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1964
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300 INDUSTRY International... New Director for Boulton Paul Mr R. F. Hunt, AFRAes, AFCASI, deputy chairman of the Dowty Group, has been appointed a director of Boulton Paul Aircraft Ltd. Mr Hunt joined the Dowty organization as an apprentice in 1935, and has been a Group Director since 1956. JSA Polaris A-2 Contract An 18,55830 contract has been awarded to the Ray- theon's Space and Information Systems Division by the USN for production of electronics guidance units for the Polaris A-2 missile system. The work will be done at the Raytheon plant at Sudbury, Mass. Douglas Continues Nike Zeus Research Douglas Missile and Space Systems Divi- sion has been awarded a 112m contract for continuation of research and development of the Nike Zeus missile, as part of the US Army's Nike X anti-missile missile system. The award was made by Bell Telephone Laboratories, responsible for design and development of the Nike X system. Nike Zeus has successfully intercepted target vehicles over Kwajalein Island in the Pacific Ocean, where tests of the anti- missile missile system are conducted. The target vehicles are launched by ICBM boosters from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Western Electric is prime contractor to the US Army for the Nike X system. Handing Space Benefits Down To speed spaceflight technological advances into man- ufacturing channels NASA has established an Office of Technology Utilization, which recently published its first Technology Utilization Report. The report, An Improved Precision Height Gage, describes a device for the determination of heights and differ- ences in heights and is available from the Office of Technical Services, Dept of Commerce, Washington 25, DC, price 50 cents. FLIGHT International, 20 February 1964 Astronaut's Power Tool The Martin Co and Black and Decker have jointly devel- oped for the US Air Force Research and Technology Division a portable power tool which, though designed for use by astro- nauts, is also likely to have applications on terra firma. Its outstanding feature is the almost complete elimination of reaction torque, so that it can be used by a man in the weightless condition without danger of his turning involuntary cartwheels. Weighing 81b and powered by a battery, the tool (which can be used for drilling, screwdriving, nut-running and similar jobs) has a reaction torque of less than 1/1,200th of its power output. This is made possible by allowing the complete motor to revolve on ball bearings within the tool handle. Also, say Martin, "there is a controlled internal restraint system which makes pos- sible transfer of reaction from the motor to the output shaft; and a patented low- reaction, spring-loaded impacting mechan- ism which transfers power from the motor to the output shaft (a familiar application of an impact system is in power tools used to tighten automobile wheel nuts)." Republic in Saturn Programme Republic Aviation claims a pioneering role in the machining of aluminium alloy 7178 into large and intricate parts for the Saturn S-l space booster which recently had its first firing. The company supplies more than 450 parts for the Saturn, aggregating over 10,0001b in weight, which are machined by Republic's battery of 3-, 4- and 5-axis numerically-controlled tape machines, one of the largest such installations in the USA. Since 1960 $13m worth of Saturn parts have been produced at Farmingdale. Italy HS Appoint Italian Consultants A new Italian company, Anglo-Italian Research Services, Spa, formed early this month to provide market research and business con- sultancy service, has announced that Hawker Siddeley International Ltd has become a client. AIR Services already acts for Mercantile Italo Britannica, Spa, a company formed several years ago to pro- mote Anglo-Italian trade. HSI is respon- We// known as a designer of printed cut-out card- board and paper aircraft models, Mr Wallis Rigby (of Francis Rigby Ltd, 13-14 Cannon Row, London SWI) has produced this TSR.2 to be given away with "Hurri- cane," a new illustrated paper for boys, published today, February 20, by Fleetway Publications. Mr Rigby has produced thou- sands of card models— many of which glide when launched by hand or elastic —for airlines and other companies A "spaceman" using the zero-torque power tool described in col 2 sible for co-ordinating the export sales of the Hawker Siddeley Group. AIR Services' office is at Via Siacci 38, Parioli, Rome. The president is Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Foster, and an officer shortly due to retire from the Italian Air Force is to be appointed general manager. Germany 50 Years at Dornier On February 2 Herr Eugen Jager, a director of Dornier, cele- brated 50 years with the company. He joined as a technical artist on February 2, 1914, when the company was engaged in airship construction, and became one of the closest associates of Prof Dornier. He was appointed a director on his 60th birthday on July 30, 1955. Telefunken Research Institute Head Prof Kurt Franz has been appointed head of the Telefunken Research Institute in succession to Prof W. T. Runge, who has retired on reaching the age limit. Prof Runge will continue to advise the Telefunken board of directors and Research Institute on ques- tions relating to research. He will also remain publisher of Telefunken-Zeitung, the company's technical and scientific journal. As honorary professor, Prof Runge will lecture in the radio location faculty at the Technical University in Berlin. The new head of the Research Institute, Prof Franz, led the 1934 Ionosphere Expe- dition sent by the Heinrich Hertz Institute to Tromso in Norway, and subsequently he took charge of the ionosphere station in Brandenburg. After taking a doctor's degree in physics he entered the RF Labora- tory of Telefunken, and has been with the firm continuously since then. German Kollsman Changes Name Kolls- man Luftfahrt-Instrumente GmbH, Munich, the German subsidiary of Standard Kolls- man Industries, USA, has changed its name to Kollsman Systems-Technik GmbH. The name change follows a broadening m the company's activities. Last month it entered the field of electronic control devices and further new ventures are en- visaged.
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