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FLIGHT International, 2 April 1964 possible to give air cover to wages and cash in transit in road vehicles at the peak money-moving periods. Although it was not possible to shadow all deliveries, sufficient were covered on a random basis for prospective robbers to be unable to guess those which would not be covered. Many security vehicle drivers had fluores- cent circles painted on the roofs of their vehicles and are reported to have been comforted by the frequent presence of the helicopter overhead. The Brantly was also employed on traffic duties, patrolling the varied roads of the county, attending accidents, reporting jams as they developed, ferrying senior police officers, searching for lost people, rescuing a critically ill child from a snow-bound farm, carrying urgent drugs and blood plasma and providing extra security for royal visits. Giving a reason for the withdrawal of support, a Home Office spokesman said that the experiment had been ended as there was nothing more to be learned from it, though the results would help in evaluat- ing the experiment with a helicopter now in progress along the 86-mile-long M6. "FLIGHT International" next week (April 9): The TSR.2 Despite intense inter-Service rivalry and political opposition, the Royal Air Force has succeeding in holding out for a new manned weapon system—the first to be developed for the RAF for ten years. This journal is not deeply concerned with rivalries and politics, but is intensely interested in Britain's largest military-aircraft programme. Next week we present an account of the TSR.2 aircraft, and outline the major contributions made to it by some of the most famous names in British industry. FN-Boeing Agreement The Boeing Company and Compagnie Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Guerre, of Herstal, near Liege, have concluded an agreement for manufacture by the Belgian company of Boeing's small gas turbines. FN has previously acted as agent in the purchase of Boeing turbine-powered trucks for starting jet fighters. The work will in future be managed by a joint subsidiary, FN-Boeing Turbines SA, which will have two directors from each company. Systems in the News The Hamburger HFB-320 Hansa exec- utive jet, soon to make its first flight, is to be equipped with Sperry Phoenix SP-40 auto- pilot, C-9 Gyrosyn compass, integrated instrument system and a type 203 vertical gyro. The order was placed with Sperry Europe Continental in Paris. The USAF Aeronautical Systems Division has accepted from the Link Group of General Precision Inc the first fully digital military flight simulators—two moving- base units simulating the C-135B. The Link Mkl digital computer with drum memory is incorporated and 350 programmed radio aids can be simulated. The Mkl computer 485 First TF-I04G for the RNAF Representatives of the Royal Netherlands Air Force, USAF and Lockheed-California Company inspect the first TF-l04Gfor theRNAF during a delivery ceremony at Lockheed's Palmdale, Calif, plant \ New View of "Aeron III," showing the rear-mounted 21ft helicopter rotor which provides propulsion from the 80 h.p. Solar Titan gas turbine. A front view of this highly unconventional three-rigid-hull airship—which has been built by the Aeron Corporation at Trenton, NJ—appeared in our issue of February 13; the design was described on October 19, 1962 is also to be incorporated in simulators for the Boeing 727, C-141 and Gemini; and the Mk2, with doubled operating speed, in the space trainer for the Aerospace Research Pilots' Training School at Edwards AFB. Hatfield Occasion There were about 160 members, wives and guests at the annual dinner and dance of the de Havilland Engineering Society, held at the Hawker Siddeley (DH Division) factory, Hatfield, on Friday, March 20. In a cheerful atmosphere, Mr C. Martin Sharp, president, spoke for the Society and Mr A. Sewart, MIPE, production director of the Division's factories at Hatfield and elsswhere, replied amusingly for the guests. RAeS Lecture Amendments The Royal Aeronautical Society notifies two changes in its lecture programme. The lecture fixed for April 14, Lord Trertchard and Air Power, by Prof N. H. Gibbs, has been cancelled; and the additional lecture on that day, Electrodynamics of the Sergeant Missile System, by Myron D. Lockwood (vice-president, Sperry Gyroscope Co), will now be given at 6 p.m. instead of 3 p.m. Reincarnation of the tiny (I8ft-span) Demoiselle monoplane of circa 1909—with a latter-day engine—for the forthcoming film "Those Magnificent Men and their Flying Machines" (subject of a news item on page 376 of our March 12 issue). The rebuilding is at a "secret" Berkshire airfield, presumably to deter sightseers who might delay the work
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