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1963 - 1206.PDF
An electromagnetic wave—instead of the more familiar light beam and photo-electric cell—is employed in Sylvania's intruder- alarm system, here seen guarding the 3,000ft perimeter of a Nike-Hercules site (Sylvania Electric Products Inc, 730 Third Avenue, NY (7, New York) INDUSTRY international... gressively developed over the past four years by Precision Engineering Products (Suffolk) Ltd, this equipment is already in use with various types of aircraft at Heath row and other airports. Successful trials have also been carried out in conjunction with the Hawker Siddeley Trident and the Vickers VC10. Temperature Limit Switch Developed from a Rotax limit switch used in aircraft flying control systems for many years, a limit switch designed (primarily for nuclear projects) to operate in ambient temperatures up to 400°C has been introduced by Rotax Ltd, Willesden Junction, London NW10. It can be supplied with stainless-steel actuating mechanisms of either the roller or plunger type, which fit over the body of the switch and are easily secured, allowing the switch to be replaced without disturbing the installed actuator. It is stated that the minimum design-life is one million cycles, and a functional test of 15,000 operations is carried out on each unit. Current rating is 1A at 29V d.c. or 5A at 250V, 50 c/s, a.c. COMPANY NEWS D.H. - Hamilton Standard Agreement Under an agreement recently reached between the de Havilland Aircraft Co Ltd and Hamilton Standard Division of United Aircraft Corp the companies' combined products and experience are at the service of aircraft manufacturers and operators throughout Europe, de Havilland will 32 undertake original development and design work at their extensive new facilities at Hatfield, backed by Hamilton experience; the choice of systems and equipment for production will be made from the range of civil and military equipment available from the two companies. Bronzavia in France and Microtecnica in Italy are to provide quantity production facilities in those countries for de Havilland/Hamilton Standard equipment. It is stated that "this new collaboration between four companies and four coun tries will lead to the production of com petitively priced systems which will ensure maximum crew and passenger comfort in all flight and climatic conditions. After-sales service facilities will be available to custom ers wherever they may be operating." British Aircraft Corporation announces that Mr E. L. Beverley has been appointed civil aircraft contracts manager and Mr F. W. Higginson sales and service manager, Guided Weapons Division. Both served with distinction in the RAF during the war. Mr Beverley flew with Nos 13 and 114 Squadrons, gaining a DFC, and afterwards held various HQ and staff posts; after a post-war period with the Ministry of Civil Aviation he joined English Electric in 1952 as commercial manager of their GW Division. Mr Higginson, who entered the Service as a Halton apprentice in 1929, was a flight commander of No 56 Sqn from 1938 to 1941, was awarded the DFC and DFM and, after further Fighter Command service, occupied staff posts. He was in the Air Ministry from 1952 to 1956, when he joined Bristol Aircraft as military liaison officer. New Hydraulic Company Mr Charles Grigg has resigned as a director of the Triplex subsidiary Weldall-Grigg Ltd and from July 1 is giving undivided attention to his position as chairman and managing director of Grigg Hydraulics Ltd, 65/67 Hanworth Road, Hounslow, M ddx, premises which Weldall-Grigg vacated on their move to the Midlands. The new company formed by Mr Grigg will initially import a range of American-designed hydraulic equipment to be manufactured in Denmark. Addit ional designs of their own are currently being developed and manufacturing cap acity is under negotiation. FLIGHT International, 4 July 1963 USA Lockheed Financial Year The largest aircraft sales—$853m—in Lockheed Air craft Corporation history were recorded in 1962, a year in which, the corporation state, seven of their aircraft types in ser vice were on duty during the Cuba crisis —U-2s, P-3As, P-2s, F-104s, C-130s and C-140s. Total Lockheed sales, including missile hardware, space research and vehicles and electronic products, were $ 1,753m compared with $ 1,445m in 1961. USN Satellite Checks F. J. Stokes Corp, 5500 Tabor Road, Philadelphia 20, Pa, have been awarded a $400,000 contract by the US Navy to design and build an extensive space-simulation factility for pre- launch reliability checking of USN satellites. Installation will be at one of the Navy's major development facilities in the USA. Saturn Controls An $85,000 contract to design and develop steering controls and electrical power system for the Saturn S-1C stage transporter has been awarded to the Advanced Products Group of American Machine & Foundry Co, 261 Madison Avenue, New York 16, NY, by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. The AMF steering controls will include "a unique electrical servo system capable of positioning all 12 wheels of the trans porter to within 1° of steering accuracy and provide control by one or two operators or by response to towbar action." The S-1C will form the first stage of the Saturn 5 spacecraft. Mitsubishi XMU-2 Equipment A contract recently awarded to Garrett AiResearch, 9851 Sepulveda Bid, Los Angeles, Calif, calls for production of an air cycle refriger ation package, pressurization equipment and controls, and temperature control sub-system for the Mitsubishi XMU-2 executive and utility aircraft, four of which are being built initially. (A photograph of a model of the aircraft, which is to be powered by two Turbomeca Astazou turboprops, was published in Flight International for April 4.) Fire-fighting and snow-clearance devices were two types of aircraft equipment numerically predominant at the Geneva exhibition described on pages 1027-1030 of last week's issue. Here are two of the exhibits of this kind: left, Biro Fils' projector for distributing their Granite extinguishing powder; right, the Konrad Peter paraffin-burning runway de-icer, propelled by a Schorling sweeper. Biro Fils are at 164 Rue Ambroise Croizat, Saint Denis, Seine, France, and Konrad Peter AG at Liestal, Switzerland
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