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1962
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FLIGHT International, 20 September 1962 INDUSTRY International... systems for the Kingdom of Morocco at Rabat and Casablanca airports, bringing the total number of installations of this S.T.C. equipment to 23 in two years. All major British airports already have STAN. 7/8/9 and others have been exported to Canada, Australia, Belgium, Holland and Switzerland. MoA has ordered a dual S.264A/H surveillance radar from Marconi, to be installed at the RAF radar station at Hack Green and to provide surveillance coverage for civil and military aircraft in the British Northern FIR. This will considerably improve the joint radar service, which has been provided for some years. Pye Enters SSB The SSB 125 single-side band HF radio for fixed or mobile opera tion has been announced by Pye Tele communications Ltd. The transmitter has a new modulator circuit achieving high performance with only seven valves; and high-efficiency circuitry, including a crystal filter for sideband selection, has reduced the number of parts and increased reliability. The price is consequently lower than that of existing sets. The SSB 125 has a power output of 125W and gives up to four chan nels in the HF communications band. Products Napier Orders Sierracote electrically heated windscreens, made by D. Napier & Son Ltd of Luton, a member of the English Electric group of companies, have been ordered by Piaggio of Genoa for the Piaggio-Douglas twin-jet executive the Vespa-Jet (PD-808); and the Napier Spraymat electrical ice protection system has been ordered for the Mk 3 and Mk 5 versions of the English Electric Lightning. The Sierracote windscreens specified for the Vespa-Jet consist of two double curved stretched acrylic front windscreens and two cockpit side panels per aircraft. The front panels will be anti-iced and bird-proof and the side panels demisted. Similar-type side panels are fitted on the VC10. The Spraymat order for Lightnings also includes the supply of Napier Mk 3 thermal Test equipment shown at Farnborough by Good mans Industries Ltd, of Wembley, Middx, in cluded these vibration generators, a product in which they specialize. Their range covers models of from 21b to S0,000lb thrust controllers, which monitor the Spraymat heat cycles. An electrical surface heater, developed and manufactured by Napier at Luton, Spraymat consists basically of a pattern of sprayed metal heating elements embedded between two layers of insulating resin. It will be applied to various Lightning engine air intake components. Electronic Consignment Described as the largest single consignment (over 80 tons,) of electronic apparatus ever to leave the UK, an AEI Scorpion radar set was shipped from Liverpool to Australia re cently where it is to be used at Woomera in BAC Bloodhound II tests. The equipment was carried in a convoy of 12 lorries from the Leicester works of the AEI Electronic Apparatus Division. Handling and packing the shipment for export took two weeks, the staff working 12 hours a day to prepare it. Uniform History On view at Burberrys, Haymarket, London, until next Saturday, September 22, is an unofficial "Fifty years of Service flying" exhibition containing some unusually interesting items. As Burberrys have been supplying uniforms since the earliest days the emphasis is on this aspect, and the exhibits include an officer's full-dress uniform of the Air Battalion, Royal Engineers—the unit which, formed in 1911, became the nucleus of the Royal Flying Corps two years later; the well remembered RFC "maternity jacket": an officer's prototype uniform tailored for the RAF in 1918; and an aircraftman" s uniform of the same period. Among other exhibits are model aircraft The "Aircon" plastic freight container—made by Airtech Ltd, of Haddenham, Rucks—makes a particularly efficient combination with the Argosy and Armstrong Whitworth Equipment's "Rolamat" loading system. Note the wheeled jack on the container and various souvenirs, the latter including a flight manual once owned by Mai McCudden, vc, and loaned by the Royal Engineers' Museum at Chatham (the great air fighter started his Service career in the RE ranks). The exhibition was opened on September 10 by AVM J. R. Gordon-Finlayson. Director-General of Personal Services. Air Ministry, who was introduced by Lord Mancroft, Burberrys' vice-chairman Brought together by Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip Joubert to attend a subsequent reunion luncheon were a dozen of the surviving RFC officers who flew or sailed to France in 1914; among them were Marshal of the RAF Sir John Salmond and Brig P. W. Broke-Smith. Company News Mr R. W. Harvey-Bailey We learn with regret of the death, on September 7, of Mr R. W. Harvey-Bailey who, from the outbreak of World War 2 until his retire ment in 1945, was chief quality engineer of Rolls-Royce's Aero-Engine Division. He started work in 1896 as a draughtsman with the Pennington Motor Co Ltd. D.H. West Coast Representative Air Cdre F. W. Thompson, CBE, DSO, BSC. RAF (Ret), has joined the de Havilland Aircraft Co Ltd as their West coast rep resentative in the United States. He will be responsible for all licensee co-ordination and liaison between the ballistics projects division and General Dynamics/Astro nautics, San Diego, Cal. Air Cdre Thompson, who was Deputy Director of Guided Weapons Trials at the MoA until his recent retirement (at his own request) from the RAF, succeeds Air Cdre W. R. Worstall, OBE, who has represented de Havilland on the West coast since November 1956 and is retiring to York shire at the end of this month. Dynalectron Post Air Carrier Service Corporation, a subsidiary of Dynalectron Corporation, have announced the appoint ment of Mr Petr L. Spurney as manager. European sales, of Air Carrier Service Corporation. Mr Spurney has been assignee to the London office of Dynalectron Cor poration. This office is headed by Mr David Proudlove, director of the Corporation's European operations.
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