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fLIGHT International, 18 April 1963 Aircraft Structures Symposium The Royal Aeronautical Society are holding an all-day symposium, Towards Better Aircraft Structures, in the lecture theatre, 4 Hamilton Place, London Wl, on Thursday, May 2, starting at 9.30 a.m. Admission is by ticket only. Speakers and subjects will be Messrs J. Fielamg, chief of the engineering research department, A. V. Roe & Co, on Materials; R. J. Atkinson, head of structures depart ment, RAE Farnborough, on Structural Design; T. Williams, English Electric, Preston, on Production; H. R. Ashley, assistant chief engineer (structures), A. V. Roe & Co, on Structural Development; and Taig, British Aircraft Corporation, English Electric, on Computers and New Structural Concepts. 555 Anglo-Italian Agreement As recorded on page S88, Bristol Siddeley Engines and Alfa Romeo SpA have concluded agreements for manufacturing collaboration and overhaul of Gnome engines in Italy. At the signing were (I to r) Dr Ing Adolfo Bardini, joint managing director (technical) and Dr Raffaello di Nolo, chairman, both of Alfa Romeo; Maj W. T. C. Rogerson of Mercantile Italo Britannica SpA; Dr £. J. Warlow-Davies, managing director of Bristol Siddeley; Sir Reginald Verdon-Smith, BS chairman; and Mr A. D. Cawse. BS com- mercial manager (new business). The signing took place at the Alfa Romeo Centre in Milan Mr Green's Return Mr Hughie Green, who on April 2 was involved in an incident with Russian fighters in the southern Berlin air corri dor, was allowed to fly his Cessna 310 back from Gatow to London Airport on April 6. He had previously returned by commercial aircraft (World News, last week) to fulfil a professional engagement, then after the Russians agreed on April 5 that he could his aircraft over Communist territory without interference, went back to Berlin on April 6 by commercial flight and collected the Cessna. He subsequently sent a letter to the Prime Minister in which he suggested that if one was obliged to file a flight plan 14 days before departure, it was "ludicrous" for the MoA not to get Russian permission prior to giving written auth ority for the flight. Librarians in Conference Despite the hazards of mergers, contract- cancellations and 50-50 arrangements with France, there are still enough aeronautical librarians (writes one of them) to ensure the annual success of the conference held by the Aero Group of Aslib (Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux). It was held as usual at Cranfield, from April 5 to 7, beginning with the a.g.m., when the previous year's officers were re elected (R. C. "Wilbur" Wright, RAE, chairman, Mary Dyke, RAE Bedford, secretary, and John Rosser, S. G. Brown Ltd, treasurer). New committee members are Peter Whitehead, Hawker Siddeley. and Peter Massingham, de Havilland. On Saturday, April 6, Mr A. Chinneck gave a paper explaining the workings and background of the Aeronautical Research Council. This cleared up one or two mysteries that have existed in the minds of many since the Council's foundation in 1909 and clarified the position regarding ARC publications and non-publications. This was followed by the usual "technical" paper—The Eldo Satellite Launching Vehicle. by Mr K. Smith of RAE, given in language that almost any layman could understand. Highspot of the meeting (apart from the conference dinner) was Mel Day's Local Access to the Aerospace Technical Literature. It is an indication of the regard in which the Aero Group (largely basking in the international reputation of Cyril Clever- don, Cranfield's librarian) is held in America that Mr Day, director of the Office of Scientific and Technical Informa tion, NASA) should come over specially. He talked the whole Saturday afternoon (with the usual English tea-break) on the NASA document set-up. with a sideways glance—for good measure—at the Kennedy scientific advisory arrangements. It was an indication of his ability as a speaker and the interest of his subject that at no time did his audience's attention flag. If for nothing else, the aircraft and missile industry of this country owes its librarians a debt for the goodwill that they have established with NASA—built up, one might add, over the group's dozen years' existence. On April 7, the morning speakers were F. B. Roberts, editor of Engineering, on Technical Information: Periodicals, Pur veyors and Users, and Charles Gibbs- Smith on Writing and Illustrating Aero nautical History. Both these speakers made a Sunday morning trip to the wilds of Bedfordshire specially to give their papers and it is hoped that they felt their journey worthwhile. The group certainly felt it was. Mr Roberts talked of the changes necessary in technical journals to contend with fashion and the requirements of new techniques, reader-interest, competition and so on. Mr Gibbs-Smith, as usual, gave a fireside chat in which he slew various his torians, past and present, explained the difficulties of getting the facts straight and read chunks of letters wherein he had told publishers they should not be entrusted with advertising slogans, let alone serious aeronautical history. Waiting for the Weather at Rye, Sussex, as we go to press are two men who plan to make the first crossing of the English Channel in a hot-air balloon. They are Ed Yost (right), an American experimenter with craft of this type, and Don Piccard, son of the late Dr Jean Piccard. Unlike the Montgo/fier brothers, who heated their air with straw 180 years ago, they use propane from the cylinders seen in the picture. In the second view their bO.OQO cu ft craft is seen inflated. Flight duration under optimum conditions is about eight hours
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