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THURSDAY MAY 16, 1963 Number 2827 Volume 83 Official Organ of the Royal Aero Club First Aeronautical Weekly in the World Founded in 1909 Editor-in-Chief MAURICE A. SMITH DFC Editor H.F.KING MBE Technical Editor YV. T. QU NSTON Air Transport Editor J. M. RAMSDEN Production Editor ROY CASEY Managing Director H. N. PRIAULX MBE In this World News Air Commerce Airline Traffic, 1962 Straight and Level Sport and Business Wittering Centurions Aircraft Propulsion, 1953-73 Service Aviation Letters Missiles and Spaceflight Industry International issue 700 703 708 711 712 713 717 722 723 724 729 From Rubble . . . D ORNIER, Focke-Wulf, Hamburger, Heinkel, Messerschmitt and Siebel—all have returned to their old trade. Joined by new names, they form today a powerful industry. Yet except for light aircraft, the West German factories have so far produced in quantity only foreign types, of French, Italian and American origin; and when a truly original native design did appear (for a Caravelle-style transport) it was shelved after careful market research. This merely confirms the meticulous planning for which the German is renowned; but during the past few weeks Teutonic drawing boards have reacted to next month's Paris Salon with a high-yield explosion, leading to a fall-out of brochures in the offices of this journal. Current West German programmes now include the following different types of aircraft:— Nine light aeroplanes; nine light helicopters, including several with rotary-piston, turboshaft and turbocompressor powerplants; four small STOL transports; two tilting-propeller V/STOL transports; two V/STOL supersonic strike aircraft; a twin-turboprop transport for undeveloped areas; a twin-Pegasus V/STOL transport; a big crane helicopter; a four- seat twin-jet; a five/six-seat twin-jet; a 12-seat twin-jet; a 24-passenger twin-turbofan airliner; a 40-passenger twin-turbofan airliner; a 40/58- passenger triple-turbofan airliner; a 48-passenger V/STOL jetliner; and a 98-passenger V/STOL jetliner. Two important new German aircraft—the VJ-101C and Do32—are illustrated for the first time in this issue. The remaining designs will be featured in this journal's Paris Show Guide, to be published two weeks from today. If only ten per cent of these new projects from across the Rhine come to fruition the German design teams will receive a rich reward. IIHIe Transport Publications Ltd, Dorset House, Stamford Street, London, SE1; telephone Waterloo 3333 (Telex 25137). Telegrams Flightpres London Telex. Annual subscriptions: Home £4 15s. Overseas £5. Canada and USA $15.00. Second Class Mai] privileges authorized at New York, NY. Branch Offices: Coventry, 8-10 Corpora tion Street: telephone Coventry 25210. Birmingham, King Edward House, New Street, Birmingham 2 ; telephone Mid land 7191. Manchester, 260 Deansgate, Manchester 3 ; telephone Blackfriars 4412 or Deansgate 3595. Glasgow, 62 Bucha nan Street, Glasgow CI; telephone Central 1265-6. New York, NY : Thomas Skinner <fe Co (Publishers) Ltd, 111 Broadway 6; telephone Digby 9-1197. © Dlffe Transport Publications Ltd, 1963. Permission to reproduce illustra tions and letterpress can be granted only under written agreement. Brief extracts or comments may be made with due acknowledgement. ... to Space In the field of rocketry and astronautics, the Germans have been among the pioneers. Next week, at Stuttgart, the German Society for Rocket Technology and Spaceflight is host society for the third European Space flight Symposium. This annual occasion, inaugurated in London by the British Interplanetary Society in modest fashion during 1961, has grown into a major event on the international spaceflight scene. On the pro gramme at Stuttgart will be approximately 45 papers, and the main speaker at the symposium banquet will be Mr Arnold Frutkin, Director of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Office of International Programmes. West German responsibility for the third stage of the European Launcher Development Organization's launch vehicle is the country's main space task at present. A data centre is to be set up at Darmstadt under the European Space Research Organization, and plans have been proposed for an ambitious space programme on a purely national basis. The year 1962 was France's year to make known her national space ambitions; it will be surprising if no similar declaration by West Germany is made this year at Stuttgart.
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