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1961
1961 - 0262.PDF
266 FLIGHT, 3 Afarcfc 10, FROM ALL QUARTERS £X£Cl/77VE. The Minister of Aviation, Mr Peter Thorneycroft, shakes hands with Cp Capt Trumble, Senior RAF Officer Northern Ireland, before leaving RAF Aldergrove tor Bishops Court recently. The Minister flew in a Queen Air, made available by the Light Aircraft Division of Short Bros & Harland, distributors for Beechcraft in the British Isles. With back to camera is Mr Ken Dunlop of Shorts Mutual Replenishment UNDER Operation Flood Tide, a joint RAF-USAF in-flightrefuelling test, fuel has been successfully transferred between tanker and receiver aircraft of both forces: a Valiant has refuelleda B-66, F-100 and F-101; a Valiant and Javelin have received from a KB-50. The flying was carried out from Sculthorpe, wherethe USAF 47th Bomb Wing is based, and had been preceded by ground tests at Boscombe Down. In the first phase of the airborne tests, 66 contacts were madebetween the Valiant tanker and B-66, F-100 and F-101 receivers, with a total transfer of 77,2001b of fuel. Preliminary figures forthe second phase showed a total of 76 contacts between the KB-50, Valiant and Javelin, involving a transfer of 50,0001b of fuel—though many of the contacts were made without transfer. Australia-UK Record Attempt AN Australian-built Mustang is due to land at London Airporttoday (Friday), if racing-driver Ron Flockhart's bid to beat the record for an Australia-UK flight has been successful. He wasleaving Sydney last Tuesday to fly via Alice Springs, Darwin, Baucau (Portuguese Timor), Singapore, Rangoon, Calcutta,Karachi, Bahrein, Beirut, Brindisi, Nice, with short overnight stops at Singapore, Karachi and Brindisi. The existing Australian-UK record—5 days, 4hr 21min—wasset up by H. F. Broadbent in a Vega Gull in 1938. He flew from Darwin to Lympne, 9,612 miles. Flockhart's distance is 11,500miles. Future Perspective A WORLD-WIDE extension of cheap air fares, greater inter-national co-operation on major aircraft projects, avoidance of any reduction in aeronautical research and the need for a clearer ideaof future requirements are points made in a pamphlet published this week. Called The Making of Aircraft* it has been writtenby Mr Guy Hadley, secretary to the Conservative Parliamentary Aviation Committee. The publishers (Conservative PoliticalCentre) stress that the document is "a personal contribution to discussion and not an official Party pronouncement." Of cheaper fares, the writer says that only by their generaladoption can the much-needed expansion of air transport be achieved. On co-operation, he points out that the cost and com-plexity of new aircraft may compel manufacturers at home and abroad to pool their resources on major projects. He suggeststhat large Government grants for research are not "subsidies which keep the aircraft industry alive by artificial feeding," butGovernment contracts for aviation products vital to our national defence. The aircraft industry itself makes an investment inresearch and development for civil aircraft "at least equal to *"The Making of Aircraft" (24 pages, price Is) is obtainable fromthe Conservative Political Centre, 32 Smith Square, London SW1, and from the Conservative Political Centre Bookshop, 6 Victoria Street, SW1. the Government contribution." On future requirements, thepamphlet criticizes both Government and BOAC for ordering overlapping types of aircraft; it suggests that the research staffthe Corporation needs to plan its future requirements might be strengthened. Recent mergers in the industry should help toobviate delays which in the past have sometimes prevented the appearance of "the right British aircraft at the right moment." Operation Rallye Forges Ahead THE production prototype Morane Rallye, with extensivelyaltered fuselage, is now flying. A 44 per cent increase in orders during the last month brings the total of orders to 240, so theinitial batch of 250 is virtually allocated. Licence production or assembly in the USA is being discussed and de HavillandAustralia have agreed to assemble and fit engines in Rallyes supplied from France; they will also provide sales and service.The first production 100 h.p. Rallye is to go to Australia in April. Exclusive Swiss agents are the Transair company of Neuchatel. Assisting BEAGLE Design BEAGLE (British Executive and General Aviation Ltd) haveannounced four consultative and executive appointments. Prof A. D. Young, MA, FRAes, AFIAS, professor of aeronautical engineer-ing at Queen Mary College, University of London, and formerly professor of aerodynamics at Cranfield, has been made consultantin aerodynamics to the group. Prof Misha Black, OBE, RDI, PPSIA,a senior partner in Design Research Unit, becomes the group's Mr Langley Mr Carroll consultant in industrial design and has already started work onBEAGLE aircraft. Mr Marcus Langley, FRAes, MiMechE, who was made consulting engineer to the BEAGLE group lastNovember and is a director of Tiltman Langley Ltd, has been appointed technical director of BEAGLE-Auster Aircraft LtdMr T. D. R. Carroll, DFC, AFRAes, AFIAS, since 1955 deputy designmanager with Bristol Aircraft, has been appointed deputy chief designer, British Executive and General Aviation Ltd. More Marconi Radar for Sweden A FURTHER contract, worth £1,700,000, has been placed withMarconi by the Royal Swedish Air Board for radar defence system equipment. This latest installation will allow filtered radar targetsto be tracked, coded, indentified and fed into a memory hank from which information for synthetic displays of various kindswill be drawn. Information on defensive dispositions will also be presented, using both black-and-white television and colour GREETINGS to "Flight" accompanied this striking picture of a Sud Aquilon (DH Sea Venom licence) over the carrier "Clemenccnu," with the message: "Best wishes to the team of 'Flight.' May it continue to give us every week a perfect picture of aeronautical activities. l> W Flottille de Chasse (11th Fighter Plane Flotilla)"
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