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Aviation History
1964
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38 VCIO subcontract work, for the II aircraft ordered for RAF Trans- port Command, pro- gresses at Short Bros and Harland's Queen's Island factory. Here a windscreen and hooding are lifted from the jig. Shorts' contract is for nine complete forward and aft fuselage sec- tions and two sets of components for these sections INDUSTRY International Products Company News Great Britain ' Mercury Taken Over The Mercury Truck amd Tractor Co, Mercury Airfield Equip- ment and Mercury Snow Control, all of Gloucester, became wholly-owned subsid- iaries of Dennis Bros Ltd, of Guildford, recently. Mr R. T. Barnfield remains managing director of the Mercury Group, which numbers among its products airfield tractors, specialist aircraft servicing equip- ment, runway sweepers and snow clearance equipment, and he has joined the main Dennis board. Mr T. H. Sharman, man- aging director of Dennis, becomes the Mercury companies' chairman. A contract was recently placed with Mercury by the MoD for the supply of a further number of Sicard high-speed runway sweepers, originally developed by Sicard Inc, of Montreal, for runway snow and slush clearance. Eighty of these machines will be in use at military and civil airfields in Britain by next winter. Sir Walter Dawson Joins H.P. Air Chief Marshal Sir Walter Dawson, who retired recently after 40 years' RAF service, has joined the Handley Page board. Sir Walter was Director of Plans at the Air Ministry and later Inspector-General of the RAF. Rolls-Royce International Appointment Mr C. R. Creighton, BSC, AFRACS, general manager, international operations, Rolls- Royce, has been elected to the boards of Rolls-Royce of Canada Ltd; Rolls-Royce Inc, of N.Y.; Rolls-Royce of Australia Pty. Ltd and Rolls-Royce (Far East) Ltd. Mr Creighton joined the company in 1951, from BOAC, as chief sales and service engineer and took over his present post in January. Sir Walter Dawson Mr C. R. Creighton USA Derritron in US Link A joint company has been set up in the USA, with a capital of $lm, by the British electronics manu- facturers the Derritron Group, and the American Aero Geo Astro Corp. The subsidiary, AGA-Derritron Inc, is to manufacture environmental test equipment. FLIGHT International, 2 July 1964 Derritron will make available their know- ledge of electronic vibrators used to simulate the most extreme fatigue-causing conditions. Denmark Accurate Visibility Measurement Devices to measure, automatically and continuously, visibility prevailing over all parts of an airport, and to relay the findings to ATC staffs for them to give accurate information to aircraft on the approach, have been developed by Dansk Impulsfysik AS, of BP House, Aarhus C, Denmark. Installations of the equipment have been made at Kastrup Airport, Copenhagen, Fiumicino Airport, Rome and other major airports and are claimed to avert to danger of pilots losing sight of the runway, because of a thin wall of fog, at a critical stage of the approach. The equipments generate an intermittent light signal of great intensity, which re- mains constant for at least two years, A transistorized amplifier, employing a step-selector system gives the receiving equipment great stability and continuous recordings of visibility by both day and night, in any climate. Cloud level is measured by the upward directed "Ceilograph" equipment, which bounces its rays off the cloud; visibility on the runway by the associated "Skyograph" and at the runway ends by the "Video- graph." The UK director of Dansk Impulsfysik, Mr R. E. Gordon, operates from 27 Shandon Rd, London SW4 (tel: KELvin 3582). USSR New Sound and Heat Insulator Tass recently reported that the Russian aircraft industry has developed an entirely new heat and sound insulating material which has been installed in the Tu-114 with consider- able benefits in weight reduction. No details of the material were given other than that it is 99.6 per cent air and is only two microns thick. Despite this, Tass said, it can effectively be substituted for heavier and bulkier materials. Israel Aircraft Indust- ries inaugurated a new $400,000 engine test cell at Lod recently for the SNECMA Atar 9 turbojets of the Israeli Air Force's Mirage Ills, which will now be wholly overhauled, re- paired and tested by the company. The test cell raises to seven the types of turbojet lAI's Engine Overhaul Direc- torate is now geared to handle
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