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FLIGHT, 20 January 1961 73 CLAY-PIGEON BROOD: Nestling under the wings of this Lockheed GC-130A taking off from Tyndall AFB Florida, are four Ryan Q-2C drones. The GC-130A will direct the complete mission of these targets, which can climb to twice the normal release height of 30,000ft Propellers for the Transall LAST week we reported the signing of an £875,000 contract for Rolls-Royce Tyne engines for the first three Transall C-160 transports. After that issue had closed for press the de Havilland Aircraft Co (there is now no separate propeller company) announced a contract "worth nearly £500,000" for the propellers for the same three aircraft. Although evolved directly from the units designed for the Vanguard, the Transall propellers will have a diameter of 18ft, making them the largest yet produced in this country, and equal in size to the largest being made in the USA. The C-160 is likely to have Tynes more powerful than any cur- rently in use; they may well be similar to the Tyne 20s of the Breguet Atlantic, for which a propeller contract was received by de Havilland late last year. Another Transall order, worth £40,000, has been placed with Normalair Ltd, who are to supply all the cabin air conditioning and pressurization equipment for the three prototype C-160s. Four-jet Hustle IT was announced by the USAF from Edwards AFB, Cal, last weekend that on January 14 a Convair B-58 Hustler had averaged 1,284.73 m.p.h. over a 1,000km (621-mile) desert course. Subject to FAI confirmation, it thus broke three of the world speed records set up by another B-58 on January 12. These were for nights over a 1,000km course with payloads of 2,000kg (about 4,4001b), 1,000kg and no payload. On January 14 the B-58 carried 2,000kg and therefore automatically established records for lesser loads. The aircraft which flew on January 12 averaged 1,200.194 m.p.h. The USAF have stated that the crew of the B-58 which established the new figures will be awarded the 1961 Thompson Trophy, given to Service personnel for outstanding air speed achievements. Soviet Negotiations with India IN Calcutta on January 9 the Soviet trade representative in India, Mr Nikolai Shiryaev, told a Press conference that the Soviet Union was prepared to supply India with any number of jet aircraft of the latest type, for which payment in Indian currency would be accepted. Negotiations between the two countries had been con- cluded in Moscow, and the Soviet Government was awaiting India's reply. He did not say whether the aircraft were for the Indian Air Force or the State-owned airlines. The Reuter report adds that the following day an Indian Defence Ministry spokesman commented that he had "no information" about Mr Shiryaev's statement. IN BRIEF It is estimated that the airlift mounted by the RAF to take Ghanaiantroops and technicians to the Congo has so far cost about £2.5m. Sikorsky Aircraft announced on January 4 that they had deliveredtwo S-58s to the Russian Government. The former British aircraft carrier Vengeance (20,000 tons) leftRotterdam for Rio de Janeiro last week on her maiden voyage as the modernized Brazilian carrier Minas Gerais. Three Piaggio P. 166 six-seat executive aircraft are being made availableby McAlpine Aviation of Luton Airport for hire to companies needing an executive air-transport service. The aircraft will be leased togetherwith pilot at a set fee for a specified number of flying hours. The first Piper Colt to be imported into Britain has arrived in thiscountry. Vigors Aviation Ltd, the UK Piper distributors, had already received orders for 13 Colts prior to the arrival of this machine. Vigorshave appointed the Oxford Aviation Co Ltd of Kidlington and Elmdon as sole agents for the sale of Piper aircraft "from Oxford to the Scottishborder." The Tom Nevard Cup was presented by Mr Henry Hardman, CB,Permanent Secretary, MoA, to Craft Apprentice Geoffrey Clements of the RRE, Malvern, in London on January 10. Named after the lateTom Nevard, MBE, a former Assistant Secretary in the MoS Labour Branch, the cup is awarded annually to the apprentice at MoA or WarOffice establishments showing the best all-round qualifications in craftsmanship. The FAI have approved three French international records set upduring 1960, one by Maj Rene Bigand for an average speed of l,822km/hr (1,132.13 m.p.h.) round a 1,000km dosed circuit in a Dassault Mirage IVon September 19, and the other two by Raymond Davy on October 13. These were for aircraft weighing less than 500kg (1,1021b) on a 100kmclosed circuit, Davy flying a Rene Leduc 21 at average speeds of 313 and 317km/hr (194.48 and 197.17 m.p.h.); and for machines weighingfrom 500 to 1,000kg, the pilot covering the same circuit at a speed of M6km/hr (196.34 m.p.h.). United Aircraft disclose that the Pratt & Whitney JT8D-1, power-plant of the Boeing 727, has a 13-stage compressor system and four turbine stages (undoubtedly one high-pressure and three low-pressure).Prototypes will be available for "airframe manufacturers' testing" in mid-1962. Beech Aircraft Corporation and SFERMA, a subsidiary of Sud, havesigned an agreement for further development and application of turbo- props to Beechcraft aeroplanes. SFERMA have already fitted Turbo-meca Bastans to a Beech 18 and Astazous to a Travel Air. Mr Charles G. Keil, ESC (Eng), has been appointed editor of AircraftEngineering from January 1. Lt-Col W. Lockwood Marsh, OBE, FRAes, MSAE, FIAS, formerly editor, becomes managing editor. Mr Keil, whois 27, served with the RAF as a pilot from 1951 to 1955. He joined Aircraft Engineering in August 1959 as technical editor. Mr H. Guyford Stever, professor of aeronautics and astronautics atMIT, has been elected 1961 president of the Institute of the Aerospace Sciences. He is to take office next Monday (January 23) at the annualIAS business meeting in New York, and at the honours-night dinner the following evening will speak on the future of space exploration. The Miles Organization have announced the appointment of MrJ. W. C. Judge as pilot and aerodrome supervisor at Shoreham Airport. Mr Judge served in the RAF during the war and afterwards with No 615(County of Surrey) Sqn, RAuxAF. He has been a test pilot at the Supermarine works of Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd and withRolls-Royce Ltd. A licence agreement between the Vertol division of the Boeing Air-plane Co and the Kawasaki Aircraft Co of Japan, giving Kawasaki exclusive rights for the manufacture and sale of Vertol 107 helicoptersand parts in Japan, and non-exclusive rights for sale of the helicopters in certain South-east Asia countries, has been approved by the JapaneseGovernment. Helicopter Services Ltd, Luton Airport, Beds, have pointed out thatin November 1959 they used a Bell 47G for pipelaying at Fort William, Inverness-shire, and claim that this was the first helicopter operation ofits type in Britain. A similar claim, for pipelaying by a Widgeon over marshes near Gravesend, on January 10, had been made by BritishUnited Airways last week (Flight, January 13). Stages in the Development of Modern Meteorology is the title ofa university extension course of six weekly lectures being given at Imperial College, London SW7, from February 9 to March 16. The lecturers areF. H. Ludlam, DSC, reader in meteorology, Imperial College, and G. B. Tucker, PhD, scientific officer, Meteorological Office, and applica-tions (10s for the full course, 2s for single lectures) should be addressed to the Cashier, University of London, Malet Street, WC1, with theenvelope marked "Extension Courses." VISITOR FROM WEYBRIDGE: Sir George Edwards (right), managing director of Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd and executive director (Aircraft) of the British Aircraft Corporation is greeted by Sir Arnold Hall (left), managing director of Bristol Siddeley Engines Ltd on arrival for a visit to Bristol Siddeley's Patchway, Bristol, works. Also in the picture are Sir Alec Coryton, deputy chairman (Bristol) of Bristol Siddeley, and Air Marshal Sir Geoffrey Tuttle, a director of Vickers- Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd
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