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HELPED BY DAD—"Doug" Bianchi of Personal Plane Services, Ashford ]2-year-old Anthony Bianchi has constructed this full-scale replica of a 1912 Vickers monoplane. The drawings were loaned by Vickers ROYAL SALUTE: To mark the birth of the Queen's second son 36 Hunters of RAF Fighter Command flew over London on February 20. This was the scene as they came in over the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square. News item on opposite page arranged, spoke of his interest in the activities of light aircraft and later flew both the Lancashire Prospector and the Rollason Turbulent—experiences which he seemed to enjoy greatly. The Earl of Bective flew a Prospector up from Fair Oaks and a second one arrived from Blackpool. Three Piper demonstrators —Caribbean, Comanche and Apache—were there, the Marquess of Kildare bringing with him in the Apache J. A. Leavey, MP. Aviation Traders sent up the "seven-seater" Prentice, and other aircraft present included four Turbulents, a Jodel, Tigers, Jackaroo, Auster and Cygnet. Avons in Spate REVIEWING service last year by Mk 117 Avons in DH Comet 2s of RAF Transport Command, Rolls-Royce Ltd stated recently: — "The Rolls-Royce Avons Mk 117 powering the de Havilland Comet 2s of Transport Command completed 35,932hr in 1959, bringing the total engine hours since Comet 2s entered squadron service to 100,076. During 1959 there were only three unscheduled engine removals due to causes within the responsibility of Rolls-Royce. Two of these were returned after rectification and the remaining engine was overhauled, giving an unscheduled removal rate of one per ll,977hr." F-104 Round-up IT is difficult to assess the total world production currently authorized for all versions of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter but the figure is certainly in excess of 2,000. At present the totals appear to be: US Air Force, approximately 400. The performance of the originalF-104A day fighter and F-104B two-seater has in several respects been disappointing, particularly in the matters of inability to operate as aweapon system in all weathers or in integration with the SAGE net- work. As a result aircraft of these models—about 150 in all—arebeing withdrawn from squadrons of Air Defense Command. Some may be supplied to Chiang Kai-Shek, and a considerable number areto be converted for use as pilotless drones. The later F-104C and D are intended to have full all-weather capability, and these are remainingin service with Tactical Air Command in the USA and Spain. Canada: the overall programme for the Canadair CF-104 is for200 aircraft costing $420m. The chief individual contracts are those of the prime contractor ($91.5m) and Orenda Engines ($80m).Canadair's designation for the aircraft is CL-90, and the first is due to fly in April 1961. West Germany: total procurement amounts to 660 F-104Gs. TheGermans hope to manufacture all but 96 of these, the others being a mixture of F-104Gs and F-104Fs made by Lockheed (first F-104Fdelivery is due in May). The Gs will be built by a consortium involving Dornier, Heinkel, Messerschmitt and Siebel, and the engines will bemanufactured by BMW. The latter company recently said that about 550 J79s had been ordered by the German Government, that negotia-uons were in hand for the sale of 200 to Holland and that another 5U0 were expected to be bought by "other NATO countries, includingBelgium, Italy, Denmark and Greece." Belgium: total procurement will lie between 50 and 170 aircraft(see Holland). . HoUand: total procurement has been unofficially estimated at 200a Cr?t majority of these, together with those bought by Belgium, are hkely to be manufactured by a consortium of Benelux firms,including Fokker, SABCA and Avions Fairey; engines may be made °y *"N. Some aircraft may be supplied from Germany and 20 F-104Dtwo-seaters are being purchased from Lockheed. japan: again a total of 200 aircraft has been authorized, and it isexpected that the majority will be assembled by Mitsubishi. Present Plans call for this firm to deliver 180 F-104C-J fighters and 20 F-104D-Jseaters. Increased costs may eventually curtail this total. 263 FLIGHT, 26 Februar 1960 IN BRIEF Proposals for VTOL and STOL aircraft are to be put to the Govern-ment by A. V. Roe & Co Ltd. We regret to record that Sir David Randall Pye, CB, MA, SCD, FRS,MlMechE, FRAes, eminent in many branches of research died at his home in Surrey last weekend at the age of 73. He was an experimental officerand pilot with the RFC and helped in 1917 to produce a scheme For Britain's first anti-aircraft balloon barrage; then after returning to lectur-ing at Cambridge joined Air Ministry in 1925 as Deputy Director of Scientific Research, being appointed Director in 1937. Dr Barnes Wallis appealed on Monday to metallurgists "to give us amaterial which will maintain its strength and elasticity at temperatures of 300 5C." Opening the Engineering Materials and Design Exhibitionat Earls Court he said that the supersonic airliner of the future would be required to travel at 4J times the speed of sound for three or fourhours on end; friction on the outer skin would rise to between 250° and 300°C. "Can anyone supply me with such material? If not, whatyou must do is set about producing it." Today's (February 26) issue of The Autocar has as its theme "ChoosingYour Car—New or Used"; and next Wednesday's (March 2) Amateur Photographer is a special Outdoor Number. FOUR APPOINTMENTS were announced this week by Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd. At right is R. H. Botterill, filling the newly created post of service controller at Wey- bridge Works. Below, left to right, are M. G. Crisp, appointed flight test manager after air experience with most Vickers products since 1943; Jack Rasmussen—he joined Vickers-Supermarine in 1931—who becomes customer relations officer; and J. B. Armstrong, formerly senior operations engineer and now made assistant sales manager (South America)
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