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178 FLIGHT International, 7 February 1963 WORLD NEWS V-force NATO Allocation? Proposals for allocating part of RAF Bomber Command to NATO were an nounced by the Prime Minister during last week's defence debate in the House of Commons. Mr Macmillan said that he had put forward this idea to President Kennedy, who had accepted it; the Americans would also contribute. "The terms of such an agreement must be carefully worked out," said the Prime Minister, "'but I do not think that it is impossible to settle this satisfactorily. Once it is settled, we should be ready to assign our V-bomber force for the defence of the Western Alliance." References to Skybolt and Polaris in the debate, which is being reported in next week's issue, are the subject of comment on page 210. Prince Philip to give HP Lecture The Cranfield Society and the Royal Aeronautical Society are to collaborate in organizing an annual lecture in memory of the late Sir Frederick Handley Page, who was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield, and a past President and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. The first Handley Page Memorial Lecture will be given by the Duke of Edinburgh at Cranfield on May 21. This was announced from Buckingham Palace on January 30. As reported in our issue of September 20, 1962, the first announcement of the plan to establish a lecture in honour of Sir Freder ick was made at a meeting of the Cranfield Society on September 15-16, 1962. The Society was formed originally as an associa tion of former students of the College, and has since widened its membership. Mirage IVA 04 The fourth and last of the "pre-series" of Dassault Mirage IVA supersonic bombers flew for the first time on January 23, flown by Dassault test-pilot Jean Marie Saget from Melun-Villaroche. It is des cribed by Dassault as being "100 per cent operational" and identical in all essentials to the 50 prod iction machines. The latter are now officially described as carrying a 60-kiloton bomb, and a stand-off missile for the aircraft is under development. Turbomeca in India It is announced by the French Societe Turbomeca that the Government of India has been licensed to manufacture the Artouste 3B turboshaft engine to power the Alouette 3 helicopters made under licence from Sud Aviation. India is the fifth nation to make Turbomeca engines under licence. UK 1962 Aircraft Exports The value of British aircraft industry exports last year is stated by the Board of Trade to have been £114.6m. The figure for 1961 was £149.2m. Main totals in the January-December 1962 figure were £65,861,896 for aero engines, and £41,030,021 for aircraft and parts. The total for December 1962 was £8,209,618, including the following sales figures: aircraft and parts, £3,421,330; engines and parts, £4,117,081; electrical equipment. £320,738; aeronautical instru ments, £284,094; and tyres, £66,375. Leading purchaser of engines was France, spending £669,178; and the leading aircraft buyer was India, spending £284,150. Whitworth Gloster Deputation A shop stewards' deputation from the Coventry factory of Whitworth Gloster Ltd went to the House of Commons last week and met the MoA Parliamentary Secretary, Mr Neil Marten. They pressed for further Argosy orders and protested at the delay in arriving at a decision—which they urged should be favourable to Whitworth Gloster —on OR.351. Mr Marten said that a great deal had been done to assist the Argosy programme; 56 aircraft had been purchased for the RAF. But the Ministry could not order machines which the Services did not require. While recognizing the need for an early decision on OR.351, Mr Marten emphasized that, if a decision were in favour of Whitworth Gloster, for some years after an order had been placed there would be no substantial labour requirement, though it would give immediate work to design staff. Small bird, Big nest Pictured here in the vast assembly hall of the Lockheed Georgia Company at Marietta, the Lockheed XV-4A Hummingbird is seen at rest beside a C-I30B Hercules (with the final JetStars in the background). Flown as a conventional machine, without its jet VTOL system in operation, the XV-4A has reached 12,000ft in SOsec from release of the brakes. Engines are two Pratt & Whitney J60s Barry Radley's New Post Mr Barry Radley, formerly deputy chief test pilot of Hunting Aircraft and subse quently with IATA in Montreal until June last year, sailed for South Africa today (Thursday) to join the Department of Transport in Pretoria as a senior inspector of flying. Mr Radley, who is 40, was on No 8 Course at ETPS and is a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, USA. He has done over 5,000hr flying on 140 different aircraft types. Japanese J79 Tested Following a 150hr test last September of a J79 turbojet incorporating 20 per cent of Japanese parts, a second type-test was successfully run last month with 137 sections made in Japan. These accounted for 65 per cent of the total number of parts, and included the compressor and variable- stator blading, turbine frame, combustion and transition liners, turbine stators, flameholders, casings, gears, bearings and pumps. J79-11 engines are made under GE licence by Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries at Tanashi, Tokyo, for Japanese F-104J aircraft.
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