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1963
1963 - 1940.PDF
Flying Test-bench for Smiths instruments: at Staverton Airport, Glos, on October 28 Smiths Aviation Division took delivery of the Hawker Siddeley 748 which, with their Varsity and Dove, will be used for tests of flight systems—initially, the new Series 6 lightweight autopilot. Below, at the handing-over, are seen Mr K. Fearnside (second from left), technical director, receiving the log-book from Mr J. G. Harrison, HS Avro-Whitworth chief test pilot. Also in the group are (left) Mr K. Dougan, chief pilot of Smiths Flying Unit; Mr D. L Brown (second from right), Aviation Division administrative executive; and Mr D. Andrew, HS A-W civil contracts superintendent 743 FLIGHT International, 7 November 1963 Polaris Late News Since the article on pages 751 -757 closed for press, the following news of the US Navy Polaris programme has been received: USS Ulysses S. Grant, the 25th fleet ballistic submarine, was launched on Nov ember 2; the new missile-launch system using steam has been introduced with USS Nathan Hale; USS Holland, the third depot ship, commissioned on September 7; and the fourth SSBN depot ship has been named Simon Lake. Testing India's Defences F-lOOs of the 366th Tactical Fighter Sqn, USAF, based at Myrtle AFB, South Carolina, are due to arrive at Palam Air port, New Delhi, today (November 7) to take part with RAF Javelins, RAAF Can- berras and Indian Air Force Canberras, Gnats and Hunters in exercises to test the Indian air defences. The Javelins, which flew in to bases near Calcutta on October 28 and 29, were the first foreign military air craft to enter India for joint exercises since the country became independent. ARB Certificate Gnome Bristol Siddeley are the first and only British aero-engine manufacturer to receive Air Registration Board transport-category approval for turbine engines in helicopters. Last January 25, the Gnome H.1000 Mk 501 for the Westland Whirlwind series 3 received such approval with an overhaul life of 400hr for both engine and main reduction gearbox. This was followed sigr. days later by approval for the H.1000 Mk 510 for the Agusta Bell 204B. During August and September the ARB also granted transport-category approvals to the H.1200 Mks 640 and 641 for the twin- rotor Boeing Vertol 107, the H.12000 Mks 640/A and 641/A for the 25-seat Sikorsky S-61, and the H.1200 Mk 610 for the Agusta Bell 204B. Dr Wallis at Earls Court Dr Barnes N. Wallis, Chief of the Department of Aeronautical Research and Development at Vickers-Armstrongs (Air craft) Ltd, is to open the Engineering Materials and Design Conference, being held concurrently with the Engineering Materials and Design Exhibition at Earls Court, London, from November 11 to 16. Among speakers at the conference will be Prof E. J. Richards, Director of the Insti tute of Sound and Vibration Research and Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Southampton, on Design to Avoid Noise and Vibration; and Dr W. S Hollis, Assistant Director of Engine Production, Mo A, on High Energy Forming. Guild Trophy Nominations The Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navi gators invites nominations of those who have made outstanding contributions to Irtish aviation during the past year— Prober 1, 1962, to September 30, 1963— as recipients of its trophies and medals. Only British subjects are eligible, and nom-mat, ons, with supporting details, should reach the Guild—at 14 South Street, Park Lane, London Wl—by November 30. There is a new award this year, the Pike Trophy, to go to the individual "deemed to have made the most praiseworthy contri bution to the maintenance of high stan dards of flying instruction and safety during the year, this taking into account working conditions and opportunities." The other Guild awards are the Johnston Memorial Trophy (best feat of navigation); Cumberbatch Trophy (best record or contribution to reliability in aircraft oper ation); Brackley Memorial Trophy (out standing flying contributing to the develop ment of air transport); and Derry and Richards Memorial Medal (to a test pilot for the best achievement in experimental flying). Commemorating Lawrence Hargrave In a ceremony at the Royal Aeronaut ical Society in London tomorrow after noon (November 8) the notebooks and papers of Lawrence Hargrave, the 19th Century pioneer of aeronautical research, are being handed to the Acting High Commissioner for Australia, Sir Allen Brown. He is receiving them on behalf of the Sydney Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences and they are being flown to Sydney next week to be handed-over to the museum. The RAeS has had Hargrave's papers and notebooks since 1920. After his death in Australia in 1915 they were given to the Society by his widow, at his expressed wish, but could not then be transferred to England because of the First World War. Hargrave had gone to New South Wales in 1866, at the age of 16, and in 1885—after resigning a post at Sydney Observatory— concentrated on aeronautical researches, "which are meticulously recorded in these great notebooks," say the RAeS, "which are of great interest and value." Hargrave's best-known work was on engines and box-kites. The Gnome engine, patented in France, was based on his rotary engine of 1889; and his box-kites of the early 1890s formed the basis for the Santos Dumont aeroplane and the early Voisins. He was a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society from 1897, and the notebooks contain valuable correspondence with members of the Society from 1882 to 1915. Asian Agricultural Aviation That Beverleys or Britannias might be used for fertilizing rice-growing land in South East Asia was suggested by Dr E. C. S. Little, head of the overseas section of the Agricultural Research Council's Weed Research Organization, in a lecture given recently to the RAeS Agricultural Aviation Group. Dr Little said that the rice-growing areas of South East Asia were mostly in flat open country with few obstructions to low-flying aircraft and therefore ideal for aerial spread ing. The work would have to be done mainly under monsoon conditions so that very careful planning would be needed, and the most advanced navigational techniques would be essential to ensure economical and efficient spreading. Operating from well- established bases, one aircraft carrying 15 tons of fertilizer could reach 20m acres of rice-growing land. It should be able to
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