of some 104 acres and houses the company's research, development and manufacturing facilitiesengaged on major Government contracts, notably for the control system of Sea slug and the guidance system for Blue Streak. During his tour of the Bracknell laboratories the Minister, whowas accompanied by a number of leading M.o.S. representatives, saw every aspect of the critical engineering work involved inequipment for the two missile systems. Among those in the BRACKNELL DIVISION of the Sperry Gyroscope Co. Ltd. was visited on April 24 by Mr. Aubrey Jones, Minister of Supply (see news item on this page). On the Minister's right is Mr. H. B. Sedgfield (direc- tor and manager, Brack- nell), and on his left Mr. Robert Brood bent (Sperry managing director). Lower left, examining Seaslug control units. Lower right, with Mr. D. S. Barnes (Sperry deputy engineering superintendent, Seaslug)
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