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1963 - 0409.PDF
Congratulations at Gatwick last Friday after the announcement, recorded in col I, of the order for a Potez 840 by J. C. Bamford (Excavators) Ltd: (I to r) M Gerard Potez, son of M Henri Potez, M Jacques Grangette, Potez chief test pilot, Mr J. C. Bamford, M Henri Potez and Capt M. P. Sutton, Bamford chief pilot. In the background: the airport's second finger under construction 1 FLIGHT International, 21 March 1963 Iautomatic landing system to the BAC m One-Eleven there has been no announcement I as yet that an operator has specified it." lit may be presumed, said HSA, that § "development and certification of air- • craft other than the Trident or VC10 i will not be undertaken until firm autoland I orders are placed and that the ensuing % costs would result in a significant price (increase per aircraft unless spread over a * large number of aircraft. The autolanding system under development for the Trident (the HSA statement continued) is already fitted and certification trials for the BEA fleet are now in progress; from this will come a simplified, developed and certified system available to all Trident operators and which can be fitted either initially or retrospectively at minimum cost and delay." A BAC spokesman said that the One- ^Eleven was designed on the basis of possible orders for autoflare and autoland, that design and engineering of an Elliott system -as an optional extra is in hand and that a certificated system would be available to any customer who might require it. BAC had always expected that some One-Eleven customers would want the system. So far none of the six customers who have ordered -41 aircraft had specified a requirement for it. New BAC Boards British Aircraft Corporation last week announced the new board of English Electric Aviation Ltd and the composition of the board of the new company British Aircraft Corporation (Guided Weapons) Ltd. This follows the announcement (Flight International, March 14) that English Electric Aviation is taking over from English Electric its aircraft manufacturing facilities at Preston and Samlesbury, and that the guided weapon interests of English Electric Aviation and Bristol Aircraft are being integrated in the new company, BAC Guided Weapons) Ltd. The English Electric Aviation board is as follows: Sir George Edwards (chairman), Messrs A. W. E. Houghton (managing director), F. W. Page (chief executive), H. "Baxendale (financial director), R. F. Creasey (director of engineering) and W. Shorrock I eneral manager). Messrs R. P. Beamont id F. D. Crowe are special directors. The board of BAC (Guided Weapons) td is: Sir George Edwards (chairman), iscount Caldecote (managing director), lessrs G. R. Jefferson (chief executive), H->. J. Farrar (technical director), L. H. Bedford (director of engineering) and J. F. - -Harper. Mr A. T. Slator is a special director. I/-- B\ Potez 840 for J. C. Bamford \ Last Friday afternoon, March 15, Mr wSt. C. Bamford and M Henri Potez jointly Announced that J. C. Bamford (Excavators) •Ltd is ordering a Potez 840 to be delivered •owards the end of 1964. The company, •vhich has been considering a replacement •or its Dove 8 for some 18 months, has •mosen the Potez 840 as being the most Suitable aircraft for its particular type of operation, namely, to bring parties of Kxrtential clients from places far afield to •he factory for one-day visits. The Dove Upas been intensively used for such duties, and the 840's one-day visit radius of action can be extended well into Continental Europe, as well as allowing more distant visits to, for example, Africa, Asia and the U.S.A. The 16-seat capacity is ideal for Bamford's purpose. Cost of the 840 will be "about £250,000" with a spare power- plant, full radio, twin-wheel undercarriage and weather radar. Bamford have found that the operating cost of the Dove is 4s per mile and reckon that on the same basis the cost of the Potez 840 will be 3s lid per mile. Of the 102 airfields in Europe visited by the Dove, 17 would be unsuitable for a pure jet, but perfectly adequate for the Potez. The 840 has a cruising speed within 15kt of that of the Grumman Gulfstream, better field performance and can climb to 20,000ft one minute faster. Bamford intend to operate the 840 with a one-pilot crew and a ground engineer. The Potez factory at Baldonnel, near Dublin, which should be completed late this year, is scheduled to produce four aircraft per month. Potez themselves will assemble two per month at Toulouse. The Provisional French and American Cs of A, granted for the second prototype, will in due course be validated and completed with static trials on the fourth airframe— scheduled for completion in April—and on the third prototype, which is now struc turally complete but awaiting the delivery of Astazou 12 engines in September. This late Astazou gives 600 s.h.p. plus 661b thrust, and has improved s.f.c. and a better power/altitude curve. Final bench tests are now in progress. MoA Costs Cost of work to be carried out at Ministry of Aviation establishments in the 1963-64 period is estimated at £49,810,000, an increase of £2m over the current year's expenditure. The MoA Estimate (published last week) shows an increase of £3 8m, about £17m of which is accounted for by extra expenditure on research and the development of new aircraft. Assistance in the development, proving and production of transport aircraft is to cost £17,760,000, compared with £12,235,000. Wasps at RAE In the debate on the Navy estimates (March 11) the Civil Lord of the Admiralty, Mr Ian Orr-Ewing, said that following successful rolling platform trials at RAE Bedford with the Westland Wasp, "follow- up trials as at sea on board the Tribal class frigate HMS Nubian were successfully completed a fortnight ago." More than 200 landings had been achieved in all degrees of wind and sea, both by night and by day, and had all been successful. First deliveries of RN Wasps were expected this summer. BUA's Army Training Contract Two British United Airways companies, Airwork Services Training and Bristow Helicopters, have jointly been awarded a contract for basic flying training and ground instruction for Army Air Corps pilots at Middle Wallop, Hants. BUA say that 16 Chipmunks and seven Hiller helicopters will be used for flying training under the contract, which runs for three years from April 1 and is "the first of its kind ever awarded." No Staverton Auction The public auction of aircraft announced for April 20 at Staverton Airport (this page, February 21) has been cancelled. The organizers, Anglo Aircraft Auctions, say that they have found it necessary to cancel the event "through circumstances beyond our control." [A letter referring to an earlier auction, at Hanworth "in or about 1937," appears on page 415.] A Special Heron A de Havilland Heron 2D which has been used since new as a VIP transport by the West German Ministry of Defence, carrying Dr Adenauer and his staff on many occasions, has now returned to this coun try after purchase by Shackleton Aviation Ltd. Fitted with fully feathering propellers, long-range fuel tanks, full de-icing, sand wich windows, duplicated blind-flying in struments and seven seats, the aircraft will be recertified for a British C of A and regis tered G-ASFI. (Photograph, page 410.)
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