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1962
1962 - 0671.PDF
[LIGHT International, 26 April 1962 INDUSTRY International Flight Systems Products Company News Flight Systems At the Shackleton Sales Week-end Equip ment exhibits at the Shackleton Sales week end were more numerous and significant than in past years. There was much new equipment for small aircraft, styled for the executive—still a rare feature in the British equipment world. Smiths have already made big efforts to produce low-cost instruments for light aircraft, at the request of Beagle, and have now finalized their agreement with Motor ola for sales and service of the M-135 VHF radios, ADF-T-12 and M-4 autopilot. Standard Telephones and Cables are extending the range of smaller radio which started with the STR.37 VHF communica tions unit. At Sywell they showed the new prototypes of the related VOR/1LS. Both Amplivox and Airmed showed head sets and oxygen masks, while Anticoustic offered the new lightweight executive noise proof headset in several bright colours. They were being demonstrated by S.P. Aeronautical Agency Ltd with the Sieger self-contained, pocket-sized audio amplifier, a useful independent intercom for any high- noise environment. Oxygen is being offered for the executive, somewhat hopefully perhaps at this stage, although the need for it will inevitably arise when high-altitude cruising for extended periods becomes more common. Normalair exhibited their light oxygen equipment installed in the Gnome Whirlwind shown bs Westland, their parent company. Normalair are also interested in the DH.125 and similar applications. The lightweight, portable six-outlet oxygen set by BOAS was described in these columns last week. The Tricolore Contact Flying Calculator, an effective and inexpensive groundspeed and drift reckoner, described overleaf i^^^BP ^**~wk Control panels, servos and gyro instruments for the Motorola M-4 autopilot, sold in Britain by Smiths Aviation Division Elliott Brothers (London) Ltd were strongly represented at Sywell by several of their divisions and some very interesting new equipment. Designed by Elliott them selves and already ordered for Short Skyvan and DH.125, the new ESP.36 audio mixing panel provides all the control and selection services required for compre hensive radio installations, the various circuit layouts being allowed for by a standard range of printed-circuit cards. The whole unit is arranged for rapid assembly, dismantling, accessibility and modification. ESP.36 was designed by the Airborne Radio and Radar Division, who also showed a new back-plate junction box for the Bendix Elliott 21-series radios. The box houses voice range filter, audio match ing transformer and provision for an addi tional RMI. Orders for the 21-Series now total well over £Im. Also exhibited by Elliott was the new French Aviradio 720-channel VHF radio. With an average transmitter output of 5W, this set weighs about 121b and takes the same panel cut-out as the Collins 618F. The modulator power unit is housed in a short quarter, half-height ATR case. Twenty crystals cover the fractional-megacycle channels and every whole megacycle crystal then bought adds a further 20 channels to the coverage. Crystallized from 118.0 to
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