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FLIGHT, 5 October, 1961 527 ; nd HM King Haakon of Norway asked him to take the drawingsof the Norge, the Norwegian royal yacht, to Norway so that he could see it personally. HRH The Duke of Edinburgh inspectedthe original drawing of the Cutty Sark, commissioned for Yachting World, at a personal interview. The most notable of Mr Millar'saeronautical drawings were, perhaps, those produced during the late war, among which he regards that of the Rolls-Royce Merlin ashis best. Max Millar, who is 70, will be succeeded by Arthur Bowbeer, hisassociate for the past 21 years. Fokker's Overseas Recruitment REFERRING to their need to recruit skilled labour abroad (thispage, last week), Fokker stress that their need to do this is dictated by the necessity to keep Friendship production running at its presentrate, while work on the company's major military commitment— the F-104G Starfighter—increases. Under the Fokker-Breguet agreement Breguet are to build certainF.27 Friendship components in France—the fuselage, with the exception of the forward section; the tail unit less leading edges;and ailerons and flaps. Under present terms of the agreement, Breguet are to build these parts for all aircraft up to the 160thproduction Friendship. AT FURSTENFELDBRUCK, near Munich, recently are seen, left to right, Derek Whitehead, chief test pilot of Blackburn Aircraft Ltd, Herr Strauss, the West German Defence Minister, and General Major Panitzki, Chief of the German Flying Training Command. Mr Whitehead had been demonstrating the Buccaneer, which, on its return to Brough, was followed by two Noratlas freighters with personnel and equipment RAE Farnborough Changes TWO staff changes have been announced by the Royal AircraftEstablishment, Farnborough. Dr P. B. Walker, CBE, MA, PhD, FRAes, who became a Chief Scientific Officer (Individual Merit) atthe RAE in 1955 has been appointed Special Consultant to the Director of the establishment. With this appointment he ceases tobe Head of the Structures Department, a post he has held since 1945 ON TARGET at Tarrant Rushton Airfield, Dorset: members of the US/ Canadian sub-group "H" of the tripartite target panel committee visiting flight Refuelling Ltd during a two-week tour of UK companies involved in the development of targets. Fourth from the left is Sir Alan Cobham, the company's chairman and managing director. At rear is a Meteor U.I6 GALAXY: Lockheed Starfighters of three nations fly together over Southern California. From front to rear they are a German F-I04G, a Canadian CF-104 and a Japanese F-I04J and in which he is being succeeded by Mr R. J. Atkinson, BE, DIC,FRAes. Mr Atkinson, an Australian, joined the RAE in 1940 after being with Fairey Aviation at Stockport. Since 1955 he has beenHead of the Fatigue Division of Structures Department at Farn- borough. C. G. Vokes Retires AFTER nearly 40 years since he "began to realize the slow butdeadly effect of dust and dirt on machinery," and began to provide the answer, C. G. Vokes, MiMechE, FRAes, MSAE, has retired fromactive business life. Now in his 70th year, he relinquished his posi- tion as a director of the Vokes Group Ltd in June this year and attheir annual general meeting on September 22 was presented with a silver salver. Filters made by the company played an important part in pre-venting dust and sand hampering aircraft and tanks in Middle East operations during the war, and Cecil Gordon Vokes has becomewell known as one of Britain's foremost exponents of filtration. He founded the business which bears his name in 1921, and in 1936,when it was made into a public company, became managing director. He retired from this position in 1946. IN BRIEF Dr John Morris and Mr Bruce Harrison, who have been flying thevintage Monospar ST-12 from Australia to Britain (see picture, Sport and Business, page 559), arrived at Biggin Hill last Saturday. The number of people employed in "aircraft manufacturing and re-pairing" during June 1961 was 298,800. The Association of British Aero Clubs and Centres annual dinner,announced for November 3 at the Waldorf Hotel, has been postponed and will now be held there on February 9 next year. The North American X-15 rocket research aircraft is featured in thefilm X-15. being released next month. Sequences were shot at Edwards AFB, Cal. A $6,639,880 (approximately £2,368.400) production contract forHiller H-23D Raven helicopters has been placed for the US Army through the Navy Bureau of Weapons. The company's president,Stanley Hiller, Jr. has commented that with the new order, plus com- mercial activity, Hiller helicopter production "will reach a level equalto that of the Korean War peak." Grumman and Convair (Fort Worth) are teaming up to enter theUSAF/Navy "TFX" competition. This TFX specification is hoped to lead to a V/STOL tactical strike fighter suitable to both Services; butthe USAF insistence upon a very great ferry range is likely to lead to an aeroplane weighing about 80,0001b, which is too much for Navycarriers. Users are expected to be Air Defense Command, Tactical Air Command, the Navy and the Marine Corps. It is reported that El Du Pont de Nemours and Co Inc have boughtthe US rights to new chromium allows developed over a long period in the Australian Department of Supply's Aeronautical Research Lab-oratories and the Defence Standards Laboratory. The Australian Supply Minister. Mr A. S. Hulme. is quoted as saying that Du Pontpaid "substantial sum" for the rights, and would produce the alloys commercially, chiefly for aero engines.
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