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FLIGHT International, 20 June 1963 957 peculiar pulsebeat of the rotor contributed to the dramatic effect. • Never point guns at people ?) Raman's Huskie and Seasprite helicopters both made a particular visual impression, the former that of an egg-whisk in the sky. and the latter of the clean-cut modern multi-mission "chopper" which it is. The Seasprite pilot delighted in flipping the under carriage in and out while lights flashed on and off in the nose. The VTOL theme was massively raised to a new crescendo by Weser, Sikorsky and Sud, with a Skycrane, an S-62, a Mojave. seven or more Alouette lis. two Alouette Ills, an Alouette Astazou. and the S-58 Bi-Bastan. The S-62 had flown the Atlantic to attend the Show, and the great German-American Skycrane carried a lorry bearing the legend KRUPP. The other types have distinctions already well known; but we must record that the Alouettes gam bolled this year almost to the point of frenzy, finally discharging vertical columns of red. white and blue smoke which quickly drifted our way. Having been shot up, we were now smoked out. But ca, c'est Paris. Thinking once more of VTOL and Verne, we recollect writing in an early issue of Air-Cushion Vehicles that the ACV was one form of locomotion—itself a form of VTOL—which the master did not foresee. The Bertin BC.6. which now made a welcome intrusion among the various aerodynamic devices, will be described in the next issue of Air-Cushion Vehicles. As for the Bell Rocket Belt (SRLD=small rocket lift device), all that we managed to see was the rocketeer sitting on the box which had contained his equipment to have adjustments made to his gear. Once on his feet and all clear, there appeared to be a prelimi nary "squirt," followed by unequivocable ascent to perhaps 20-30ft —and the man was out of sight (but not out of mind) behind the crowd. After all this VTOL. ACV and SRLD, a Victor 2 and Vulcan 2 might be expected to have appeared a little faded. Not so. When the Victor had finished swanning around majestically, a Vulcan scrambled and gave the most rip-roaring, impeccably placed, most breathtaking display of the day. International show, international journal; but British and proud of it. There was a piquancy in the juxtaposition on the programme of the D.H.125 and the Dassault Mystere 20. The 125 (which has now completed high-speed and flutter tests and has attained its maximum design speed of 590 m.p.h. at 21,000ft) displayed, among other attributes, a notable short-landing ability; and the Mystere 20 (surely the most glamorous—some would say flashiest—aeroplane present) proved as eye-catching in the air as on the ground. Especi ally on take-off, however, it was downright noisy. This is a criticism which, relatively speaking, could not be made of the D.H. Trident, which opened an impeccably judged demonstration with a cur vaceous, if smoky, ascent. (The "•Rolls-Royce Sprey" units. PotezHeinket CM.I9I Republic F-I05D Thundercbiefs -f4s ~?3>
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