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1959
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32 FLIGHT STAND-IN BOMBERS: Left, a Canberra U.10 drone, adapted by Short and Harland, takes itself oft on a test flight at Woomera. Right, adapted by Vickers- Armstrongs before delivery to the A. V. Roe Weapons Research Division for trials with, the Blue Steel stand-oft powered bomb, this Valiant has aerodynamic fairings for the weapon. Here a dummy round is visible beneath its belly FROM ALL QUARTERS Debuts at Farnborough SEVERAL first appearances are due to be made at this year'sFarnborough display—by the Vickers Vanguard, A.W.A. Argosy (a military order for which is expected to be signedshortly), D.H. Comet 4B, SR-N1 Hovercraft, English Electric P.ll, Folland Gnat Trainer, the Conway-powered Handley PageVictor B.2 and the Dart-powered Handley Page Herald. The Saunders-Roe P.531 helicopter, seen for the first time last year,is to fly with the new Blackburn A.129 engine; and a Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer with up-rated Leonides engines will par-ticipate in the flying display. • ^ ;_:,:;•__.;:-.:.:„ _..;•..;_ . Hawker Siddeley's Folland Offer AN offer has been made by the Hawker Siddeley Group Ltd.• to purchase for cash all the issued 1,550,000 ten shilling Ordinary shares of Folland Aircraft Ltd. at 10s 6d a share. TheFolland directors are accepting in respect of their own holdings (amounting to 21,875 shares) and recommend shareholders toaccept. The Hawker Siddeley Group intend to carry on the Follandbusiness "without major disturbance for the present," but both Mr. W. E. W. Petter, the managing director, and Mr. E. N. Egan,assistant managing director, are to relinquish their appointments. If the Hawker Siddeley offer goes through, Mr. Petter is to receive£15,000 compensation for loss of office and Mr. Egan £7,500. Mr. Pettcr joined the company from English Electric in 1950 andhas been responsible for the Midge and Gnat designs. Before going to English Electric, where he headed the Canberra designteam, he was with Westland Aircraft from 1929 to 1944. Coventry to Kingston A LEADING authority on hypersonic flight, Dr. W. F. Hilton•**-is transferring from Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Air- craft Ltd. to Hawker Siddeley Aviation's advanced projects group,with which he has already been co-operating. At Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft, which he joined nine years ago as chief aero-dynamicist and where he was given a free hand to design and build the company's supersonic wind tunnel, Dr. Hilton has beenresponsible for much of the wind-tunnel testing of Seaslug; and he has done much research on the problem of re-entry by amanned space vehicle. SANDWICH MEN: At this week's symposium on com- posite structures and ma- terials, at Syracuse Univer- sity Research Institute, New York, the only non- American lecturers were Mr. John Fielding (left) and Mr. Alfred Holt, both senior executives of the A. V. Roe Engineering Research Division. They described the company's work on honeycomb and corrugated-sandwich structures -.a Building R.C.A.F. Starfighters TT is announced that Canadair Ltd. is to build the airframes and•*- Orenda Engines Ltd. the General Electric J79 powerplants for 200 Lockheed Starfighters ordered by the Canadian Govern-ment to re-equip R.C.A.F. squadrons at present operating Canadair-built Sabres. This was announced last week by theMinister of Defence, Mr. R. O'Hurley. The airframe contract is worth $91m and the engine order some $80m. Other contractshave still to be awarded. Westland-Saro Appointments FOLLOWING the announcement that the Hon. H. N. Morgan-Grenville and Capt. E. D. Clarke of Saunders-Roe Ltd. had accepted invitations to join the Board of Westland Aircraft Ltd.(last week, p. 2), it is learned that the Hon. H. N. Morgan-Grenville (Saunders-Roe chairman), Sir Arthur Gouge (deputy-chairman)and Mr. F. E. N. St. Barbe have resigned from the Board of Saunders-Roe. Mr. Eric Mensforth (Westland chairman) nowbecomes chairman of Saunders-Roe; Mr. E. C. Wheeldon, West- land managing director, becomes deputy chairman; and Capt.E. D. Clarke remains as managing director. Additions to the Saunders-Roe Board from Westland are D. C. Collins (Westlandworks director), D. L. Hollis Williams (Westland technical director) and W. Oppenheimer (Westland financial director). Mr.M. H. C. Gordon, general manager of the Saunders-Roe Helicopter Division, becomes a director. Another change in the Westland Board is that Mr. D. C.Collins, works director, now assumes the additional position of deputy managing director. Dowty Group's Year IN his annual report the Dowty Group Ltd. chairman, SirGeorge Dowty, comments that there is insufficient civil busi- ness to provide work for more than a fraction of those nowemployed in the aircraft industry and that without Government orders it cannot continue to operate. The problem it now faces,he adds, is the lack of knowledge of the volume of Government orders that can be expected; at present the industry is "withoutany forward programme." Figures published with the report (presented in advance of thegeneral meeting on September 4) show the Group's net profit, after taxation, to be £1,078,139 compared with £928,472 for theprevious financial year. Engines in the News /COMMERCIAL Rolls-Royce Conways will enter service at a^ guaranteed minimum rating of 17,500 lb, 1,000 lb higher than the figure originally specified. Rolls-Royce say that the verysatisfactory experience gained during Conway development has enabled the new rating to be introduced some 12 to 18 monthsearlier than promised. The A.R.B. have authorized B.O.A.C. to operate Rolls-RoyceAvon RA.29 engines (Comet 4) to 1,300 hr between overhauls and to run selected engines to 1,600 hr on a trial basis. Perform-ance of the commercial Avon has been outstanding; during the first nine months of operation only four engines have beensubjected to unscheduled removal and only one has had an unscheduled overhaul, representing a rate of one unscheduledoverhaul per 49,000 hr. D.H. Engines announce that the second production GnomeH.1000 achieved its brochure power 900 r.p.m. below that laid
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