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1964
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226 FLIGHT International, 6 February 1964 Numbering 15 men and often flying 18hr or 24hr at a stretch, Shackleton crews deserve reasonable comforts; their air-con- ditioned galley and wardroom for off-duty spells. Braking Bluebird Experience gained by Irving Air Chute of Great Britain, Letch- worth, Herts, in the design and manufacture of brake parachutes for heavy, high-speed military aircraft is being applied to the problems of decelerating Mr Donald Campbell's huge car Bluebird, which is to attempt to break the world land speed record. Irving have ready for testing by Mr Campbell a brake parachute which, in an emergency arising through veering or oscillation, could be streamed to restore directional stability. The trails of light flashes in this picture of Douglas Aircraft personnel perform- ing cockpit checks in a DC-9 mock-up result from coloured lights flashing three times per second and photographed by time exposure. Cockpit layout was thus analysed to rationalize procedures New MD for Cossor Professor Carlo L. Calosi, vice-president of the Raytheon Co in charge of European activities, has been appointed a managing director of A. C. Cossor, succeeding Mr Frank Oddi, who is returning to the USA to take up an appoint- ment outside Raytheon, the parent company. During Mr Oddi's period of office Cossor have consolidated all their previously wide- spread electronic activities on their factory at Harlow, Essex. Ultra Appointments Mr W. Philip Rowley, MBE, MBritntE, has been appointed manager of the Telecommunications Divi- sion of the Ultra Electronics group of companies, and Maj-Gen E. S. Cole is to be defence consultant, concerned with the co-ordination of military projects and liaison with associated overseas companies. Mr W. P. Rowley Mr Rowley was formerly assistant man- aging director of W. S. Electronics Ltd, now absorbed into Ultra. A former chairman of committees of SIMA, he has also been a member of committees of the BritIRE, the British Joint Communications Board, and the Wireless Telegraphy Board. During the war he was secretary of the Combined Signals Board and the Joint Signals Board, and Staff Officer Radio, SHAEF. In the immediate post-war period he was secretary of the Multipartite Signals Board. Ultra's Telecommunications Division will continue to specialize on personal and vehicle-mounted VHF communica- tions equipment, airborne UHF and VHF communications and telemetry, radio ter- minal equipment and test gear, and will also incorporate the Trix Electronics range of public-address equipment and Sappho bird-dispersal systems. Intercommunication and cabin-address equipment for airborne use will now be the responsibility of the Special Products Division. BAC Middle East Post British Aircraft Corporation announces that Gp Capt Edgar Carr has been appointed its regional sales representative (Middle East). He will be based in Beirut. During a Service career of fourteen years Gp Capt Carr served as a pilot in Fighter, Coastal and Bomber Commands and flew Gp Capt Edgar Carr seventy-four different types of aircraft. After leaving the RAF he was for ten years with the Crompton Parkinson Group of heavy engineering and electrical companies in Australia as supply manager. He returned to the United Kingdom in 1959 and worked with the Lockheed Aircraft's British consultants until he joined British Aircraft Corporation late last year. USA Transland Independence Transland Air- craft, the US manufacturers of agricultural aircraft equipment and previously a manu- facturing division of the Hi-Shear Corpor- ation, has become an independent company, Transland Aircraft Inc, having been purchased from Hi-Shear by a number of employees. The products, sales policies and services previously offered will continue, based on a new factory and offices at 2823 190th Street, Redondo Beach, Calif, about six miles from the former factory at Hi- Shear. Transland manufacture FAA-approved dusting and spraying systems, pumps and components for all types of US agricultural aircraft at present in use, having entered the agricultural aviation field in 1951. Marietta Appointment Dr Wilfred Gar- rard, who left England for Canada in 1948, has been appointed divisional engineer of the Lockheed-Georgia Company's pre- liminary design division. He was pre- viously in charge of preliminary design studies of new aircraft concepts. Dr Garrard began his aeronautical career with Handley Page in 1941 as an assistant research engineer and later served with several major British aircraft com- panies before joining Canadair in 1948 as a sales engineer. In 1951 he joined Chance- Vought as senior aerodynamicist and moved to Lockheed-Georgia in 1954 as operations research scientist. Among other tasks he directed the preliminary design studies which resulted in the application of boundary-layer control to the C-130 Hercules. Extended Contract for Allison A $ 17.52m (£6.25m) contract has been placed with the Allison Division of General Motors to extend production of T56-A-10W power- plants to June 1965. The engines are destined for Lockheed P3A Orion maritime patrollers in production for the USN. Canada Canadian Marconi Doppler for RAAF Doppler equipment developed at Montreal by the Canadian Marconi Co is to be fitted in the C-130 Hercules transports which equip the heavy transport arm of the RAAF. Seven RAAF tradesmen are now in Montreal studying the equipment. France Turbomeca Forges Japan Link Antici- pating increased use of their engines in Japan if the promising Mitsubishi MU-2 turboprop business transport, powered by Astazous, enters production, Turbomeca has signed an agreement with Ishikawajima- Harima Heavy Industries Co, of 2-4 Ote- Machi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, for the overhaul and maintenance of Astazous, and Artouste II engines already in use in Japan. Ishikawa- jima-Harima is the only company in production with a jet engine of its own design, the J3 turbojet which powers some versions of the Fuji TIB trainer.
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