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703l 25 M 1961 to-.... - 1 .IJJ/;.L i powered with two Napier Elands and precursor of a Tyne-powered production model to near-sonic speeds. Total weight of the system, comprising sixcomponents, is 801b. Short (Stand A.15) The Short SCI research aircraft will demonstratea complete VTOL flight plan. It will take off vertically from a point near the runway and, after hovering for a few seconds, climb awayand go into a fast circuit of the airfield. On the approach it will deceler- ate gradually, making the transition from wing-borne to jet-borneflight and stopping in mid-air before landing vertically. The work of the company in the field of VTOL will also be stressedin a display in the indoor exhibition. Against a panoramic sky back- ground a series of small scale models of the SC. 1 will be arranged toindicate the flight-path during a vertical landing and take-off. The dis- play will also include models of Short designs for VTOL aircraft. A l/24th scale model of the Belfast freighter, as ordered for RAFTransport Command, will be shown with fuselage cut away to reveal models of military equipment in the hold. Another model will repre-sent an airport freight terminal incorporating the special handling system developed by Shorts. This system has been designed to speedaircraft loading and unloading so as to exploit fully the potential of the Belfast and other large freighter aircraft. It incorporates an arrange-ment of powered roller conveyors which extend from the terminal right to the aircraft. Loaded pallets can thus be fed directly in and out offreight holds and marshalled as necessary inside the terminal building. Another model will represent the Skyvan light freighter.Shorts' stand in the guided-weapons park will be arranged to resemble the deck of a ship with ready-use magazine for guided missiles. Asectioned model of the Seacat ship-to-air guided missile will be shown. Seacat, which is being developed by Shorts under Ministry of Aviationcontract for the Royal Navy, will also be fitted in ships of the Royal Australian and Royal New Zealand Navies; and both Sweden andGermany have ordered evaluation quantities. A small and highly manoeuvrable weapon, powered by a solid-fuel motor, Seacat is de-signed for close-range defence against low-flying aircraft. Standard Telephones (Stand 86B) Standard Telephones and CablesLtd will be sharing a stand with some of its European associate com- panies. STC exhibits will include an airborne VHF ILS/VOR receiverequipment, an intercommunication system for aircraft, and two fre- quency-modulated radio altimeters, one of which has been specificallydesigned for Auto-Flare and Auto-Land use. STC has recently deve- loped a new range of test sets for use with these and other equipments,a number of which will be presented. There will be photographic dis- plays of ground-based navigation aids, including the Instrument Land-ing System type STAN/7.8.9, which has been adopted by the British Ministry of Aviation for all major airports in the United Kingdom andspecified for use in Belgium, Switzerland, Canada and the Netherlands. Commutated antenna direction finders, an automatic triangulationsystem and a precision approach radar (P.A.R.) will be depicted. STC's interests in the field of component manufacture for the tele-communications and electronics industries are represented by a display ol valves, magnetic materials, quartz crystals, rectifiers, transistors andcapacitors. Teddington A display by Teddington Aircraft Controls Ltd is beingarranged in conjunction with that of their French agents, Soc. Anon. A.B.G., and is the most ambitious that the company has so far under-taken at Paris. Instruments to be displayed are: pressure regulator Type FRK; butterfly valve Type FMP/A/5028; gate valve Type FKH/A/5;barrel valve Type FOZ; toilet servicing valve Type FKG; fuel pressure relief valve Type FPC; fuel pressurization equipment Types FLB andFLS; cyclic de-icing switch Type FHM/A/2247; a display panel show- ing the cabin temperature control system used on the Breguet 1150;miniature transistorized amplifier; motorized selector; ductstats; temperature selector; cyclic de-icing switch; intervalometer; a displaypanel showing a set of ice-warning equipment; moisture content head l.ypc PBA; thermal switch Type PBB; switch unit Type PAG; hot rodvisual ice detector Type PBE. Ultra Electronics On Stand C.272—the aviation medicine standortuiized by the Ministry of Aviation—examples of the Ultra SARAH search rescue and homing equipment will be on view. Also displayedW'l!, be an RB41B Mercury (Kalium) cell which is used to power the SAK.AH beacons, and an RB61 power unit. On Stand C.184 (Societea« '- -instruction de Machines Electriques & Pneumatiques Champion) e*<<n;ples of engine control and intercom equipment will be on view, nan• :|y, the UE91 engine condition analyser. UE902 engine vibration indicator, A6O5 turbine speed and jetpipe-ternperature control ampli-fier, A203 jetpipe-temperature control amplifier, DO26 rotation indi- cator. A726 temperature streak detector, and UA60 communicationcontrol system. Vactric (Stand 157C) Vactric (Control Equipment) Ltd. will beexhibiting a comprehensive selection from their range of precision servo components. These include a.c. motors and motor tachogenerators,d.c. motors, both permanent-magnet and split-field, and tachogenerators. In-line gearheads with ratios of up to 1,000 : 1 and rotary samplingswitches will also be exemplified. The main feature of the stand will be a demonstration utilizing an actuator unit working continuouslyat a temperature of 200 °C. Westland (Stand A. 10) Largest of five aircraft which Westland Air-craft Ltd are planning to send to this year's Salon is the world's first vertical take-off airliner the Rotodyne "Y," powered with NapierElands. Since it last visited the Continent this aircraft has completed a considerable number of flying hours and several additions have beenmade, including a rotor head fairing and a central fin. The other machines which will represent the British helicopter indus-try are all in current production and will comprise the 5/6-seat Nimbus- engined Scout, now on order for the British Army; the WhirlwindSeries 3, which is powered by a de Havilland Gnome engine and is currently being produced for the RAF and the Republic of Ghana;the Gazelle-engined Wessex 1, now entering service with the Royal Navy; and, finally, the latest addition to the helicopter strength of theRAF, the twin-Gazelle-engined twin-rotor Belvedere. In the static exhibition Westland will have a stand exhibiting modelsof all the helicopters now in their range. There will also be shown a model of the SR.N2 Hovercraft, a 27-ton 66-passenger craft now underconstruction at the company's Isle of Wight factory. Illustrating important roles of Westland turbine-powered machineswill be three panoramic displays showing twin-Gnome Wessex heli- copters being used in an airborne assault in arid rocky country; aScout reconnoitring jungle highlands, indicating the value of the heli- copter in liaison and reconnaissance; and a Type 192 being used inconjunction with a hydro-electric scheme in remote hilly country. Short SC. I VTOL research aircraft with Rolls-Royce lift and thrust engines
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