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FUGHT International, 14 January 1965 41 Fan Jet Falcon Aloft The first production Mystkre 20, in the colours of Pan American Business jets, made its maiden flight from Bordeaux-Merignac on January I in the hands of Rene Bigand and Max Rastel. The flight lasted Ihr lOmin; 30,000ft, 35Okt and Mach 0.83 were reached. By January 6 five flights had been made, totalling lOhr 20min. The second production machine will fly at the end of Ms month; the third is destined for the powerplant manufacturer, General Electric, and will be supplied through Business Jets TIME TO THE SOLLIES A United Aircraft International (S-61N) advertisement in Flight for December 3 said: "Getting to the Isles of Scilly, 28 miles south-west of Land's End, England, requires more than four hours by boat. By a British European Airways Sikorsky S-61N it takes 15 minutes." The Isles of Scilly Steamship Co Ltd describe this statement as "completely untrue," and say that "in fact, the average time for the boat journey for the past eight years has been 2hr 45min." United Aircraft International "regret exceedingly the misstatement" and the Editor is glad of this opportunity to put the record straight. BS DIRECTORS RETIRE Air Chief Marshal Sir Alec Coryton, KCB, KBE, MVO, DFC, and Mr H. T. Chapman, OBE, FRAes, MiMechE, have retired from the Bristol Siddeley board. Sir Alec Coryton Mr Chapman ' Sir Alec joined the Engine Division of the Bristol Aeroplane Company as managing director in 1951. He became a director and deputy chairman of Bristol Siddeley on the formation of the company in 1959. Mr Chapman became a designer with Armstrong Siddeley Motors in 1926. In 1951 he was appointed managing director and on the formation of Bristol Siddeley was appointed a director and deputy chairman. He relinquished his deputy chairmanship in 1961 when he became chairman of Hawker Siddeley Industries. AN AMERICAN FARNBOROUGH? A proposal for an "American Farn- borough" in 1966 has been made to President Johnson by Mr Najeeb Halaby, Administrator of the FAA. He told a news conference at Johnson City, Texas, that it could be held at Dulles International Airport, Washington, and would lay emphasis on American advances in aviation. WHIRLWINDS FOR BRUNEI The Sultan of Brunei, ruler of the small oil-rich state in Malaysian Borneo, signed an order for three Westland Whirlwind Series 3 Gnome-powered helicopters before returning home from a two-months visit to Britain last week. The Whirlwinds will be used in general police and internal security work in Brunei, where an Indonesian- inspired insurrection occurred shortly be- fore the Indonesian "confrontation" with Malaysia began. SOVIET DESIGNER'S DEATH Simon Kosberg, the Soviet aero-engine designer, died at the age of 61 in a car accident on January 3. PARIS PROGRAMME Well over 400 exhibitors of 15 nation- alities have now contracted to exhibit at the Paris Aerospace Show at Le Bourget from June 11 to 20. Main events of the period will be: Official inauguration, Friday, June 11; official missions day, Friday, 18th; inter- national flying demonstration, Saturday, 19th; and "international air parade," Sunday, 20th. The show is to remain open for an extra day—Monday, 21st—for the benefit of technicians. Various categories of aircraft and equipment will be specially demonstrated on particular days yet to be announced. The show will be open to the public, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., every day except June 21st. IN THE HONOURS LIST In these pages last week we mentioned some names of aviation people in the New Year Honours. It is now possible to give more detailed extracts, as follows, from the civil sections of the list;— Knighthoods KCB; M. T. Flett, SecondPermanent Under-Secretary of State, RAF, Ministry of Defence.'Knight Bachelor: J. L .S.Steel, chairman, Triplex Holdings Ltd. CB F. J. Doggett, Under-Secretary (Estab- lishments and organization), Ministry of Aviation. CMG Ewen Broadbent, formerly Assistant Secretary, Sovereign Base Areas Administra- tion, Cyprus, MoA. CBE G. H. Hough, technical director,Hawker Siddeley Dynamics Ltd; F. J. E. Tearle, managing director, Associated Elec-trical Industries (Overseas) Ltd, for services to (Continued overleaf) SENSOR Next week a meeting of Ministers of the ELDO countries will decide how much money Europe will spend on building future space launch vehicles. Last month three top men from the United States' NASA Headquarters spent three hectic, unpublicized weeks in Europe offering a prodigious amount of free payload space aboard large US spacecraft. If British Eagle buy BAC One-Elevens and put them on to their domestic trunk routes, BEA will respond with Comet 4Bs. This will upset the present Britannia v Vanguard competitive balance, and will undoubtedly lead to higher costs. Hawker Siddeley's 136 small jet airliner project is believed to have de Havilland good looks and style, but it is still as far from being launched as it was in 1961 (when it was the DH 126). The main doubts centre on the cost, possibly as much as £l5m, of designing, developing and tooling the aircraft and the engine (Rolls-Royce RB.I72 or a Bristol Siddeley product); on the diffi- culty which small local-service airlines might find generating £^m per aircraft; on competition from the Dart Convair and downgraded Viscounts and Electras; on the need to be small—i.e., 30 seats— and at the same time offer very low seat-mile costs; and on Hawker Sidde- ley's need to win more orders for the Trident, Argosy and 748 before launch- ing on a new civil programme. Will Mr Roy Jenkins be the last Minister of Aviation? This question is in the Minister's mind, though his deci- sion will depend on the Plowden committee report which he expects early in the autumn. Details of the association between Hawker Siddeley Dynamics and TRW Space Technology Laboratories on the forthcoming ESRO 2 satellite are expected to be made known within the next two weeks. This could indicate the pattern for future collaboration between US and European companies in Europe's growing space activity. Air Racing in the UK should be more interesting this year, thanks largely to the efforts of Mr Norman Ryder, Royal Aero Club Secretary-General. A thousand-guinea race meeting based on the Isle of Man was reported last week; pilots will learn further details of the race calendar at the club's air-racing dinner later this month. BOAC are really developing their scheduled inclusive-tour business, but they may have made a policy mistake in deciding toopposeCaledonian inclusive- tour charter services across the Atlantic. European-style inclusive-tour traffic between Europe and the USA is going to be very big business in a few years'time, when the charter companies and tour operators start mass-market- ing £100 all-in ten-day holidays to the USA. Mr Alan Boyd, chairman of the CAB, is known to favour inclusive tours as the next new major promotional development in air transport.
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