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:HT, 18 May 1961 655 RISING FIAT: This model of • 95 shows one of several Fiat I'sals for STOL and VTOL \ac :al aircraft. It appears to two propulsion turbojets and four groups of lift engines the pro RAeS Honours AMONG awards announced by the Royal Aeronautical Society arehonorary fellowships to Sir Sydney Camm, CBE, FRAes, director and chief engineer of Hawker Aircraft, and to Mr J. D. North, chairmanand managing director of Bolton Paul Aircraft. These awards are being presented at the Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture, normallygiven in May but this year to be delivered on September 12 during the eighth Anglo-American Aeronautical Conference. Details ofother awards will be given in Flight next week. The Boeing Company FOR many years the largest single airframe manufacturer in theworld, Boeing Airplane Co will henceforth be known by the title above. This change is intended to reflect the firm's wide range ofinterests, which now embrace ICBMs. pilotless intercepters, large helicopters, nuclear power and manned spacecraft, as well as alimned range of non-aeronautical activities. Boeing have thus followed the lead of Chance Vought, and are likely in the course oftime to be followed by several other eminent US "frame makers." It is Rumoured That . . . \MONG an exceptional spate of unconfirmed reports circulatingwithin the British industry are the following:— British Aircraft Corporation have made a new bid to secureacceptance of the "Lockheed 222" as heavy STOL freighter for RAF Transport Command. The US Government is said to beoffering to finance development of this C-130 development (Flight, February 17, page 198) under MWDP. According to the Daily Express, "A modified form of a Frenchtwo-engined Breguet anti-submarine plane [obviously the Br.1150 Ailantic] is being considered as a possible replacement for theCoastal Command Shackleton. Fitted with a third engine to increase range, this plane would also be made in Britain underlicence." Dr Barnes Wallis, of Vickers, and Dr R. R. Jamison, of BristolSiddeley, are named by the Daily Telegraph in an exposition of "a plane that can penetrate any known or contemplated defencesystem." Although it would have a high wing loading, it would be capable of continuous manoeuvre at altitudes greater than 100,000ft. A New Rotary Engine ON May 9 a Hampshire firm of engineers and machinery merchantsopened their doors to those interested in a new rotary-piston engine. Broadly, the unit is a kinematic inversion of gas-turbine fuel pumps,in which an inclined ball-bearing imparts a swash-plate drive to axial pistons. The example demonstrated has a diameter of somelOin, and a swept volume of 700cm3. It has six double-ended cylin- ders, which are curved to maintain a constant radius from the centre"f a spider (carried on the inclined ball-bearing) on which the pistons are mounted. The engine operates on a two-stroke cycle, with^avenging by a Roots-type blower. Among the advantages claimed are simplicity, compactness,excellent dynamic and pneumatic balance, and the elimination of both oil lubrication and liquid cooling. The engine shown unfail-ingly started at the first pull of the rope, and behaved in a most encouraging manner. Development still has a long way to go; butmany eminent engineers were keenly discussing the unit five hours after their arrival at the demonstration. The company concernedis William R. Selwood Ltd, of Chandler's Ford, Hants. " Waveney Group Rally THE Waveney Flying Group's air rally at Seething airfield, near Bungay, on May 7 went well despite a very strong and gusty wind. Visiting aircraft landed on 2,700ft of the 250" runway and parked on !,500ft of the 12/30 runway of the wartime airfield which the LOV -DENSITY TUNNEL: This new low-density wind tunnel was on show for "ie first time at the Open Days of the National Physical Laboratory, lee-••ngton, last week. Pressure can be varied between 10 and 100 Tiic-'-'ns of mercury; the booster diffusion pumps, backed by mechanical Nr >s, hove a speed of some 20,000 litres/sec; and the test stream dia;' vter in the working section varies from 3in at M2 to one inch at MI0 group has leased for 15 years from local farmers. More than 30aircraft arrived. There were sales demonstration aircraft, including three Cessnas, a Comanche, Aircoupe, Champion, Bolkow KL107, Mousquetaire, Super Aero and Meta-Sokol: and visitors included JAP-engined and Volkswagen-engined Turbulents, Arch-bishop Tiger Moth, the Chilton all the way from Valley, a British- registered Jodel D.I 12, the Globe Swift and a selection of age-before-beauty types which included Flight's Gemini. Farm Aerial Services Ltd laid on a canteen and the local Civil Defence unitprovided control and ground-to-ground radio service. Unfortunately, the wind proved too strong for crop-spraying,glider and parachuting demonstrations and for a projected air race to Bungay and back, but C. A. Nepean Bishop gave two verygraceful aerobatic displays in the Archbishop and the commercial team kept busy with demonstrations. The group's own Messengerspent the afternoon giving introductory flights to some of the large number of visitors who arrived by road. IN BRIEF The Louis Bleriot Trophy, to be awarded to the pilot of the firstaircraft to average 2,000km/hr (1.242 m.p.h.) for 30 min, is likely to go to Maj Elmer Murphy. USAF. On May 11 he averaged 1,302 m.p.h.for 30min 45sec over California in a Convair B-58. The Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators' Award of Merit has beenawarded to Mr Cecil L. Pashley, manager and chief instructor of Southern Aero Club. The award was announced by Capt O. P. Jones,representing the Master of the Guild, at the party held by the club to honour him last Saturday, May 13. Mr Pashley, who is 70. has beenflying for over 50 years. At Dumbarton last Saturday Wm Denny & Bros launched theirexperimental sidewall Hovercraft, which weighs 4 tons, is 60ft by 10ft and has two Mercury 300 outboard motors driving v.p. propellers. Anair cushion is provided by two 3-cylinder two-stroke Excelsior engines of 25 h.p. each. Of mixed plywood and metal construction, the Hover-craft is capable of 15kt. It is designed to clear the water by about 6in, but the sidewalis remain immersed to give directional stability. Prof George Temple, CBE, MA, DSC, FRS. FRAes, Professor of NaturalPhilosophy at Oxford University, has been appointed chairman of the Aeronautical Research Council in succession to the late Prof W. J.Duncan. Prof Temple, who is 60, has had a distinguished academic career and in 1947-49 was Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry ofCivil Aviation. The index to Vol 78 (July-Decemberl960) of Flight is now available,price Is (by post Is 3d), from Associated Iliffe Press Ltd, Dorset House. Stamford Street, London SE1. Copies of this volume can be bound(with index) at a cost of 25s. return postage included; or binding case and index are available separately, price 7s 6d (by post 9s). Copiesfor binding (with sender's name and address enclosed) shou|d be for- wared to Associated Iliffe Press Ltd. Binding Dept, 4/4a lliffe Yard.London SE17. and advice and remittance sent separately to the pub- lishing department at Dorset House.
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