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258 FLIGHT International, 23 Augim !%•> WORLD NEWS Farnborough Prospects In our leading article we make reference to the exceptional number of completely new aircraft which will be seen at the 1962 SBAC Flying Display and Exhibition be tween September 3 and September 9 at the RAE, Farnborough, Hants. These aircraft are the Beagle M.218 (described in this issue), Bristol T.188, D.H.I25 and Trident, Hawker P.1127 and Vickers VC10. Since its first flight on August 13, the first D.H.I25 has completed the lOhr necessary to qualify for demonstration at Farnborough, and has exceeded 450 m.p.h. at 32,000ft. In addi tion, the following aircraft, missiles and projects have not previously been seen:— Beagle The Beagle 206Y is committed to an intensive programme of development flying, but is expected to fly over Farn borough on each day and give a brief demonstration. The slightly smaller and less powerful 206X has been fully furnished and will be in the static park. It is also hoped to fly the Beagte-WaHis WA.116 autogyro on each day of the show. British Aircraft Corporation It is doubtful whether security will be relaxed on either the TSR2 or the Hunting H.126 jet-flap research machine, but a model of the proposed BAC/Sud supersonic airliner is sure to create intense interest. The cor poration state: "An lift model of the proposed rear-engined airliner, which will cruise at Mach 2.2 (1,400 m.p.h.), is a major feature on the Corporation's stand. The aircraft has a slender (or narrow) delta wing and single swept fin. Four powerful turbo- jets are carried in partially buried nacelles under the wings, exhausting at the wing trailing edge which also coincides with the rear end of the fuselage. The model also shows windows on either side of the passenger cabin. About 100 passengers will be carried in the aircraft." Behind this statement lies the fact that the original proposal to build a "French" four-engined version and a "British" six-engined develop ment with transatlantic capability has now been abandoned, and the two partners are working together on one design. Moreover, this design is not the Super Caravelle con figuration seen at Paris last year. BAC have also been allowed to show three extremely important defensive weapons: the Lightning F.3 (Red Top missiles, more powerful Avons and other improvements), Bloodhound 2 (CW radar guidance and other improvements) and Thunderbird 2 (CW radar guidance and air-portability), as well as a model of the pressurized Hunt ing H.145 Jet Provost. Handley Page Apart from new models in the static show, H.P. will be flying a 50-seat production Herald 200 and the H.P. 115 research aircraft, the latter equipped with smoke canisters, to render visible the strong vortex which coils back along the leading edge of the 115's slender delta wing. Hawker Siddeley Aviation In addition to the three completely new types of aircraft —and a formation of three Tridents appears a distinct possibility—permission has been granted to reveal the operational configura tions of two missiles. One of these is Seaslug 1, and a fully sectioned round will be on view with only the waveguide, warhead and fuzing system hidden. The other is Red Top, which will be seen for the first time with its genuine hemispherical nose. Avro's Blue Steel missile is now entering RAF service at Scampton, and the same com pany's 748 Mk 2 will be seen for the first time, in the markings of the Brazilian Air Force. UK-based U-2s A detachment of three USAF Lockheed U-2s is now based at RAF Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, one of Strategic Air Com mand's UK bases. The aircraft reached there last Sunday after a 3,000-mile flight from Plattsburg, New York, and are, it is announced, to carry out atmospheric sam pling and high-altitude weather research. An Air Ministry statement last week said: "The flights to be made from Upper Hey ford will be over international waters in the area of the North Atlantic, which can most conveniently be covered from a base in this country. They will be a continuation of a series of flights inaugurated by the United States authorities in 1957 and will collect samples and determine the concentration of radioactive debris introduced into the stratosphere by nuclear tests. The results of the studies, which are being made on behalf of United States military and civilian agencies, will be published and will contri bute to the work of the Scientific Committee of the United Nations in this field." Col Arthur Leatherwood, who com mands the detachment, is reported as saying: "the aircraft are unarmed and have no photographic capability." The U-2s' mission will occupy about three months. European-based U-2 flights were dis continued after Capt Gary Powers was shot down in a U-2 over Russia in 1960. Harmon Awards Harmon Trophies for outstanding achieve ments in aeronautics during 1961 have been awarded to Lt-Col William R. Payne, USAF, for two world speed records in a Convair B-58A (between Washington and Paris at an average speed of 1,048.68 m.p.h. and between New York and Paris at an average speed of 1.089.36 m.p.h. in May 1961); to Miss Jacqueline Cochrane, who between August 24 and October 12 last year set up eight world-class records in a 1962 Gemini These are the first photographs taken of the Beog/e M.2I8 after it left its assembly hangar at Shoreham late last week for engine runs on the apron. At 8.50 a.m. last Sunday Mr George Miles, Beagle technical director, took it into the air for the first time and expressed complete satis faction with its behaviour. This most important new aeroplane, powered by 145 h.p. Rolls-Royce Continentals, is fully described in this issue (pp 273-279)
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