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1962
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115 FLIGHT International, 25 January 1962 First RAF Viscount, this 744 (XR80I) was delivered to the Empire Test Pilots' School on January 16 and will be joined by a 745 in March. Roth are ex-Capital Airlines. The 744 is due to leave tomorrow on a visit to US fight test establishments Co Ltd (40 per cent). The board will comprise two directors from Whites and three from Britten-Norman, under the chairmanship of Sir James Miln, chairman of J. Samuel White & Co Ltd. The new company will have its design and admini strative headquarters at Bembridge, IoW; manufacture will be undertaken at the Somerton works of J. Samuel White. Cossor Secondary Radar for France The first civil secondary radar to be installed in Continental Europe will be a Cossor SSR.4G. ordered by the French SGACC for the Service Technique de la Navigation Aerienne. The interrogator responsor and aerial unit will be set up in the near future at the northern area control centre at Orly Airport, and slaved to the CSF primary radar already operating there. One airborne unit has been ordered, for installation in a French Government air craft, so that controllers will be able to evaluate the system and gain operational experience. Cossor have already supplied airborne transponders to BOAC, Air France and Air-India. Etendard Delivery Dassault announce that on January 18 the first production Etendard IV M was officially handed over to the Aeronavale at Bordeaux-Merignac. The first Etendard squadron will embark in the carrier Clemenceau later this year. Recognition Contest Overall winners of the Aircraft Recognition Society's All- England contest at the Royal Aeronautical Society last Saturday Flight International, January 18) were Royal Observer Corps Post 2/Q3, Wallington, who were awarded I the Silver Hurricane Trophy. Other awards were as follows: Silver Heracles Trophy (highest scoring ATC, CCF or Air Scout \ team), 2121 Sqn, Abingdon; Bristol Blood- : hound Trophy (highest-scoring Service [• team), Royal Netherlands Air Force; US Navy Phantom II Trophy (highest-scoring ROC team), ROC post 2/Q3; Bristol Britannia Trophy (highest individual scor er). M. J. Hooks; Air Pictorial Trophy (highest individual scorer from ATC, CCF or Air Scout teams), Fit Sgt K. A. Burford, 1024 IoW Sqn; Fokker D.21 Trophy (highest Service scorer), B. van de Klaauw, Royal Netherlands Air Force. New BS Group An Advanced Propulsion Research Group has been set up by Bristol Siddeley Engines "to study frontier techni ques in science and technology applicable to aero and space propulsion." It is to be head ed by Dr R. R. Jamison, PhD, BSC, FRAes, ARIC, an assistant chief engineer of Bristol Siddeley and formerly head of ramjet de velopment at the company's aero division. Bristol. The new group is to maintain close liaison with the many specialist units at Patchway which are engaged in related fields of research. Bristol Aerojet announce two new appointments: they concern Dr L. Ains- worth, BSC (Hons physics), PHID, as research manager (plastics), and Mr D. J. Saun ders, BSC (Eng), AFRAes, as assistant chief designer (special products). Dr Ainsworth will be responsible for establishing a new Bristol Aerojet department concerned with fundamental work on glass filaments and their application to high-strength glass/ resin structures. Mr Saunders will be responsible for design and development aspects of new products involved in the company's expansion programme and for the development of Aerojet-General Cor poration products where this is required to meet conditions of the UK market. Cellon-Docker Division A new division of Pinchin Johnson and Associates Ltd, the Cellon-Docker Aircraft Finishes Division, came into being on January 15. The new organization assumes all the trading com mitments of Cellon Ltd of Kingston-upon- Thames and Docker Brothers of Birming ham in the aircraft industry; head office is Dr R. R. Jamison, head of the Bristol Siddeley Engines' advanced pro pulsion research group (see col 2) at 380 Richmond Road, Kmgston-upon- Thames, Surrey (Kingston 1234). Mr A. Wallace Barr is chief executive, assisted by Mr J. C. Cantrill and Mr D. M. Wiggins. National Gliding Centre Formed Lasham Gliding Centre is to be developed as a national and Commonwealth gliding centre, following the granting of a 21-year lease (with an option to renew for a further 21- year period) by the Ministry of Aviation. Over £17,000 has been raised by members of Lasham Gliding Society towards the cost of establishing the new centre—and in particular towards building a new hangar, workshops and an accommodation block including offices, lecture rooms, restaurant and bar—and a public appeal to raise a further £23,000 was launched earlier this week. Further details of the new centre and of the appeal are obtainable from the Appeal Committee, Lasham Gliding Society. Lasham Gliding Centre, Alton, Hants. Artist's impression of the accommodation block (including offices, lecture rooms, restaurant and bar) planned for the new National and Commonwealth Gliding Centre at Lasham (news item, col 3 above)
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