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1004 FLIGHT International, 27 June 1963 Pakistan Air Force Pilots who have completed their commissions are under going helicopter training with British Executive Air Services at Kidlington, Oxon, in preparation for Pakistan International Airlines' inauguration of domestic helicopter services with Sikorsky S-6INs later this year ("Flight International," April II). Seen here with a Brantly B.2 are three of the five pilots—/ to r. Fit Lts A. Hussain, Hassan Zaheer and Nisar Chughtai WORLD NEWS . . . Percival hot-gas tip-jet helicopter and the Armstrong Siddeley series of liquid-oxygen/ kerosine rocket engines. The Hawker P.1121 Hurricane does not appear in the list because it was never under Government contract; but the Supermarine 508 and 545 might have been expected to be listed. Conversely, it is curious that the "Swift crescent-wing research fighter" should be included, because this was a single research aircraft never intended for operational use. The point may also be made that the expenditure quoted for Blue Streak is £ 17m more than the figure quoted by the Comp troller and Auditor-General in February 1961 as being the total spent on the pro gramme up to the cancellation. Lest readers should conclude from these figures that British weapon-system manage ment is excessively faulty, it must be placed on record that US judgment has been no better. On June 16 Dr Harold Brown, US Department of Defense Director of Re search and Engineering, stated that during the past ten years DoD had cancelled 61 major programmes costing more than S6,000m (£2,143m). Ferranti Chief Test Pilot Mr P. Field, AFC, chief test pilot of Ferranti Ltd for the past ten years, has retired and been succeeded by Mr Colin W. Curtis, who joined the company as a test pilot in 1959. "Grade" Field, who joined Ferranti in MAJOR CANCELLED PROGRAMMES Project Transport aircraft- Bra bazon Princess Vickers military transport aircraft Orion turboprop aero engine Rotodyne helicopter Operational aircraft:— Developed Sturgeon anti-submarine aircraft D.H. fighter aircraft Developed Hawker Hunter Swift fighter aircraft Swift photo-reconnaissance and fighter Swift crescent-wing research fighter Avro rocket interceptor aircraft Thin-wing Javelin all-weather fighter Fairey supersonic fighter aircraft Supersonic bomber (including engine) Naval intercepter Scorpion rocket engine Spectre rocket engine Missiles:— Guided bomb with television eye Vickers flying bomb Air-to-ship guided bomb Air-to-air missile with radar guidance Long-range surface-to-air guided weapon Heavy anti-tank missile Blue Steel Mk 2 Bloodhound Mk 3 Blue Streak ballistic missile Low-level surface-to-air guided weapon Medium-range surface-to-surface missile Skybolt air-to-surface ballistic missile Cancellation Feb 1952 May 1954 Dec 1955 Jan 1958 Feb 1962 Mar 1951 May 1952 July 1953 Feb 1955 June 1955 Dec 1955 Sept 1955 June 1956 Mar 1957 Mar 1957 Dec 1957 Feb 1959 Oct I960 June 1954 Sept 1954 Mar 1956 June 1956 May 1957 Sept 1959 Dec 1959 Mar I960 Apr I960 Dec 1961 Aug 1962 Dec 1962 £m 6.45 9.1 4.0 4.75 11.0 0.5 2.5 0.14 22.0 0.3 1.6 1.0 2.3 0.15 2.05 3.2 1.25 5.75 3.1 0.7 0.9 7.5 1.5 2.4 0.825 0.6 84.0 0.8 32.1 27.0 Remarks Bristol 167. Mks 1 and 2 Saunders-Roe SR.45 V.I000(VC7 civil version) Bristol BE.25 Westland (ex-Fairey Aviation) Short SB.3 D.H. 110 to RAF (F.4/48) specification Reheat Sapphire 7, 50€ sweep Development up to Mk 4 FR. Mk 5 and Mk 7 (Fireflash) H.P.88, research for Victor Avro 720, specification as SR.53/177 Gloster G.50, two Olympus Two-seat, all-weather (OR.329) Avro 730; (Armstrong Siddeley P.176) Saunders-Roe SR.I77 Napier, for Lightning D.H. Engines, for SR. 177 and V-bombers Vickers Blue Boar, flip-out wings Red Rapier, Soar turbojet Blue Boar derivative, EMI/Fairey Vickers Type 888 (Red Dean) Part of Bloodhound family Fairey Orange William Extended range Replacement in hand D.H. propellers, R-R, Smiths/Sperry BAC PT.428 BAC Blue Water Vulcan mods, training and support 1953 and has been involved in the test flying of all the airborne systems developed by the company in Edinburgh, has had 29 years in aviation. He joined the RAF in 1935 as a Halton apprentice, training as pilot at the start of the Second World War, then serving in the Middle East and subsequently with 23 Sqn on Mosquito intruder operations. He was awarded the AFC for his work as OC Night Fighter Development Flight at the CSE, was on No 8 Course at ETPS, then spent the last four years of his RAF service at the Central Gunnery School. The new chief test pilot, Colin Curtis, is also ex-RAF, in which he served from 1951-1959, with XV Sqn,Bomber Command (Canberras), at No 5 FTS as an instructor, at the CFS (1956-58) as a QFI then at ETPS as QFI/IRE. Mr C. W. Curtis Mr P. Field F-104Gs for India? It is reported that the United States has agreed to supply Denmark, Norway, Greece and possibly India with Lockheed F-104Gs. These will be in addition to those being manufactured in Europe for the German, Dutch, Belgian and Italian air forces. The number of aircraft delivered to India "depends on Pakistani reaction." Cranfield Fellowship and Prizes The English Electric Co Ltd, "mindful of the need to encourage academic re search workers to make a larger contribu tion than hitherto in the fields of electrical, electronic and control engineering as applied in aeronautics," have endowed a Research Fellowship in the Department of Electrical and Control Engineering at the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield. The field of research may be in any branch of electrical technology or physics which has application to aeronautical or space technology. The college also announce that the Wor shipful Company of Fan Makers intend to make available annually an award for the purpose of providing prizes for students in the departments of aerodynamics and electrical and control engineering. This replaces an equal sum donated annually by Woods of Colchester Ltd for the past seven years. TT Race Special On sale today, June 27, is the third special issue of Motor Cycle published in connection with the TT Races in the Isle of Man—the TT Review Number.
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