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1963 - 1870.PDF
«Un Excellent Amphibie" is Sud-Aviation's verdict on their Super-Frelon following a series of alighting tests on water at various loadings, c.g.s and speeds. The tests were conducted under the supervision of I'lnstitut de Mecanique des Fluides de Lille Smoother and Further When Northrop's X-2IA LFC (laminar-flow control) research aircraft began its flight trials last April it carried sufficient fuel for missions lasting 2hr 2Smin. Today, with boundary-layer turbulence (and therefore drag) greatly reduced over 65 per cent of the wing- span, test flights are regularly lasting some 4hr, carrying the same quantity of fuel and using similar power settings on the General Electric J79 engines ::-! :••>:::::• ' ' FLIGHT International, 24 Octobei 1963 677 between Gosselies and Turin, are increas ingly in demand for freight charters. A rare asset is that Fairey workmen are capable and accustomed to reading either from French or American drawings, in metric or inches. Most of them understand English. Accessibility of the factory will be greatly improved in 1970 when the Aachen to Paris motorway will pass within a mile of the gates. Gosselies airfield is already capable of accepting high-performance aircraft up to 90 tonnes, and has UDF, VDF, NDB aids, Customs, snow-clearance equipment, repair facilities and runway arrester gear. Virginia to Whitehall Capt S. Grattan-Cooper, OBE, RN, at present Director of Strategic Application and Policy at HQ, Supreme Allied Com mander Atlantic, Norfolk, Va, is to be Deputy Controller of Aircraft (Royal Navy) at the Ministry of Aviation from January 1, 1964, and is being promoted rear admiral. He will succeed Rear Admiral J. A. levers. A Fleet Air Arm pilot from 1938 to 1944, Capt Grattan-Cooper was Chief of Staff to the Flag Officer Air (Home) before his present appointment. Exercise "Big Lift" In a major demonstration of airlift capacity, the United States were from mid night last Monday air-transporting 14,500 men of the 2nd Armoured Division from Fort Hood, Texas, to Germany in three days. This exercise, code-named "Big Lift," is designed to impress NATO allies with the new mobility of American strategic reserves. More than 200 aircraft are being used, taking off every 35min from one of five bases used as departure points. Orions Join Pacific Fleet US Navy Squadron VP-46 is now a fully operational unit of the US Pacific Fleet, equipped with Lockheed P-3A Orion maritime reconnaissance and ASW air craft. Its home base is Moffet Field Naval Air Station, Calif. Fairey Belgium Progress With F-104G contracts now totalling £20 m, Fairey SA (formerly Avions Fairey) has reached peak production, but is also mtensively diversifying to assure future employment. Reference to Fairey SA 1962- bl achievements was made on this page for October 10. Fairey will complete 389 F-104G front foselages and send 200 of them to Fiat at Turin. Fiat in turn are sending 189 rear fuselages to Fairey, who assemble complete airframes with remaining sections supplied "y SABCA. These are then sent to SABCA, *no instal and test electronics and test-fly we finished aircraft. Bernard Neefs, Fairey wuef test pilot, is seconded to SABCA for 'est flying. Fairey have made more than 70 fuselages, a nd are making 14 front fuselages per month an d assembling seven complete airframes Per month—one every 2£ working days. In addition they are making 1,000 saddle tanks for the GE J79 engine, 17 oil and fuel filters for every F-104G in the whole NATO programme and 70 plastics parts for each aircraft. A new Breguet Atlantic sub-contract now calls for Fairey to cut metal early next year on propeller constant-speed units and spinners, which will continue in production until late in 1968. Fairey have already delivered their first Atlantic trailing-edge and flap assemblies, and this work will continue until 1966. IRAN overhaul of F-84Fs and Pembrokes continues. A hydraulics division has been formed, together with a nuclear division. Among many varied and new activities is the electro plating of trophy cups. Fairey are well equipped with machinery, strategically located inside the Common Market and ready to undertake aircraft or other produc tion work. Even the two Bristol Freighters, used to shuttle F-104G sub-assemblies Marshal Zhigarev According to the Soviet Military news paper Red Star, Chief Air Marshal Pavel Zhigarev died on October 2 at the age of 63, and has been buried in Moscow with full military honours. Marshal Zhigarev was C-in-C of the Soviet Air Force from July 1950 until February 1957. He then became head of Aeroflot, the Russian civil-aviation organization, in which capacity he visited London in May 1959. When he died he was Commandant of the Air Defence Military College. British Industry Employment The number of people employed in air craft manufacture and repair in the United Kingdom in July this year is stated by the Ministry of Labour to have been 268,100. This represents a decrease of 600 from the previous month and was 15,100 fewer than the total for July 1962. Aero Club Appointment Gp Capt Norman Ryder will take over from Col R. L. Preston as secretary-general of the Royal Aero Club on January I, 1964. Gp Capt Ryder (second from left) is seen here on a recent occasion at the Club together with Mr Simon Ames, aviation secretary; Lord Brabazon, president; and Mr Peter Masefield, chairman of the aviation committee
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