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Aviation History
1963
1963 - 1941.PDF
744 Fua 7 N, nil Rotating-wing Round-up Top left: supplementing Jovair's tandem-rotor 4E Sedan four-seater is the new utility Itrainerj agricultural Model 4, carrying two plus cargo; useful load, 9601b; powerplant, 210 h.p. flat-six Franklin. Top right: the OH-5A 250 h.p. Allison T63), Hitler's entryjn the US Army's light observation helicopter competition, is nearing the end of certification trials during which 140 m.p.h. has been exceeded at over 16,000ft. Lower left: demonstrating its stability is the rigid-rotor Lockheed-California XH-51 Aerogyro 500 h.p. UAC T74). Lower right, British Execu tive Air Services have imported FAA-approved floatation gear for their Brantly 8.2 fleet; such equipment will be mandatory for transport-category heli copter operations over water from next January WORLD NEWS. spread fertilizer over 5,000 acres per day or 150,000 acres per month. In achieving these figures, the aircraft would be distri buting its load of 15 tons over a swath 44yd wide and 20 miles long, thus covering an area of 300 acres per trip in a spreading time of 1 lmin. Each trip would therefore benefit some 300 small farmers at present subsisting on a minimum standard of living. Making his suggestion that Beverleys or Britannias might be used for this work as they had the right handling characteristics and right load-carrying capacity, Dr Little suggested that the early stages of develop ment of the project could well be tried out in Britain in the large beet and potato growing areas of East Anglia. Municipal Aerial Survey The value of aerial survey to municipal engineers was stressed by Prof E. H. Thompson, Professor of Photogrammetry and Surveying at University College, Lon don, when he lectured recently to the Institution of Municipal Engineers on Aerial Survey and its Use in Municipal Engineering. Pointing out that the United Kingdom was very well provided with large-scale plans but that these were often out of date, Prof Thompson said that they were greatly increased in value if examined along with photographs, which would show omissions very clearly. He added: "I do not think it should be beyond the capacity of engineers to revise large-scale plans from vertical air photographs using simple techniques which, while they may be somewhat laborious Hundredth Target Drone conversion of a Meteor F.8 by Flight Refuelling Ltd, with test pilot Pat Bolger going aboard news item in col 3) (though considerably less so than working on the ground), are quite sufficient for the purpose." He also emphasized the speed with which good contoured maps could be prepared from air photographs and the detailed view these pictures would give of the ground, adding: "It is my considered view that it is, in these days, extremely inefficient to plan an engineering project without the use of air photographs, either for simple examination or for the making of maps." FR's 100th Drone Flight Refuelling Ltd have now built their hundreth production drone con version of the Meteor F.8 for the Ministry of Aviation. Of these conversions, 92 have been to U Mk 16 standard and delivered to RAE Llanbedr, North Wales, and eight have been converted to U Mk 21 configura tion for use at Woomera. Conversion of Meteors into pilotless radio control targets for missile trials necessitates considerable structural altera tions and the installation of radio link equipment, Elliott B4 autopilot and trials instrumentation gear. The nose of the air craft is lengthened by 30in to provide an easily accessible compartment for the radio control and autopilot units. The automatic control system originally developed by RAE enables the aircraft to be operated by a master controller in a mobile transmitting van. A camera system on the aircraft tracks the final stages of the missile's flight to the target and should the programme entail damaging or destroying the drone, the wing tip nacelles which contain the film records can be jettisoned and carried to earth by parachute. Prior to the Meteor F.8 conversion programme, FR built 91 U W* 15 drones using Meteor F.4 airframes. The company's latest target project is the deve lopment of a towed target system.
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