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pLIGHT, 8 June 1961 785 :i total, about 90 aircraft were demonstrated; and if a co-ordinated appraisal is needed, this 1961 display might be debribed as a STOL/VTOL/Mach 2 year. Some of the mostad anced short- and vertical-take-off and landing developments wee to be seen; and there was the biggest clutch of M2 air- cr;.;t ever brought together on an international basis. VTOL/S1JL contributors were Britain, France. Germany, Canada. Sutherland, the US; and the aircraft ranged in size from theDernier Do27 to Lockheed's boundary-layer-control Hercules. Helicopters apart, the Short SCI was the sole example of\1 OL-in-being. Denis Tayler took it off vertically from a pad ne:;r the Paris end of the airfield; moved sideways to the take-of! end of the 03 runway; translated to conventional flight, and flc-v at about 30ft to the far end of the piste and back. Thenthi SC.l descended vertically and taxied back to its pad. Bring- iiu. it over to the Salon had been a feat in itself, involving aseries of short hops. On one of these, from Manston in Kent to Coxyde in Belgium, the SC.l became the first jet-lift aero-plane to fly the Channel. The STOL types—Do27 and 28, Breguet 940. Pilatus Porter,DHC Caribou and BLC130—all gave absorbing demonstrations. The purely experimental 940, its four Turborneca Turmo 2Dslinked by a single shaft drive, was described by commentator Jacques Noetinger as "the forerunner of tomorrow's transportfor landing on short strips". He also announced that its devel- oped civil and military version, the 941 (four TurbomecaTurmo 3Ds) had made its first flight on the previous day. The 940 took off in a distance which can perhaps best bedescribed as being about as long as it took the machine itself to get moving; its landings—we were told it has now done atotal of 700—were made in about three times its length. The Do28, particularly arresting in appearance with its red-and-white fuselage, black lettering and white wings, showed its good low-speed behaviour; the 27 did engine-off manoeuvres. The Dassault Etendard IV M with two Sidewinders and rocket pods Caribou got airborne in a dramatically short space, climbingquickly at a flat angle; its approach speed was strikingly slow and landing-run minimal. Similarly the BLC Hercules, whichhas podded Allison YT56 turbo-compressors outboard of its turboprops, took off in a horizontal stance and continued risingwithout noticeable change of attitude; its landing run is demon- strably the shortest yet accomplished by any large aeroplane. At the other extreme, as already remarked, the show had aM2 intensity—especially the United States contribution. An unprecedented sight in Europe (and probably elsewhere) wasthe lining-up for successive take-off of the F-104 Starfighter, F-105 Thunderchief, F8U Crusader. F4H Phantom, A3JVigilante and B-58 Hustler. All these astonishing aeroplanes made fast runs over the airfield; then all but one reappeared Morane-Saulnier Paris II executive aircraft, five of which have already been sold Below: From the public's point of view one of the closest and most interesting fly-pasts of the day was this—by Scimitars of No 800 Squadron
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