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1963
1963 - 1754.PDF
FLIGHT International, 3 October 1963 561 Formation Flight under Sydney Harbour Bridge was made recently by ten Wessex heli- ; from the Royal Australian Navy carrier "Melbourne." Height available between the span : water surface at the time was 172ft tall and Farnborough Handel Davies, CB, MSC, FRAes, has ppointed by the Minister of Aviation, ilian Amery, to the post of Deputy )ller of Aircraft (Research and )pment) in succession to Mr M. B. in, CB, MA, FRAes, who was recently Controller of Aircraft. Mr L F. Ison, CB, MA, AFRAes, has been ap- d Deputy Director (Air) at RAE orough in succession to Mr Davies. Handel Davies has been ..Deputy or (Air) at RAE Farnborough since He was previously Chief Superinten- ^&AEE, Boscombe Down (1952-55), Scientific Adviser, Air Ministry, ling (in 1956) Director-General of ific Research (Air), Mr Nicholson Id the last-named post since 1959 and Teviously (from 1956) Head of the ynamics Department at RAE Farn- gh. E. E. Fresson record with regret that Capt Ernest nd Fressoa, OBE, a pioneer of flying in «id, died last week in Inverness at the f 70. He founded Highland Airways 1 .1933* making many pioneering and *mg flights between the mainland «e islands, and when the company "mated with Northern & Scottish in s Scottish Airways he became resident * of the company's northern region, of his flying was done in Dragon »T, which was the subject of corres- ^ from him published in Flight Mortal last year following the pur- °t the aircraft by Mr Peter Masefield. Arabian Survey Saudi Arabian Government has *Fairey Air Surveys Ltd, of Maiden- **"«, an aerial survey contract in- * a" area of more than 315,000 ^miies known as the Western Shield. tends roughly from the Red Sea in the west to Riyad in the east, and from the border with Jordan in the north to the Yemen frontier in the south. The survey aircraft will fly to a height of about 18,000ft along imaginary grid lines running from north to south at 30-mile intervals and from west to east at 90-mile intervals. Flying is due to begin on December 1 and will last for two months. CL-44s for Japan Japan Cargo Airways has signed a pur chase agreement with Canadair for three CL-44 swing-tail freighters. The value of the order is about $17m including spares and ground handling equipment. All three aircraft will be delivered in 1964 for service over the Pacific between Japan and the United States west coast. The newly formed Japan Cargo Airways, to be known as JACO, is Japan's first all-cargo carrier. Mr Shinichi Hayakawa, the president, is one of the country's most experienced transport authorities, and was for the past ten years chairman of Nippon Express, Japan's major freight forwarder and con- solidator. University Squadron for Wales Formation of a university air squadron for Wales was announced by the Air Ministry last week. Known as the Univers ity of Wales Air Squadron, it will be based at RAF St Athan, near Cardiff, and equipped with Chipmunk T.lOs. Closed-circuit Record Claim The USSR has claimed a new world distance record for a closed-circuit heli copter flight made on September 18 by Tatiana Russiyan of the Chkatov Central Air Club. She took off from Tushino Airport in an Mi-1, flew over Sukhinichi and Smolensk and returned to Tushino, covering a distance of 814km (over 505 st miles) to break her own world record of 503.3km (312 st miles) established in 1960. All-weather Symposium The United States Federal Aviation Agency held a three-day symposium on all-weather landing systems at Atlantic City between September 16 and 18. Conducted by the Agency's Systems Research and Development Service, the programme included a considerable number of papers, among which a good proportion were given by Smiths, Elliott Brothers and RAE representatives. IFALPA, the airlines and manufacturers were also strongly represented. A full appraisal of the trends and equipment discussed will be featured in a forthcoming issue of [Flight Inter national. Swing-tails for Japan An order for three Canadian CL-44 freighters, to \go into service next year, has been placed by Japan Cargo Airways. Here the airline's president, Mr Shinichi Hayakawa, is seen on a CL-44 flight deck with Mr ]. Geoffrey Notman, president of Canadair Ltd (news item above)
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