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• x - '- '•• 591 FLIGHT International, 25 April 1963 Leatherneck Lifter Mock-up of the Sikorsky CH-53A for the USMC, with main rotor blades folded. Powered by two 2,850 h.p. CE T64 engines, the CH-53A will carry 38 troops, or 24 stretchers and three attend ants, or 8,0001b cargo for the integration of civil and military ATC, and indicated the many advantages accruing from a common aim—the safety of all air traffic, whether it be civil or mili tary. At the dinner the Hunt Trophy, awarded for the most outstanding contri bution to air traffic control in the previous year, was presented to Mr G. R. Scott- Farnie, managing director of International Aeradio Ltd, by Capt V. A. M. Hunt, Director of Control (Plans) at the Mo A. The award has been made to IAL's ATC School at Southall, Middx, for its excellent record in the field of air traffic control training. Avro 748 Goes East Avro 748 G-ARAY, which is making a 28,000-mile tour of Africa and the Far East, recently gave four demonstration flights in the Sudan, operating from an unprepared sandy strip in an ambient temperature of ISA +27°C. Hawker Siddeley Aviation stated that senior officers of the Sudan Air Force (some of whom flew the aircraft) and of Sudan Army HQ staff were shown the 748's STOL capabilities. From the Sudan, the 748 went to Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, where it gave demon stration flights to Central African Airways 21,0001 b-thrust Turbofan A month ahead of schedule, Pratt & Whitney have shipped the first production TF33-7 turbofan to Lockheed- Georgia for installation in the first C-I4I StarLifter. The engine was recently certificated by the USAF and, simultaneously (as the JT3D-8A), by the FAA for commercial use and the Royal Rhodesian Air Force. After Salisbury the aircraft was flown to Johannes burg—where it would no doubt be closely inspected by South African Airways, who are known to be looking for a DC-3 replacement. Throughout the tour the 748 is being captained by Avro's chief test pilot Mr J. G. Harrison, and on board is a sales team headed by their sales manager, Mr E. Galitzine. The tour is due to last seven weeks and operators in 14 countries are being visited. AIRCENT Anniversary The 12th anniversary of the formation of AIRCENT (Allied Air Forces Central Europe) was marked by a commemorative ceremony at AAFCE HQ, Fontainebleau, on April 2. The Commander, Air Chief Marshal the Earl of Bandon, inaugurated a permanent display of crests of squadrons committed to AIRCENT by the seven contributing NATO nations—France, West Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Pearl Hyde We record with regret that Alderman Mrs Pearl M. Hyde, MBE, chairman of the Aerodrome Owners Association, died as the result of a road accident on April 15. First woman Lord Mayor of Coventry (in 1957), and formerly chairman of the city's airport committee, she played a large part in developing Coventry Airport and sponsoring events there, notably the King's Cup Air Race and Lockheed Aerobatic Trophy Competition. Across the Channel on Hot Air The two balloonists Ed Yost and Don Piccard (portrayed in these pages last week) successfully made the first-ever hot- air-ballon crossing of the English Channel on Saturday, April 13. Their journey, from Rye, Sussex, to St Georges, near Calais, took less than three hours—about half the time they had expected it to take; their 60,000 cu ft craft, its air heated by propane burners supplied from two large cylinders, had an endurance of some eight hours under ideal conditions. Its makers were Raven Industries, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The flight was sponsored by the French magazine Via, with the encouragement of the famous French balloonist Charles Dollfuss. A maximum height of 7,200ft was reached soon after the balloon crossed the French coast. The Channel has many times been crossed by gas-filled balloons. The only other hot-air attempt ended in disaster; it was made in 1785 by Pilatre de Rozier, who two years earlier, with the Marquis d'Arlandes, had made the world's first free ascent. For his channel flight he chose a balloon with a gas-filled envelope above a hot-air one, with almost inevitable conse quences. Moscow Air Attache Gp Capt A. N. Davis, DSO, DFC, RAF, is to be UK Air Attache in Moscow from May 17, with the acting rank of air com modore. He has previously held an air attache appointment (Budapest, from 1952) and until recently commanded RAF Leu- chars. More Boeing Orders Orders for Boeing 707-series jet trans ports have risen to 365 with repeat-purchases this month from Qantas, TWA and North west. Qantas announced last Monday a £4m order for two more 707-138s, to bring their fleet of these aircraft to 13. Delivery will be in September and October. TWA have bought three convertible cargo/ passenger 707-320Cs, with an option on two more, signifying a big increase in their planned cargo business, particularly on the North Atlantic. The US airline Northwest has increased its 707-320B order from three to five aircraft, for delivery this year. CASI Meeting A new feature of the Canadian Aeronau tics and Space Institute annual general meeting at Winnipeg (May 9/10) will be 12 discussion sessions, at each of which a problem facing a member in his everyday work will be talked over informally by a special group of experts whom he would not encounter in the ordinary course of events. Topics at these sessions will cover subjects which include simulators, magneto- hydrodynamics and V/STOL aerodynamics. The W. Rupert Turnbull lecture is this year being given by Mr G. R. McGregor, president of TCA, on The Principle? of Air line Management. The meeting is being held at the Fort Garry Hotel, Winnipeg. Communications should be addressed to Mr M. Dimentberg, 347 Cathedral Avenue, Winnipeg 4, Man. High Performance Many people in aviation are also inter ested in high-performance motoring, and for all such enthusiasts our associated journal Autocar is this week (tomorrow, April 26) publishing its special Sports Car Number.
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