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1964
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Official Organ of the Royal Aero Club First Aeronautical Weekly in the World Founded in 1909 THURSDAY JANUARY 16, 1964 Number 2862 Volume 85 Editor-in-Chief MAURICE A. 8MITH DFC Editor H. F. KING MBS Technical Editor W.T.OU N8TON Air Transport Editor J. M. RAMSDEN Production Editor ROY CASEY Managing Director H. N. PRIAULX MM In this issue World News 75 Air Commerce 79 Straight and Level 88 Out ofthe Blue 90 Sport and Business 92 A Great Day for Belfast 94 Letters 98 The A-4E Skyhawk in Service 100 hat Happened to Robert Cocking:? 101 Missiles and Spacefllght 103 US Defence Contracts 110 Service Aviation 111 Industry International 112 The V-sign THIS week we are beginning, in the CCS column, a series of articleson the speeds used by airline pilots in day-to-day operations, with particular reference to the new generation of speeds (Vr, Vmn, Vref, etc) which have been introduced over the last ten years primarily to cater for the different ideas applied to the jet. The main object of the articles is to arrive at "popular" definitions for these speeds. We believe that the series will prove very useful to practising pilots and will fill a conspicuous gap in the field of current aviation literature— at least the gap in any textbook literature available for training the jet pilot. Indeed, we ourselves have not succeeded in tracking down any publication which deals with these speeds authoritatively and compre- hensively and which at the same time could be described as a textbook suitable for introducing the jet pilot to the performance concepts which lie behind the techniques recommended to him. For this reason, namely the lack of ready sources, we are conscious that in some of the explanatory material, and possibly in some of the definitions, the optimum form of expression may not have been achieved. With this in mind, therefore, the definitions appearing in the body of the series should be treated for the time being as provisional. If there are errors, we have little doubt that these will be picked up by our vigilant readers and we will be happy to adjust the definitions accordingly. It is intended that the final (adjusted) definitions will be reproduced at the end of the series "on a single sheet of paper" and it is hoped that, in this summarized form, they will be found valuable to airline pilots for some years to come. Simply to manufacture definitions, with no background information and no explanation of the numerical corrections between the parameters, would hardly have fulfilled the above purposes. The definitions have, therefore, been introduced in the setting of actual operations, with a certain amount of historical data thrown in. By this means not only should they be applic- able to today's operations but they may well form a useful basis for discussing the new performance requirements expected of the SST. I hilt Transport Publications Ltd, DorsetHouse, Stamford Street, London, SE1; telephone Waterloo 3333 (Telex 25137).Telegrams Flightpres London Telex. Annual subscriptions: Home £4 15s.Overseas £5. Canada and USA $15.00. Second Class Mail privileges authorizedat New York, NY. Branch Offleee: Coventry, 8-10 Corpora-tion Street: telephone Coventry 25210. Birmingham, King Edward House, NewStreet, Birmingham 2; telephone Mid- land 7191. Manchester, 260 Deansgate,Manchester 3 ; telephone Blackfriars 4412 or Deansgate 3595. Glasgow, 62 Bucha-nan Street, Glasgow Cl ; telephone Central 1265-6. Bristol, 11 Marsh Street,Bristol 1; telephone Bristol 21491/2. New York, NY: Thomas Skinner A Co(Publishers) Ltd, 111 Broadway 6; telephone Digby 9-1197.© Iliffe Transport Publications Ltd, 1964. Permission to reproduce illustra-tions and letterpress can be granted only under written agreement. Brief extractsor comments may be made with due acknowledgement. The Whale and the Sprat THE first flight of the Short Belfast has rightly been greeted as the firstmajor event of the British aeronautical year; but in welcoming the leviathan we must not forget a diminutive yet impressive freighter prototype which made its first flight at Belfast a year ago tomorrow. It is the Short Skyvan, conceived in 1958, announced in 1959, and later run at low priority to free design resources for the Belfast. Among airlines which are known to have beaten a path to Shorts' door to assess the Skyvan are some with such demanding requirements as TAA (with its Papuan routes), Wien Alaska, and its neighbour Northern Consolidated. But operators' enthusiasm for the aircraft will not last indefinitely if no firm production commitments can be made. In this matter Shorts await an MoA decision. A verdict is thought to be imminent, but Ministerial indecision has lasted far too long. When the decision comes it is to be hoped that, in chasing the Belfast whale, Shorts will not be compelled to sail straight over a lucrative haul of sprats.
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