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m 788 FLIGHT International, 7 May Flying aux Modes VECTORED ENGINE THRUST, as installed in the Hawker Siddeley P. 1127, is generally thought to confer a very wide choice of take-off and landing sites and to permit very wide and constantly changing dispersal of combat aircraft. That its implications are, in fact, wider and that the military Services already recognize that this new variable introduces a new, very wide range of options at any phase of flight was hinted recently by Major J. K. Campbell, USAF test pilot, who is the first American to convert to the P. 1127 and will be an early member of the RAF-commanded tri- partite evaluation squadron forming at West Raynham later this year (see this journal for April 16). Interviewed by The Stars and Stripes, the US armed forces newspaper, Maj Campbell said "The plane has an endless variety of flight modes. Besides its vertical take-off and landing role, it has dozens of other flight profiles available." He had "nothing but praise and admiration for the pioneering progress made by the Hawker Siddeley Group." Combined operations: Swedish troops jump from a Whirlwind 10 of 230 Sqn, RAF, during training of United Nations personnel in Cyprus. Four 230 Sqn Whirlwinds, detached from RAF Giitersloh, are an integral part of the UN truce- keeping force and are based at RAF Nicosia, where their air and ground crews are known as the "Two Blues" by other RAF personnel, whose uniforms are not enlivened by the powder blue berets and armbands which distinguish the UN forces Fighter for New Zealand THE NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT'S recent decisions to order Lockheed Hercules trans- ports and Lockheed Orion maritime patrol aircraft for the RNZAF leave one out- standing re-equipment decision to be made. What is to replace the RNZAF small force of now venerable Vampire F.5s ? One local report suggests that a decision is shortly to be made and rests between the Australian-assembled Dassault Mirage III-O, the McDonnell Phantom II and the Northrop F-5A Freedom Fighter. But the AOC RNZAF London HQ, Air Cdre W. H. Stratton, told Flight International recently that he would be surprised if a decision was Flying over what appears to be a runway but is actually a ploughed strip is the first of nine Hawker Siddeley P.I 127s for the tripartite British-US-German evaluation squadron. The VTOL P.I 127 could change appearance into reality—or would be just as happy using the clearing at the bottom left. Note the segmented, three-nation roundels; the vast air intakes, optimized for the take-off case; and the anhedral tailplane, a design change made on the tripartite P.I 127s together with revision of the wing SERVICE AVIATION Air Force, Naval and Army Flying News very imminent, and he though that there were more than three types being considered. Great emphasis is now being placed in Australasia on standardization in equip- ment between Australian, NZ and US forces. The Australian-assembled Mirage would be attractive from the nearest-point-of-supply consideration, and the RAAF is also pressing for the Phantom. If there are questions of US military assistance involved (NZ and the USA are partners with Aus- tralia in the ANZUS treaty organization) the F-5A is a strong likelihood: this relatively inexpensive aircraft is the one most favoured by the US for MAP agree- ments and is in full production for several smaller air forces. Standardization between the RAAF and the RNZAF will go further with the almost inevitable choice by Australia of the Orion as a replacement for its Lockheed P2V5 Neptunes within the next defence planning period. The Neptune has served the RAAF exceedingly well for many years and the Orion, from the same company, is a logical progression, also adopted by the USN. Replacement of the RNZAF's Sunder- land flying-boats by Orions will be widely regretted in the Fijian and neighbouring archipelagoes of the South Pacific, for it will lead to the closing of the flying-boat base at Luathala Bay. In the many years that the RNZAF Sunderlands have operated there, ostensibly on ASW duties, they have flown innumerable search and rescue, ambulance and ad hoc transport missions among many isolated islands. The latest demonstration of their value in the South
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