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1 FLIGHT International, 3 January 1963 3 Tyne Agreement Signed Hispano-Suiza announce that final agree ment has been reached for the manu facture of 6,000 h.p. Rolls-Royce Tyne turboprops for the Breguet Atlantic patrol aircraft and Transall C.160 freighter. The participating companies are: Rolls-Royce (England), who will be manufacturing 20 per cent by value; Hispano-Suiza (France), 44 per cent; MAN (Germany), 28 per cent; and FN (Belgium), 8 per cent. Each com pany will manufacture parts both for their own requirements and for their partners. Final assembly and testing of engines will be the responsibility of Hispano-Suiza and \ MAN, the former company being scheduled I to deliver 14 engines per month from 1965. The first production batch comprises 80 I engines for the Atlantic and 40 spares. All ; Tyres to date have been made at Derby. I More US Army Caribous Last month de Havilland Aircraft of I Canada Ltd were awarded a contract for a i further 48 CV-2B Caribou STOL transports for the US Army. The value of the contract is described as "close to $28m" (£10m), and deliveries start next December. The com pany state that the new contract will help to keep employment at about 3,200 through out 1963-64. To date, 178 Caribous have been purchased; their total value with spares is $107m, 97 per cent of this total being for export. Cessna Helicopter Discontinued On December 26 Cessna Aircraft Co announced that it was discontinuing pro duction of the Skyhook helicopter. Mr Dwane L. Wallace, Cessna president, states that, while the market for business and utility helicopters may develop into one of greater potential in the future, "we do not feel the programme can continue to be sustained on the commercial business pre sently available." Sperry Autolanding Demonstration A group of representatives of the German Federal Defence Ministry visited the USA on December 3 and took part in a series of automatic landings carried out by Sperry. The landings were made with the aid of various ILS systems, and the airborne equipment included an autopilot similar to that ordered for all Breguet Atlantics and Second D.H.I25 G-ARYB, de Havilland's second executive jet, is now flying at Hatfield after a first flight on December 12. It differs externally from the first by an I8in extension to each wing tip and aileron, whilst internally it has full cabin trim, pressurization, wing de-icing, and instrumentation for an extensive programme of performance measurements. A full description of the D.H.I25 and its development programme appeared in the December 6, 1962, issue of "Flight International" Super Broussard for Norway On December 19, this Nord MH.260 which is on lease to Wideroe's was flown from the manufacturer's Melun Villaroche airfield to Norway by a Norwegian crew. It is believed that initially the aircraft will be used mainly on charter operation Pressing on at Merignac, Dassault are nearing structural completion of the Mystere 20 fuselage. Wings and tail are due from Sud this month and first flight is scheduled for May for pre-production Transalls. Sperry have made several hundred successful automatic landings with this system. They did not offer to demonstrate the equipment in Germany, as reported in Flight International for December 20. Signals Establishment Director Mr R. J. Lees, MA, BSC, at present Head of the Instruments and Air Photographs Division of the Royal Aircraft Establish ment, has been appointed Director of the Signals Research and Development Es tablishment at Christchurch, Hants. Before going to the RAE in 1959, he was with the Telecommunications Research Establish ment (now the RRE) at Malvern, where he was largely concerned with work on guided missiles, becoming superintendent of the guided weapons section in 1951. From 1956, until leaving for the RAE, he was Head of Airborne Radar at Malvern. P.1127 Deck Landings The Hawker P.1127 will shortly make some carrier landings at sea. This was stated by Sir Sydney Camm, managing director and chief engineer of Hawker Aircraft, speaking at the recent eighth reunion dinner of the Sopwith Appren tices' Association in London. AVM M. E. M. Perkins. Director General of Engineering at the Air Ministry, said that the loss of Skybolt might prove beneficial to the British aircraft industry. A number of proposals had already been
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