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1961
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FLIGHT, 28 December 1961 983 Sport and Business Market demand for the five-seat Beechcraft A55 Baron during 1961, first year in produc- tion, caused the company to increase the production rate on three occasions and re- sulted in sales 25 per cent greater than an- ticipated. Above, the 1962 model of the Baron Appearance of the 1962 Beechcraft P35 Bon- anza (left) marks the type's 16th consecu- tive year in production. A/most 7,000 have been built during that time COPENHAGEN PRIVATE FLYING CLUB is to sponsor aninternational aircraft fair at Skovlunde Airport, Copenhagen, during June 1-11, 1962. Light aircraft, gliders and associatedequipment will be exhibited, in an effort to show the increased activity in light-aircraft flying in Scandinavia and the whole ofNorthern Europe. Business flying, in particular, is developing rapidly at present throughout Scandinavia. FAIR OAKS AERODROME and Universal Flying Services Ltd,operators of Fair Oaks Aero Club, have been acquired by Mr Nor- man Jones, managing director of Rollason Aircraft and EnginesLtd and founder of the Tiger Club. The Tiger Club will now use Fair Oaks as a second base in addition to Redhill, with Fair Oaks Aero Club continuing as at present. Previously Universal FlyingServices was owned by Blackburn Aircraft Ltd. TWO RAF OFFICERS, Fit Lt David Innes and Fit Lt MervynSinger, are to make an attempt on the United Kingdom gain-of- height and absolute-height records for gliders. They aim to reach30,OOOft in a Slingsby T.21 Sedbergh over the Rothes Glen area of Scotland, sometime between December 23 and January 22. Both aremembers of 120 Sqn, a Shackleton unit based at Kinloss, who glide at Milltown airfield, satellite for RNAS Lossiemouth. Anothermember of the squadron, Fit Lt Nigel Whitling, is to aerotow the Sedbergh by Tiger Moth. THE ROYAL AERO CLUB was due to close at its 119 Piccadilly premises yesterday, December 27, and will re-open at 9 Fitzmaurice Place, Berkeley Square, London Wl on Monday, January 1, 1962. A RESEARCH PROGRAMME intended to lead to a reduction inthe number of accidents to light aircraft has been started by the Australian Department of Civil Aviation. The Director of FlyingOperations of the Department has said that more than 220 light aircraft crashed in Australia during 1959 and 1960, killing 29 people.About 40 per cent of the accidents, the director said, occurred in agricultural flying. NAPIER AERO CLUB, New Zealand, is claiming a world recordfor one day's flying after 20 of its members kept a light aircraft in the air for 23hr 24min on December 2. This is 5hr I4min longerthan the time set up by 600 Squadron Flying Group at Biggin Hill on June 24. FLIGHT TESTS of the Potez-Heinkel CM. 191 four-seater executivejet are expected to begin next month at Toulouse. Flying will be carried out by Jacques Grangette, chief test pilot of Potez, afterwhich the official flight tests will be performed at Bretigny Flight Test Centre. THE FIRST SERIES of 100 Potez 4E 90-105 h.p. four-cylinderengines should be complete by the end of the year, and will be followed by a second production batch of 100. Two prototypes of the155 h.p. six-cylinder version known as the 6E are in final assembly now and will soon be bench-tested, and a third is being built. REGTSTRATIONS of Ulster Flying Club aircraft are Tiger Moth G-AOUR and Air-Rent Aircoupes G-ARHD and RHE, and not as given in the news item on page 848 in our November 30 issue. The single-seat Ferguson Special (upper picture) was built by C. R. Ferguson of Texas and is powered by an 85 h.p. Continental engine. Cruising speed is 125 m.p.h. At left is the latest version of the Wittman Tailwind, designed and built by Steve Wittman of Oshkosh, Wisconsin and featuring swivel nose-gear, 160 h.p. Lycoming and 175 m.p.h. cruising speed. Range is claimed to be over 600 miles
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