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FLIGHT International, 10 January 1963] A Tutor Again The renowned Avro 621 of 30 years ago is recalled by the Canadair CL-41, which bears the RCAF designation of CT-II4 and the name Tutor. Unlike its namesake it seats instructor and pupil side-by-side, and achieves 488 m.p.h. on the thrust of its Orenda-built GE J85 engine. The first of 190 will enter service next year WORLD NEWS Biggin Hill Air Fair The organizers of the Air Fair being held at Biggin Hill from May 2 to 5 (Flight International, November 29, 1962) say that it is "gathering momentum." Latest airlines to reserve exhibition space are Aerolineas Argentinas, BUA, Cambrian, Finnair and Lufthansa. Space for business aircraft is being extended as it is already overbooked. Exhibitors include Cessna, Piper, Bolkow, Jodel, Beagle, Brantly, Mooney, Riley and Omnipol. Esso Avia tion are to stage a large external refuelling display and scheduled flights over the exhibition area will be visually signalled on the EMI arrival and departure moni toring system. The organizers' telephone number is Footscray 0151. GAPAN Liverymen Lord Kindersley and Gp Capt G. James H. Jeffs were invested as liverymen of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators at the Court of the Guild held at 14 South Street. Park Lane, London Wl, last Thurs day. The Duke of Hamilton and Brandon was also to be invested, but was unable to be present. New Cranfield Chair A chair of experimental fluid mechanics has been established in the Department of RAF Visitors to Hughes Aircraft Co, Culver City, Cal: members of the RAF College of Air Warfare, ManbyJ having a break during a seminar on lasers, computers and infra-red techniques. They were on a USAF-sponsored trip to southern California electronics firms as part of post-graduate training in the senior specialist navigation course. Their host, Mr Robert J. Moffatt, Hughes International Group manager of airborne electronic systems (in civilian clothes), is standing to the right of the college commandant, Air Cdre D. G. Smallwood Aerodynamics at the College of Aeronau- j tics, Cranfield, and Mr G. M. Lilleyl MSC. Die, FRAes, AMiMechE, has been ap pointed the first professor, from January] 1 of this year. Announcing his appoin;-; ment, the College say that the new chair 1 demonstrates the importance which the] Governors attach to fluid mechanics as a ] subject of advanced study and research.! relevant not only to aeronautics but toj many other branches of engineering science, j Prof Lilley has been a resident member of the teaching staff at Cranfield since: 1946. Originally a lecturer in the Depart-j ment of Aerodynamics, he was promoted to senior lecturer in 1950 and deputy head of the department in 1955. He is a recog nized authority on turbulent flow and its] relationship to aerodynamic noise. Westland Aircraft Profit Westland Aircraft Ltd have announced a group profit, after tax, of £1,445,039 for the year ended September 30, 1962. This compares with a profit of £1,384,389 fori the year ended September 30,1961. Mr Francis Chichester, the famous ocean yachtsman, presents R. ]. M. Parkinson with \ his prizes (for "best set of tools" and "best drawing-school progress") at the recent j apprentice prize-giving of S. Smith & Sons (England) Ltd. Mr Chichetter was navigation '• specialist to Henry Hughes & Son Ltd and Smiths Aircraft Instruments Ltd from 1939 to 1946 More Industrial Avons Four 55MW (74,000 h.p.) peak-load generating sets were ordered last month from AEI by the Central Electricity Generating Board. Each will be powered by four Avons based on those now in air line service. Rolls-Royce have now received orders for 40 industrial Avons, worth over £2.4m. Starfighter Programme V-P It is announced that Mr Donald M. Wilder has been appointed by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation vice-president for the F-104 Super Starfighter programme in Europe and will be based in Germany. He joined Lockheed in 1941 as a personnel technician, leaving the company during the Second World War to serve as assistant to the industrial chairman of the War Labour Board in Washington and returning to Lockheed in 1946.
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