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1960
1960 - 1941.PDF
"LIGHT, 16 September 1960 447 IJGH, COLD AND LONELY: Koen Jansen and Alfrea Eckert, with an intiepid journalist, woviag to "Flight's" Gemini at 8,000ft just east of C'rixyde on their Channel crossing from Ferryfield to Bruges in the folloon Augusta VIII on September 2. We reported their position and p.ogress to Calais and Ostend, apparently the last such report that evening. British Oxygen had supplied 37,000 cu ft of hydrogen to inflate the envelope Gnat All-through Trainer WITH the above designation, Folland have proposed a versionof the Gnat Trainer which could be fitted with a straight wing of 183 sq ft area and 12 per cent t/c ratio allowing 80kt landing andM0.81 maximum speeds. The swept wing would be interchange- able with this and a larger tailplane. The project should meet Con-tinental moves towards the "lj" trainer covering the complete ab initio to operational aircraft sequence. Anglo-French Gearbox Agreement THE firm of Dowty Rotol, who in recent weeks have receivedorders for aircraft accessory equipment worth nearly half a million pounds, announce a ten-year agreement with Hispano-Suiza underwhich the French company will licence-manufacture Dowty Rotol gearboxes for Rolls-Royce Tyne engines for the Breguet 1150. Hunting Aircraft Board IT is announced by the British Aircraft Corporation Ltd that allformalities in taking over a controlling interest in Hunting Aircraft Ltd have now been completed. Sir George Edwards and Mr W.Masterton have been elected to the Board, and Mr G. L. Hunting and Mr R. R. S. Cook have left it. The composition of the Boardis now: Sir Percy Hunting, chairman; Sir George Edwards, CBE, BSC, Hon FRAes, Hon FIAS, vice-chairman; Mr C. P. M. Hunting,TO, BA, FCA; Mr L. C. Hunting, MA; Mr William Masterton, CA; Mr W. A. Summers, CBE, FRAes, MiprodE, managing director;Mr K. D. Morgan, FCA, secretary and commercial director; Mr F. W. Buglass, MirrodE, works director; and Mr F. H. Pollicutt,FRAes, AFIAS, technical director. Westland Narrows Range THE four main types of helicopter ori which Westland AircraftLtd will concentrate development in the immediate future are the Rotodyne, Wessex, Gnome Whirlwind and P.531 Sprite, withproject work continuing on the Belvedere. In a policy statement made during the SBAC Show at Farnborough, a company spokes-man said that the Westminster would be "on ice" after completing its demonstrations during Farnborough week. It appears probable that a joint company/MoA effort will bemade towards obtaining a C of A for the Rotodyne. This, it is believed, could be obtained by 1965. In addition, the companyis putting forward a tendei foi the Rotodyne to meet an RAF reauirement for ten 60-seat troop transports. An interim civilversion of the Belvedere, the 192C, could be available by 1962, and could be followed by the 60-seat Type 194. Some reduction in the numbei of types actively being developedand produced by the company has been an expected step since Westland acquired the helicopter products of Bristol, Fairey andSaunders-Roe. The aircraft now omitted in the company's future planning are the Westminster, Widgeon, piston-engined Whirl-wind, Skeetei and Sycamore. First Rotorcraft Section Dinner REPLYING foi the 500 guests at the first annual dinner (heldin London on September 8) of the Rotorcraft Section of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Mr H. D. N. Wyatt, chairman and man-aging director of British United Airways, made some significant remarks about commercial helicopter services. Quite soon, hesaid, helicopters might be operating profitably between cities in Britain and the Continent and the costs could be met with agood-sized "bus machine" and good route network. A major cost iteir would be short replacement life and he suggested that areplacement hiatus of ten years "would make us home and dry." Depreciation rates of 25 per cent per year would render operationsunprofitable; between seven and ten per cent were reasonable. Proposing the health of the section, which was holding its firstannual dinner since it became part of the RAeS (it was formerly the Helicoptei Association), Dr E. S. Moult, president of theSociety, said that the special capabilities of the helicopter in the VTOL and STOL field were now being appreciated. The newervehicles did not foreshadow the end of the helicopter with its waght-lifting and low slipstream-velocity characteristics. The guests were welcomed by Prof J. A. J. Bennett, president.of the section, and Dr Moult presented the Alan Marsh Memorial Medal to Fit Sgt B. Breach of No 228 Sqn for his rescue bySycamore of the crew of a drifting lightship off the Scottish coast. Ifc Alan Marsh Memorial Award went to Mr A. C. Jolly of theasunders-Roe division of Westland. IN BRIEF A speed ot 2,112 m.p.h. was reached by Maj Robert White in theX-15 on September 10 in a descent from 80,000ft. It was announced last week thai a full transport-category certificateof airworthiness had been issued to the Armstrong Whitworth Argosy for the carriage of passengers and freight. The Avro 748 has alsoreceived a special-category C of A after a total flight time of 70hr. It was awarded last week. All civil flying in North America was banned for six hours onSeptember 10-—for the first time in peacetime—when Exercise "Sky Shield" was mounted by NORAD, the joint US-Canadian Air DefenceCommand. A total of 2,000 sorties was being flown by defending aircraft. Mr Harold J. Downes has been appointed director of internationaloperations for Lear Inc, the American electronics firm. Foi the past two years he has been co-ordinator of international sales and licensingfor Lear's six divisions. Coincident with the announcement that the USAF is increasing itsorder for North American T-39 Sabreliner UTX trainers to 94 aircraft, the makers state that the first production machine has flown 1,820 milesnon-stop on internal fuel. Powerplants are Pratt & Whitney J60 turbojets. Mr Hugh H. Bowe has been appointed director of European operationsfor Republic Aviation Corporation, with headquarters in Paris. He was with the USAF, as head of the Aircraft and Missile Division of AirMateriel Command, until joining Republic two years ago as deputy director. MAJ C. H. VALLANCE (left), new sales manager of Blackburn Aircraft, whose sales staff he joined in 7957. At present based in London, he is shortly moving up to Brough MR D. S. SCOFFHAM (right), formerly Bristol's deputy sales manager (fixed- wing aircraft), has joined Short Bros as manager, technical sales, Britannic. He will operate from Shorts' London offices, East India House, 208a Regent Street, Wl
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