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1963
1963 - 0889.PDF
M.L. Aviation pressure helmet 860 FLIGHT International, 6 June l%3 M.L. Aviation aircraft handler Nord Entac anti-tank missile Nord Transall C.160 Royal Aircraft Establishment design for communications satellite (Ministry of Aviation) PARIS 1963... gas turbine turbojet starter. It is claimed that starting is extremely simple, requiring only the pressing of a button in the cockpit. Demarreurs a turbine des types Athos et Noelle 60 pour reacteurs. SEMCA Ministere des Armees Air, 26 Boulevard Victor, Paris 15e, France. Stand A.58. Ministere des Armees Marine, 2 Rue Royale, Paris 8e, France. Stand A.49 and external. Ministere des Travaux Publics et des Trans ports, 82 Rue des Pyrenees, Paris 12e, France. Stand A.62. Ministry of Aviation, Shell-Mex House, Strand, London WC2, England. Stand A.19. Demonstrated is the scientific support given to the aviation and electronic industries by the Ministry's research and development estab lishments. Over £200m a year is devoted to research and development, about three- quarters of which goes to industry and to the Universities. Projects in which Ministry establishments are engaged are presented. They include the Anglo-French supersonic airliner Concord, and the three-stage satellite launcher being developed by the European Launcher Develop ment Organization, of which Blue Streak will Mitchell linear actuator form the first stage. A model of the three-stage launcher is on show. Models and film show the H.P.I 15 and Bristol 221 and an exhibit illustrates how the new aircraft cooling systems laboratory at Farnborough enables a test fuselage to be heated electronically and cooling systems investigated under simulated supersonic flight conditions. Development of VTOL is traced from the Rolls-Royce Flying Bedstead through the Short SCI, and the Hawker P.1127 to the Hawker P. 1154, and to the prospects of commercial VTOL opened up by Rolls-Royce and Bristol Siddeley engines. A section is devoted to space technology. Methods of steering, stabilizing and powering vehicles in space are demonstrated. Sensors which use the sun and moon to provide accurate references for stabilizing the attitude of space vehicles are also shown, as well as a miniaturized jet control system for counter acting external disturbances which tend to make a satellite rotate in space. Solar cells are being used on the stand to power a tape- recorded commentary. A method of determin ing the most effective solar cell layout for a particular satellite, devised by Ministry of Aviation scientists, is shown, illustrated by a series of satellite shapes. A model of a communications satellite, devised by the RAE, is on show together with a possible communications system based on 12 station-keeping, active-relay satellites in an equatorial orbit at a height of about 7,500 nautical miles. Also displayed is a model of the G.P.O. Earth station at Goonhilly Downs, Cornwall. Another section shows guided weapons, including Swingfire, a new anti-tank weapon being developed by BAC. A demonstration is given of the use of
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