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1963
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tUUHT International, June 6 1963 895 INDUSTRY International Flight Systems Products Company News An experimental Elliott auto pilot, of the variable-stability type, being checked before despatch to Pons. Details of the Elliott Automation Group's show exhibit appear on page 839 £ Groat Britain FLIGHT SYSTEMS Sixty Series Doppler Marconi announce the new AD560 Doppler radar in the Sixty Series. Based on the AD2300 and using the same aerial, the AD560 incorporates the engineering concepts of the Sixty Series, being built up from sealed modules which each have their own test points, allowing functional checking without unsealing. The system is fully transistorized except for the output klystron and solid-state switching eliminates all moving parts for aerial beam- switching. The system is entirely automatic once switched on and will begin to record speed and drift automatically to an accuracy of 0.3 per cent from heights of 20ft upwards. An optional plug-in assembly in the track ing unit allows functional checking of the equipment in the aircraft, or the assembly can be used as a workshop item. The AD560 conforms to Arinc 540 standards and a transistorized track guidance com puter conforming to Arinc 543 is being prepared. CRD100 Radar Display The Radar Div ision of Cossor Electronics announce the new CRD100 series of transistorized radar and synthetic data display systems for single- tube or multi-tube installations using pri mary and secondary radar and the full range of synthetic displays. PRODUCTS In-flight Engine Analyser By arrange ment with Bryans Aeroquipment Ltd— —who are UK licencees for Howell Instru ments Inc, Texas—Mr Geoffrey Hinbest, test measurement engineer for Bristol Siddeley Engines Ltd, recently visited the American company to evaluate the Howell automatic in-flight jet engine analyser. As a result of his visit, two analysers are being supplied to BS Engines for application tests in connection with VTOL powerplants. Bryans state that the Howell system, used by the US Air Defense and Strategic Air Commands, automatically computes, re cords and displays in-flight data relating to "hot section" life, making due allowance for variations in exhaust gas temperatures and time. They add: "Designed for accu rately determining engine overhaul periods in all types of gas turbine, optimum per formance and safety is assured in all appli cations where the engine may be required to operate at peak or near peak outputs for varying intervals, depending upon the operational role of the particular aircraft." Engineering Capacity Exchange A new organization with this title, having offices at 28 Victoria Street, London SW1 (Abbey 7788), has been established to simplify the placing of engineering work "through a nationwide pool of up-to-date information on the manufacturing resources of member firms." One of the supporting organiza tions is the Society of British Aircraft Con structors, and aircraft components requir ing unusual tooling are quoted as examples of work the exchange has been handling. Its system is described as "a new approach to sub-contracting and licensed manufac ture in which the use of a mechanical punched-card system breaks entirely fresh ground." USA Beech Swiss Subsidiary MrsO. A. Beech, president of Beech Aircraft Corp, Wichita, Kan, has been named as president and chairman of the board of Beechcraft AG, a new wholly owned subsidiary with head quarters in Zurich. Other directors of the new company include Mr Michael G. Neuburger, vice-president, export sales, of the parent corporation; Dr Eric Horn- burger; Dr Hans R. Frey; and Mr Robert C. Gerber, who will also serve as resident manager of Beechcraft AG. The new sub sidiary has been established "to meet the needs of steadily expanding business abroad and to strengthen Beech's position in both commercial and military fields." Belgian Components Plant Voi-Shan In dustries Corp, Culver City, 111, are to build a plant at Malines, Belgium, to meet Com mon Market and UK requirements. To be known as the Voi-Shan Manufacturing Co, it is described as "a pilot operation for manufacture of aircraft structural components (principally very-high-strength bolts) for the aerospace industries of the Common Market and Gt Britain." The factory's initial manufacturing programme will consist mainly of finishing, packing and shipping of forged blanks prepared and supplied by the parent factory in Culver City. If the Malines plant is successful it is intended to build larger, permanent premises there. France Modane De-Icing Tests The transonic wind tunnel at Modane, Savoie. built by ONERA (Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aeronautiques) with the aid of D. Napier & Son Ltd, has been fitted with extra equipment for de-icing tests and now offers European manufacturers excel lent facilities for testing de-icing systems on their prototypes. VC10 systems were tested there, and during last winter 64 tests of wing or tail components of the Nord 262 were carried out. Results obtained have made it possible not only to build up documentary evidence on pneumatic de-icers but also to obtain a great deal of practical informa tion. A big crowd watched the unveiling by Lord Mountbatten of a striking symbolic feature —a 22ft-high gyroscope—at the Sperry works on the Great West Road, London, on May 23. The ceremony marked the company's golden jubilee in this country. (A commemorative article, "Fifty Years of British Sperry," was published in "Flight International" for March 28 this year)
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