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Aviation History
1963
1963 - 1826.PDF
First Air-to-Air Portrait of the BAC One-Eleven short-haul jetliner. On Monday, October 14, this first example had flown 42 times and logged a total ofJOhr lOmin, with very satisfactory results. Powered by two Rolls-Royce Spey turbofans, the One-Eleven has been purchased by eight airlines and negotiations are in progress with many other customers Ryan Flap-blowing Contract A stored-energy system of boundary- layer control which could improve aero dynamic characteristics of aircraft during landing and take-off will be studied by Ryan Aeronautical Co under a $200,000 research contract awarded by the US Army's Transportation Research Command. Air will be drawn in through slits ahead of the flaps, boosted by jet-pump action and ejected through blowing slits over the flaps and ailerons. A similar arrangement is provided for the tail surfaces. The system is to be powered by stored compressed air. Fuel will be injected with the air and ignited, and the resultant ex pansion will provide the required energy for the jet-pump operation, permitting the system to function without extracting power from the engines. Engine-driven pumps will recharge the compressed-air tanks during cruise. Ryan state that the stored-energy system "appears to have many advantages, in cluding the ability to extract energy from the aircraft's engine in small amounts over an extended time during cruise flight and store it, and the ability to provide full BLC power independent of the engines, even during a total power failure emergency." The system is being investigated for pos sible application to Army aircraft. Modifi cation of a YCV-2B Caribou is envisaged in follow-on phases of the programme. Business Flying Centre at Tollerton Tollerton Airfield, Nottingham, is to be developed as a centre for private and executive flying by Truman (Aviation) Ltd, who have been granted a 75-year lease on the airfield by Nottingham City Council. Improved aircraft and radio maintenance facilities will be provided, in addition to new catering services including restaurants, bars and a motel. The company already acts as agent for Piper aircraft in Britain, and has carried out a large amount of charter flying for local business men and industrialists. It is hoped eventually to establish at Tollerton what the company describes as the first British "Fly-in Mecca" for the executive and private owner, on the lines of the American general-aviation centres. "Divisionalising" BAC British Aircraft Corporation have formed a new wholly owned subsidiary, British Aircraft Corporation (Operating) Ltd, which will take over the whole of the business at present carried out by four BAC subsidiaries, Bristol Aircraft, English Electric Aviation, Hunting Aircraft and Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft). From Jan uary 1 next year these companies and their facilities will become divisions of the new operating company, and be known respec tively as British Aircraft Corporation (Filton Division), BAC (Preston Division), BAC (Luton Division) and BAC (Wey- bridge Division). The existing Guided Weapons Division of BAC also becomes part of British Aircraft Corporation (Oper ating) Ltd. [In each reference in the fore going passages we use the initials BAC for the sake of brevity.] BAC chairman Lord Portal of Hunger- ford says in a message to employees that the change will result in the disappearance from the aviation industry of four well- known and honoured company names, but that it is "an inevitable step towards the declared object we have always had in view, namely to integrate all our resources as fully as possible in the interests of efficiency, flexibility and stability." The directors of British Aircraft Corp oration (Operating) will be Sir George Edwards, chairman and managing director; Mr J. E. Armitage, Viscount Caldecote, Mr A. H. C. Greenwood, Mr J. Harper, Mr A. W. E. Houghton, Mr G. E. Knight, Mr W. Masterton, Mr F. W. Page and Mr W. A. Summers, with Mr J. O. Charlton as secretary. Respective chairmen and managing directors of the four new divisional com panies are: BAC (Filton), Mr J. Harper; BAC (Preston) and BAC (Weybridge), Mr A. W. E. Houghton; BAC (Luton), Mr. W. A. Summers. Lord Caldecote is chairman and managing director of BAC (Guided Weapons). Garrett-AiResearch 176 The Garrett Corporation, for many years a leading producer of small gas turbines, has announced its intention to enter the field of aircraft propulsion with a 600 h.p. turboprop. Designated T76 by the US Navy Bureau of Weapons, the engine is a fixed-wing derivative of the AiResearch 331, which since 1961 has been flying as the powerplant of a Republic Lark (Alouette) helicopter. A free-turbine version of the 331 was projected, but the T76 is a single-shaft engine with a three- stage turbine, each stage being produced from an identical casting complete with blades and machined to one of three differ ent overall diameters. Specific fuel consumption of the T76 (presumably at maximum power at sea level) is given as 0.614 lb/hr/s.h.p., and the shaft speed at maximum power is 41,730 r.p.m. Dry weight is approximately 2601b, giving a power: weight ratio of 2.31. Engines are being tested with a Hartzell three-blade 8ft propeller and also with a Hamilton Standard 7ft 6in propeller. The 50hr pre liminary flight rating test is due next month, by which time the power section of the engine will have run some 9,500hr.
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