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1964
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118 RIGHT International, 23 January l%4 Mirages among the Alps The second of two Mirage IIIBS operational-conversion trainers delivered by Dassault to the Swiss Air Force. The two prototypes of the Mirage HIS were also delivered by Dassault recently and production of about 80 of this Swiss version of the Mirage HIE, fitted with a Hughes Taran fire-control system, has begun at the Federal Aircraft Factory at Emmen, near Lucerne. About 20 Mirage IIIRS strike-reconnaissance aircraft will also be licence-built by the FAF WORLD NEWS . . . Wallis, CBE, chief of aeronautical research and development. BAC (Guided Weapons) Ltd To be directors: F. W. Higginson, btc, DFM, sales director; R. Raff, financial director; A. T. Slator, MBE, general manager, Stevenage. To be special directors: J. T. Jefferies, general manager, Bristol; Lt-Col H. Lacy, MBE; S. N. Russell, commercial manager, Stevenage. All full directors of the management companies are ex officio divisional directors of British Aircraft Corporation (Operating) Ltd. Exports Down British aviation exports in November 1963 totalled £9,025,659 compared with £12,513,034 in November the year before. The figure comprised £4,119,424 for com- plete aircraft and spares; £4,572,262 for 48 new aero engines and 50 "other than new" engines and parts; £162,206 for aero- nautical instruments and £91,767 for tyres. Total for January-November 1963 was £104,988,660 for all aero exports, compared with £106,414,095 for the corresponding period in 1962. Prospects Bright for the PT-6 Canadian Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Co, recently renamed United Aircraft of Canada, look like reaping big rewards from their $20m gamble, over a four-year period, in developing the PT-6 500-700 h.p. turbine engine for helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft and boats. This engine has just won FAA certification, the first Canadian turbine engine to do so. "And it was a gamble," said UAC president Thor E. Stevenson Marquardt engineers were among recent visitors to Bristol Siddeley's Patchway works. Bristol Siddeley and America's Marquardt Corporation recently signed an agreement for the exchange of information on advanced propulsion systems for supersonic and hypersonic flight. Here Dr Robin Jamieson, head of the BS advanced propulsion research group right), explains the layout of the company's high-altitude test facility to Mr Warren Boardman, manager, advanced products development (centre right), Mr Lauren Dunsworth, fluid dynamics section supervisor (centre left) and Mr Robert Campbell, manager, supersonic combustion ramjet programme, all of Marquardt recently. "You have to spend a lot of money before your market is assured and people won't buy until the engine is almost ready to enter production. We went into the development of the PT-6 with the knowledge that there wasn't this class of powerplant available." The PT-6 has now been ordered in quantity by Beech for King Air business aircraft and this order may soon total 500 engines, worth about $12m. De Havilland Canada's action in re- engining a Beaver with the PT-6 (the Turbo- Beaver was illustrated in these pages last week), may also give a big boost to PT-6 sales, for this development, which gives a 35 per cent improvement in operating costs, will be available as a retrospective modific- ation on any of the 1,500 Beavers which have been built. Recent adoption by the French firm Henri Potez of the PT-6 as an alternative powerplant to the Turbomeca Astazou for its 840 four-engined executive transport and feeder route airliner is another encouraging event for UAC. It can be assumed that American customers for the Potez 840, which has excited interest in the USA, will in general prefer a North American engine, bearing the familiar United Aircraft imprint, to one from France. Announcing the engine's FAA certifi- cation, Mr Stevenson said that competitors are now under development in the USA, but the PT-6 was at least two years ahead. The USN is evaluating the engine as a marine power unit, testing one in a Nor- wegian-built patrol boat at Elizabeth City, N. Carolina. Kit-model Enthusiasts Unite Formed last July, the British Plastic Modellers Society reports keen interest in its objectives, the first of which is "to help to spread interest in the hobby of modelling from plastic kits." The holding of lectures and exhibitions, and the publication of a magazine giving unbiased reviews of kits, and hints on construction, are among the Society's activities. The hon secretary's address is 145 Camberwell Road, London SE5.
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