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FLIGHT International, 26 December 1963 Deep Freeze at Yeovil Westland Aircraft recently installed a cold room at Yeovil in which helicopter systems and components will be tested in temperatures as low as —60°F. This is an extension of facilities installed last year to study the effect of low- temperature conditions on cockpit heaters. The new installation, by Cool-Rite Ltd of Bournemouth, using refrigeration equip ment supplied by L. Sterne and Co Ltd, of Glasgow, cools the same 400 sq ft main store as the equipment installed last year, which could not, however, lower the temperature beyond —40°F. There is, in addition, a smaller room which can be cooled to — 14°F. Saunders Valve Re-shuffle In the course of recent organizational changes in the air craft division of the Saunders Valve Co, of Blackfriars Street, Hereford, Mr W. G. Brinn, DFC, DFM, ARAes, relinquished the post of service manager and became per sonal assistant to the general manager. Mr A. C. Gower, ARAes, moved into the post of chief engineer from that of assistant chief designer. Appointed chief designer was Mr J. E. Medgett, AMIEE, AFRAes, and Mr H. Paton became service manager. 1045 USA Bendix \\ Com/nav Bexdix, who recently bought the light aircraft radio interests of Motorola, have now announced the M-450 H Com/nav unit, based on Motorola's M-400 series. The M-450 contains a 360- channel com and 100-channel nav unit in a single case, with a separate power supply/ modulator unit capable of serving also as isolation amplifier or amplifier for an additional speaker. Improved squelch and sensitivity and automatic DME tuning provisions are incorporated. The associated VOR indicator houses the instrument and transistorized converter in a single 3Jin case. Transistorized marker and transistor/ nuvistor glide-slope receivers are also offered, each in a case measuring 3in x 4in x 7in. British agents for Bendix radio are FieldTech Ltd, London Airport, Hounslow, Middx. Oio/ of the Kollsman Instrument KS-157 servo pneumatic altimeter (see col 2) Prince William of Gloucester, at present studying at Stanford University, California, visited Lockheed's missile factory at Sunnyvale recently to see Polaris missiles being manufactured. Here Mr S. H. Bean, director of Polaris manufac ture, explains a special Lockheed-built rotary milling machine to the Prince, extreme right. Also in the picture are, from left, Captain W. A. Hosier, USN Bureau of Naval Weapons, Mr H. W. Vinter, of the Admiralty, and Mr C. C. Pearson, assistant general manager of Lockheed's missile systems division Westinghouse Aiding UK Polaris Programme Mr Robert R. Taber has been appointed United Kingdom Polaris programme mana ger for Westinghouse Electric. Westing- house has the prime USN contracts for Polaris launching and handling equipment and for the electronic system ULCER, which predicts sea conditions present during launching. Under the terms of the Anglo-US Polaris agreement, Westinghouse will provide technical advice and studies on launchers for use in the British Polaris submarines, in which the weapon system equipment will be of US manufacture and identical with that in USN Polaris sub marines. British liaison personnel are expected at Westinghouse's Sunnyvale and Baltimore divisions where the Polaris work is handled. Pneumatic Servo Altimeter Kollsman Instrument Corp have developed the KS-157 pneumatic servo altimeter, which has recently been adopted by the RCAF. It contains a standard Kollsman altimeter mechanism combined with a synchrotel, an amplifier and a drag-cup motor, by which Mach number and static pressure correc tions are derived to produce a reading of corrected altitude on a single-pointer and veeder counter instrument. Computed and directly sensed values are electronically compared and the indicator driven to null the error between the two. There is no direct mechanical connection between computed and direct outputs so that, should the electrical portions fail, the altimeter will still read uncorrected altitude and a flag will announce return to this mode. The plain mode can also be selected by the pilot for comparison purposes. Instrument and computer together weigh 171b. Kolls man are represented in Britain by Kollsman Instrument Ltd, the Airport, Southampton, Hants. Phantom Contracts McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, St Louis, Mo, have awarded the Garrett Corporation, 9851 Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, Calif, a follow-on con tract totalling $ 19.6m for continued pro duction of environmental, central air data and emergency ram-air turbine systems for the McDonnell F4B, F4C and RF4C. The Garrett-AiResearch environmental system provides air-conditioning and pres- surization for the pilot and radar operator's cockpits and flying suits, and for cooling the aircraft radar and other electronic equipment. The central air data system senses, measures and computes information on all parameters giving the pilot imme diate information for the most effective operation of his aircraft. The emergency ram-air turbine supplies both hydraulic and electric power in the event of engine mal function. Garrett-AiResearch also supply, as sub-contractors, the cryogenic cooling system for the infra-red detection system. LORV Contract Avco Corporation's Research and Advanced Development Division in Wilmington, Mass, has been awarded a $15,530,895 contract from the US Air Force Systems Command for a LORV programme. These initials signify low-observable re-entry vehicle. Avco has long been a leader in the field of ad vanced re-entry vehicles for intercontinental ballistic missiles, and the LORV programme is one of several aimed at improving war head penetrative capability. The new Avco contract calls for the development and flight-testing of various types of vehicles. Leach Move The Zurich office of Leach International SA and Leach Electronique SA have moved to Geneva. The new address is 39 rue Peillonex (PO Box 44), Chene-Bourg, Geneva (telephone 350920/ 350929; telex 23234; cables LEACHELEC). France Still More for the Skylark New orders booked by Sud for Alouette II and III helicopters during November increased still further the phenomenal sales success of these machines. By the beginning of December a total of 1,088 had been ordered—909 Alouette lis and 179 Ills— of which 885 Us and 147 Ills had been delivered, a total of 1,032 in all. The success of the Alouette has, of course, buttered Turbomeca's bread too. The company recently delivered its 1,320th Artouste II engine to Sud, for installation in an Alouette II.
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