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FLIGHT, 8 April 1960 461 FOURTH PROTOTYPE of the Flug- und Fahrzeugwerke Altenrhein p-16Mk 3, which bears the Swiss registration X-HB-VAC. It is reported from Switzerland that Austria is showing distinct interest in this Sapphire-powered attack aircraft, which has particularly good short- field characteristics and coat space are at the rear. Features of the furnishing include emergency passenger oxygen, "railway-type" hat-racks, centre lighting with filament bulbs grouped above translucent oval panels, reading lights hinged to the rear of the seat in front, but no punkah louvres or public-address system. A common furnishing material is pressed metal with a simulated wood appearance. As they become due for major checks, the Russian-style interior will be replaced by CSA furnishing (in contrast, the CSA Il-18s, six of which will have been delivered by the end of the year, have Czech styling, but with Russian materials). A Flight representative flew to Prague in OK-NDD, City of Pitsen; the first CSA machine to have the new and very attractive red/white livery. Arriving at London it streamed its twin drag chutes for proving purposes; but it burst the outboard rear tyre on each bogie, and fitting the spares carried and hoisting the removed wheels into the hold caused some delay. The outward trip was flown at 560 m.p.h. at 34,000ft in a time of 88min, and the return trip took slightly longer. Both take-offs were timed near to 37sec. There is no doubt the aircraft is popular with its crews, and will serve CSA well. ,\ ••-.-.- Kidlington Sales Prospects NO FEWER than 35 aircraft are already booked for display in the new-aircraft park at the Kidlington Sales Weekend organized by W. S. Shackleton Ltd for May 6-8. The exhibition will be open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day, and the aircraft at present due to appear are: D.H. Tiger Moth, Rollason Turbulent, Jodel D.I 17, Thruxton Jackaroo, Jodel D.140, D.H. Dove, Auster Autocar D.6, Auster D.4, Beech Bonanza, Bellanca 260, Garland Linnet, Piaggio P.116, Aviamilano Falco, Cessna 150, 175, 210, 310, 180 and 182, Bristol Chipmunk, D.H. Heron, Piper Cub, Tri-Pacer, Comanche, Apache, Aztec, Caribbean, and Pawnee, Aviation Traders Prentice, Rhein Flugzeugbau RW.3, Lancashire Prospec- tor, PZL-102 Kos, PZL-101 crop sprayer, Meta-Sokol and Picchio F.15. Flight-testing ^Techniques APPROXIMATELY 200 delegates were expected to attend the Flight Test Instrumentation Symposium now being held by the Department of Flight at the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield. The meeting was opened yesterday, April 7, by Prof W. S. Hemp, deputy principal of the College, and is scheduled to end tomorrow with an exhibition of flight-test instrumentation equipment. The papers on the symposium programme are: The Trend of FlightTest Instrumentation, Present and Future, T. Kerr, Aero Flight, RAE Bedford; Instrument Transducers, Dr H. K. P. Neubert, Instrumenta-tion Dept, RAE Farnborough; Acceleration Transducer of the Force Balance Type, W. R. Macdonald, Instrumentation Dept, RAE Farn-borough; The Design and Construction of Rate Gyroscopes and their Associated Pick-offs for Flight Measurements, W. Horath, Sori6te deFabrication d'lnstrumcnts de Mesure; Pressure Plotting the Wing of the FD2, O. P. Nicholas, Aero Flight, RAE Bedford; InstrumentationRequirements for the Dynamic Testing of Aircraft, D. M. Ridland, Aero Flight, RAE Bedford; Some Experience on the Design and Testing ofSensing Elements for Dynamic Flight Work, I. McLaren, Aero Flight, RAE Bedford; An Aircraft Telemetry System, W. L. Horwood and J.Walsh, Radio Dept, RAE Farnborough; Application of Radio Telemetry to an Aircraft's Spinning Trials, T. H. J. Heffernan, A&AEE, Boscombe Down; Application of Magnetic Tape Recording to Flight Testing, DrG. E. Bennett, Instrumentation Dept, RAE Farnborough; Magnetic Tape Recording in Flight, P. Bellerby, Blackburn and General Aircraft;Flight Testing Techniques with particular reference to the Study oj Vibratory and Transient Conditions of Gas Turbine Engines, D. A.Drew, Rolls-Royce; Flight Test Instrumentation for Teaching and Research at the College of Aeronautics, M. A. Perry, Dept of Flight,College of Aeronautics; Aircraft Data Reduction Techniques, Dr T. Duerden, English Electric, Warton; Data Handling with SpecialReference to Frequency Analysis, J. Burnham, Aero Flight, RAE Bedford. The guest speaker at an informal dinner tonight (April 8) will be F. W. Page, chief executive of English Electric Aviation and chairman of the SBAC aircraft data-reduction committee. IN BRIEF Air Ministry have placed a contract with Fairey Air Surveys Ltd for a survey of Upper Heyford Aerodrome, Oxon, which is used by the USAF. Fison-Airwork Ltd are being based at Redhill aerodrome, Surrey,from April 13. Theii telephone number will be Nutfield Ridge 2353/4 and telegraphic address Bristow, Redhill. According to Moscow Radio, the Mi-4 helicopter has been exportedby the Soviet Union to Austria, Italy, Switzerland, the United Arab Republic and the Yemen, and has been ordered by Belgium and Cuba.(In contrast, the Soviet Union have bought helicopters from Sikorsky and Vertol.) Further success by the RAF Gliding and Soaring Association'smountain wave expedition to the Pennines has been reported since our news item on page 474 went to press. On March 27 Fit Lt DavidCretney reached 21,500ft in a T.42 Eagle and Gp Capt N. W. Kearon, who is in charge of the project, attained 17,800ft in an Olympia 401.Both flights were made in a north-easterly Helm wind. Speaking before the US Senate Defense Appropriations Sub-com-mittee last month, Dr Herbert York, chief scientist of the Defense Department said that "some progress had been made" in the construc-tion of a nuclear-powered bomber, but that one would not be operative until after 1970. (The WS-125A programme has largely been super-seded, and the Defense Department will not sponsor the type of aero- plane which could be built at present.) The former RAF flying officer Anthony Maynard Wraight, whorecently returned to Britain after spending three years in the Soviet Union, was sentenced at the Old Bailey on April 1 to three years'imprisonment for giving information while in Russia which might have been useful to an enemy. He was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonmenton each of two other charges, that he endangered the safety of information and that he communicated information to a person in Russia withoutbeing authorized. All three sentences are to run concurrently. FORGET MACH 3: Due in New York this week were to be illustrated by B. S. Shenstone, chief engineer of BE A, at a lecture before the US Society of Automotive Engineers . _ /fere (left) the gothic plan-form, conical camber "basic supersonic lifting surface" for minimum wave drag at Mach 2; and (right) the M-wing answer to the achievement of subcritical aerofoil flow at around Mach 1.3. Good-visibility canopy design, difficult when a pointed nose is desirable, is made possible by the pointed nose cone. [The BEA colours are an editorial addition.]^ The paper, which we hope to summarize in a later issue, was entitled Supersonic Air Transports—An Airline Talks Back." Its theme is "let's forget Mach 3"
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