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UNWELCOME BOOSTER: This method of transportation is being seriously considered for the second stage of the Saturn space vehicle. The Douglas C-133 could fly the big tank sections from Sacramento to the Cape in lOhr, compared with the 24 days needed for shipment by barge via the Panama Canal. No method of air-lifting the first stage is in prospect warning stations, and will apparently also repay the US Govern-ment in cash instalments. This deal, which seems to be aimed principally at maintaining employment in Montreal and St Louis,will cost the US S240m (£85.7m) and Canada S80m (£28.6m), and is far larger than any similar previous peacetime agreement. Vickers in 1960 IN his review of the 1960 operations of the Vickers Group, ViscountKnoIIys gave the interesting news that "As regards the variable- geometry aircraft, a further Ministry of Aviation contract fortheory studies, aerodynamics and engineering experimental pro- grammes, and the building of a fuselage centre-section, two stub-Hings and fore-wing, covering a period extending into 1962, is expected in the near future." This is the first indication for manymonths that Vickers polymorphic designs are still active projects. Other news given by the Vickers chairman is that design work andtooling manufacture for the initial batch of TSR.2 aircraft ordered by the MoA will continue during the year, that "considerableinterest is being expressed by important American airlines" in the BAC One-Eleven, that production of the Viscount is continuingbeyond the 429 sold, that the company's accounts are not based on HIMALAYAN HELICOPTER: the Oslermanl Autair Be// 47C-3 (see news- item on this page) among the high peaks DISCUSSING SEACAT with Mr R. M. Armour, Short Brothers' assistant chief engineer on that missile, is (left) Captain E. A. Good, CBE, who has joined the company as technical representative for Seacat in Australia and New Zealand, both of whose navies are adopting it. Captain Good was London technical liaison o/ficer for the Australian Dept of Defence, 1956-58 the assumption of additional orders for the Vanguard and that thefirst VC.lOs are still due for delivery in 1963: the Super VC10 will fly early in 1964, while the BAC One-Eleven is to fly in 1963. Himalayan Helicopter HELICOPTER operations were recently carried out in Nepal byAutair Ltd in conjunction with Osterman, the Swedish helicopter company. Using a turbo-supercharged Bell 47G-3, which theypurchased at the end of last year specifically for high-altitude operation, Autair operated at heights between 7,000 and 11.000fta.s.l. and occasionally as high as \ 5,000ft. Autair have also made flights in connection with the recentHimalayan scientific mountaineering expedition led by Sir Edmund Hillary. These flights involved landings at a camp located at15,0C0ft, only 20 miles from the summit of Mt Everest. Turbulent Tour A SERIES of flights round the coast of the British Isles in aTurbulent is being undertaken by 14 student officers of No 140 course at No 8 Flying Training School at RAF Swinderby, Lines.They graduated there on June 9 and were setting out last Monday. The Turbulent is making a total of 22 flights on its peripheraljourney and ground support is being given by five servicing teams travelling by road, their itinerary so planned that the aircraft willbe turned round at the end of each leg. The student pilots all have some 23Ohr flying experience, on Jet Provosts and Vampire T.I Is. Unlucky KLM NINETEEN were killed, out of 29 passengers and crew of seven,when a KLM Lockheed Electra hit a hill on the approach to Cairo at 0211 BST on June 12. The aircraft, on a Rome- Karachi service,was flown by a British captain, Cdr K. J. Reynolds, who survived; one of the dead was KLM's station manager at Rangoon. Later onthe Same day the airline stated that the accident "was not caused by any of the shortcomings" which have previously afflicted theElectra. After a fire which started 200 miles out over the Atlantic haddestroyed its port outer engine, a DC-7C on charter from KLM made a safe landing at Prestwick last Sunday. The fire started whenthe aircraft, which had 73 passengers and a crew of eight, was at 17,000ft. There was fierce vibration—caused by propeller wind-milling after failure of the feathering mechanism—and the pilot, Capt Wilhelm Bellink, dived the aircraft from 17,000ft to 1,000ftin an effort to put out the flames. The damaged engine tore itself loose at 1,000ft, narrowly missing the aircraft's tailplane. These incidents come on top of the complete loss, with all 61 onboard, of KLM's newest Douglas DC-8 off Lisbon, when under charter to Viasa (Venezuela). This was reported in our June 8 issue. JOINT WINNERS in the US Army's design competition for a four-seat light observation helicopter are the Hiller 1100 (left) and Bell D-250, both seen here in mock-up form. The 250 h.p. Allison T63 turbine will be the powerplant in each case
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