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526 FLIGHT, 5 October 19 FROM ALL QUARTERS Westland-Boeing Agreement SIGNING of a ten-year agreement between Westland Aircraft andthe VeFtol division of The Boeing Co, in connection with the Boeing-Vertol 107 twin-turbine transport helicopter, was announcedyesterday. It gives Westland the right to provide servicing support for the 107 in Great Britain and also entitles them to manufactureand sell 107s in Great Britain and "certain territories abroad." The servicing and manufacturing work will be spread within theWestland Group, utilizing "to the fullest extent" the Bristol division's tandem-rotor experience. Initial production would befor sale in Great Britain, but it is also expected that substantial export markets will become available to Westland by virtue of thisassociation. The Boeing-Vertol 107 helicopter can be powered either by thede Havilland Gnome or the General Electric T58-8. It is antici- pated that the Gnome engine would be used in any production ofthe 107 by Westland. Eight Months' Exports TOTAL overseas sales by the British aircraft industry during thefirst eight months of 1961 were £109m, of which £45m were dollar sales. This eight months' total was £10Jm more than for the sameperiod last year; it represents an annual figure of £163Jm. Engine sales, at a record £57.7m, were £7im up on the equivalent 1960figure. The January-August total, £109,120,682, was made up as follows: aircraft and parts, £46,318,316 (aircraft £29,656,983 andparts £16,661,333); engines, £57,697,981; electrical equipment, £2,574,599; instruments, £1,873,457; tyres, £656,369. Largestbuyer of aircraft and parts, and of engines and parts, was Canada, spending £15,451,607 and £12,842,550 respectively; second largestbuyer was the United States, spending £5,893,379 on aircraft and £10,935,984 on engines. The August exports total was £14,074,277, made up as follows:aircraft arid parts, £6.362,783; engines and parts, £6,886,072; elec- trical equipment, £441,382; instruments, £288,849; and tyres,£95,221. Electricity and Reliability AT the second Electrical Engineers' Exhibition dinner in London lastThursday, the first speaker was Air Marshal Sir Herbert Spreckley, Controller of Engineering and Equipment at Air Ministry. Hestressed that reliability was now the key factor in aircraft electrical and electronic equipment. Up to 400* h.p. were now being bledfrom the engines of military aircraft for electrical power and the aircraft were being controlled more and more by electronics. Inten or 12 years supersonic transports would be flying the Atlantic, with all the problems of booms, radiation and transonic pheno-mena. The RAF had got supersonic flight now with the Lightning and "we are getting our headaches."' Unreliability required multiplication of systems and consequentcomplexity and loss of payload. Air Marshal Spreckley was evidently delighted with a new navigation aid containing a complex computerbut having a guaranteed mean time to failure of 150hr—he may have been referring to the Autonetics—Elliott Verdan. This relia-bility had required five years of development work. Quoting Service statistics, the speaker noted that during 1959 major electricalfailures in RAF aircraft had occurred 0.01 times per 10,000 flying hours whereas hydraulic failures had averaged 0.18 per 10,000Only one electrical failure had been disastrous, but minor electri •] faults had been 8.5 per lO.OOOhr while equivalent hydraulic fai: shad been 5.3. Better aircraft electrics were a primary requisite r any future advance in aviation. Greater reliability would be diffic !tto provide, but it simply had to be done. The dinner was intended to publicize the eleventh Electri. i)Engineers Exhibition, to be held in London next March. T ie special theme, announced by Mr R. F. Mathieson, chairman ifthe Electrical Engineers (ASEE) Exhibition Ltd, is to be Electric ;v in Aviation. Guests from more than 50 countries attended the dinm r. THE MEN WHO CAME TO DINNER: Gathered at a Royal Aero Club House Dinner last week are three of Britain's best-known airline captains. Left to right: Capt A. S. Wilcockson. OBE, AFRAeS, FIN, FRGS, Capt 0. P. Jones, CVO, OBE, FRGS, FRAeS, Capt J. C. Kelly-Rogers, OBE, FRAeS Max Millar Retires THE retirement is announced of Max Millar, chief of editorialartists, Associated lliffe Press Ltd. He is known to many readers not only for his own superb "cut-away" drawings of aircraft andengines, but for the influence of his work on the productions of his associates, notably Arthur Bowbeer and Frank Munger. MrMillar was the originator of such drawings, for which several Iliffe journals have long been famous. During his 47 years' servicewith Iliffe he has produced thousands of drawings of cars, aircraft, motor cycles, commercial vehicles, yachts, radio and televisionapparatus, machinery, power stations and nuclear engineering installations. Mr Millar's early experience was gained with a number ofcommercial art firms. He joined Iliffe in December 1913 as tech- nical illustrator to The Autocar and Light Car, and subsequentlyformed the editorial artists' department in which he trained so many fine illustrators. His full-colour drawing of Calder Hallnuclear power station hangs in the Science Museum in London, THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY: Left, the "crane" development of the Soviet Mi-6 turbine-powered helicopter which is reported to have lifted a record load of 33,2761b to a height of 7,220ft. Below, the Mi-6 (to- gether with its crew) which earlier averaged 199 m.p.h. over a distince of between 10 and 15 miles
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