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268 FLIGHT International, 22 August 1963 WORLD NEWS.. . San Francisco-Japan Non-stop A P-3 Orion of the US Navy made the first non-stop flight from San Francisco to Japan on August 10, taking 14hr 26min for the 5,135-mile trip. The aircraft was captained by Cdr Robert E. Anglemyer, USN. Dart Longevity The Rolls-Royce Scottish factory at Hillington, Glasgow, is now overhauling its 1,000th Dart engine, which came from a BUA Viscount after completing a 3,000hr life, making a total of 7,479hr since it was installed in 1958. The engine originally went into service in a Transair Viscount on June 6, 1959, and between then and Nov ember 1960 accumulated 3,242hr in two different aircraft. In July 1960 it was converted from Mk 525 to Mk 530 standard for a BUA Viscount and a further 4,237hr have been added while it has been in four different aircraft. Another Dart at Hillington is one of special interest—No 21,002, one of five prototype RDa.lOs built at Derby for the YS-11. This engine was tested on a develop ment bed at Derby, then installed and test flown in an Ambassador at Hucknall. New Members of the English Electric Aviation flight operations staff at Warton are Mr J. A. Carrodus (right), ex-Royal Navy, now an experimental test pilot with the company, and Mr R. Woollett, an ex-RAF navigator HSA and 681 In a statement last week on the AW. 681, following reports that shop stewards feared a shut-down in factories and that insufficient work would come to Coventry, Hawker Siddeley Aviation said that a committee investigating "the best way to produce this very advanced aircraft" was due to make its report in a few weeks' time. This report would then be studied by the board of HSA's Avro Whitworth Division, who would then decide on a production pro gramme. A Hawker Siddeley spokesman commented: "There is still a great deal of design work to do and we do not yet know what type of engine will be installed in this aircraft." He added that no decision had yet been made on a production programme Bus In a Van This rear view of the Short Turbo-Skyvan shows how "a Volks wagen minibus can be accommodated quite easily in the aircraft's box-like hold" for the 681, "with the exception that, by Government direction, 25 per cent of the work will go to Shorts at Belfast." Malayan Air Force Finance On August 13 the Malayan Minister for Defence, Tun Abdul Razak, applied to parliament for SS$6.4m (about £747,000) for down payments on four Alouette helicopters, four Heralds and one Pioneer. He said that the Government, which had already four helicopters, was planning a force of 16. Gasdynamics and Structures Two courses, each of 30 lectures, on Hypersonic Gasdynamics (starting on Sep tember 30) and Special Problems in Aircraft Structures (starting on October 3), are being offered by Northampton College of Ad vanced Technology, St John Street, London EC1. The lectures will be given by members of the staff of the Department of Aero nautics and Space Technology, and the fee for each course is £5 5s. Prospective students should be graduates or final year undergraduates in aeronautical engineering, or practising aeronautical or aerospace engineers. FAI Film Festival The Royal Aero Club has entered for the World Aeronautical and Space Film Festival (Festival Mondial du Film Aero- nautique et Spatial), organized by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, which is being held at Deauville from September 9 to 15. Twenty-four countries —including the UK, USSR, USA, France, Germany and Italy—have entered for the contest, which it is hoped will become an annual event. The RAeC are entering seven films, with the co-operation of the BBC, COI, Shell Film Unit and British Lion Films. They include Cone of Silence, High Speed Flight and The Pilots. Soviet All-weather Capability The Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Air Force, General Vladimir Kobli- kov, stated on Moscow Radio on August 9 that Soviet aircraft "could hit any target" and that "some Soviet supersonic planes equipped with automatic navigation could fly day or night in any weather." T-38 Talon Safety Record Northrop Corporation announce that the T-38A Talon suffered only four major accidents during its first 100,000hr with the US Air Force Air Training Command. This record is described as "unmatched by any other supersonic aircraft in history." More than 300 T-38s have been delivered, and the current production rate is 12 per month. That UFO It now seems probable that the "uniden tified flying object" seen by Mr David Ogilvy and others who have written to Flight International about it (Letters, August 15, and this week, page 291) was in fact a stratosphere research balloon sent up from Lindau, near Gottingen, in Germany, on July 30. It was radio-tracked by the cosmic-ray group of Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, as part of SPRMO (solar particles and radiation monitoring organization). According to their tracking, it was over Southend at 8 p.m. BST on July 31 and over Reigate between 9 and 10 p.m. They lost track of it over, or just west of, Southampton, but think that it may well have lost height during the night to 40,000/50,000ft and then drifted north-eastwards with the prevailing airstream. Mr Peter Hedgecock, a member of the ICST group, says that the balloon was "roughly the shape of a cardboard milk carton with an extra seam." These balloons, some 70ft in diameter, are made of poly thene, and in favourable cloud conditions "glow quite brightly at dusk." At altitude they may well appear to be standing still as their speed may be no more than lOkt.
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