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1964
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FLIGHT International, 5 March 1964 372a Ekco-Ensign Electric Ltd (45 Essex Street, London WC2) has been responsible for lighting Air Couriers' new hangar, apron and offices at Gatwick. Reflector fittings in the hangar, seen here, give an average working illumination level of 16-18 lumens/sq ft. Fittings were supplied by Newey & Eyre Ltd, electrical wholesalers, 186 Acton Lane, London NWIO, and installation was by N. G. Bailey & Co Ltd, electrical contrac- tors, of Heathcote, Ilkley, Yorks on behalf of the architects, Farquharson & McMorran several years. They intend to open their sales campaign with a demonstration tour, based on Dublin, at Easter. Demonstrations will be given to the Police and to business people. The price of a new Brantly B.2B delivered to Dublin will be £9,300. Hymatic Sales in India Intensive sales efforts in India by Hymatic Engineering Co Ltd, of Redditch, Worcs, have been well rewarded. Only three months after re- ceiving orders worth £25,000 for Hymatic- Hydrovane compressors the company has secured orders for aircraft pneumatic equipment from India worth £36,000. The equipment to be supplied will be used in the operation and maintenance of a variety of British-built jet- and piston-engined aircraft in India. • Canada D.H. Canada's Year In marked contrast to doleful laments emanating from some aircraft industrial and trade union quarters in Canada, de Havitland Canada, which now employs 6,100 people, recently re- leased a cheerful account of its activities last year and prospects for the future. The DC-9 development and production sharing contract agreed with Douglas last year will be worth $65m and represents the company's first move into the pure-jet field. Full DC-9 component production will mean employment for 2,000 new employees at Malton, Ont. Some components are already being manufactured there and tooling proceeds on time. Progress on the DHC-5 Turbo-Caribou was described as "highly satisfactory," with many components and some sub-structures being completed. The first flight of this five-ton-payload STOL transport is ex- pected within the next month or so. The Turbo-Beaver just scraped in as a 1963 event, making its first flight on December 30 last. This aircraft will be certificated and in production later this year. During last year 98 aircraft with a total value of $45m were sold and delivered, $44m worth of them being exported. Diversification took the company into hydrodynamics last year and a contract was received for the development of a 200- ton hydrofoil ship for the RCN. De Havilland is the managing contractor and will be directly responsible for designing and building the foils. In space, DHC is carving a name in association with various US programmes. The company has delivered extensible aerials for the Gemini space capsule and the USN's gravity gradient stabilization satellite, launched last year, also has DHC aerials. The company built the hull of the first Canadian satellite, Alouette 1, which is still in orbit, and fitted it with its own aerials. A major role will be taken in this year's Alouette 2 programme. A final success for the company with its US neighbours in 1963 was in having its Mk 7 profile recorder adopted as standard equipment for USAF RC-130 reconnais- sance aircraft. USA Doman Production to Begin Mr Glidden S. Doman, president of Doman Helicopters Inc, of Danbury, Conn, announced on February 12 that the eight-seat Doman D-10B commercial helicopter is to be produced in the USA, with some Italian- built structure, and that the company can commit itself to quantity deliveries in ten months, at a rate of four aircraft a month. Major mechanical assemblies will be made by the Western Gear Corp, of Lin- wood, Calif, and non-mechanical structures already manufactured by Doman's Italian associate, Ing A. Ambrosini & Co, will be delivered rapidly. To be known in Europe as the Doman- Ambrosini D-10B, the helicopter is powered by a turbocharged 400 h.p. Lycoming HIO-720-A1A engine. Its gross weight is 5,5001b, its cruising speed is 95 m.p.h., and it has 155 cu ft of passenger and baggage space exclusive of the separate crew compartment. Hypergolic Investigations NASA and USN BuWeps contracts for investigation of hypergolic ignition of solid propellants have been awarded to United Technology Center, Sunnyvale, Calif. The contracts call for basic research, theoretical and experimental laboratory studies and small- motor ignition tests to permit a better understanding of the hypergolic ignition process. The hypergolic method of rocket ignition produces instant combustion when a highly reactive fluid comes in contact with the solid propellant charge. Hypergolic ignition has been adopted in a clustered solid booster vehicle, where simultaneous ignition of all booster motors is essential to a successful launch. Douglas Appointments A new board of directors and new officers were appointed in Tokyo recently by the Nihon-Douglas Co Ltd, Douglas's Japanese subsidiary. Mr James S. Farra was appointed president and will head a team which includes selected specialists in the fields of missiles, space vehicles and space boosters, plus experts in commercial and military aviation. Mr Farra, who was appointed vice-president and managing director of Nihon-Douglas in 1962, succeeds Mr W. E.. Maschal as company president. Arinc Characteristics Arinc Character- istic 557 now contains in Appendices 2 and 3 the substance of the FAA's latest proposed ruling on cockpit voice recorders, which are to become mandatory in all large US transport aircraft. Final requirements are to be issued by the FAA in due course. Arinc Characteristic 555, on engine vibration monitors, supplementing 554 on the engine vibration pick-up, now contains in Appendix 3 the various considerations concerning filter characteristics, which became complex following the small changes proposed during the AEEC meet- ing at Atlantic City last year. Copies of both characteristics can be obtained from Arinc, 1700 K Street NW, Washington, DC 20006, USA. MOTORING, YACHTING AND PHOTOGRAPHY... . . . enthusiasts are particularly well catered for in forthcoming issues of three Iliffe jour- nals. Autocar for tomorrow, March 6, will be an enlarged special number under the title "Your Next Car?"; the following week's issue, March 13, will contain owners' guide sheets, in four colours, for the Ford Cortina and Hillman Imp; and similar sheets for the Vauxhall Viva and Jaguar Mk 10 will be given with the March 20 issue. Yachting World for March, now on sale, is the annual Fitting-out Number; and this week's (March 4) issue of Amateur Photographer is the special Outdoor Number.
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