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344 FLIGHT International, 3 September LARA, signifying "light armed reconnaissance airplane" describes the NA-300, by North American Aviation's Columbus Division. Winner of the COIN (counter-insurgency) competition managed by the US Navy, it is powered by 650 s.h.p. AiResearch T76 turboprops, can carry 2,4001b of stores or six combat troops and fly at 26Skt WORLD NEWS . . . ported to be worth more than £3m. Bronzavia, the French company which announced an association with HSD in aircraft air-conditioning in June 1963, will participate in manufacture. Initial research and development will be undertaken at HSD's Hatfield factory. In the early share-out of the Concord's systems between the two participating countries the air-conditioning system was allocated to France. There is reported to have been strong competition for the sys- tem from several companies; including US bidders. Announcing the landing of the Concord air conditioning contract, HSD sales direc- tor Mr Charles Burgess said that HSD's sales to France alone, of aircraft air-con- ditioning equipment, automatic check-out equipments and propellers, have totalled no less than £10m in value since 1960. Early Drawings Catalogued Perhaps the most unusual Technical Memorandum to come from RAE Farn- borough in recent years is Catalogue of Original Tracings of Aircraft and Engines Designed and Built at the Royal Aircraft Factory 1911 to 1918, by Wg Cdr N. H. F. Unwin, RAF (Ret) and Mr L. G. Savage, published recently. Wg Cdr Unwin found 50 bundles of early drawing-office tracings destined for imminent destruction; and over several years, with assistance, he has sorted and catalogued them. This historical find of the first order will no doubt assist future restorations of early British aircraft. The catalogue can be obtained through the Ministry of Aviation, ATP 4, Leatherhead Road, Chessington, Surrey, price £1 2s. New Airship Pilots Training Airships, like King Charles II, are taking an unconscionable time a-dying. Just as lighter-than-air enthusiasts have resigned themselves to the almost total demise of dirigibles (though receiving encouragement from reports that America's Aeron III is near completion, and that the USSR is showing interest in airships) news comes from the USA of a training course for "blimp" pilots which, when it ends this summer, will double the number of com- mercial airship pilots in the USA—from four to eight. The newcomers have been trained by Goodyear at Akron for the Mayflower, the second of two non-rigids the company operates on advertising work. All four students have previous airship experience, two with the USN, and on the Goodyear course are completing a minimum of 200hr, including 20hr of instrument flying, for FAA pilot certification. NEXT WEEK (September 10): The Farn- borough Report Number of "Flight International". Artistry in Do-it-yourself Four—all newcomers—of the 173 "homebuilts" which, with III vintage aircraft, graced the 1964 Rockford, Illinois, fly-in of the Experimental Aircraft Association. Top left, Rill Warwick's Thorp T-18 Tiger, first to fly of many now being built from plans by John Thorp; all-metal, side-by-side two-seater, span 20ft 11 in, 180 h.p. Lycoming, cruising speed 170 m.p.h. Top right, John Fellabaum's side-by-side two- seater JRF Starfire; span 26ft 8in, 125 h.p. Lycoming, cruise 130 m.p.h. Lower left, Ken R. Champion's glass-fibre two-seat Jupiter K-2; span 22ft, 125 h.p. Lycoming, cruise 140 m.p.h. Lower right, Braniff pilot James N. Swick's Swickster S-l; span 18ft 3in, 150 h.p. Lycoming, cruise 150 m.p.h. , Photographs by Howard Levy. The Rockford meeting will be reported in our next week's issue
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