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1963
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706 FLIGHT International, 24 October 1963 INDUSTRY International. . . (India) Ltd), PO Box 1886, Bombay 1, India (Hawksidly Bombay); Hawker Sid- deley International (Holland) NV (formerly Hawker Siddeley Brush NV), Groothandels- gebouw C7, Rotterdam, Holland (Hawk sidly Rotterdam); Hawker Siddeley Inter national (Belgium) SA (formerly Hawker Siddeley Brush Societe Anonyme), 145 Rue Royale, Brussels, Belgium (Hawksidly Brussels); and Hawker Siddeley Inter national (Mexico) SA de CV (formerly Petters Armstrong de Mexico SA de CV), Apartado Postal 20924, Admon 32, Mexico 1, DF (Hawksidly Mexico). The following four companies are in process of changing their names: Hawker Siddeley International (Pvt) Ltd (previously de Havilland Aircraft (Pvt) Ltd), PO Box 329, Salisbury, S Rhodesia (cables, Exacti tude Salisbury); Hawker Siddeley Inter national (Pty) Ltd (previously Hawker de Havilland (Pty) Ltd), PO Box 7105, Johannesburg (Havilland Johannesburg); Hawker Siddeley International (France) SA (previously Hawker Siddeley Brush (France) SA), 14 Rue Bixio, Paris 7e, France (Hawksidly Paris); and Hawker Siddeley International (Ireland) Ltd (previously Hawker Siddeley Brush (Ireland) Ltd), 195 Pearse Street, Dublin 2 (Hawksidly Dublin). Westland Appointment Mr M. E. Watson, BSC, has been appointed chief rocket development engineer at Westland's Saunders-Roe Division. Born in 1926 and educated at Manchester University, Mr Watson was trials engineer with Vickers- Armstrongs (chiefly in Australia) from August 1951 to December 1956. From January to March 1957 he was mechanical engineer to the Electricity Trust of South Australia, and then joined Saunders- Roe's Australian rocket establishment as trials engineer. He returned to the United Kingdom in October 1962 and has been deputy to the chief development engineer at Westland's High Down establishment. Mr Rockall Retires Mr Charles Rockall, production controller of E.N.V. Engineering Co Ltd since 1950, recently retired after 44 years' service, being presented with a gold watch by his colleagues as a memento. He joined the company shortly after the First World War and played a considerable part in its expansion after the Second World War. Documenting Aviation Industries The 1963 edition of Sell's British Aviation (Business Dictionaries Ltd, St Dunstan's House, 133-137 Fetter Lane, London EC4; 25s) includes two international sections—alpha betical and classified trades—in addition to its 181-page guide to the British aircraft industry; and in his foreword Mr D. M. Desoutter points out that year by year Sell's "becomes more and more inter national in its content," reflecting new international patterns in the aviation in dustry scene. \ Full-scale fatigue tests, using an airframe subjected to complete flight loading as well as cabin pressure, are standard throughout the British industry but rare in the United States. This big rig at Douglas Aircraft Division in Long Beach, Calif, is being used to "fly" a C-133 Cargomaster for 60,000hr to establish confidence in the 30,000hr design life and determine what repair and modifi cation will be needed with aircraft in MATS service. Financed ($967,651) by the USAF Aeronautical Systems Division, the task will also assist in predicting fatigue life of future Douglas transports USA Two Important Simulators The first flight simulator to incorporate complete digital computation was recently accepted for delivery by Eastern Air Lines. A Boeing 727 simulator made by the Link Division Simulation and Control Group of General Precision Inc, it incorporates their Mk 1 digital computer in which all 727 flight characteristics have been recorded on a memory drum. Link Division have also received from the French Government, on behalf of the NATO Maritime Patrol Aircraft Steering Committee, a letter contract covering the development of flight and tactical systems simulators for the Breguet Atlantic. The simulators will be built by the Link Divi sion, with American Car and Foundry Co Electronics Division providing the tactical portion. European companies participating as sub-contractors will be Societe d'Elec- tronique et d'Automatisme (France), Pre- citronic (Germany), and Audium and Handelscompagnie (Holland). More Area Positive Control With the beginning of radar service from the New York and Washington air route traffic control centres last month, more than two- thirds of US airspace above 24,000ft is under area positive control. The service is now provided by 20 ARTCCs. The Wash ington and New York centres are some of the most recent, that at New York having gone into operation only last July. Both centres have bright displays and secondary radar, and each receives radar information remoted from four radar sites. Area positive control requires aircraft to have two-way radio and transponders, and no aircraft not so equipped and not flying IFR may enter the upper airspace, regardless of weather. Only four more stations are required to complete upper area positive control cover age over all 48 continuous states of the USA. New centres at Miami and Seattle are to become active before the end of the year, and Boston and Great Falls will join in mid- 1964. Meanwhile the overall centre net work is being reduced for reasons of econ omy and efficiency. The First "Hard" SAGE The first SAGE defence centre in north America to be installed in a fully "hardened" site is now in operation at North Bay, Ontario, in the heart of l,000ft-high Reservoir Hill. It houses the Northern Norad Region head quarters, one of the seven regions in the overall Norad system, and is commanded by AVM J. B. Harvey, RCAF. France French Co-operation with Hughes A new company, Societe Europeen de Materiels Speciaux, has been formed as a joint venture of Hughes Aircraft Co and Compagnie Francaise Thomson-Houston, Paris. SEMS, as the new organization is known, will be concerned with aerospace technology, including electronic and infra-red tech niques as well as advanced communications systems. Drawing on the technical re sources of both the parent organizations, its work will include research, development and manufacture at its facilities in France. Ownership of the new company will be divided 51/49 between CFTH and Hughes, the French firm holding the|majority interest. F. De Villepin, formerly of CFTH, is to be general manager of SEMS. Other members of the management group are J. E. Guigonis, P. Chavance, and G. A. Cauvin of CFTH, with C. A. Shoop and A. Szass representing Hughes' interests.
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