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1959
1959 - 2053.PDF
100 FLIGHT IN PLAN is seen Northrop's new N-1S6F Freedom Fighter, now on offer to the world's air forces, slow-rolling over California and displaying its tip-mounted Sidewinder missiles. In plan also, three Russian parachutists are seen as true comrades FROM ALL QUARTERS o1Pre-Farnborough Boom|N the eve of Farnborough, the S.B.A.C. has announced that' during the first seven months of this year the aircraft industry exported a record £100m-worth of aircraft, aero-engines, partsand components. The January-July total was £99,380,111, an increase of 10.6 per cent over last year's equivalent figure, whichwas itself 50 per cent over that for 1957. All this yeaPs figures— £5 8.3m for aircraft, £36.6m for engines, £2.3m for electricalequipment, £1,587,663 for instruments and £462,814 for tyres— are record totals for the first seven months of any year. Leadingbuyers were India (£10,997,270), Switzerland (£5,768,874), West Germany (£5,349,108) and Argentina (£4,435,861). Missiles on Show SEVERAL missiles are making first appearances in the guidedweapons park at next week's S.B.A.C. Show. One is Blue Streak, the long-range weapon for which de Havilland PropellersLtd. are prime contractors (it will be shown as a 15ft model inside the static show); another is the Short Seacat, which made its publicdebut at the Paris show in June; and a Bristol Siddeley Thor ramjet, powerplant of the Bloodhound, will be revealed in cutawayform. M.o.S. exhibits (as described on p. xxviii) include Black Knight—developed jointly by the R.A.E. and Saunders-Roe—andMalkara; and other missiles on Farnborough view are the Arm- strong Whitworth Seaslug, Bristol/Ferranti Bloodhound, EnglishElectric Thunderbird, two private venture anti-tank missiles—by Vickers-Armstrongs and Pye respectively, the Australian Jindivikand a D H. Propellers Firestreak. R.A.F. at Farnborough FOUR Commands of the Royal Air Force are being representedin next week's flying display during the S.B.A.C. Show. Each afternoon's R.A.F. participation is to begin with a fly-pastof aircraft from Bomber and Fighter Commands: three Victors from No. XV Sqn. at Cottesmore and three Vulcans from No. 230O.C.U. at Cottesmore, followed by six Javelins collectively from "Flight" photograph Nos. 25 and 46 Sqns.3 both based at Waterbeach. Fighter Com-mand is also represented by 16 Hunters of No. Ill Sqn., taking- off from Farnborough during the V-bomber fly-past, and con-cluding their display by executing a spectacular loop in massed formation with smoke. All the main types of Transport Command aircraft are beingexhibited: a Sycamore and Whirlwind from the Joint Experi- mental Helicopter Unit; a Twin Pioneer from No. 21 Sqn.;Beverley from No. 47 Sqn.; Hastings from No. 24; Comet from No. 216 and Britannia—the Command's latest acquisition—fromNo. 99 Sqn. Flying Training Command is represented by two Jet Provosts from the Central Flying School in synchronizedaerobatics. Handley Page's Year IN his review of last year's activities by Handley Page Ltd.—which celebrated its 50th anniversary on June 17 this year— the chairman, Sir Frederick Handley Page, remarks on the com-pany's "unique position" among British aircraft constructors in having to recruit an increased labour force—because of "continuedactivity" at its factories. Among work in progress, chiefly on Victors for the R.A.F. and an order for three Dan Heralds for theScottish routes of B.E.A., Sir Frederick mentions the conversion of Hastings aircraft for the training of R.A.F. bomber crews. He refers to the absence of Government support in this countryfor the production of larger aircraft for civil use, which have had to be bought from the U.S.A. "Had the Ministry of Supply beenempowered and provided with the necessary funds to develop civil counterparts concurrently with the large military bomberaircraft," comments Sir Frederick, "British airliners would have been available to meet British operational needs." The Handley Page chairman refers to the Dart-Herald's "world-wide demonstration tours" and says that when the third Herald flies this month, as expected, the aircraft's trials for a fullC. of A. will be flown and completed. On research, Sir Frederick makes special reference to laminar-flow techniques embodied inthe H.P. 113, an executive jetliner which, he says, "will alsq serve as a research vehicle for demonstrating the practical feasibility ofour technique for larger long-range airliners." For 1958, profit before taxation has fallen still further to£187,241. This, Sir Frederick states, is due to the continued effect of delays in 1957 in the production and delivery of Victoraircraft owing to changes called for by the Ministry of Supply. In arriving at its profits figure the company has continued itspolicy of writing-off all expenditure incurred during the year on design and development of the Herald. The total written off todate amounts to £2,628,353. The chairman states that recovery of development expenditure, together with production cost(£1,106,346), is dependent on the sale of at least 80 aircraft. CHURCH HOUSE CONGRESS: The tenth Congress of the International Astronautical Federation was opened at Church House, Westminster, on Monday last, by Mr. Aubrey Jones, Minister of Supply. On the left in this photograph is Mr. Andrew G. Haley, the I.A.F. president, and on the other side of Mr Jones is Dr. L R. Shepherd, chairman of the British Interplanetary Society
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