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1963
1963 - 1871.PDF
678 FLIGHT International 24 October 1963 Concentration of aircraft at Cristoforo Colombo Air port for the Genoa Show (see first item). They include Bristol Siddeley's HS.I25, the Agusta AZ8-L (four Leonides) transport of circa 1959, a Convair, a Noratlas and a Breguet 941 WORLD NEWS.. The Show at Genoa The Genoa International Fair, which included Italy's 10th Salone Internazionale dell'Aeronautica, ended last Sunday after being open for 16 days, 13 hours a day. For most exhibitors in the sparsely visited Aero- Italy's Prime Minister, Sgr Giovanni Leone, on the Bristol Siddeley stand at Genoa. With him are (left) Maj W. T. C. Rogerson, managing director of Mercantile Italo Britannica, BS agents in Italy, and Mr W. H. 8. Rees, 8S general sales manager nautical Section (writes a correspondent) the name "Genoa" will for many weeks to come be associated with that dreaded malady Souliers du salon. In a relatively small sports arena the static display was dominated by three large Italian stands, those of Agusta, Piaggio and Fiat. Piaggio were showing a full-scale PD.808'Vespa Jet, while the centre-piece of the Agusta stand was their Agusta-Bell 204B multi-purpose helicopter. Both these air craft are powered by Bristol Siddeley engines, the PD.808 having two Viper 525s and the 204B a Gnome H.1200 turboshaft. The use of British powerplants in foreign aircraft was further emphasized by the Sud-Aviation display, concentrating on the Concorde. British aircraft manufacturers were col lectively represented on the SB AC stand. Rolls-Royce and Bristol Siddeley, however, both showed a representative selection of their products. The Derby firm had seven full-scale models, including the Conway RCo.42, Spey, Avon RA.29/6, Dart RDa.6, the GIO-470 piston engine, and two RB.108 lift-jets. Bristol Siddeley's contribu tion consisted of full-scale models of both single and coupled versions of the Gnome H.1200 turboshaft, together with a Viper 11; they also showed models of the Agusta-Bell 204B, Agusta 101G and Sikorsky S-61 helicopters, as well as three projects illus trating possible four-Gnome layouts. A model of the Concorde and an animated diagram of the lift-thrust Pegasus attracted attention. One of the largest and most impres sive stands was that of a British airline— BUA. On Sunday, October 6, an air display was held at the Cristoforo Colombo Airport. The pilots' briefing, held half an hour before the first scheduled take-off, was made even more bizarre by a spectacular electric storm raging in the mountains immediately behind the airport, whilst a waterspout spiralled up from out of the harbour to a height of about 6,000ft. Meanwhile (continues our correspondent) we listened to the met man optimistically forecasting two-eighths cloud at 2,500ft and a visibility of 8-10km. Oddly enough, he was right. Highlights of the display were few; but worthy of mention were the extraordinary manoeuvres of the Breguet 941, the cavorting of the Grumman Mohawk, a spirited demonstration by Harry Pollitt in the Hawker Siddeley 125 and some alarming- looking high-speed runs—pointed straight at the mountains—by Capt Bonazzi in an F-104. Directing Aircraft Development Air Cdre B. Robinson, CBE, AFRAes, is to be Director of RAF Aircraft Development from January 1 next year, the Ministry of Aviation announced recently. He suc ceeds Air Cdre H. M. Russell, OBE, AFRAes, who is retiring from the Royal Air Force. Hansa HFB-320 in the USA Page Airways International has been appointed United States distributor for the German Hansa HFB-320 executive jet aircraft (two General Electric CJ610-1). The Page company, based at Dulles Inter national Airport, Washington, DC, wi organize a complete sales and service pro gramme utilizing dealers in the mid-west, south-west and west-coast areas of the USA. Each dealer will maintain a service centre for the German machines, with a full complement of spares and accessories. Technical representatives of the aircraft manufacturers, Hamburger Flugzeugbau, will also be based in the USA. Exacting Exhilaration Aerobatics—professional and amateur- form the theme of The Sky's the Limit, latest in the series of Look at Life films by the Rank Organization. Professionalism is provided by Royal Air Force teams from the Central Flying School and 56 Squadron and amateurism (though not in the dero gatory sense of that term) by members of the Tiger Club in Cosmic Wind, Stampe and Tiger Moth. The film contains excel lent in-the-air sequences, taken at Wattis- ham, Little Rissington and Redhill, and ground-to-air sequences at Rochester; and although the commentary by Tim Turner occasionally sounds a little naive, it never theless conveys a taste of the exacting exhilaration of aerobatics even for the most earthbound cinemagoer. The Sky's lha Limit is being shown now in north London! the Midlands and the North; it will lata (from October 27) be shown in south Lon don and the north of Scotland. Flying Strength of Short Bros & harlaM has been increased by the appointment oj w new pilots. Mr D. M. L Ireland (left), who *» be mainly concerned with test-flying, "°' aircraft, and Mr R. F. Jones, whose duties * be with the Beechcraft sales ana «r» department at Gatwick. Mr Ireland K «' (latterly with a Canberra PR.9 squa°I?"> Z Mr Jones ex-airline (latterly as a BU* I officer)
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