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(LIGHT International, 29 March 1962 three ail frame contractors: Bell, Hiller and Hughes. As noted in this journal on february 15, Allison have run into con siderable difficulty with the T63, and earlier this month the US Army selected Conti nental Motors to develop an alternative LOH powerplant. Auguste Piccard We record with regret that Prof Auguste Piccard, the Swiss .-dentist whose achievements included balloon ascents to 51,776ft in 1931 and 55.577ft in 1932, died of a heart attack at Lausanne last weekend at the age of 78. He was the originator of the type of balloon with large-volume envelope, only partly filled, and pressurized gondola, since widely used for stratospheric research. Prof Piccard also made descents into the ocean by bathyscaphe, going down to 10.335ft in the Bay of Naples. The Trieste he and his son Jacques designed descended to 37,800ft in the Pacific in 1960. LSAF Changes HQ Third Air Force, USAF, announced last week that the 47th Tactical Bomb Wing at RAF Sculthorpe. equipped with B-66s, is to be discontinued in July. One squadron of RB-66s at RAF Bruntingthorpe and another at RAF Chelveston, part of the 10th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, are being redeployed within Allied Command Europe later this Beagle and Christchurch Rumours and speculation have been rife about British Executive and General Aviation Ltd moving into the factory at Christchurch, Hants, which de Havilland Aircraft are vacating. To clarify the situation, Beagle have issued this statement:— "It has been agreed in principle between Beagle and the Ministry of Aviation that, subject to the satisfactory conclusion of negotiations on terms and conditions of the lease, Beagle would like to occupy the factory and airfield . . . "Until these negotiations are concluded it is irresponsible to take it as an accepted fact that Beagle will take over the factory. Not to lose time in the matter, however, they are discussing with de Havilland those items of equipment they could usefully take over . . . Until these various discus sions have progressed to a more advanced 463 Wingless Wonder Originally known as the Sky-Car, and later as the Airgeep, Piasecki's experimental ducted-fan VTOL aircraft developed for the US Army has now been equipped with floats under a Bureau of Naval Weapons contract. Powerplant is a Turbameca Artouste 28 shaft turbine. A version with two Artouste 2Cs will fly shortly stage Beagle cannot state what their man power requirements might be . . ." Beagle promise to issue a firm statement about their possible occupancy of the factory when they are in a position to do so. Victor B.2 Accident A Handley Page Victor B.2 on test from A&AEE Boscombe Down crashed on the village of Stubton, near Newark, Notts, on March 23. Two women were killed in the house on which the air craft fell and two of the five aircrew mem bers lost their lives. The aircraft had shortly before taken off from the Handley Page airfield at Radlett, Herts. The crew members who lost their lives were the navigator, Mr M. P. Evans, and flight test observer Mr P. Elwood. The aircraft was captained by Mr P. Murphy of Handley Page with Fit Lt J. Waterton as co-pilot. US Mutual-aid Fighter According to Aviation Week, "Air Force and Defense Department's International Security Af fairs Agency are divided over selection of a standard aircraft as a replacement for the obsolescent Republic F-84 series for mutual aid nations in Europe and the Far East." Northrop hope to sell the N-156, and have the backing of the ISA Agency, while the Lockheed F-104-17 (an F-104G minus the complex all-weather fire-control and navi gation systems) is the recommendation of the USAF. Agricultural Aviation Conference The second international agricultural aviation congress will be held during the period September 19-22 at the National Agronomy School, Grignon, France. Information is obtainable from M Journet, Service de la Protection des Vegetaux, 78 rue de Varenne, Paris 7. RS-70 Re-examined On March 22 Presi dent Kennedy's administration promised to take a further long look at the practica bility of developing an RS-70 reconnais sance/strike aeroplane based on the XB-70 (Flight International, March 15). The House Armed Services Committee, led by Rep Carl Vinson (D-Ga), has spear headed an unprecedented campaign aimed at compelling the administration to add S311m to the existing S180m voted for the Now Flying The Potez-Heinkel CM.191, four-seat executive development of the Magister trainer, made its first flight at Toulouse-Blagnac on March 19. Jacques Grangette, Potez Air Fouga chief test pilot, reported good handling
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