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Room With a View The Standard Telephones and Cables SLA-3C precision approach radar aerial head in its rotatable building at RAF Coltishall (news item below) 596 FLIGHT International, 10 October 1963 electric power station with Norilsk, Siberia's non-ferrous metallurgy centre. This line will pass through uninhabited permanently frosted regions and the equipment will be delivered and positioned by helicopters. Hanover Show Applications Last date for applications for partici pation in the 1964 German Air Show at Hanover (Flight International, August 15 and September 26) is October 31. The organizers are Deutsche Messe und Aus- stellungs AG, Hannover-Messegelande, and the UK agents Schenkers Ltd, Royal Lon don House, 13 Finsbury Square, London EC2. WORLD N EWS. . Landing Radar Repeat order The MoA has placed a £750,000 order with Standard Telephones and Cables for a further 12 sets of SLA-3C precision approach radar—equipment designed to give more consistent and reliable echoes from small fighter-type aircraft at ranges of 12 to 14 miles. The radar head is mounted in a rotatable building to serve more than one runway, and the displays are located in the control tower. SLA-3 equipment is already in use in seven countries. Flying Doctor's Tour Dr Neil Duncan, the former member of the Royal Australian Flying Doctor Service who is instituting a similar service in Northern Nigeria, is making a "whistle- stop" tour of the United Kingdom to raise funds to run the Nigerian service for a trial period of three years. This tour started at Denham airfield last Saturday and is being made in a Cessna 185 flown by the Nigerian Flying Doctor Service pilot Mr Tom Lampitt. It was intended that the tour should be made in the service's new aircraft, replacing the Dornier Do27 irreparably damaged in a Nigerian storm earlier this year; but a decision has not yet been taken on a replacement. Dr Duncan is considering a DHC Beaver, Pilatus Porter or Helio Courier. Siberian Helicopter Application A news item from the Soviet Information Service in London stated recently that helicopters are to be used to build a 186- mile, 220,000V power transmission line in the north of Siberia, linking Khantai hydro- THE GUILD PRESENTS ITS AWARDS THE ELECTRONICS ART NEXT WEEK'S (October 17) issue of Flight International will be the annual Electronics Special Number. It will describe and illustrate the most recent developments in aviation electronics research in Britain and America as reviewed at the Federal Aviation Agency's All-weather Symposium and the MoA/IEE Symposium on elec tronics in civil aircraft. The issue will also include regular Flight International features. Hypersonic Flow Symposium An international symposium dealing with! fundamental phenomena in hypersonic flow! and sponsored by Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory Inc, as part of the centennial celebration of Cornell University, is beinj held in Buffalo, New York, on June 25 anc 26 next year. A prospectus states that th« programme "is planned to cover areas ol hypersonic flow which are particularlj related to re-entry conditions." Enquiries may be referred to Mr J. T. McCarthy Head of Public Relations of Cornell Aero nautical Laboratory Inc, PO Box 235 Buffalo, NY. The presentation of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators' trophies and medal for achievements in 1962 took place at Fishmongers' Hall, London, on October 1 The presentations were made by Mr Michael Majendie, the Master of the GuM Details of the awards appeared on page 24 of "Flight International" for ]«')y On the left Mr Majendie is seen presenting the Johnston Memorial Trophy to Wg Ca D. F. H. Grocott. Other [recipients were, from the left below: Mr D. P- Dov'« Cumberbatch Trophy; SjLdr L A. Barber, Brackley Memorial Trophy; Mr H. C n Merewether, Derry and Richards Memorial Medal; Mr M. P. Glegg, the Gron Master's Medal to the College of Air Training. Wg Cdr C. A. Pike (right) m Master, and former chairman of the panel of examiners, presented the Gtf» • with the Pike Trophy, to be awarded annually to a flying instructor for outstanding work in the training of pilots
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