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42 fLIGHT International, 14 January Getting its Feet Wet: The Turbo Commander, with two 575 s.h.p. AiResearch TPE33Is, com- pleting its I5min first flight at Norman, Oklahoma, on December 31. Forty production-line positions are reserved for it and deliveries will begin in June. Details appeared in "Flight" for November 19 WORLD NEWS . . . export; A. H. Watson, formerly Chief Statis- tician, Mo A. OBE A. V. Cleaver, chief engineer (rocketpropulsion), Rolls-Royce Ltd; J. E. Gabb, MO (Research), Institute of Aviation Medi-cine; N. L. Gibbs, chairman, No 1 Welsh Wing, Air Training Corps; K. G. Groves, forservices to the RAF; Capt J. R. Jeffrey, chair- man, British Air Line Pilots' Association;W. J. Johnson, training manager, flight opera- tions, BEA; J. R. Karran, deputy director(operations), Directorate of Flight Safety, MoA; R. F. W. Keay, director of productionengineering, Vickers-Armstrongs (Engineers) Ltd; N. H. Mason, principal scientific officer,Directorate of Materials and Structures R & D, MoA; P. C. Price, Wg Cdr (Trg),HQ Air Cadets, White Waltham; R. H. Sandifer, assistant chief designer (structures),Handley Page Ltd. MBE R. Archer, higher executive officer,MoD (Air); F. D. Atkinson, superintendent of inspection, MoD (Air); S. G. Bishop, seniorexperimental officer, Signals Research and Development Establishment, MoA; C. G.Butler, tech Grade 1 (inspection), RAE Farn- borough; Wg Cdr H. J. Cowley, lately admin. officer, HQ Middlesex Wing, ATC; V. j.Cox, chief development engineer, Aviation Division, Ekco Electronics Ltd; H. E. Devlinpersonnel adviser to chief engineer, BEA- T. J. Lindsay. Controller, Civil Air Services'Hong Kong; Obs Cdr J. P. Pickford, Group Commandant, No 13 Gp, ROC; F. J. F.Properjohns, engineer II, Directorate of Electrical Inspection, MoA; F. C. Seager,chairman No 135 (Reigate and Redhill) Squadron Committee, ATC; Sqn Ldr R. c.Smith, engineer tech Grade I, MoA; A. J, Woodward, works manager, ElectronicsDepartment, Ferranti Ltd; S. W. W. Wright, secior security officer (investigation), MoA. Queen's Commendation for Valuable Servicein the Air Capt P. N. Daymon, senior cap- tain, BUA; R. Dickinson, chief test pilot.Flight Refuelling Ltd; Capt H. V. Hubbardl senior captain, 1st class, BEA; R. M. Oliver,chief test pilot, Hawker Blackburn Division (Gnat Section), Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd;Sqn Ldr L. V. Worsdell, chief pilot and aero- drome manager, Marshalls of Cambridge;Capt E. R. Wright, senior captain, 1st class, BEA. FOR THE MOTORISTS... . .. two special numbers of Autocar: Tomor- row, January 15—"Holidays Abroad" (and Monte Carlo Rally Guide); January 22— "Racing Car Show Guide" (and Monte Carlo interim report). ROBERT BLACKBURN "There is deep bitterness among the French people," wrote Clare Hollingworth in The Guardian on December 30, "about Britain's reported intention to abandon the Concorde project." Miss Hollingworth's use of the word "reported" was correct because, despite all the stories to the contrary, the Government had not committed itself to anything more than a review of the project. By New Year's day most London papers were agreed, as The Times's Diplomatic Correspondent put it, that "the Anglo- French dialogue . . . appears now to be entering into a rather calmer atmosphere." On January 7 the main aviation story centred on the previous day's Cabinet meeting. No statement on the future of Concorde is expected before Parliament resumes on January 19, but there is no doubting the substance of the main line taken by the papers—that the Cabinet had decided that the project would definitely continue. What also seems clear is that, to quote from the Financial Times, "the review is not yet complete." For some time, therefore, reports of proposals to trim the Concorde programme down to two prototypes, or to stretch its development to 1974, are likely to be speculative. The Daily Express was overjoyed by reports of the Cabinet's decision, which, said its first leader, would be welcomed by everyone, including "the workers employed in the industry whose jobs will be secured." People working on the TSR-2, the P. 1154 and HS.681, which are still under review, may feel that the future of the industry as a whole is far from secure. Friday's Daily Telegraph reported flatly that the TSR.2 programme "will be cancelled." It was "almost certain," the Telegraph added, that a number of TFXs would be ordered instead. By giving an interview to the magazine Der Spiegel, Herr Werner Kreipe, head of the German Ministry of Transport's avia- tion department, made headlines in the Daily Express, The Times and Financial Times. According to the FT, Herr Kreipe, who is also a member of Lufthansa's board and a former Luftwaffe general, told the magazine that there was a plan to "palm this bloody BAC One-Eleven off on us." The Times made it the "damned" One-Eleven and the Express omitted the epithet altogether; but from all accounts it was clear that Herr Kreipe thought that Luft- hansa would go back to losing money if it bought One-Elevens. Whatever Lufthansa's views on the One-Eleven, I was assured by the airline's London spokesman that Herr Kreipe was airing his own views. And what was the actual word he used? Answer: verdammt, which the spokesman considered milder than "damned"; he thoughf'deuced'' or "blooming" would be nearer. The airlines' best-ever year was the sub- ject of an informative feature article on December 30 by the Financial Times air correspondent, Michael Donne. The paper's leader column, picking up Sir William Hildred's forecast that the airlines might make a positive net profit in 1965, was quick to ask "is the current two years' period of fares stability too long?" Problems with the Bristol Siddeley Nimbus engine made news last week in five national dailies. The engine was not achiev- ing its intended overhaul life, and last year the manufacturer ran an intensive 2,000hr bench and flight development programme to bring it up to the required standard. By December modified engines were being delivered to the Army ahead of the pro- mised schedule, and a fully modified Nimbus has just completed a 400hr intensive flying trial. By normal newspaper standards this is dull stuff, but tension in the Far East made it topical and newsy. Under a front-page headline "Far East Helicopter Force in Blunder," the Daily Sketch reported: "The movement of British troops in the Far East is being seriously hampered because more than 100 Scout helicopters have proved unreliable." But a Western Daily Press story on the same subject quoted a Defence Ministry spokesman as saying that the problem of the Scout's Nimbus engine "would affect Army opera- tions only to 'some small degree,' if at all." Other reports indicated that most of the 100 Scouts ordered were in service in Borneo. Exact numbers of Scouts delivered, and their disposition, have not been revealed. But I am reliably told that the great majority are not in Borneo and, of those which are there, less than half have run out of engine hours; moreover, the Army has taken delivery of more modified engines than there are Scouts in Borneo. Finally, a Flight leader last week reproved the SBAC for setting up a committee "to put a flea in the ear of Richard Worcester." The SBAC took exception to this; there is no such committee, the Society states.
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