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FLIGHT International, 16 August 1962 219 60 and it is significant that part of the new RAF order is to be subcontracted to Shorts at Belfast. Other major British military-aircraft programmes may include the following:— Operational Requirement 345 This is stated by Aviation Week to be the re quirement calling for a single-seat VTOL replacement for the Hunter and a two-seat replacement for the Sea Vixen and Scimitar of the Royal Navy- The British aircraft which appears to be likely to meet this specification is the Hawker P. 1154 (Bristol Siddeley BS.100 engine). Operational Requirement 351 The RAF needs a large transport able to carry the heavy and bulky loads handled by the Beverley, yet having much greater range and speeds coupled with the ability to operate from short unprepared strips. The only British aircraft in sight which meets the requirement is the Short SC.5/21 blown version of the Belfast (described briefly last week), but more advanced BS.100- powered designs have been prepared by BAC and Whitworth Gloster. ASW aircraft A new anti-submarine ocean patroller is needed to replace the Shackleton. Various designs have been considered, some wholly new and some based on such existing machines as the Atlantic and Trident. DH 125 Flies "Really delightful" is the way Mr Chris Capper, senior de Havilland experimental test pilot, described the handling of the DH 125 (Bristol Siddeley Viper 20s), which he took up on its initial flight at Hatfield last Monday (August 13). After getting airborne in less than a third of the 6,000ft runway Mr Capper and his observer, Mr John Rye, took the aircraft through its low- speed handling paces in the course of a 56min flight within 25 miles of Hatfield. Before landing at about 3.50 p.m. a 180kt fly-past was made for the benefit of DH employees. After the flight Sir Aubrey Burke, deputy chairman of the Hawker Siddeley Group, said it was hoped that an order for the RAF would be announced before the SBAC display. DH 125 will now complete the necessary ten hours' flying before par- : ticipating in the display. This Year's Farnborough A "vintage programme of new civil, military and research aircraft"" is promised at next month's (September 4-9) SBAC Flying Display at RAE Farnborough. Hunts. Types on view will include the Hawker P.1127, Vickers VC10, de Havilland Trident and DH 125, while other new air craft expected to put in an appearance are the Beagle 218 and Bristol T.188. There will be 348 companies exhibiting, occupy ing a record total of 380 stands and sites. September 4, 5 and 6 are private trade days; the public are admitted on September 7, 8 and 9 (Friday, Saturday and Sunday), when the exhibition opens at 10 a.m. and fMng begins at 3 p.m. On Friday, September 7, admission charges are the same as last year—£1 for adults and 10s for children (under 14), parking fees being £1 for cars or motor coaches, 5s for motor cycles and 2s 6d for pedal cycles. There are increased admission charges (compared with last year) for Saturday and Sunday, September 8 and 9. These are now 7s 6d for adults, 5s for chil dren and £2 for private cars (including admission for up to six occupants). Parking fees are as last year: 10s for motor coaches, 2s 6d for motor cycles, Is for bicycles. At the Races The order of class races at the 1962 National Air Races, which begin today at Coventry Airport, Baginton, is: Tiger Moth Trophy race (Class 3), August 16; Air League (Class 1) and John Morgan (Class 2) Trophy races, August 17, and not as announced by the organizers and reported in last week's issue. The King's Cup Race and Coventry Air Pageant will take place from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, August 18. Two further race meetings are to be held next month. The first comprises the Thruxton Air Races organized by the Wilt shire School of Flying at Thruxton on Sunday, September 16; the second is an air show and race meeting organized by Murray-Smith, Stait and Associates and the Royal Aero Club at Shoreham on Saturday, September 22. Details of both will be given in a future issue. Buying RAF Aircraft No change in the present system of buying new aircraft for the RAF is considered necessary. This is the conclusion reached by the Air Ministry and MoA after a review of the system, following criticisms by the Estimates Committee, an all-party group of MPs. In a reply to the committee the Air Minister and Minister of Aviation say that its report last March, calling for an im mediate review, had expressed concern over two main points. These were "the persistent recurrence of inaccurate estimat ing" and that "present practice appears to authorize manufacturers to base their pre parations and sub-contracts on much larger quantities than the House authorizes departments to pay for." The Ministers say they have reached the conclusion that any change in the present arrangements cannot materially affect either of these points. The time required to produce a complex modern aircraft is measured in years, and this production cannot be economically organized on an annual basis. Manufacturers' preparations and sub-contracts therefore necessarily exceed the quantities of either completed aircraft or work in progress for which pro vision is made, for the single year ahead. On the point of inaccurate estimating, the Ministers state that "aircraft manufacturing targets make allowance for those develop ment and other difficulties which are fore seen. It is the unforeseeable difficulties which are the main problem." Mrs Hart Flies In A transatlantic flight from St Pierre, an island off the coast of Newfoundland, to Shannon Airport was completed in a Beechcraft Bonanza on August 8 by Mrs Marion Hart of New York, who is 70 years of age. Navigator on the flight was Miss Louise Sacchi of Jenkintown. Pennsylvania, who was a navigation instructor at No I British Flying Training School in Texas during the 1939-45 war. Mrs Hart has piloted her own aircraft across the Atlantic on two previous occasions, in 1953 and 1954. Gp Capt Collard We record with regret that Gp Capt R. C. M. Collard DSO, DFC, MP, RAF (Ret), a director of Handley Page Ltd. died sud denly last week at the age of 50. He retired from the RAF in 1953 and had been MP for Central Norfolk since 1959. He was secretary of the Conservative Parliamentary Aviation Committee and Air Sub-com mittee. During the war, Gp Capt Collard served with the Advanced Air StrikingForce in France, with Bomber Command and in the Middle East, commanding Nos 37 and 12 Sqns. His last RAF post, before retiring at his own request, was that of Group Captain (Operations) at Coastal Command. Gallic Appraisal Pilots and engineers from Dassault and the Centre d'Essais en Vol, bretigny, recently visited RAE Bedford to fly the Short SCI in preparation for the Balzac programme. Here, left to right, are R. Bigand, Dassault chief test pilot; Sqn Ldr J. Henderson, RAE; 8. Sigaud (rear), Dassault flight test engineer; J. Pinier (front), CEV test pilot; and C. Durand, chief of flight test, Bretigny
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