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HJGHT International, 30 April 196* 699 Flight Commanders first and third Jet Com- manders are now partici- pating in trie flight-test programme to obtain FAA certification under CAR4b and SR422b. The third machine (nearer camera) first flew on April 7; the second has been used fcr static load testing aircraft armaments. He was responsible for introducing the Constantinesco interrupter gear for firing bullets through the propeller disc and the Pomeroy bullet for attacking observation balloons. In later years Col Blacker formed the ambition to fly over Mt Everest (long before it had ever been climbed) and with Col P. T. Etherton he organized the 1933 expedition which overflew the mountain with two biplanes, a Westland Wallace and a West- land PV3. Col Blacker flew with the expedition as chief observer. During the Second World War Col Blacker was again involved in weapon development and won a £25,000 inventors' award for his work on infantry-borne anti- tank weapons. Hunting Surveys Win OS Contract A contract has been awarded to Hunting Surveys to provide a flying unit attached to the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain. A specially equipped Hunting Survey Prince aircraft and an experienced crew will be used by the air photography section of the Ordnance Survey to carry out com- parative tests of a number of new and experimental cameras of British and foreign manufacture. The twin-engined Survey Prince is fitted with camera ports that per- mit two vertical cameras to be operated simultaneously, thereby permitting direct comparison of results from exposures made under identical conditions. In addition, the aircraft and crew will be moved about the country to obtain photo- graphy for the preparation of new OS maps and for the revision of existing sheets. Mademoiselle et Demoiselle Flying instructor Joan Hughes tests the replica of a 1909 Demoiselle monoplane built by White Waltham engineer Douglas Bianchi for the film "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines." The fat-four engine (an Ardem, the Rollason Volkswagen conversion) and steel-tube structure, instead of bamboo, are concessions to 1964 safety Dr Peter Thurston The death occurred on April 17 of one of the earliest aeronautical researchers in Britain, Dr Peter Thurston, who, virtually single-handed, founded formal aeronautical education here. He was 80. Graduating from London University in 1905, Dr Thurston became the first Doctor of Science in Aeronautics in Britain eight years later. From 1903 to 1910 he was closely associated with Sir Hiram Maxim and in 1909, at his old college, Queen Mary College, he founded the country's first aeronautical laboratory, largely financed from his own pocket. From then until 1914 he headed the laboratory and completed much valuable work on aerofoils. Dr Thurston anticipated Handley Page's inven- tion of the wing slot during his researches at this time. He was twice president of the Newcomen Society, among many other professional distinctions, and in later life was a leading patron and exponent of the art of aeromodelling, Air and Space at Munich The German third stage of the ELDO space booster will be among the exhibits in the aeronautics and astronautics section of the first International Exhibition of Transport and Communications which is Planned for Munich from June 25 to October 3 next year. Official applications for space have already been received from Britain, France, «<%mm, Italy and the Netherlands and negotiations are in progress with theU »R about Soviet participation in the aviation and astronautics section. lhe organizers are Internationale Verk- firsausstellung, 8 Munchen 12, Theresien- ™hi> 13, West Germany (tel: 7 67 11; tele;-.;; 05-22509) Lift Attendants Rolls-Royce fitters at Derby assembling 4,400lb-thrust RB.I62 lift engines on a production-line basis. The RB./62, which has a thrust : weight ratio of 16:1, has been ordered for two Western European V/STOL aircraft, the EWR-Sud VJ.IO1D and the Dassault Mirage HIV; it has also been specified for the Dornier Co3l
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