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FLIGHT International, 13 June 1963 948a BS Chief Design Consultant Mr Lionel Haworth, OBE, BSC (Eng), MiMechx, FRAes, formerly chief engineer (propeller tur bines), Rolls-Royce Ltd, joined the Aero Division of Bristol Siddeley Engines Ltd on June 1. He has taken up the appointment of chief design consultant and is responsible to Dr S. G. Hooker, technical director (aero). A South African, Mr Haworth joined Rolls-Royce in 1934 as a designer. In 1941 Mr Lionel Haworth a group was set up under his direction to design the WR.l, the first Rolls-Royce jet engine. He became assistant chief de signer in 1944 and in 1945 initiated design of the Dart, for which he has since been mainly responsible. In 1951 he became deputy chief designer of the aero division, in 1954 chief designer (civil engines) and chief engineer (propeller turbines) last year. Mr Sidwell Retires Recently Mr H. W. Sidwell, OBE, AFRAes, works director of Whitworth Gloster Aircraft Ltd, retired after more than 38 years' service with the Hawker Siddeley Group. He had become WGA works director in 1961, at the time of the Armstrong Whitworth and Gloster Aircraft merger. Mr Sidwell joined Rudge-Whitworth Ltd as a draughtsman in 1917, moving to AW A in 1925. Subsequently, as chief draughts man at the AWA Air Service Training unit at Hamble, he was in charge of work on the Ensign. He became general manager and chief designer of the Hamble company in 1940 and a director of AST in 1949. In 1959 he was made works director of Gloster Aircraft. Last month, at a luncheon in his honour, Mr Sidwell was presented with a silver salver from the HSG directors, with an in scription commemorating his long years of service. Ultra-AME Agreement An agency agree ment is being negotiated between Ultra Electronics Ltd, Western Avenue, London W3, and Ateliers de Montages Electriques, 77 Rue St Charles, Paris 15e, who are jointly showing their products on Stand C.93 at the Paris Show. Details of both companies' products were given in our Show Guide issue last week (pages 884 and 819 respectively). The Ultra display features "the first comprehensive electrical control system for supersonic engines," search and rescue beacons and a wide range of tele communications equipment; AME show their VOR beacon and other communica tions aids. USA Northrop's 1,000 Boeing Wings Northrop Corp, Beverly Hills, Calif, recently pro duced the 1,000th pair of outer wings for Boeing jet aircraft. More than a third were made for 707s and 720s and nearly two- thirds for USAF KC-135s and C-135s. The outer wing sets are manufactured by North rop Norair, a division of Northrop Corp, under subcontract to what was formerly the Transport Division of the Boeing Co. Northrop have been producing outer wings for Boeing jet transports since April 1955 and are also manufacturing aft fuselages for these aircraft. The current subcontract for wings extends to early 1965. Catapult Power Described as "the first stored energy system to be tested for the SATS program," a turboflywheel power package of new design has been delivered to the US Naval Air Engineering Lab oratory, Philadelphia, Penn, by Avco Corporation's Lycoming Division, Strat ford, Conn. Designed and built by Ly coming under contract to the laboratory, the power package is being evaluated for possible use in catapult launching systems under the Marine Corps' short airfield tactical support programme (SATS), re ferred to on this page for May 9 and 30. Lycoming also hold a second SATS con tract for a complete systems study of a more advanced version of the package under evaluation, which includes a "rela tively small" Lycoming free-turbine engine to store energy in a flywheel, with support ing stand and other accessory equipment. Beech's German Contract A production order worth approximately $ljm has been The SPC 400 Solar Pointing Control developed by Rail Brothers Research Corp, Boulder, Col, and referred to on this page for April 18. The cylinder is approximately 40in long with a radius of about 6jin. Instrument orientation is provided by two servo systems operating in the vehicle azimuth and elevation axes received by Beech Aircraft Corp, Wichita I, Kansas, through the US Army Materiel Command, for a quantity of remote-con trolled model 1001 missile targets for the German Federal Republic, which thus be comes the first NATO country to place such an order. The targets, which West Germany is to receive this summer, are of the same basic design as the US Army's 1025 Cardinal missiles and KDB-1 of the US Navy, for whose Bureau of Weapons it was originally developed. MMRBM Star Sensor Northrop Cor poration, a leader in star-tracking naviga tion systems, has received a $5m contract to develop, produce, test and deliver a star- sensor subsystem for use in the Mobile Medium Range Ballistic Missile. The contract, from General Precision Inc, includes the stellar sensor instrument, an airborne electronics package and ground support and checkout equipment. First delivery will be within a few weeks. The MMRBM, first urged for NATO use by Gen Lauris Norstad, former Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, would be capable of being launched from ground vehicles or ships. It will be a two-stage solid propellant missile. Litton RADCOM Division The forma tion of a new RADCOM (radar and com munications) division, with headquarters at 1140 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, Md, has been announced by Litton Indus tries Inc, 336 North Foothill Road, Bev erly Hills, Calif. The division combines four former divisions. Among the products of Litton Indus tries, as described in their recently issued annual report (which contains some striking and unusual illustrations), are computers, inertial guidance and tactical data systems, ILS monitors and electron tubes. The Litton Aero Service Division conducts aerial survey activities. AADS-70 Contracts Hughes Aircraft Co, Fullerton, Calif; Raytheon Co, Bedford, Mass; and Radio Corp of America, Cam den, NJ, have been awarded US Army con tracts of $l£m each to study the technical feasibility of a new army air defence system, AADS-70. Canada Displaying the D.H.125 Timmins Avia tion Ltd, recently appointed exclusive sales agents and service representatives in the civil market in Canada for the D.H.125 (Flight International, April 4), are currently preparing a mock-up of the aircraft at their Montreal premises for display on the North American market. It was flown over from the UK by Seaboard World Airlines CL-44. Work on the mock-up, being carried out on behalf of de Havilland Aircraft, includes installation of instru mentation and electronic equipment as well as interior and exterior finishing. Interior design is by Charles Butler Associates, New York.
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