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730 One of the well-known aircraft types utilizing Napier's Spraymat ice-protection system is the Whitworth Closter Argosy, and here an employee of Napier's Luton Division is seen working on an Argosy tailplane; he is marking out the heating-element pattern prior to spraying on the resin insulation. Incidentally, Spraymat in service on 79 Bristol Britannias owned by ten world operators now has an inspection life of 6,000hr INDUSTRY International... makers, without degradation and with minimum distortion under load. Made by Polypenco Ltd, Gate House, Welwyn Garden City, Herts, Fluorosint is described as "a material comprising p.t.f.e. and other specially developed constituents designed to improve p.t.f.e.'s mechanical and thermal properties." Its advantages are stated to include resistance to deformation at elevated temperatures, a low thermal expansion and good bearing properties. AS Equipment Order The MoA have placed orders worth over £900,000 with the Airborne Radio and Radar Division of Elliott-Automation Ltd, for sonobuoy anti-submarine detection equipment for RAF Coastal Command. The contracts are the first placed with E-A for this type of equipment. Deliveries are scheduled to start next year. Trident Seating The caption to our photograph of seating for the de Havilland Trident (this page, last week) should have given the manufacturer's name as Flight Equipment and Engineering Ltd, as in the text. Handling Lox A colour film made by British Oxygen, Airfield Handling of Lox, was recently awarded a Certificate of Merit in the Industrial Screen Film Competition for 1963. It deals with methods used in storing, handling and dispensing liquid oxygen, and—the makers states—"illus trates the ease with which lox is handled and the safety precautions that are nec essary." Copies of the film (16mm; running time, 15min) are available on free loan from the British Oxygen Photographic Unit, North Circular Road, Cricklewood, Lon don NW2, or from British Oxygen Avia tion Services, Aylmer House, Harlow, Essex. SGS-Fairchild Stockists SGS-Fairchild Ltd have appointed Sasco Ltd, Adastral House, Nutfield, Redhill, Surrey (Redhill 5050) their stockists and representatives for southern and south-west England. Under an agreement which took effect on May 1, Sasco can supply SGS-Fairchild silicon planar transistors, diodes, special products and Micrologic from stock for immediate delivery. Micrologic integrated circuits, it is stated, were the first devices of their kind to go into full-scale production, the first to be specified for a wide range of space and airborne computer projects, and are now the first to be made widely available in Britain. A specially designed hydraulically operated undercarriage jack in position to lift a Vickers VCI0 main undercarriage for wheel changing or routine inspection. Each jack will lift loads up to 35 tons, and two are employed to raise each leg to a maximum height of 24in. These jacks were designed and manufactured by Skyhi Ltd, subsidiary of Zwicky Ltd, a member of the Weir Group FLIGHT International, 16 May 1963 COMPANY NEWS Vactric Control Appointments Three new appointments have been announced by Vactric Control Equipment Ltd. Dr J. Hughes, BSC, PhD, until recently chief scientist to Rank Xerox Ltd, has joined Vactric as chief scientist; Mr W. Macleod Ross, BSC, AFRAes, formerly chief chemist of the Fairey Aviation Division of Westland Aircraft, has been appointed materials engineer; and Mr M. F. Osmaston, formerly with Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd then with A. V. Roe, has joined Vactric as a project engineer. Teddington Changes Teddington Aircraft Controls Ltd announce that Mr John Harrison, formerly managing director of Atlas Copco (Gt Britain) Ltd, has been appointed general manager of their bellows division, Teilo Works, Pontardulais, near Swansea. The company have recently linked with the German market by the appointment of Tuboflex KG as their agents in West Germany. Elliott Bros Appointment Mr B. A. C. Stack, AMiMechE, has been appointed sales manager of the Precision Test Equipment Division of Elliott Brothers (London) Ltd at Boreham Wood. Formerly, for seven years, Mr Stack was with the Aeronautical Division of Honeywell Controls Ltd. Sound Diffusion (Auto-Thermatic) Ltd, manufacturers of the works fire-detection system described in our issue of April 4, are now at their new address: Datum Works, 80-86 Davigdor Road, Hove 2, Sussex (Brighton 775499). Redifon ME Survey The overseas sales representative for Redifon Ltd, Mr K. E. Ellis, recently flew to the Middle East for a three months' visit, "to follow up several major enquiries and to undertake an extensive market survey of the area." Mr Ellis's itinerary includes Athens, Istanbul. Cairo and Ankara. Dunlop Pioneer Retires After 49 years with Dunlop—he had become their longest- serving employee—Mr Frank Paterson, manager of the Aviation Servicing School at Fort Dunlop, Birmingham, retired recently at the age of 65. During his 21 years' managership, Mr Paterson helped to train 20,000 people from 75 countries in the care of aircraft tyres. When he originally joined the company, he worked on aircraft tyres differing little from bicycle tyres. As a young man, Mr Paterson met and assisted many of the early pioneers- Orville Wright, Gustav Hamel, Cody, Grahame-White and Paulhan. When serving in the RNAS in the First World War he was asked to establish a tyre maintenance unit, the first of its kind in any of the Services. During the Secoi d World War he travelled round RAF stations in the UK, giving technical advice ard training on Dunlop equipment.
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