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1962
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FLIGHT International, 4 October 1962 Plessey's flashing anti-collision beacon for supersonic aircraft with its control box. It pro trudes less than one inch beyond the airframe skin Experimental Tacan The Federal Aviation Agency has awarded Maxson Electronics Corp a $134,445 contract for develop ment of an experimental Tacan ground beacon employing feed-back techniques to improve certain performance characteristics of the transmitter. The beacon is to be delivered in six months and tested at Atlan tic City for three months to assess whether the improvement should be incorporated in future beacons. Products Lofting the VC10 The Vickers VC10 is the latest example of many Vickers aircraft to have been lofted on ADMEL Permatrace, the stable drawing material by means of which aircraft drawings are given a perma nent form. A striking example is on view (until October 10) at the Drawing Office Centre in Victoria Street, London SW1, as our accompanying illustration shows: it is of Flight International artist Frank Munger's cutaway drawing of the VC10 blown up to 12 X 6ft in size. Information on Permatrace has been supplied by Lawes Rabjohns Ltd, Abbey House, Victoria Street, SW1, who state in reference to its use for the VC10 that Perma trace was chosen "primarily because of its stability, ease of filing and photoprinting, and because of its known coefficient of linear expansion, which is similar to that of aluminium." They add that because Permatrace is chemically inert, it retains its high translucent value, so that excellent contrast between line and background can be obtained by using either pencil or ink. Plastics Mould Design Originally pub lished as a monograph by the Plastics Institute, Plastics Mould Design, Vol. 1: Compression and Transfer Moulds, by R. H. Bebb, AMiMechE,* forms the first volume of a book on mould design; the second deals with the design of injection moulds. Mr Bebb's book has been extensively revised from its original monograph form (one of a series published exclusively for institute members) and is now made available to a wider readership. Comprehensively illus trated, it contains numerous worked examples of typical design calculations. *Published by Iliffe Books Ltd, Dorset House, Stamford Street, London SE1, for the Plastics Institute. Illustrated. Price 27s 6d. By post 28s 4d.) BOAC De-magnetizer Max Arc Ltd, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, have recently developed a de-magnetizing unit for BOAC, designed to de-gauss certain parts of the nose sections of aircraft which have en countered electrical storms in flight. Each de-magnetizer comprises a multi-layer coil of DCC wire, impregnated with iron core and completely enclosed in a stainless steel case fitted with a handle and with an on/off lockable switch, enabling it to be held in one hand. Each de-magnetizer has 100ft of three-core white PVC cable. Price of each unit is £30. Vernier Units in the VC10 Approximately 500 Venner electronic plug-in stages are being used on the Vickers VC10 during test flying. Venner digital tachometers feed display units which are mounted on the flight engineer's control panel and indicate the percentage throttle settings of the Rolls- Royce Conway engines. Also on the panel is a digital flowmeter display, the flowmeter having been built from Venner plug-in stages. These plug-in units are also in use in D.H. Doves and BEA Heralds and are shortly to go into service with the RAF. Company News Hughes International (UK) Changes Gen eral manager for the past two-and-a-half years, Mr David Simpson is leaving Hughes International (UK) Ltd to join the board of Hewlett-Packard Ltd, UK subsidiary of the company of the same name in California, as managing director. Mr T. S. Chatfield, at present works manager, will assume Mr Simpson's duties and be acting general manager at the Glenrothes (Fife) plant of Hughes International. Mr W. N. Richardson is to take over full marketing responsibility for the expand ing range of semiconductor and other electronic products manufactured by 579 Hughes International (UK) Ltd, and for the UK sales of all Hughes Aircraft Co products handled by Husint SA in Geneva. Vickers' Assistant Secretary Mr R. A. Phillips, who since November 1958 has been chief cashier of Vickers-Armstrongs (Air craft) Ltd, has been appointed assistant secretary of the company. Fairchild Appointment Mr I. CI ink scales has joined SGS Fairchild Ltd as technical sales engineer, dealing with customers in the aviation electronics branch of the semi conductor industry. He was previously with Texas Instruments as senior product marketing engineer (transistors) and before that was with Cossor. D.H. Control Systems Post Mr Bob Plenderleith, until recently deputy chief test pilot of the de Havilland Engine Co, has joined the de Havilland Aircraft Co as sales engineer, flight control systems. Mr Plenderleith joined the D.H. Engine Co as a test pilot in July 1947, on leaving the RAF. Recently he conducted flight testing on the Gnome fuel control system in the Westland Whirlwind. SFERMA-Oster Agreement An agree ment was recently signed between SFERMA and John Oster Manufacturing Co of the USA under which SFERMA have been granted a manufacturing licence for Oster aeronautical equipment. It was announced last January that Europe Air Service, the SFERMA com mercial organization, were distributors in Europe for Oster products and as such had received a large order from the Federal German Government, SFERMA work shops at Le Bourget were already then engaged on the maintenance of Oster products sold in Europe by Europe Air Service. The new agreement authorizes SFERMA to assemble and manufacture all or part of these materials. Vickers VCI0 cutaway drawing, lofted on Permatrace, exhibited at the Drawing Office Centre (see news-item, this page)
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