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No. 2634 VOLUME 76 Editor-in-Chief MAURICE A. SMITH DFX. FRIDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 1959 AIRCRAFT, SPACECRAFT, MISSILES Official Organ of the Royal Aero Club First Aeronautical Weekly in the World Founded 1909 Editor H . F. KING M.B.E. Technical Editor W. T. CU NSTO N Production Editor ROY CASEY Iliffe & Sons Ltd., Dorset House, Stam-ford Street, London, S.E.I; telephone Waterloo 3333. Telegrams FlightpresSedist London. Annual subscriptions: Home £4 15s, Overseas £5. Canadaand U.S.A. $15.00. Second Class Mail" privileges authorized at New York, N.Y. Branch Offices Coventry: 8-10 Corpora-tion Street; telephone Coventry 25210. Birmingham: King Edward House, NewStreet, 2; telephone Midland 7191. Man- Chester: 260 Deansgate, 3; telephoneBlackfriars 4412 or Deansgate 3695. Glasgow: 26B Renfleld Street, C.2;telephone Central 1265. New York, N.Y.: Thomas Skinner & Co.(Publishers) Ltd., Ill Broadway, 6; telephone Digby 0-1137. © Iliffe & Sons Ltd., 1959. Permissionto reproduce illustrations and letterpress can be granted only under written agree-ment. Brief extracts or comments may be made with due acknowledgement. Home FixtureT HIS year has been a great one for air displays: probably the greatest ever. In April the Americans (who for some curious reason had not formerly been given to such manifestations) showed their hand at Las Vegas with a "World Congress of Flight"; and as lately as June the French presented their own chef-d'oeuvre, the 23rd Salon International de PAeronautique. These, of course, were international occasions, whereas the S.B.A.C. Display, the twentieth of which takes place at Farnborough next week, is a domestic affair. Comparisons are bound to be made, however, and we in Britain are quite content that this should be so, for Farnborough has a particular purpose and offers particular pleasure—something, in any case, that contrasts with the feverish avalanching of the Las Vegas jackpots and the stupefying sumptuousness of a Parisian banquet. This is not to suggest that there is any bogus Olde Englishe quaintness about it. Anyone who comes expecting a quiet game of croquet on the lawn is in for a jolt, though it would be apt to liken Farnborough to a thumping good game of cricket on the village green, with the local side (a hard-working lot— they knocked up a cool hundred million between January and July this year) out to catch the eye of the international selection committee while giving their home supporters some fast and fancy action. On the teams' behalf Flight welcomes all comers. In this Issue From all Quarters 100 Airco D.H.121 102 Straight and Level 103 Air Commerce 104 Missiles and Spaceflight 108 British Aircraft 1959:— Introduction 111 Armstrong Whitworth 112 Auster 114 Avro 4 Blackburn 116 Bristol 7 deHavilland 118 English Electric 120 Fairey 122 Folland 4 Garland-Bianchi 124 Glosttr 125 Handley Page 125 Hawker 127 Hunting 9 Jackaroo 129 Lancashire 130 Miles 130 Phoenix 0 Rollason 130 Saunders-Roe 131 Scottish Aviation ... ... ... 131 Short Brothers & Harland 132 Vickers-Armstrongs 133 Westland 136 Sailplanes 8 British Aero Engines 1959:— Alvis 139 Blackburn 139 Bristol Siddeley 140 deHavilland 142 Napier 143 Rolls-Royce 144 British Missiles 1959:— Armstrong Whitworth... ... ... 146 Avro 147 Bristol 7 deHavilland 148 English Electric 149 Fairey 149 Pye 150 Short Brothers & Harland 150 Vickers-Armstrongs 150 Accessory Manufacturers' Twelvemonth 151 Ancillary Industry 1959 I Going to Farnborough ... XXVII 11-18 Moskva 187 Sport and Business 188 Correspondence 189 Service Aviation 190
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