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"Most Satisfactory" discussions were reported by AVM Ranjan Dutt, managing director of Hindustan Aircraft, after a recent visit to Dowty Roto/ and Dowty Fuel Systems in connection with use of Dowty components in the Indian company's products. In this group are, I to r, Sqn Ldr Venkatesh, Assistant Air Attache; Mr Gurudutt, technical adviser; Gp Capt Moolgavkar, Air Attache; Mr R. F. Hunt, Dowty Croup deputy chair man; and AVM Ranjan Dutt 196 FLIGHT International, 8 February 1962 Multi-Mission T-37 At company ex pense, Cessna Aircraft have "expanded the mission capability of their T-37 primary je\ trainer." Beneath each wing may be at tached armament pods, manufactured b General Electric, which may various I contain 0.50in guns, four 2.75in folding fin rockets or eight 31b practice bomb Two 2501b bombs may be attached to the pylons in place of the pods. Cockpit equip ment includes a computing sight and gun camera, and among additional equipmen; can be reconnaissance or survey camera^ WORLD N EWS . . . Agricultural Mi-6 Aeroflot said recently that during 1962 the giant Mi-6 helicop ter will be operated in an agricultural role. French Museum-piece The SNECMA Atar Volant has recently been added to the notable collection of air-historical material bt longing to the Musee de 1'Air. The col lection has been in store for 17 years, much of it at Chalais Meudon, awaiting the provision of proper quarters. It is not open to the public. T. OB. Hubbard By the death of Gp Capt Thomas O'Brien Hubbard, MC, AFC, which occurred on January 24, one of the few remaining personal links with pre-1914 British aviation is severed. Gp Capt Hubbard was honorary secretary of the Royal Aeronautical Society from 1908 until 1912, when he resigned—and was elected a life member of the Society— before joining the Special Reserve of the Royal Flying Corps. Weather Hazards A lecture on Weather Hazards in A viation is being given by M r S. C. Cornford at the Department of Meteorology, Imperial College of Science and Technology, Huxley Building, Exhibition Road, London SW7. on February 22 at 6.45 p.m. This is the second of a series of six university extension lectures on Weather Hazards, organized by University of London Depart ment of Extra-Mural Studies. They are being given on Thursdays, from February 15 onward. Single tickets cost 3s. Five-engined Vulcan This "Flight International" sketch clarifies the manner in which Bristol Siddeley Engines have mounted an Olympus 22R in the weapons bay of a Vulcan test-bed. As suggested on page 218 this appears to be a trial installation for the TSR.2 aircraft, and the shaded area suggests how the latter machine might be arranged, with a large weapons bay beneath a pair of such powerplants NZ-built FU-24S? It is reported from New Zealand that FU-24 utility monoplane- may be built there, following discussions between Mr Wendell S. Fletcher, vice- president of the manufacturers, Flair Aviation Co. and representatives of the NZ Civil Aviation Administration and aviation industry. At present FU-24s are imported as parts and assembled in the Tasman Airways workshops at Auckland; some 6X are in regular use. They are powered b> 240 h.p. Continental O-470-W engines bin might be Rolls-Royce-powered under the new proposals. Mr Fletcher is quoted as saying that when he designed the aircraft ten years ago he expected a main market in dollar areas but it had not turned out that way. Countries who needed such aircraft were in the sterling area—New Zealand, South Africa, the Sudan and India. D.H. Trident Electrics For commercial reasons de Havilland Aircraft continue to withhold from publication all detailed design information on the D.H.121 Trident. It is therefore of especial significance that tomorrow's issue of Electrical Review contains an authoritative description of the constant-frequency a.c. electrical system, which is representative of the very latest practice. Automatic Checkout Another Iliffe jour nal. Measurement and Control, is in its February issue printing a detailed account of the Minneapolis-Honeywell automatic system checkout equipment of the type used on the F-101, F-104 and Lightning. A TFX for Tea On February I the US Defense Department announced that The Boeing Company and General Dynamics had been chosen from a short list of six firms to proceed with design of the multi-mission, tri-service TFX aircraft, subject of an article on pages 207-8. This 1,700 m.p.h. monster could drop in for tea at any aero club, as artist Gordon Horner here suggests •^,-JU^'
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