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152 FLIGHT International, 23 January INDUSTRY International... Revised BS.185 One of the earliest glossaries published by the British Stand- ards Institution was that for aeronautical terms, BS.185, first issued in 1923. Since then the glossary has been revised regularly; the first five sections of the latest revision were published in 1962, and they are now joined by a further five: Ballistic and guided missiles (a new section); Lighter-than-air aircraft; Powerplant; Propellers; and Auxiliary services. Copies of the five revised sections, com- plete with a revised index to all ten sections, may be obtained from the BSI Sales Branch, 2 Park Street, London W1, price 25s. All ten sections, with index, are also available at 55s (postage charged extra to non-sub- scribers). NPL Measurement Conference Proceed- ings of the NPL Conference on The Accuracy of Industrial Measurement of Length and Diameter, which took place last April, are available from HMSO, at a price of 30s 6d (by post, in Britain, 31s 9d). Australasia Air Guide to the Kiwis An indispensable guide for anybody doing aviation business in New Zealand is the annual White's Air Directory and Who's Who in New Zealand and South Pacific Aviation, published by White's Aviation Ltd, Dilworth Building, Queen Street, Auckland, NZ, price 17s 6d. The 1964 edition, the fifteenth, is a compact compendium containing information the equivalent of which is only to be found in three or four publications here. In addition to the Who's Who and a comprehensive catalogue of firms and Government agencies engaged in all aspects A new electro-mechanical torque-measurement system for turboprop engines has been deve- loped by Simmonds Precision Products, Inc, Tarrytown, New York. Designed for application with the General Electric T64 and the Allison T56 engines and to be used in the DHC-5 Turbo-Caribou, the system is packaged in a 3in servo indicator which weighs 2.91b and measures 6in in length. It is accurate to ± 0.5 per cent over a torque range of 0 to IJOOft/lb and a shaft-temperature range of—54°C to + I38°C of aviation in New Zealand, from aerial topdressing to model aircraft manufacture, from aviation insurance assessment to flying training, the Air Directory also lists New Zealand and South Pacific airports, smaller airfields and seaplane alighting areas with their facilities; and gives a guide to New Zealand ATC, listing radio facilities and meteorological information. The complete NZ civil aircraft register, correct to October 1963, is included, from which we gather that the oldest aircraft flying there is an Avro Avian, while a General Aircraft S.T.25 Monospar, en- gaged in aerial survey work, still exists. USA Northrop Space Landing System Eng- ineers at the Northrop Ventura Division at Newberry Park, Calif, are proposing a landing system for the gentle return to Earth of space vehicles weighing 8,2001b (six passengers) and 14,5001b (12 men or equivalent payload) at re-entry. Primary landing system for the heavier vehicle com- prises three 80ft to 90ft clustered Aerosail parachutes deployed at 40,000ft. Tunnel tests have shown that controllable flaps would permit accurate steering to any point within a radius of 10 to 15 miles. At a height of 10ft a "skirt jet" would then lower the vehicle to a hovering position at a height of 12in. The skirt jet is a rocket charge firing through a continuous peri- pheral slit nozzle identical in principle with that employed in an air-cushion vehicle. The skirt jet would initially provide 0.4sec of high thrust followed by 1.5 to 2sec of low thrust. The system would allow pilot control of landing thrust to compensate for variable load, and the final landing velocity would be from 5 to 8ft/sec (com- pared with 25ft/sec for the three-man Apollo vehicle). New Rescue Devices Raman Aircraft Corp announced recently that it had re- ceived initial contracts valued at more than $lm and covering installations of special rescue equipment for the UH-2 Seasprite rescue/utility helicopters it is building for the USN. The new equipment and techniques, which were developed by the Kaman en- gineering and flight-test staff under an earlier USN contract, have been described by USN and Coast Guard officials as "the most significant innovation in open-sea rescue since the personnel hoist." Four items comprise Kaman's develop- ments: a rescue boom which swings out and puts the rescue operation in the pilot's field of vision; a ladle net which permits the helicopter to hover and scoop an uncon- scious man out of the water; a loud-hailer by which the pilot can talk to and direct a victim in the water; and a rescue ramp which can be used to pull an unconscious man into the helicopter cabin when it is possible to land on the water. The boom and loud-hailer, which require minor modi- fication to the UH-2 for installation, are covered in the new contracts. The company expects to receive contracts for production of the rescue net and ramp separately. -: IBM Chosen for Saturn More than $75,000,000 is likely to be paid to IBM over the next five years by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center for electronic equip- ment and support in the Saturn IB and Saturn V programmes. Negotiations will cover "the integration and checkout of the instrument units, the design and manufac- ture of the data adapters for these units, and development and production of digital guidance computers for the instrument units." IBM have already been working for three years on Saturn I guidance. Firebee Production Extended A recent $6m contract placed with Ryan for 175 Q-2C Firebee target drones will extend production until late 1965. Over 1,000 Q-2Cs have now been ordered; and pro- duction, which began in January 1960, was preceeded by over four years' production of 1,100 Q-2A and KDA series Firebees. About 80 per cent of the recent order will go to the USN and the remainder to the USAF. Parallel production of a US Army version, the 124-E, is taking place. Cessna Breaks Record Shareholders in Cessna were recently told by the president, Mr D. L. Wallace, that commercial aircraft sales in 1963 set a company record, sur- passing the previous best year, 1960. Commercial aircraft and parts accounted for $57,211,000 of the company's gross sales worth $96,440,000. The latter figure was up 7 per cent over 1962 results, but higher-than-anticipated tooling costs on military programmes, and charges met in discontinuing the company's helicopter programme, caused profits to be lower than expected. Among military contracts which give a bright outlook for 1964 and 1965, Mr Wallace cited recent repeat orders for the T-37 jet trainer and accelerating production by Cessna of assemblies for the McDonnell Phantom II naval strike aircraft. Douglas Parisien An international mar- keting office in Paris was opened earlier this month by the Douglas Aircraft Co. Mr M. E. Oliveau, Jnr, manager of marketing for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, is directing the operations of the new office, assisted by Mr Charles W. Hostler, a recently retired USAF colonel. The office is located at 34, rue Jean Giraudoux, Paris 16e (Tel Kleber 7189, cables Douglasair Paris). It will work in close collaboration with, but not replace, Douglas's main European office in Geneva. Republic Appointment Dr George A. Albright has been appointed Chief of Space Environment and Life Sciences at Republic Aviation Corporation, and will be responsible for the direction of the com- pany's life science and space environment laboratory.
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