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1964
1964 - 1518.PDF
FUGHT 835 International, 21 Me? 1964 ;r i t* Contrast As re- ported last week, the Miles Group have lately test-flown the Student Mk 2 (above) and a replica Bristol Boxkite built for a film and flown by George Miles himself (left). The Student has Service markings for weapon trials at Boscombe Down ; changes include un- derwing armament pods and a Mbrbore 6 engine giving a speed of3IZm.p.h. Government—had been completed and written off. Seventy-seven Beagle aircraft of all types were on order and now that delivery dates on the B.206 could be quoted, civil interest in the machine, which had been long evident, should materialize into firm orders. The outlook for Beagle, insofar as this is directly connected with the health of the parent company, appears rather more sanguine, for Pressed Steel had a trading profit of £5,816,000 and a net profit of £1,430,000 in 1963, against respective figures of £1,680,000 profit and a loss of £2,108,000 for the year before. Super Frelon Progress The Sud-Aviation Super Frelon 04 proto- type flew, ahead of schedule, on May 4. An earlier example has just completed an impressive series of demonstrations at Bonn, Hamburg, Hanover, Kiel, Copen- hagen, Verlose and Malmo (based on the carrier La Resolue from Hamburg onwards). The German Government and other NATO •ations have a requirement for a heavy helicopter, and Sud are anxious to keep their product in the picture. Taken Over rJf£ Hiller Aircraft Co> of Palo Alto, tm Je. of the world's major manufac- (Zr!,0 gl?t helicopters, became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Fairchild Stratos an* HaSerstown, Md, this month. No announcement of the terms was made when DarP fqUlSltlon' from Killer's previousParen company, ELTRA, was revealed. Pak> AI™11 remain as a seParate unit. atA'to, and will retain its familiar identity. Mr Stanley Hiller, who began helicopter experiments in 1941 when still a schoolboy, flew the world's first co-axial helicopter in 1944, when he founded the company (and who even now is only 39 years old) will remain president; he addi- tionally becomes executive vice-president of Fairchild Stratos. Hiller employs about 1,200 people at its 61-acre factory at Palo Alto, and has built over 2,000 light helicopters since its forma- tion. Volume production of several types continues for world-wide military and civil orders, with the US Army far and away the company's major customer. In recent years Hiller has devoted effort to other means of VTOL, initially with ducted propellers, later with tilt wings—in 1959 it flew the world's first tilt-wing transport—and is now actively working on jet-lift systems. For Fairchild, which employs about 3,500 people in its five divisions, and had sales totalling $62m last year, the acquisi- tion is a major step in the recovery staged recently after several lean years. The last major Fairchild-designed aircraft, the C-119 Box-car, ceased production in the mid- 1950s, although aircraft manufacture has continued at Hagerstown with the Chase- designed C-123 Provider and the licence- built version of the Fokker F.27 Friendship. Recently a licence was obtained for the Swiss Pilatus Turbo-Porter utility aircraft. In the last two years major design, deve- lopment and sub-contract work in the missile and space fields has been under- taken and the company is involved in the Titan III, Talos, Gemini, Saturn, Pershing, Atlas and Thor programmes, while being responsible, too, for meteoroid detection satellites for NASA and reconnaissance drone systems for the US Army. In what is now seen as the first step in a long-term programme to develop new V/STOL pro- duct lines, which led to the acquisition of Hiller, Fairchild built the VZ-5FA Fledg- ling deflected-slipstream research aircraft. Balloon Records Claimed A claim for seven world ballooning altitude records was filed with the NASA on May 11, following the ascent to 37,000ft made the day previously by Mr Tracy Barnes from Minneapolis, Mr Barnes had set out to break the 3-A class record of 23,286ft set in 1940 by the Soviet balloonist Boris Nevernov, but six other records are being claimed too. USAF Display Cancelled The US Armed Forces Day display planned at Wethersfield, near Braintree, Essex, for May 23 has been cancelled. Armed Forces Day displays will still be taking place at Alconbury, Hunts, and Bentwaters, Suffolk. TSR.2 Flight Recorder Tested A test ejection of a Royston Midas flight data recorder of the type fitted to the TSR.2 was successfully made last week at Pendine Sands in South Wales. The recorder, a Midas CMM/7SE 270-channel model, was ejected from a rocket-powered sledge at 600kt, and it survived intact. February Employment Figure Three hundred more people were working on aircraft manufacture and repair in Britain during February than in the month before, according to the latest Board of Trade returns. But the month's figure, 262,000, is 8,500 fewer than in February last year. Famous Airmail Stamps for Sale A unique collection of envelopes carried on the first official airmail flights in Britain (and only the second series in the world) will be auctioned by H. R. Harmer Ltd at 41 Bond Street, London Wl, next month. The flights were between Hendon and Windsor in September 1911 and were con- demned as frivolous by the then Manchester Guardian, a judgement which Flight sternly refuted at the time. The Hendon - Windsor envelopes are only a part of a large collection formed by Mr T. E. Field of covers carried on pioneer- ing airmail flights.
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