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1965 - 0102.PDF
The Lerbo Terraplane, a minimum-altitude primary trainer with powered-sailplane possibilities. Employing the "sailwing concept" developed by Princeton University Forrestal Research Centre, the Terraplane is being developed by Lerho Laboratories. Originally powered by a 12 h.p. engine, this three-axis controllable machine would only rise to the full extent of its fourth leg. The present 43 h.p. Nelson H-63 engine (right, also 2gal fuel tank) has taken the aircraft up to ISft and full flight is expected. Span 22ft; length, 14ft Tin; empty wt, 2601b; gross wt, 6601b; landing speed, 37 m.p.h.; cruising, 60 m.p.h. Plans cost $20 and kits $620; full details from Nelson Aircraft Corp, PO Box S5I, Irwin, Pa, USA SPORT AND BUSINE88 More-expensive Landing Cards From January 1 the owners of UK-registered private aircraft are to pay more for their "red landing cards," but will be exempted from the new navigation service charges which came into force on November 1. The new prices are £15 for gross weights up to 2,6001b, £20 up to 3,4991b and £30 up to 4,4991b. In view of the Royal Aero Club's special support for private operators against the Aerodrome Owners Association's revised scale of charges, it is ironic that the Club, as the MoA's sole administrators of the red card scheme, should now be forced to apply this increase. But it is known that by much behind-the- scenes pleading the result is very much less severe than had first been proposed. Few private pilots will find the new scale unreasonable. For frequent users of Britain's superb and friendly State-owned airports the card is still excellent value. There has not been an increase in cost of red cards since 1952 and the present increase is much less than the fourfold rise in the casual-landing charges. Train at Oxford . . . The Oxford Air Training School, a division of C.S.E. Aviation and officially approved for commercial pilot training, is all set for 1965 with the latest Piper equipment. Basic trainers are the Colt at £7 per hour and Cherokee 140 at £8 per hour—£10 for instrument rating instruction. For serious touring and business the Cherokee 180C at £11 per hour and Twin Comanche at £22 per hour are available. The latest Aztec C and Comanche 260 are available at rates on application. Oxford is, of course, particularly well equipped for instrument rating training, for in addition to the usual D4 Link trainers there is the ex-BEA Ambassador flight simulator, which is unrivalled for twin-engined experience at the price. The handling character- sties and speeds are adjustable to approximate to those of the DC-3 and Dove. Last year 60 Oxford students passed their instrument rating tests, 60 per cent of them at the first attempt. The school also trained 125 students to PPL. ... then Fly Yourself Round the USA, following the successful introduction of this latest idea in touring by Air France last year, British Piper distributors C.S.E. Aviation are planning a tour for British pilots this year. On May 10 a party limited to 56 will fly Pan American to New York and, following a few days at the World Fair, will travel to the Piper factory at Lock Haven. In four-seat Cherokee Cs they will then fly themselves on a 6,000-mile, 21-day tour taking in Miami, El Paso, the Grand Canyon, New Orleans and Dallas. Details can be obtained from Mr Gerry Cutler, Express Travel and Transport, 9 Farringdon Road, London EC1. LSF's New Director Mr John Schooling, an instructor with the London School of Flying at Elstree since 1959, has been appointed a director of the company. Military Aztecs Six Piper Aztec Cs have been bought off the shelf by the Argentine Army for liaison, command control and senior staff transport. The Army already had five Apaches and numerous Cubs. Fletcher FU-24 in New Zealand The Fletcher FU-24 agricultural aircraft is to be built by Air Parts (NZ) Ltd, of Rukuhia, near Hamilton, New Zealand, who have purchased world manufacturing rights. The move is to save foreign currency and provide NZ operators with a cheaper aircraft. More than 68 FU-24s, assembled from US parts some time ago, are already operating in New Zealand. Derringer Crash The second prototype Wing Derringer two-seat business twin (two 150 h.p. Lycoming IO-320s) (Flight, December 24) crashed recently into a 2,000ft-deep area of the Pacific off Los Angeles. The test pilot, Mr Thomas Heffner, was killed. On test for nearly two years, the aircraft was reported to be on a routine flight to check engine performance. A pilot witness said the Derrin- ger was doing a high-speed 180° turn when it began to oscillate in pitch before spiralling into the water. Rallye Developments Most powerful version of the variously engined Potez SEEMS (ex Morane Saulnier) Rallye flew last month from the maker's Tarbes Ossun airfield. Called the MS 893, it is fitted with a 180 h.p. Lycoming O-360 and is planned to be put into early production. Altogether 465 Rallyes of all types have been built, and another 150 or so are planned. Since the Potez take-over production has been concentrated on the 150 h.p. Rallye Commodore. ... And at Centre Est Aeronautique After specializing for many years on highly successful three-seat Jodels, CEA at Dijon has just flown the new and slightly bigger DR 200 as an interim development aircraft prior to the new four seater "quadriplace" DR 250. The DR 200 is powered by a 150 h.p. Potez flat-four and has a fractionally wider and longer cabin than the three-seat Sicile Record. The DR 250, to fly towards the end of next month, will be powered by a 140 h.p. Lycoming and not, as thought at the time of a Flight visit to Dijon in October (Flight, October 22, page 717), by a 120 h.p. injection development of the Potez. The DR 250 is expected to cruise at 135kt TAS at 10,000ft on 66 per cent power.
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