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206 FLIGHT, 17 August 1961 LOOKING FOR TROUBLE is the function of the nose of the Short SC.9, a converted Short-built Canberra PR.9 for testing the guidance system of the de Havilland Red Top air-to-air missile. The portion illus- trated includes the complete Red Top homing head and guidance components. The aircraft will "gather IR data for all kinds of targets and environments, and evaluate target-detection systems" FROM ALL QUARTERS H.P.115 First Flight FIRST flight of the Handley Page H.P.115 was due to take placelast Tuesday, August 15, at RAE Bedford. The pilot was to be Sqn Ldr J. Henderson, of the RAE. Handley Page have built theH.P.115 under Mo A contract to provide information on the behaviour of aircraft of slender-delta shape at low speeds. Con-structed of wood, it has a span of 20ft, length of 45ft and a 2,0001b thrust Bristol Siddeley Viper turbojet, which suffices for speeds ofup to about 300 m.p.h. Handley Page believe the aircraft to be "the world's slenderest delta,"" and its distinctive shape may beseen at the SB AC display next month. Whitworth Gloster Aircraft AMALGAMATION of Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraftand Gloster Aircraft into one company immediately—under the name Whitworth Gloster Aircraft Ltd—has been announced byHawker Siddeley Aviation. This decision has been taken in accord- ance with the company's policy of "streamlining and strengtheningits organization." Mr Hugh Burroughes, chairman of Gloster Aircraft, is to bechairman of the new company; Mr W. S. D. Lockheed, AWA managing director, will be managing director. Further boardappointments will be announced in due course. Tom Gammon Retires SINCE 1955 deputy managing director ofVickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd, Mr Thomas Gammon, OBE, MiMecfiE, is retiringon August 31 after over half a century of unbroken service in the engineering indus-try. He has been associated with the Vickers Group all his working life, havingserved his apprenticeship (completed in 1912) with the original firm of Vickers Sonsand Maxim at Erith. He went to Weybridge in 1938; and fromearly 1940, as works manager there, he was responsible for administration and produc-tion in the period when over 11,000 Welling- tons were built at the plant and in "shadow" factories under itsguidance. For his wartime services Mr Gammon was appointed OBE in 1943. He became general manager of the Weybridgeworks in 1953, when the Viscount and Valiant were being developed and produced. He is a council member of the SBAC and of theAircraft Research Association. Jet Provosts for Kuwait THE Kuwait Government has placed a contract with HuntingAircraft, worth over £500,000, for an unspecified number of Jet Provosts plus spares and initial technical assistance. The machinesare to form the nucleus of a Kuwait Air Force. High-flying Italian POWERED by a Bristol Siddeley Viper Mk 22 engine of 2,5001bthrust, a Macchi MB326 trainer on August 4 set up (subject to FAI confirmation) a new world altitude record for its class—C/l-D Group 1—by reaching a height of 50,024ft. It was flown by Cmdt G. Carestiato, Macchi chief test pilot, from the company'sairfield at Venegono near Varese. The MB326 is the Italian Air Force standard basic trainer, designed to combine viceless charac-teristics for ab initio pupils with the high performance needed for more advanced work. RESIGNATION of Air Marshal Sir Colin W. Weedon, KBE, CB, MA(Cantab), MIMechE, AFRAeS, RAF (Ret), from his present executive duties as director and general manager, commercial sales, of the Rolls- Royce aero-engine division has been accepted by the company "with regret." Sir Colin, who joined Rolls-Royce in 1952, is to continue with the firm as a senior aero-engine division representative, located at the London offices in Conduit Street Communications Merger PLANS for a merger between the Plessey Co, Automatic Telephone& Electric Co and Ericsson Telephones were announced last week. It was stated that the amalgamation would "avoid considerableoverlapping of effort in the communications field and lead to a more intensive and efficient use of research and productive facilities.'"Both Plessey, which has a controlling interest in the new consortium, and Automatic Telephone & Electric are involved in the aviationindustry. Among Plessey products are ceramic and transducer materials, complete aircraft electrical systems, communicationsand de-icing equipment. Collectors' Items SOME indication of the value of early issues and volumes of Flight(not infrequently the subject of enquiries by readers) was afforded by a recent sale by Hodgson & Co, the famous firm of auctioneers,at their salerooms in London. The most important run of Flight was catalogued as: "Flight: aJournal of Aerial Locomotion and Transport, illustrations, vols 1 to 6, II to 16, 18 to 36, and 3 parcels of numbers ranging between1941 and 1954, in 34 vols, with Titles and Indexes, cloth, not uniform, 3 unbound, (vol 18 lacks Jan-June, vols 14 and 15lack Titles, and vol 16 lacks Nov-Dec, Title and Index)." This lot realized £105. Sixteen volumes, between vol 1 No. 12 and vol 32—some in duplicate, some parts missing, and all very imperfect— brought £12. Among the very rare aeronautical items that came under the TOPSIDE SOUNDER: Canada's first satellite, to be launched by arrange- ment with the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration by Thor-Agena early next year, will investigate the ionosphere. Here Canadian scientists test the satellite's solar cells
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