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1962
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FLIGHT International, 22 March 1962 459 INDUSTRY International Flight Systems Products Company News Flight Systems RAF Adopts VASI Thorn Electrical Industries have now announced that the RAF has placed a two-year contract to supply VASI equipment to every RAF air field in Britain and abroad. The contract might be extended to three years. It costs about £5,000 to equip each main runway. Thorn have already equipped nearly 60 airfields of all types and foresee an ultimate market for VASI worth £10m. Electrical Flight Controls RAE Farn- borough are developing electrically sig nalled flight controls, using the two-seat Avro 707C experimental delta. Such a system can overcome the disadvantages of mechanically signalled controls in very large aircraft and also allows the application of a manoeuvre demand system to provide aircraft responses largely independent of flight conditions. Artificial stabilization in VTOL aircraft can be incorporated with such a system. Boulton Paul applied electrical signalling to the Tay-Viscount some years ago. The At Teheran Airport, Dr Ganji, Director of the Iranian Meteorological Department, checks one of the Decca WF 2 wind-finding radars supplied to CENTO countries as technical assistance 707C is being used to investigate the characteristics to be preferred in manoeuvre demand and to prove the integrity required. A working exhibit is being shown by MoA at the Electrical Engineers' Exhibition at Earls Court, London, open until March 24. Rank Cintel Avionics Activities at present comprising the PEEP head-up display, transistor static inverters, systems informa tion displays and central warning displays are to be co-ordinated by the Avionics Group of Rank Cintel Division. The manager will be Mr K. W. King, formerly the division's government contracts mana ger. Central Warning Airtech Ltd have ac quired from Radar Relay Inc the licence to manufacture a central warning system for use in aircraft, other vehicles and industrial establishments. The system has an atten tion-getting light and a bank of written notices, the appropriate one of which is lit up when a failure occurs. Polaris sub marines and several types of aircraft already have this display. Products Sperry Space Guidance The Air Arma ment Division of Sperry Gyroscope Com pany of Great Neck, NY, have described LASSO—landing and approach system, spiral oriented—which can provide accur ate guidance in space "ten times sooner than the best comparable equipment known." The system starts operating 20,000 miles from the lunar surface or other target, and uses a combination of inertia! data with conventional infra-red or optics to bring the spacecraft to the 5,000-mile point. At the latter position SPIRAL—Sperry [iner- tial radar altimeter—takes over to provide precise velocity and position information. The altimeter is claimed to have an accuracy of "a few hundred feet" at altitudes of several hundred miles. The entire system weighs 901b, and consumes 260W. Vickers Miniature Motorpump Details have been published by Vickers Inc, division of Sperry-Rand Corp, of Detroit 32, of a miniature vane motorpump designed for circulating cooling fluid through the magnetron tube of an airborne radar system used for missile guidance. With inlet and outlet pressures of 20 and 100 lb/sq in gauge the minimum delivery is 1.5 US gal/min at 11,300 r.p.m.; three- quarters of the package weight of 41b is accounted for by the 400 c/s drive-motor. Visiting the Rochester factory of Elliott Brothers (London) Ltd, Dr Lighthill, Director of RAE Farnborough (hands clasped) and Mr Handel Davies, Deputy Director (above lamp) watch VCI0 autopilot modules being assembled. At right are Mr Pateman, joint managing director of E-A Flight Automation, and Mr Howard, manager of the Transport Aircraft Controls Division. At left is Mr Alexander, assistant general manager, E-A Flight Automat/on
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