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1963
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820 INDUSTRY Flight Systems Products Company News Great Britain Buccaneer Simulator Delivered After four years of development, mostly required to keep the simulator up to date with modi fications to the aircraft, Miles Electronics have delivered the first Buccaneer simu lator to the Royal Navy. Housed in two 62ft-long trailers, the simulator made the 650 miles road journey to RN Air Station Lossiemouth, where South African crews may also receive training in preparation for delivery of their own Buccaneers. One of the trailers houses the two-seat cockpit, instructors' consoles and radar simulation computers, while the second contains the power supplies and analogue flight computers. Both trailers are air- conditioned. Miles next major project is the Belfast simulator, which will incorporate motion and visibility simulation, transistorization, miniature precision potentiometers and digital computation. Y International Improving MoA Radar Following 18 months of successful trials in the radars at London Heathrow and Gatwick airports, the MoA has ordered from Hughes Inter national (UK) Ltd nine further parametric amplifiers for other airport radars. They will increase pick-up range by 50 per cent at a fraction of the cost of the original radars. Marconi Doppler Computer A new two- leg Doppler navigation computer designed primarily to operate with the AD.560 Doppler senser and incorporating Sixty Series engineering, has been developed by the Marconi Company. The computer, incorporating solid-state electronics and electro-mechanical components with a ball Two-leg control and indicator panel of Marconi's new Doppler computer resolver, is housed in a short £ATR case. The controller/indicator has simple veeder readouts of distance-to-go and track angle for the two legs, together with an across- track error counter. Slewing is by two- speed switches and automatic changeover and 10 miles-to-go warning are incorpo rated. Outputs are available for autopilot coupling with automatic turning on to the second track. The integral lighting has a day/night brightness control. Accuracy is stated to be ±0.2 per cent ±0.25 n.m. Marconi and TSR.2 The high-powered SSB/DSB high-frequency communications radio installation, and the ILS, glide- slope and marker beacon receivers for the TSR.2 are being supplied by the Marconi Company. The ILS system is Sixty Series equipment, but the HF radio is being specially developed. Sperry Drums and TGPs Decca have placed a repeat order for 12 Sperry high speed type D magnetic storage drums for FLIGHT International, 14 November 1963 use in Omnitrac computers to be incor porated in ground radar systems. The computers are to be used to convert Decca co-ordinates received from aircraft into co-ordinates suitable for display on the radar tube. This technique was first demonstrated at RRE Malvern early last month. Sperry twin-gyro platforms have also performed well during a series of flights in the neighbourhood of the north magnetic pole by a Britannia of the RAF College of Air Warfare. The twin-Rotorace units provide low-drift heading and attitude reference and have been specified by the RAF, USAF, RAAF, NATO and other air forces. 1,000th Smiths SEP.2 Orders recently placed for the navigation trainer version of the HS.125 and HS.748MF have brought the number of Smiths SEP.2 autopilots ordered to the 1,000 mark at a total value of £5m—£2m of them for export. The SEP.2 has now flown hundreds of thou sands of hours in Comet, Viscount, Van guard, Britannia, Friendship, Noratlas, Dove, Argosy and HS.748. Continental Connectors Orders Orders worth more than £43,000 for Continental connectors have been negotiated during a recent Continental sales tour by Mr B. S. Hanrahan, sales manager of Continental Connectors Ltd, associated with the Ultra Electronics Group of companies. These included orders for almost £25,000 for connectors for use in Hawk and Falcon Missiles and the F-104G. In addition to military orders, arrangements were made for supply of connectors for commercial projects totalling more than £18,000. BOAC Telegraph Network Collins Radio Co of England are providing for BOAC a message-handling system to receive, sort and redirect all incoming telegraph messages concerning flight operations, load planning, maintenance, customer service, crew sched uling, catering, charter flights and sales. Messages will be recorded on tape and retransmitted as soon as the appropriate lines are free, following an automatic priority and distribution programme stored in a computer. The system will be installed by mid-1964 in an air-conditioned building at London Airport and will have a no-break stand-by power system permitting reliable operation 24hr per day. Collins have provided several similar systems in Canada and the USA.
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