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fL-GHT, 15 April 1960 521 y/j-lG-SUPPORTED: This first air-to-air view of the second SCI shows the machine cruising at some 160kt near Bedford. As noted on the opposite page, this aircraft has now accomplished complete transition (general manager); in the Bristol division, R. Hafner (chiefen ineer); and in the Fairey division, H. W. D. Winkworth (general manager) and Dr G. S. Hislop (chief engineer). Four appointments have also been announced by NormalairLtd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Westland Aircraft. They are of E. C. Wheeldon as chairman, D. C. Collins as managingdirector, Dr E. W. Still as assistant managing director and T. Bretherton as secretary. Dowty Roto! Directors MEMBERS of the board of Dowty Rotol Ltd, from April 1, havebeen named as follows: Sir George Dowty, FRAes, MiMechE (chairman), C. J. Luby, AFRAes, MIPE, and E. J. Nicholl, BSc(Eng),FRAes (joint managing directors); A. E. Atkins (works director); L. T. P. Banbury, JP, FACCA; H. S. Butt, OBE (experimental worksdirector); L. G. Fairhurst, FRAes, MiMechE (technical director); R. F. Hunt, AFRAes; F. J. A. Mangeot, FCA (commercial director);and G. F. M. Rufford, FCA, ACWA (financial director). Ian C. Reid > ^ WE record with regret that Ian C. Reid, sales manager of ScottishAviation Ltd, died in hospital at New Delhi on April 5 after a short illness. He had been on a sales promotion tour in the FarEast for the past two months, and was taken to hospital on March 28. Mr Reid, who was 47, joined the Scottish Aviation staff in 1945;before that he was with the AID at Blackburn and General Air- craft at Dumbarton and Scottish Aviation at Prestwick. He hadbeen sales manager for Scottish Aviation for the past six years, having previously been their technical sales manager. West Germany's "Caravelle" MORE details are now available of the Hamburger FlugzeugbauHFB314 short-range jet transport project (Flight, November 20, 1959, page 608). Though the West German government is reportedlo have decided not to subsidize the project, the manufacturers have outlined its likely development. Artist's impression of the HFB314 project Powerplant would be two Rolls-Royce RB.141/3, as proposedfor the 1963 Caravelle 7, each rated at 14,3401b guaranteed mini- mum. Gross weight of the HFB314 is given as 88,7001b; maximumlanding weight, 83,8001b; length, 119ft; span, 93ft. Intended for European short- and medium-range routes, theHFB314 will carry up to 78 passengers on sectors of between 310 and 1,250 miles. Break-even capacity load factor for a 1,250-milesector is given as 38 per cent, or 20 per cent with 2,2501b of freight. Price, based on 100 aircraft, would be about £700,000, or£600,000 based on a production run of 200 aircraft. The manufacturers estimate that the prototype could fly 30months after the award of a development contract, and the flight- test programme would, they reckon, take one year. Assuming that the HFB314 will not be built as a private venture,it seems that the West German rival for the Caravelle (a curious duplication in the common market) has yet to get a go-ahead.Meanwhile the French and German industries have agreed upon a joint effort in the Nord Transall (R-R. Tynes). Conformity Criticized SPEAKING at the twelfth annual dinner of the College of Aero-nautics Senior Common Room at Cranfield on April 1, Sir Alfred Pugsley, professor of civil engineering at Bristol University, calledattention to the bad effects of conformity in education and research at the present time. He hoped that there would always be manyaeronautical nonconformists and heretics at Cranfield. Prof J. Loxham of the Department of Aircraft Economics and Production described as a significant development the advent ofthe Advanced School of Automobile Engineering, which was to be set up at Cranfield later this year. Within the next decade, hesuggested, machines would have been perfected to provide a high general standard of living, but this should be accompanied byparallel research and study into the important subject of human relations. The two final speakers at the dinner, C. K. Trotman of theDepartment of Aircraft Design and Prof E. J. Richards of Southampton University, treated those present to a rare butunreportable miscellany of Welsh humour. '- '••""'- IN BRIEF The Fairey Company announced that R. L. Lickley has resigned fromtheir board as from March 31 and has relinquished his appointments with the subsidiary companies of the Group. There is to be no public inquiry on the sale of Chalgrove Airfield tothe Martin-Baker Aircraft Co Ltd. This was stated by the Under- secretary of State for Air, W. J. Taylor, on March 31. A successful landing at a height of 16,000ft in the Himalayas was madeon March 28 by Ernst Saxer in Yeti, the Pilatus Porter which is accom- panying the the Swiss expedition attempting to climb Mount Dhualagiri. On April 4 the French Government announced that, following thesuccessful test of a transportable nuclear device in the Sahara on April 1, a first batch of 50 Dassault Mirage IV bombers is to be bought. Firstdelivery will be made in 1963. The main event in the Aircraft Recognition Society's calendar, thepresident's address, takes place next Wednesday, April 20. Mr Masefield has chosen as his subject Survey of Civil Aviation, 1960. The venueis the RAeS library, 2 Hamilton Place, London Wl, and the time 7 p.m. A Turbomeca Marbore turbojet (loaned by Blackburn Engines Ltd)is being mounted on the SRN-1 Hovercraft to provide about 8801b addi- tional forward thrust, thus giving information about the behaviour of theHovercraft at considerably increased speeds. These trials are expected to start next month. Lockheed Aircraft had a record year in 1959. Their annual reportshows total sales of $1,301,565,000; of this total 23 per cent were air- liners and exports, 35 per cent were aircraft, ships and services for theUS Government, and no less than 42 per cent was accounted for by missiles, space vehicles and electronics. For comparison the proportionsin 1953 were 9, 91 and 1. Jose Ansaldo's attempt to cross the South Atlantic in a 35,300 cu ftballoon was postponed shortly before take-off from the Canary Islands on April 4, when (it is reported), a helicopter carrying photographersflew low overhead, its rotor downwash tearing the balloon's plastic envelope. Sr Ansaldo, a 61-year-old aeroplane pilot with over a millionair miles to his credit, is operations manager of Iberia, the Spanish airline. CAS AT DERBY: Air Chief Marshal Sir Thomas Pike, Chief of the Air Staff, recently visited Rolls-Royce to see their research and develop- ment work. He was accompanied by Sir Maurice Dean (right), Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Air, and here both visitors are chatting with J. D. Pearson, chief executive and deputy chairman
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