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1962
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294 FLIGHT International, 23 August 1%: INDUSTRY International Flight Systems Products Company News Installing the vertical aerial of the new Standard Telephones and Cables SLA.3C PAR. The RAF has ordered SLA.3C, which is specially designed to detect small aircraft at between 12 and 14 miles Flight Systems VOR Simulator In connection with after-sales support of their ADAS Beam- tracker equipment, Halpins of Hampshire Ltd have designed a cheap, but fully accurate, crystal controlled VOR simulator for bench testing VOR receivers on all 360 radials and for ILS localizer receivers. Existing apparatus of this kind, produced by two or three companies in Britain, costs in the region of £4,000, but Halpin hope to be able to sell their simplified equipment for well under £2,000. They intend that distributors of Beamtracker equipment shall have the simulators to allow them to check Beamtrackers quickly and accurately, but there may well be a much wider market. Two Decca Trials A British United Air ways Britannia on trooping flights between Britain and East, Central and West Africa has completed 1,760hr flying in six months, much of it over calm Mediterranean waters and desert with poor conducting qualities, with a Decca Type 62 Doppler radar. The equipment had to be fitted between routine flights and was put into service without a formal test flight. Yet BUA reported that no unserviceability was experienced during the six months and that time on memory did not exceed 7 per cent of the total. BUA said that the manufacturer's claims for accuracy were fully met. BEA Helicopter Experimental Unit have completed a 50hr test of a lightweight Decca Navigator Mk 8A receiver in their Bell 47J in preparation for the use of Decca in Vertol 107s flying between London, Paris and Brussels. The trials were made between Mayfield and Battersea and Manston and Battersea, representing the Paris and Brus sels flights. A gate position at the beginning of the run-in up the Thames to Battersea was marked on the Flight Log charts and their scale was large enough to allow the pilot to follow one or other bank of the river. An MoA observer plotted the actual track flown and the deviation from both ground track and chart track. The MoA report is being issued shortly. Products Precision Parachute A new type of com petition parachute known as the Scorpion has been devised by the G. Q. Parachute Co Ltd, Stadium Works, Portugal Road, Woking, Surrey, and an example was on show at the recent "open day" (July 28) at RAF Abingdon. A feature of this parachute, which is designed for ultra-precision landings, is its "tail" (hence the name Scorpion), which gives an improved measure of horizontal velocity combined with steerability. The new Halpin VOR simulator being as sembled. It is described in column I Pressurization Control A contract for the supply of cabin pressure control equipment for the D.H.125 has been awarded to Kollsman Instrument Ltd, Bracknell, Berks, by de Havilland Aircraft Co Ltd. The equipment is made up of only four units, the cabin altitude control ler, cabin rate controller, amplifier and dis charge valve. Kollsman Instrument Ltd is a subsidiar> of Kollsman Instrument Corp, New York, and initial production of equipment for the D.H.125 will be shared between the two companies; but it is planned that by next year all cabin control systems for the D.H.125 will be manufactured in Britain. Company News Military Sales Director In addition to his duties as Douglas Aircraft Co chief engineer- ing test pilot, Mr William M. Magruder has been made director of military sales for advanced systems and research. He has been with Douglas since 1956, was project engineering pilot for the C-113 and co-pilot on the first flight of the DC-8. Geneva Post North American Aviation Inc have announced the appointment of Mr Edmond M. Jacoby as their European public relations representative. He will be based in Geneva from September 1. Automatic Landing Only non-American among the 16 speakers invited to attend. Mr A. M. A. Majendie, director and deputy general manager of Smiths Aviation Division, presented a paper on automatic landing—"The Role of the Human Pilot"— at the recent IAS meeting in Seattle. Mercury Move Mercury Truck & Tractor Co Ltd and their associated company Mercury Airfield Equipment Ltd have moved to new premises in Commercial Road, Gloucester (Tel: 27281). Hestair Ltd Heston Aircraft and Associ ated Engineers Ltd announce that their name has now been changed to Hestair Ltd. Their operational headquarters remain at Heston Airport, Hounslow, Middx.
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