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1962
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654 FLIGHT International, 26 April 1962 Armstrong Whitworth Argosy Blackburn Buccaneer I DEUTSCHE LUFTFAHRTSCHAU 1962 . . Handley Page research and design engineers are claimed to have proved that laminar flow techniques applied to aircraft give hitherto unrealizable increases in efficiency. Laminar flow's second contri bution to aircraft efficiency is to make practicable aircraft con figurations with low structural weight but with an acceptable lift-to-drag ratio. Typical of projects under consideration are the H.P.I 17, a 550 m.p.h., 300-seat all-wing aircraft which could reduce transatlantic fares by as much as 30 per cent, and a laminarized Mach 2 delta-wing airliner. Laminarization, say Handley Page, may be the only means of making supersonic flight a truly commercial proposition. Hawker Siddeley Aviation Seven civil and military aircraft will be featured by this great group of companies. At least four will be demonstrated in the flying display. The Avro 748 44-seat feederliner will be seen for the first time in Germany. This type is already in service with Aerolineas Argenti- nas, and will be introduced onto European routes this year. Its ability to operate from almost any surface was illustrated by a recent series of tests which included high-weight takeoffs from a ploughed field. Powered by two Rolls-Royce Darts, the Avro 748 shows direct operating costs among the lowest ever attained by a modern fully-pressurized airliner. Making its third appearance in Germany within a year will be the Royal Navy's low level strike aircraft, the Blackburn Buccaneer. Blackburn engineers developed new production techniques for this aircraft; construction is particularly strong to withstand the stresses imposed by flying at very high speeds close to the ground. The Buccaneer Mk 1 being displayed is powered by two de Havil- land Gyron Junior turbojets. The Mk 2, which has now been ordered into production, will be powered by two Rolls-Royce Spey turbofan engines. The first Buccaneer squadrons are now being formed at the Royal Naval Air Station, Lossiemouth, where many German Seahawk pilots did their training. On the Hawker Siddeley stand, models of two of the company's latest civil turbojet transports will be featured among the exhibits. These are the de Havilland Trident, rear-engined with three Rolls- Royce Speys, and the D.H.125 jet executive aircraft, powered by two rear-mounted Bristol Siddeley Viper 20s. With a maximum speed of 606 m.p.h., the Trident is claimed to have a cost per seat mile less than the turboprop aircraft which it will replace. BEA has ordered 24 to go into service on European routes next year. The D.H.125 is a versatile little jet which can be used in many roles—executive aircraft with six seats, high-speed feederliner with eight seats, casualty-evacuation aircraft, naviga tional trainer, military transport, general pilot trainer, special nuclear and electronics systems trainer, trainer for NASARR (North American search and ranging radar). It cruises at 500 m.p.h. The Hawker Hunter two-seat operational trainer and the Folland Gnat, the standard advanced trainer of the Royal Air Force, will also be seen in the flying display. In the 1960 show at Hanover, the Hunter flew daily and gave the West German Defence Minister, Dr Franz-Josef Strauss, his first experience of supersonic flight. The Gnat trainer is now coming into service with the RAF and a number of these transonic lightweight aircraft are already based at the Central Flying School. The Armstrong Whitworth Argosy, in civil and military versions, is now in service in Europe and the United States. The first squa drons of Argosy C.Mkls are now forming in Britain, and these tactical freighter/transports will add tremendous airlift and air dropping capacity to RAF Transport Command. In the USA the civil Argosy was introduced, with great success, on to the Logair military freighting routes operated for the US Air Force. Recently, the Argosy went into service with BEA and it is used on joint services into and out of Germany with Lufthansa. Quick turnround and ease of loading with the Rolamat cargo-handling system will be featured in the Argosy display on the Hawker Siddeley stand. If commitments permit, either a civil Argosy or an Argosy C.l will participate in the flying programme. The Hawker P. 1127 V/STOL strike aircraft will be featured on the Hawker Siddeley stand and, if development flying permits, an actual example may be present on the airfield. The P. 1127 is powered by a single engine giving both lift and thrust—the Bristol Siddeley Pegasus. It made its first tethered hovering flight in Octo ber 1960. Since that date, development aircraft have made well over 100 transitions from vertical to forward flight and vice versa. On a number of occasions the aircraft has flown supersonically. Member-companies of Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd will exhibit a wide range of ancillary equipment. The Rolamat cargo handling system will be demonstrated on an outside stand by Armstrong Whitworth Equipment, a Division of Whitworth Gloster Aircraft Ltd. By saving labour, time and space, this versatile heavy-duty conveyor system significantly cuts costs in land, sea or air transport and in storage or warehousing. On Hawker Siddeley's main stand Armstrong Whitworth Equipment will show a windstream indicator, an instrument designed to keep an aircraft pilot informed as to true windstream direction by indicating Hawker P.I 127 VTOL/STOL strike fighter streaming its braking parachute
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