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1964
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178 FLIGHT International, 30 January 1964 TALKING SHOP IN the regular exchange of aerospace information between theUnited States and Britain, the unceasing flow of technical re- ports, memoranda and other paperwork is frequently supplemented by personal visits by specialists from industry, government depart- ments and research establishments. The photographs on this page record three such visits, made towards the end of last year by British scientists, engineers and pilots to the USA. The bizarre shape of the M-2 lifting-body re-entry vehicle, in full-scale model form, is the background to the group photograph (right) taken inside the 40ft by 80ft wind tunnel at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. Directed by Dr Smith J. De France, the Ames Center is responsible for a wide-ranging research effort in the physical, space and life sciences. Visiting Ames on this occasion were Wg Cdr Charles G. B. McClure, Head of the Department of Flight at the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield; Mr D. R. Andrews, a principal scientific officer of the British Defence Research Staff, Washington; and Mr R. A. Shaw, Assistant Director of Aircraft Research at Ministry of Aviation Headquarters, London. Their hosts included Mr Woodrow L. Cook, Chief of the Large-scale Aerodynamics Branch, and Mr Charles W. Harper, Chief of the Fullscale and Systems Research Division. The British team had previously visited North- Above, in a tunnel at Ames: (left to right) Woodrow L Cook of Ames, Wg Cdr Charles G. B. McClure of Cranfield; D. R. Andrews of the British Embassy, Washington; R. A. Shaw of the Ministry of Aviation and Charles W. Harper of Ames Left, in the lobby at Langley: (left to right) the late Samuel Pierpom Langley; Clive Redmayne of RAE; Paul Kuhn of Langley; Stanley W Hallwood and Patrick J. McKenzie of Hawker Siddeley Aviation Belcw, in an office at Ames: (left to right) George £. Cooper of Ames; Tom Frost and Ron Bishop of Bristol Siddeley Engines; and Woodrow L Cook of Ames rop for joint discussions on the subject of laminar flow. Two Bristol Siddeley men (right) visited Ames and other estab- lishments to discuss V/STOL affairs. They were chief test pilot Tom Frost and performance engineer Ron Bishop, and their NASA contacts included Mr Cook and Mr George E. Cooper, Chief of Ames' Flight Operations Branch. Meanwhile, at Langley Research Center in Virginia, a British trio was investigating certain advanced structural problems, taking time off to be photographed (above) with a bust of Professor Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906), after whom the centre was named. With Dr Floyd L. Thompson as Director, the centre now conducts broad scientific investigations in such areas as vehicle configurations, materials and structures, mechanics of flight, problems of space travel and re-entry, application of new materials, supersonic and hypersonic flight. On this visit, which also included other establishments, Mr Clive Redmayne, a principal scientific officer attached to the Structures Department of the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, was accompanied by two men from the Advanced Projects Group of Hawker Siddeley Aviation at Kingston—metallurgist Stanley W. Hallwood and chief structures engineer Patrick J. McKenzie.
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