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1961
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FLIGHT, 29 June 1961 903 A Goodyear contribution to the Blackburn Bucca- neer: a double disc brake. The company also supply an anti-skid system for this Naval strike aircraft Right, Goodyear service at London Airport: the maintenance depot which was opened in 1952 The company flag flying at one of the Goodyear Trophy races, which were instituted in 1949 to encourage sporting aviation in the United Kingdom Wrights to Dyna-Soar . . . in 1949 of the Goodyear Trophy race to encourage private andclub flying in the UK. As a result of the Defence White Paper of 1959 with its effect ofcutting-back aircraft orders, the design and development sections of the aviation division were re-located at Wolverhampton, andElectro-Hydraulics Ltd assumed responsibility for sub-contract production of Goodyear wheel, brake and associated equipmentand became entirely responsible for design and production of hydraulic brake-control systems. Since the opening of the Goodyeardepot at London Airport in 1952, and re-dispersal of some test equipment to LAP and Wolverhampton, the company have notsuffered in the long run from this apparent contraction. The London Airport depot is primarily responsible for a round-the-clock tyre, wheel and brake overhaul service and it is there that a 24-hour tyre remould exchange plan was first instituted in the UK. About 70 per cent of Goodyear's wheel and brake productiongoes for export to the Continent, only 30 per cent finding its way to the British market. Some of the British aircraft fitted with Good-year wheels and brakes are the Blackburn Buccaneer, Handley Page Herald, the 23 Vickers Vanguards ordered by Trans-CanadaAir Lines, a proportion of Vickers Viscount 700 and 800 Series aircraft, Bristol T.I88, Beagle-Auster Airedale, Auster AOP Mk 9and Agricola and Scottish Aviation Pioneer. Goodyear anti-skid systems are used where applicable. It has always been the company's practice to house their anti-skidsensing units within the undercarriage axles, the units being driven by the wheel hub caps. The only exception to this procedure hasbeen on the Blackburn Buccaneer, for which the Goodyear fully electrical anti-skid system has been adopted. In this case, the forkundercarriage precludes an internal axle mounting of the sensing units and the alternative of an external friction drive has beenadopted. Three Goodyear anti-skid systems are marketed—fully electrical, electro-mechanical and skid warning. The latter is moreoften known as the "foot thumper," the pilot being warned of an incipient skid by a vibration on the soles of his feet, encouraginghim to release a little load from the foot brake pedals. All types save one of the aircraft tyres produced by Goodyearare now of nylon construction; and the Wolverhampton factory has unique facilities for calendering the nylon fabric, facilitating Left, Goodyear as aeroplane manufacturer: the Inflatoplane, developed for flying from unprepared surroundings, being flown over Wingfoot Lake by one of the company's test pilots. Below, wood-block test of special low-pressure tyres developed by the company for use over rough ground
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