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— 34 FLIGHT International, 11 July 1963 WORLD E W 8 Canadian Herald Order ? A newspaper report last Monday that four Handley Page Heralds have been ordered by the Canadian Department of Transport appears to be premature, although Handley Page confirm that negotiations with the Canadian DoT have been under way for some little while. If confirmed, an order for four aircraft would bring the Handley Page order book to 35 aircraft with an option on a further ten, 18 Heralds having so far been delivered to nine operators, including three Canadian airlines. Caribou 2 Reproduced on this page is an impression by a de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd artist of the forthcoming Caribou 2 (US Army designation, CV-2A), which has not previously been illustrated publicly. The sketch emphasizes that the Hawker Sidde- ley company has resisted the temptation to produce an entirely new STOL (or even V/STOL) transport and have instead de liberately compromised the design by basing it as closely as possible upon the present DHC-4 Caribou 1. A high proportion of the existing tooling and systems is applicable to the new air craft, although the latter differs in the following important respects: the engines are General Electric T-64-8 free-turbine units, each rated at 2,850 s.h.p.; the fuse lage has been widened and lengthened, and made much less upswept at the rear; the tail is of entirely new T-type configuration, and the wing centre-section no longer has anhedral. The increased power of the turbine engines, combined with their lower installed weight, results in a substantial all-round increase in performance over the present piston-engined Caribou. Range and payload are both appreciably greater, and the widened fuselage of the new air craft will be able to carry a 105mm howit zer or a j-ton truck. The prototype CV-2A Caribou 2 is due to fly next spring, with the remaining three prototypes initially ordered by the US Army scheduled to follow at rapid intervals. Development costs of the Cari bou 2 are estimated at f 22m, and are being shared equally by the US Army, the Cana dian Department of Defence Production and the manufacturer. (Note: the de Havilland Aircraft Co of Canada Ltd remains unchanged by the recent ration alization of the Hawker Siddeley Group announced last week.) BOAC-Seaboard Agreement As from October 1, BO AC will operate a Seaboard Canadair CL-44 freighter, and will also implement a "blocked-space" arrangement with Seaboard whereby each airline will share capacity on the flights operated by the other. This agreement, forecast in Flight Inter national for June 27 and announced on July 8, will remain effective for a minimum period of two years. The arrangement, a variation of others negotiated by Seaboard with Lufthansa and Swissair, is subject to Government approval. Saab 105 Flies Maiden flight of the Swedish twin- turbofan Saab 105 took place according to plan on June 29. The aircraft was flown by test pilot Karl-Erik Fernberg. This first prototype, which was built in production jigs, will now be subjected to a thorough flight t2St programme. If it meets the Towards the Giant Helicopter Hiller Aircraft Co models of a flying crane (top) and a transport helicopter employing twin-turbojets at the tips of the lifting rotor (see "Hiller Tip- drive Contract") specification the Swedish Air Force will order at least 130, mainly for elementary training but also as a light attack aircraft for direct support of army and naval units. The Saab 105 attack version is able to carry guns, rockets, bombs or air-to-surface missiles. The training version is equipped with two side-by-side ejection seats, but can easily be converted for liaison or executive use seating 4-5. Owing to the economic l,5401b-thrust Turbomeca Aubisque turbo- fan, the aircraft has a range of more than 1,240 miles, sufficient for Stockholm-Paris non-stop. Turboprop STOL Artist's impression of the forthcoming de Hav'tHand Aircraft of Canada Caribou 2, referred to in an accompanying news-item Hiller Tip-drive Contract Hiller Aircraft Co has received a US Army Transportation Research Command contract to design a large rotor system powered by turbojet engines at the blade tips. Valued at $953,000, it will be the first of several phases; the second phase would involve construction of a full-scale lift and propulsion system, which Hiller pro poses to test in a special whirl-test facility. Hiller and its engine sub-contractor, Con tinental Aviation and Engineering Corp —whose l,7001b-thrust J69-29 will be used —will now complete parametric and pre liminary design studies and tunnel tests of the large, four-jet rotor. Westland began extensive study of giant helicopters, powered by rotor tip-mounted jets, in 1949. Hiller began to think along the same lines in the same year, and to study the concept in the absence of efficient turbojets, Hiller built the small ram-1 helicopters known as the Hornet serks-
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