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308 FLIGHT International, 20 August INDUSTRY International Products Company News Great Britain Air-refuelling Shock Alleviator The probe-and-drogue airborne refuelling system developed by Flight Refuelling Ltd in- corporates a Greer-Mercier hydro-pneu- matic accumulator as a shock alleviator. Fuel flows through the pipeline at rates of up to 500gal/min and in the event of a premature break-away is checked instantly by the closure of a valve in the reception coupling at the free end of the hose. This results in a shock-wave travelling in the opposite direction to that of normal fuel flow, and to prevent damage to pipes and components of the fuel system a 2gal- capacity accumulator is incorporated. Shock pressures cause fuel to enter the accumulator shell, where they are absorbed by compression of an air-filled, pre-charged separator bag. The accumulator is com- pletely enclosed in an insulating jacket as a protection against extreme low tempera- tures. The manufacturers are Fawcett Preston & Co (M.I. Group), of Bromborough, Cheshire. Automotive Products Founder Dies We regret to record the death, on August 9, of Mr Denis Tabor Brock. In his 83rd year at the time of his death, Mr Brock had been well known throughout the automobile and aircraft industries from their earliest days. He was one of the three founders of the Automotive Products Group, which first started in a small office in London in 1920, and has since grown into a world-wide organization (Lockheed Precision Products, the undercarriage and hydraulic equipment manufacturers, are the Automotive com- pany perhaps best known in the aircraft industry). Until his death Mr Brock remained joint managing director of the principal companies in the group. Shackleton Galley Equipment The second stage of a Hawker Siddeley contract for re-equipping 50 Shackleton MR.3s of Coastal Command with new galley equip- ment has been awarded to the Aeronautical Division of G.E.C. (Industrial Heating) Ltd. The contract, to a value of £16,500, follows an initial order earlier this year for £12,500 worth of similar equipment. Units ordered comprise thermostatically controlled ovens and beverage containers, hotcups and rapid water boilers. Wire-wound Devices Service A new spe- cialized service for research and develop- ment organizations is being offered by the recently formed Pandect Precision Com- ponents Ltd. This new company is equip- ped for.design and limited-quantity pro- duction of small or medium-size wire- wound devices such as potentiometers, trimmers, d.c. pick-offs and position trans- ducers. In addition, it is undertaking the design and manufacture of specialized test equipment. Pandect Precision has all facilities for environmental testing in the normally specified aircraft ranges of temperature and vibration. Director of the new company, which is a subsidiary of Pandect Instrument Laboratories Ltd, specialists in instrument repair and overhaul, is Mr A. E. W. Field. USA Jet Pak for IAF Steward-Davis Inc, of Long Beach, Calif, has been awarded con- tracts totalling $129,598 to provide hydraulic starters and other components for C-l 19 Jet Pak thrust augmentation units for C-l 19 aircraft of the Indian Air Force. They will be assembled and installed by Hindustan Aircraft Ltd at its Bangalore plant. The first jet augmentation units for Now visiting Prague, Budapest, Bucharest and Sofia in his Beagle Airedale G-ARO] is Cdr Anthony Courtney, MP. Accompanied by Captain Derek Wyburd (right), head of the overseas division of Industrial & Trade Fairs Holdings Ltd, he is representing a number of important British companies, notafa/y Plessey /nternationa/ C-l 19s, designed, built and installed iij IAF aircraft by Steward-Davis in 1962, enabled 27 of these transports to operate at higher altitudes and with greater pay- loads to supply ground troops facing the Chinese Communist invaders in the Himalayas. The present C-l 19 configuration uses a single Jet Pak above the centre section. Steward-Davis is now developing a triple system, with a unit added under each outer wing. Radio-guided Parachutes Para-sail para- chutes, developed by the Pioneer Parachute Co and radio guided, are being tested by the USAF Systems Command's Research and Technology Division at three bases in the USA. The tests are to determine whether the para-sail, developed initially as a spare- time novelty by Pioneer engineers, can be employed for "on target" drops through clouds, fog, smoke or darkness. In preliminary radio-guided para-sail tests, loads have to be guided to within 100yd of the target when dropped from 3,000ft altitude and 3,000ft from the transmitter. The steerable 'chute has a gliding angle permitting 12ft of horizontal travel for every 10ft drop. It is also under test by NASA as a possible recovery device for the Gemini space capsule. Australasia "All-sky" Camera Selling Widely A camera developed at the Dominion Physical Laboratory of the New Zealand DSIR and which photographs the entire sky in all directions from horizon to horizon has been widely ordered by such nations as USA, Australia, Britain, South Africa, Sweden and Switzerland. The camera will be used at many polar research bases to photograph the entire Aurora phenomena at one instant, and is certain to have other uses in space research. Made under licence by a NZ electronics manufacturer and costing £1,640, the camera places the image of the entire sky on a flat, 35mm negative. Previously used was a 16mm American-made camera which left a blank spot in the middle of the picture. The NZ laboratory invented a system of optics in which a concave primary mirror was substituted for a convex one. Marconi Executive's Move In reporting j that its sales in Australia have reached a; record level, Marconi Instruments states; that Mr P. J. Crumpler, an executive of the j export department, is to take a position : with the Marconi Australian representatives, Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd-1
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