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FLIGHT International, 28 June 1962 MORE 8UPERSONIC RE8EARCH CONTRACTS A DOZEN additional contracts, totalling $1,685,552, have been awarded by the FAA for research into various technical aspects of the supersonic airliner. Pratt and Whitney are awarded $772,600, anticipating a total contract of $2,105,000, for propulsion research covering compressor, turbine and combustion technologies, prob lems connected with seals and bearings, auxiliary power extraction and long engine life. Bell Aerosystems Corp receive $141,451 to study deformations and stresses undergone by materials and structures under supersonic flight conditions; and the Massa chusetts Institute of Technology has received a $140,500 contract for wing aerodynamic studies. North American are awarded three separate contracts, one to study and analyse structural stiffness and weight factors, one to obtain data on wing panel flutter and its effect on minimum weight and the third to investigate landing impact loads for a supersonic airliner. Sums of $89,947 and $83,424 will go respectively to the Shell Development Co and Westinghouse Corp. They will study resins suitable for radio and radio antenna housings at the temperatures encountered in supersonic flight. An effective fire-extinguishing agent for supersonic airliners is the subject of a $65,155 contract for the National Engineering Science Co, while Boeing has con tracted to study transparent interlayer materials for windscreen use. Lear are to investigate experimental flight controls and Sperry Rand Corp will undertake research into instrument displays. The FAA has so far awarded supersonic airliner research contracts totalling $4,848,407. Writing in Aerospace, Mr N. E. Halaby, FAA Administrator, says that FAA's "go or no-go" recommendation on the supersonic airliner, made on the basis of current research contracts, will go to President Kennedy "by this time next year." The case for developing such an aircraft "appears at this point to be a good one." Royal Comet Delivered King Saud of Saudi Arabia has now taken delivery of his Comet 4C. Second Air Traffic Census The second census of civil air traffic over Britain will be taken during the seven-day period July 9-15. Time of recording will be changed from "on the hour" to "on the half hour." Toolco Control of Northeast Approved The CAB has approved the acquisition of a controlling interest in Northeast Airlines by the Hughes Tool Co as an alternative to bankruptcy for Northeast. Air Ceylon Loss A net loss of Rs 534,235 for 1960-61 was made by Air Ceylon compared with a net loss of Rs 127,462 for the 1959- 60 financial year. Central-Ozark Merger? A merger between two US local service carriers, Central Airlines of Fort Worth and Ozark Air Lines of St Louis, is in a well advanced state of negotiation. Ansons Grounded The Australian Department of Civil Aviation has grounded the nine Anson Is still used by airlines in Australia because the single-engine performance is not up to modern requirements and certain glued joints in the wing structure are no longer considered reliable. New London - Houston Service A direct service will be inaugurated between London and Houston on July 1 as the result of a Braniff/ PanAm interchange agreement. A PanAm 707 or DC-8 will fly from London to Chicago, where Braniff crews will take over and fly it on to Houston via Dallas. Total journey time is 14 hours. Fokker F.28s for India? First indication of airline interest in Fokker's new short-haul jet is a report that Indian Airlines Corpor ation may order the type for delivery late in 1966. IAC already has five Friendships, with five more on order, all of which have been supplied on a barter arrangement without any foreign ex change commitments on India's part. An Indian order for F.28s is likely to be financed in the same way. 999 Electra Compensation Relatives of eight of the 63 people killed in the Northwest Electra crash at Tell City, Indiana, on March 17, 1960 have been awarded £230,000 damages in a Chicago court against Northwest, Lockheed and General Motors. Southend's Passenger Total Inadvertently omitted from the table of Britain's top ten airports in our May 17 issue was Southend, which handled a grand total of 488,383 passengers in 1961 as against 381,052 in 1960. IATA Membership Changes Air Afrique has now joined IATA, becoming the 15th African airline to do so. The Brazilian carrier REAL has now relinquished its associate membership of IATA following its purchase by Varig last August. IATA now has 84 active and nine associate members. New JAL Services to Europe On October 4 Japan Air Lines is to inaugurate a new twice-weekly Convair 880 service to London via Hong Kong, Bangkok, Calcutta, Karachi, Kuwait, Cairo, Rome and Frankfurt. This will be in addition to JAL's present twice- weekly trans-Polar DC-8 service to London. Boeing Bolt Theory Discounted The theory that the American Airlines 707 crash on March 1 was caused by a bolt which fell out of the rudder hydraulic mechanism is now discounted. An alter native theory is that the rate-of-turn generator (an electrical gover nor which prevents abrupt rudder movement) failed; it was found to contain frayed and cut wires. Eastern Strike After a threatened strike against TWA was postponed the Flight Engineers' International Association went on strike against Eastern Air Lines on June 24. The dispute is over the two-year-old issue of reduction in jet crews from four to three men, with the third man qualified as both a pilot and a flight engineer. Rhodesian Charter Activities Rhodesian Air Services (Pvt) Ltd has recently acquired a DC-4 from the Katanga government; the aircraft formerly belonged to Thai Airways and was impounded at Salisbury on its way to Elisabethville. It will be used by RAS for charter work within and outside Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and supplements the DC-3 and Dove already operated by RAS. Turbulence the Cause of Ansett Crash Structural failure of the starboard wing in flight during a severe storm was responsible for the loss of an Ansett-ANA Viscount after take-off from Sydney last November. Evidence had shown that the aircraft had en countered unexpected turbulence in which the captain lost control and pressures were imposed on the wing beyond its capacity. There was no evidence of structural weakness before the flight. High-speed wind tunnel tests on the BAC One-Eleven are being carried out at the ARA, Bedford. They will cover the speed range from M0.35 to M0.86, which latter is the One-Eleven's maximum diving speed. Two models are being used—this one, largely made by BAC, and a rear-end model made by the ARA
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