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1964
1964 - 2336.PDF
FLIGHT International, 3 September 196* HM. for Gunn TW, ^ ^1^,1^ «'* 1 BAC (Preston Division) t is planned that a further Leander class frigate should be ordered from a Royal Dockyard. An order was also announced for a helicopter support ship, for training helicopter crews in deep-water operations against submarines. This has been placed with Henry Robb Ltd, of Leith. The County class destroyer tender calls follow the launching earlier this year of the RN's fifth and sixth ships of this class and the first to be equipped in the building stage with the improved HSD Seaslug Mk 2 anti-aircraft weapon. The helicopter sup- port ship order follows the recent commis- sioning of the Navy's first vessel serving this purpose, HMS Lofoten, a minimum- cost conversion of a tank landing craft. Island Feederliner On their Farnborough stand Britten- Norman will display a model of the B.N.2, a small feederline aircraft being designed at their Bembridge, IoW, factory to British and US civil airworthiness requirements. Powered by two 6-cyl horizontally opposed engines, the B.N.2 is designed to facilitate its licensed manufacture abroad. The first flight is intended before the end of 1965 and, although no further details are being released at present, it is significant that the model is painted in British West- point .Airlines colours. World Aerobatics Preliminary heats of the World Aerobatic Championships are scheduled to begin today, September 3, at Bilbao, and to con- tinue until September 10. The finals will be held on September 11-12. Entries from Britain, Czechslovakia, France, East Ger- many, West Germany, Hungary, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, the Soviet Union and the United States have been received. The British team comprises Neil Williams, Robert Winter and Peter Phillips, with John Blake of the Royal Aero Club as team captain. The championships will be reported for Flight International by Peter Phillips, who contributes a preliminary comment on page 351 of this issue.! Financial assistance from a number of sources has enabled the Royal Aero Club to send the team to Spain. The club ack- ; nowledges in particular contributions fromthe Esso Petroleum Co, the Air League and Mr Norman Jones. Rollason Aircraft and Engines Ltd, the Ministry of Aviation and uniform suppliers Herbert Johnson of Bond Street have also provided practical help. RAAF Buys Shah's Viscount To re-equip its VIP flight, manned by 34 Sqn at Richmond, NSW, the Royal Aus- tralian Air Force has bought the executive Viscounts previously operated by the Shah of Iran (Type 839) and the US Union Carbide Co (Type 836). The American machine was on its way to Australia last week and the Shah's aircraft is expected within a month. The imperial machine was handed over to Iranair, the national airline, earlier this year. Since its disposal coincides with the announcement that a Swedish Jawerth- system prefabricated hangar, clad in British Aluminium anodized sheeting, is being erected at Teheran to house the Shah s personal aircraft, it is interesting to specu- late en what type the Shah, a keen and experienced pilot, will operate next. His Fokker Friendship Series 200 was lost some time ago when it flew into a hill, and he has never appeared very keen on the 11-14 presented to him by Mr Khrushchev some years ago. Certainly the hangar with a clear span of 130ft and a depth of 100ft, could easily house a BAC One- Eleven, and the Shah's DHC Beaver and Morane-Saulnier Paris as well. HSD in on the Concord Hawker Siddeley Dynamics have been chosen to design, develop and manufacture the air-conditioning system for the BAC Sud Concord supersonic transport. The production and development order is re- are in production for RAF Transport Command
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