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1965
1965 - 0053.PDF
FLIGHT International. 7 January 1965 37 President Chiang Kai-shek reviewed Nationalist Chinese Air Force F-IOO Super Sabres during the annual year-end ceremony at a base near Taipei last month. F-86 Sabres and F-I04A Starfighters also featured in firepower demonstrations Amberley Prepares for F-llls AT RAAF AMBERLEY, near Brisbane, work has begun on a £2.75m programme to adapt the base for the twenty-four GD F-l 11 swing-wing strike aircraft ordered by the RAAF. The first RAAF F-llls are due for delivery in 1968, but the remodelling of Amberley is to be completed well before then. Amberley is at present the home of the RAAF's Canberra bomber force. The programme does not at present provide for the extension of the 8,OOOft runway. The RAAF is reported still to be awaiting from the USA detailed specifica- tions of various aspects of F-l 11 operation, including air and ground crew training and maintenance requirements. "Triumph" in New Role AFTER A FOUR-YEAR CONVERSION in PortS- mouth Dockyard, the former light fleet carrier HMS Triumph is to re-commission today, January 7, as an escort maintenance ship. In her new role Triumph will provide facilities for almost any type of work aboard the complex destroyers and frigates now in RN service and in addition to her ship's company will house four maintenance units, with a total staff of 285. Although the Triumph's former flight deck has sprouted an unsightly collection of cranes and deck houses, the foredeck has been kept clear as a helicopter landing area and there is a hangar alongisde the former island. Since a Wasp helicopter is now part of a modern frigate's standard equipment Triumph will be able to undertake helicopter maintenance work and numbers air trades men among her engineering elements. Triumph was accepted into RN service in 1946, saw action in the Korean War, later served as the cadet training ship and subsequently spent four years in the moth- ball fleet before beginning her conversion. HJT-16 Production Under Way THE HINDUSTAN HJT-16 Viper-powered trainer, the first wholly Indian-designed jet aircraft—which recently made its first flight —has been named the Kiran by Mr A. M. Thomas, Indian Minister of State for Defence Production. Production of the first batch of 24 Kirans has begun at the Bangalore division of Hindustan Aeronautics, and the company aims to deliver all these to the IAF before the end of 1966. Deliveries are reported to have begun last month from Bangalore of 30 Krishak Mk 2 light aircraft, which are to replace Austers as India's standard AOP equipment. Mr Thomas recently announced in the Delhi Parliament that the bulk of the machinery to be imported for Avro 748 production at the Kanpur division of Hindustan Aeronautics has been installed and that the performance of the first Kanpur-built machines, now in service, has proved satisfactory. Flight understands from a very reliable source that the IAF is closely watching the development of the 748MF Andover rear- loading version of the 748, but a decision on the licence production of this tactical transport at Kanpur will await the results of the RAF's full evaluation of the definitive Andover in Britain. Blowing Hot and Cold at IAM THE RAF INSTITUTE OF AVIATION MEDICINE at Farnborough is to receive a £250,000 thermal environment simulator to expand the range of its climatic work. The first installation of its kind in Europe, the simulator is basically a 17ft-diameter cylinder 60ft long, which can be supplied by air at rates varying between one-tenth and one-half of a ton a minute and at tempera- tures varying between —18° and 121°C. Altitudes of up to 60,000ft and radiant heat effects of up to 232°C will be simulated. Any combination of these conditions, and rapid changes to reproduce transient aero- dynamic heating situations, will be possible and the simulator will also be used as a cold chamber to investigate high-level ejection problems, with temperatures down to - 50°C. Work on heat stresses has hitherto been confined mainly to experiments at normal atmospheric pressures and has not given a true picture of what happens at high levels, where the effect of radiant heat is much greater and assumes a greater importance when convection exchange is reduced. The simulator platform will seat four men, whose reactions will be monitored elec- tronically. Supervision will be through special optical viewers and closed-circuit television. Besides facilitating the study of present- day problems arising from high altitude and high speed flight the simulator is intended to cover future studies arising from military aviation development, though for this purpose the altitude range, to 60,000ft, seems rather limited. The simulator is the work of the Scientific Apparatus Department of AEI and of Carrier Engineering. RAF Honours MAJOR HONOURS bestowed upon serving RAF officers in the New Year Honours List include the KCB for Air Marshal B. K. Burnett, VCAS, and Air Marshal P. G. Wykeham, Air Commander Far East; a KGBE for Air Chief Marshal Sir Walter Cheshire, Air Member of Personnel; and KCBs for Air Marshal P. H. Dunn, AOC- in-C Flying Training Command, and AVM D. J. Pryer, Commandant, RAF Staff College, Bracknell, and Air Member for Personnel designate. First Swiss Mirage Flies THE FIRST SWISS-ASSEMBLED DASSAULT Mirage HI made its first flight from Emmen recently. As Swiss production builds up, the proportion of Dassault-supplied com- ponents will decrease and later airframes will be virtually entirely Swiss-built. Swiss Air Force acquisition of Mirages was recently cut back from the intended 100 to 57, following a major Parliamentary conflict over inaccurate estimates and rapidly spiralling costs. Buffalo Production Beginning Immediately PRODUCTION of the 15 DHC Buffalo tactical transports to be ordered for RCAF Air Transport Command—the order was an- nounced on this page last week—is to begin immediately and first deliveries will be made in the spring of next year. DHC has been canvassing orders for the Buffalo with the promise of deliveries 16 months after the placing of the first production order. The RCAF order is the first.
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