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356 FLIGHT, 18 March 1960 FROM ALL QUARTERS EMBARKING in HMS "Bulwark": Whirl- wind HASJs of 848 Sqn, which with 42 Commando, Royal Marines, form the new carrier's complement ("Flight," Jan 22) Another from Hovercraft Island BRITAIN'S second hovercraft, it wasdisclosed last week, is nearing com- pletion in the Isle of Wight, quite nearto where Saunders-Roe pioneered such vehicles nine months ago. The manu-facturers are Britten-Norman Ltd and the Cushioncraft, as their vehicle is called, is intended to test the commercial application ofhovercraft in regions like Ecuador, Colombia, the Sudan and West Africa in which the company have interests through theirassociates Crop Culture (Aerial) Ltd. The Cushioncraft has a maximum diameter of 20ft and will bepowered by a Coventry Climax engine. Propulsion is to be by two helicopter tail rotors. Some 7,000 man-hours have been devotedto development, at a cost (according to the Daily Telegraph) of about £10,000. Some of this has been contributed by the banana-growing and importing company Elders and Fyffes, who hope to operate the Cushioncraft in the Cameroons. The managingdirector of that company, H. J. Stockley, is reported as saying: "It was at our instigation that this development was embarkedupon. If the craft is successful it will save us the cost of building roads from the plantations and will provide the means for aquicker and smoother transport for a fragile and perishable fruit. ... I can foresee all our produce being carried in this wayin a couple of years." Super Broussard in America MORE details have come to hand of the agreement signed inWichita on February 16 between the Cessna Aircraft Company and Avions Max Holste, briefly announced in Flight last week. The construction and sale of all present and future Max Holsteproducts—the chief of which is the MH-260 Super Broussard, due to fly this month—will remain under Holste control. ButCessna, who have acquired a minority interest in the French firm, may by agreement manufacture Holste products in the US.Marketing, sales and after-sales service in the US and Canada will be taken over by Cessna, who will place their sales organiza-tion at the disposal of Max Holste as it is required. In turn, Cessna are to give Max Holste the right to market their rangeof executive aircraft in Europe and Africa, and following specific agreement certain of Cessna's products may be manufactured inFrance. This is the second Franco-American agreement of this kindannounced within recent weeks. A note on co-operation between Douglas and Sud-Aviation in the manufacture and sale of theCaravelle appeared in Flight for February 19. r- Sir Frederick—a charac- teristic wartime portrait Sir Frederick BowhiU WE record with regret that Air Chief Marshal Sir FrederickBowhill, GBE, KCB, CMG, DSO, who during the last war commanded Coastal Command and the Atlantic ferry organization and was thefirst C-in-C of Transport Command, died in London last Saturday at the age of 79. He had a long and distinguished maritime and aeronauticalcareer, extending from a seagoing education in HMS Worcester and service in the Merchant Navy from 1896 onwards (he was aMaster Mariner) to an appointment as Chief Aeronautical Adviser to theMinistry of Civil Aviation from 1946 until his retirement in 1957. His fly-ing experience dated from early 1913, when he qualified as a pilot, and dur-ing the First World War he served in the Naval Wing of the RFC, in theRNAS and the RAF, and in addition to winning the DSO and Bar was sixtimes mentioned in despatches. In the inter-war years he was Director ofOrganization and Staff Duties at Air Ministry from 1929 to 1931; AOC theFighting Area, RAF Uxbridge, from 1931 to 1933; and Air Member forPersonnel from 1933 to 1937. Sir Frederick became AOC-in-CCoastal Command in 1937, holding that appointment until 1941. From 1941 to 1943 he commanded Ferry Command, then was AOC-in-CTransport Command from 1943 until his retirement from the RAF in 1945. When he gave up his MTCA post during 1957the then Minister, Harold Watkinson, expressed the Government's thanks for Sir Frederick's "unique services to the State." Big Lift Begins THE largest military airlift exercise ever held in peacetime, desig-nated Big Slam/Puerto Pine, began last Monday, March 14, with the transport of troops and equipment from the USA to PuertoRico by aircraft of the US Military Air Transport Service. The totals to be carried during the 15-day exercise are no less than22,000 troops and 12,000 tons of cargo. The MATS contribution will be twofold: in addition to using220 aircraft for the initial deployment of the troops from 18 bases in the US to two in Puerto Rico, and their return, a similar numberof aircraft engaged on routine MATS operations will fly inten- sively, the overall effect being to raise the daily utilization rateof all MATS aircraft from five to eight hours per day. A total of 46,000hr by almost 450 strategic airlift aircraft is scheduled. Big Lift Ends ON the occasion of the delivery of the 60th Thor IRBM to theRAF (reported on pages 359-360), the Douglas Aircraft Co announced that "more than 25 million pounds of Thor missiles andallied ground support equipment have been airlifted from the Los Angeles area and the East Coast to England since the high-priorityair transportation project began 18 months ago." This was stated LONELY LABORATORY: News of the placing in solar orbit of Pioneer 5 is given on page 358. This is a top view of the instrumentation; the four arms are those which carry the "paddlewheel" solar batteries, and on the reverse side are a magnetometer, micrometeorite electronics and an aspect (or Sun) indicator. Maximum transmitter power is I50W
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