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[LIGHT, 3 March 1961 267 REVERSE SEATING is now available in the 1960-61 Model 50 Beechcraft Twin Bonanza by virtue of a kit. Here the two centre chairs are shown in the reverse position. The effect is to make more room and "to suggest a separate pilot's compartment" OPERATION RALLYE: The production version of the Morane Rallye, referred to opposite, flying in the Paris area. Note the en- larged cabin, swept fin and partly faired undercarriage (see news item, opposite) projection and a "magic carpet" display which will presentanalysed targets in sequence for action by human controllers. When intercepters or missiles are alerted, appropriate informa-tion on the target and the best interception course will be auto- matically extracted from the memory bank, up-dated, andtransmitted to missile sites or airfields. Information will be automatically displayed in aircraft cockpits. Remote syntheticdisplays are also provided for civil defence and civil ATC. MR LESLIE G. MARSHALL, appointed assist ant general manager of the Light Aircraft Engine Department of the Rolls-Royce Motor Car Division at Crewe, will be concerned with Continental engines (licence-manufacture of which by the company was announced last November). He joined Rolls-Royce in 7939 and until his new appointment was contracts manager handling sales of military engines for ground equipment Nuclear Flying-boats? SPEAKING from his long experience of maritime aviation, andnot in his official capacity as AOC-in-C Coastal Command, Air Marshal Sir Edward Chilton expressed some optimism about thefuture for flying-boats at the closing-down ceremony of RAF Calshot last week. "When the nuclear engine is ready for aircraft I think theflying-boat would be an ideal machine in which to use it," he said. "A flying-boat so powered could fly non-stop between theUK and Australia; it could select its route and would not be tied to airfields in unfriendly hands." Within sight of the two Saunders-Roe Princesses, enginelessand Cocooned, Sir Edward commented: "I do not believe that the flying-boat is finished. It is regrettable that the engine manu-facturers failed to produce the right engines for the Princesses, though the problem is to find the necessary money for them andalso the route on which to employ them. "I look back with a certain amount of regret to six or sevenyears ago, when it would have been possible to put in hand the development of a military flying-boat for Britain for about£4m. In the result, we do not have one; and hence the closure of Calshot today." EEA Starts A New Year INTENSIVE export efforts by the British electronics industrywere the theme of a speech made last week by Mr L. T. Hinton, retiring chairman of the Electronic Engineering Association.Speaking at the Association's annual luncheon in London, he said that the members had done well both in the value of actual exportsand in invisible exports. The association had for some time run a commercial committee, which spent half its time on exports.Military attaches going to foreign posts had been briefed on electronics; the Electronic Forum for Industry, the Instruments,Electronics and Automation Exhibition and the Computer LOADING TRIALS: More than 30 different Army vehicles (some stilj secret) were tried for size in a mock-up of the Argosy C.I at AWA's Btiginton factory recently. Among visitors who saw the "marginal" vehicles being successfully loaded were (I. to r.) Air Marshal R. B. Lees (Deputy Chief of the Air Staff), Lt-Gen Sir Harold E. Pyman (Deputy Ciief of the Imperial General Staff) and Air Cdre G. T. B. Clayton, D rector of Operations (Air Transport and Overseas). With them is Mr L. T. Naylor, AWA's cargo systems adviser Exhibition (to be repeated this year) had proved useful; and annualreviews and bulletins had played their pan in publicity. To Mr Orr-Ewing, Civil Lord of the Admiralty and guest ofhonour, Mr Hinton appealed for the continued improvement of Government^ statistical surveys, for early information on othergovernments' requirements and for representation on inter- govemment meetings and for the appointment of "electronicattaches" as well as military and commercial ones. In his reply for the guests Mr Orr-Ewing mentioned that thecost of ancillary equipment for aircraft and ships was steadily rising: it was 5 per cent for the Scimitar, 14 per cent for the SeaVixen, 20 per cent for the Buccaneer and 23 per cent for a Leander- class frigate. Because we could not afford many projects in the£100m class, co-operation on a national or international basis was necessary. Elected to succeed Mr Hinton as chairman of the EEA wasDr D. N. Truscott of G.E.C. The new vice-chairman is Mr R. R. C. Rankin of Mullard Equipment. IN BRIEF An attempt to launch into orbit an S-45 ionospheric beacon satelliteby the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration was unsuc- cessful on February 24 following an upper-stage failure in the Juno 2launching vehicle. On February 20 the US Navy named Boeing Vertol as the winnerof the recent competition for a troop and cargo assault helicopter for use by the Marine Corps. Presumably derived from the Model 107, itwill be a tandem-rotor machine powered by two GE T58-8 engines, and having all-weather and shipboard capabilities. Radio signals were transmitted from Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, reflectedfrom the surface of the Moon and received at Sydney, Australia, on February 24. The personnel involved came from Pye Telecommunica-tions, the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories at Jodrell Bank and the radio astronomy observatory of Sydney University. British aircraft firms in the UK pavilion at the Rand Easter Show,South Africa's premier annual trade and agricultural fair, being held from March 21 to April 3. British Aircraft Corporation, Bristol Sid-deley, Handley Page, Rolls-Royce, Hawker Siddeley, Short Brothers and Westland are displaying models of aircraft and engines. The total estimated value of orders placed by the MoA since April 1,1958, for research and for the development and production of aircraft for civil and military purposes is about £700m. This was stated recentlyin the Commons by the Parliamentary Secretary, Mr Geoffrey Rippon. Of this amount, about £200m was in respect of research and develop-ment contracts.
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