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WORLD NEWS Caribous for India The United States last week presented India with two DHC Caribou aircraft as part of American assistance. They were being flown to New Delhi by IAF crews. Condenser Airlift A Sikorsky S-58 of World Wide Heli copters Ltd lifted a condenser weighing 1,8651b to the top of the five-storey labora tory building of Eli Lilly & Co Ltd, manu- 70 Highly Mobile Crane: An S-58 lifting a heavy piece of refrigerating plant to the roof of a five-storey building (see news-item, col I) facturing chemists, in Basingstoke recently. The condenser forms part of a refrigera tion unit for servicing a new sterile products area. Pilot in the operation, which was completed in three minutes, was Mr George Strolenberg, a senior pilot in World Wide Helicopters, who are based at Gatwick. Berlin Congress Organized by three West German technical societies, a congress devoted to the subject of Air and Space Flight Problems in the Field of Navigation as affected by the Atmosphere and Outer Space will be held in Berlin from April 22 to 27. The sponsoring bodies are the German Navigation Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Ortung und Navigation), Society of Aviation Science (Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft fur Luft- fahrt) and Society of Space Travel and Rocket Science (Deutsche Raumfahrt und Raketengesellschaft). Further information is available from the first-named society at Am Wehrhahn 94, Dusseldorf. Whirlwinds to Spain The first two of four Alvis Leonides- powered Westland Whirlwinds for the Spanish Air Force which were officially handed over at the company's Yeovil factory on November 12 (Flight Interna tional, November 22, 1962) have been flown from Yeovil by Spanish pilots to their home base near Madrid. The first, piloted by Maj J. P. Duran Fernandez, who com mands 57 Rescue Squadron of the Spanish Air Force, completed its journey of 1,000 n.m. in a total flying time of 17| hr after being slowed down by fog. The second aircraft completed this journey in 13Jhr. The two other Whirlwinds are being flown Rotor-blade De-icing—by hand—on a Gnome Whirlwind of 230 Sqn at RAF Chivenor, which was used as an operating base by the aircraft in recent West Country mercy missions FLIGHT International, 17 January 1% to Spain along the same route—via Lympue, Le Touquet, Chateaudun, Bordeaux and Bilbao—early this year. Acoustic Technology Prof E. J. Richards of Southampton University is talking on Future Problems in Noise Abatement at the inaugural meeting today (January 17) of the Society of Acoustic Technology, being held at the Royal College of Advanced Technology, Salford. One of the problems being con sidered by the society in its first half-session, beginning this month, is airport noise. Joint honorary secretaries are Dr Peter Lord of the department of pure and applied physics at the Royal College of Advanced Technology and Dr H. D. Parbrook of the sub-department of acoustics at Liver pool University. Mr Tom Lampitt, whose appointment as pilot to the Flying Doctor Service of Africa is recorded below, seen climbing into a Sabre during his test-flying days Flying Doctor Service Pilot Mr T. E. Lampitt, formerly with D. Napier & Son as a test pilot, has been appointed pilot to the West African Flying Doctor Service. He will be operating from Gusau in Northern Nigeria and his first task will be to fly the service's aircraft, a Dornier Do27, to Nigeria from Johannes burg. Tom Lampitt, who is 31, served in the RAF from 1949 to 1956, being with 43 Sqn from 1952 onwards and a member of both the squadron and Fighter Command formation aerobatic team from 1954 to 1956. Since leaving Napier in September 1960 he has held appointments with an engineering firm and been a part-time in structor at Luton Flying Club. In June 1956 he contributed an article to Flight on formation aerobatic flying techniques UK Aircraft Industry Employment The number of people employed in -'air craft manufacture and repair" in Britain during October 1962 is given by the Min istry of Labour as 288.600. This figure indicates a decrease of 2,600 from the previous month's total and is 14,100 fewer than the number for October 1961.
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