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Aviation History
1962
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Troopship Demonstrated An F-27 Troopship at National Airport, Washington, DC, prior to the first parachute jump made from one of these aircraft in the Western Hemisphere. Fairchild recently demonstrated the F-27's potential as a tri-Service transport during a 60-day national tour. According to the company it is the only American-built twin-turboprop capable of carrying pay- loads into and out of 6,000ft fields. Comparison is invited with the Avro 748MF opposite WO RLD NEWS . . . due course it means a build-up of work at the Malton plant ..." Speaking for Hawker Siddeley Canada, Mr Emmert said: "This move will asssist in securing for the 1,200 employees of Avro and Canadian Applied Research a place in an enlarged and stronger aircraft company. For Hawker Siddeley Canada, it means further concentration on the sixty other products . . . "It does not mean withdrawal from the aviation field, as our Orcnda Engines Division continues to be Canada's major supplier of jet engines and our Cancar Fort William plant will continue in the airframe subcontract business." R. J. Ashfield A man whose services to the British air craft industry have been far-reaching and wide-ranging, Mr R. J. Ashfield, retired recently from the Fairey Aviation Co Ltd. Mr Ashfield's interest in aircraft goes back to his schooldays. A small group of schoolboys, of whom he was one, built rubber-driven models of what was intended to be a "boy-carrying" glider. The actual glider, says Mr Ashfield, "never did." He adds, "But we didn't kill ourselves, a fact 1 have often wondered at." For a short time he was on the staff of The Aeroplane, sketch ing and writing descriptions of aircraft. One assignment took him to the Sopwith sheds at Brooklands, where Mr Fred Sigrist asked him to arrange an advertise ment for a draughtsman. He took the job "just like that," becoming Mr Sopwith's first draughtsman. Continuing the story in Mr Ashfield's own words: "When we moved to Kingston I had a small staff of which I was chief draughts man until the 1914 war broke out. The pace became so hot that I was given addi tional staff from what had already become a fair-sized office, and put in charge of the experimental design. My job was to get the prototype aircraft flying as quickly as possible on scrap drawings which were handed over to the production office for elaboration. In this way the Camel, for example, was flying in six weeks from scratch, and operational in nine months." With the Sopwith Co (1912-1917) Mr Ashfield's name was associated with 19 types of aircraft; with Gosport Aircraft Co (1917-1919) with one type; with George Parnall & Co Ltd (1919-1932) with 15 types; with Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd (1932- 1939) with seven types; and with the Fairey Aviation Co Ltd with 11 types. May Exports British aircraft industry exports during May amounted to £12,337,940. This compares with £14.340.246 for May last year. Leading buyer of aircraft and parts was the Argentine (£1,515,633); leading engines customer was France (£1,225,463). 80 FLIGHT International, 19 July i%> Christchurch Shut-down? If no buyer is found for the de Havil and factory at Christchurch, Hants, it will close this month. Though the P;jme Minister had earlier told the company's joint consultative committee that "even effort is being made to find a new occu pant," and that several firms had shown interest, the committee said last week that it appeared that the Government was still not interested in encouraging an; firms to take over the factory. Noise Measurement Techniques Two courses on the techniques of noise measurement are being held in September at the Royal College of Advanced Technolog\, ] Salford 5, Lanes. There will be a course of seven lectures on September 7 and 8. and a practical course from September 10 to 14. In the latter, the accent will be on experimental work enabling the student to familiarize himself with typical instruments: supporting lectures will contain only the necessary minimum of physics and mathem atics. Further details may be obtained from the organizing lecturer, Mr P. Lord. First Cessna 320 Skynight in the UK seen on arrival at Luton Airport from Wichita, Kan, piloted by Copt Joe Tyszko. The aircraft has been bought by the Wilmot Rreeden group of companies through VV, H, and J, Rogers (Aviation) Ltd of Cranfield RAF Contribution to the "cavalcade of flying" at this year's Royal Tournament at Earls Court, London. (See also page 112)
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