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ft.'GHT International, 25 March 1965 INDUSTRY International Products Company News 467 Great Britain GPS Flight System for TWA General Precision Systems, Aylesbury, have an- nounced the purchase by Trans World Airlines of a colour visual flight system. This will be used by the airline in conjunc- tion with its DC-9 and Boeing 727 flight simulators at its Kansas City training centre. The system will provide a moving-terrain model of Kansas City's Mid-Continent International Airport and its surroundings, constructed on a vertically running endless band at a scale of 1 :2,000. Runway and approach lighting in true colours, with a strobe flash system, will be provided for the main runway, and a second—angled— runway will permit circling approaches to be made through a 90° intercept. Solartron Simulator for Finland Solartron Electronic Group, Farnborough, has sold to Finland's Department of Telegraphs and Posts a Type SY2027 six-target surveillance and precision-approach radar simulator to be installed at Jyvsakyla airfield towards the end of this year for training air traffic controllers. It will be provided with many features to enhance authenticity. GEC Galley Interests Taken Over Herman Smith Ltd, of Dudley, Worcs, has taken over complete responsibility for the market- ing, design and manufacture of all the aircraft galley equipment previously mar- keted and developed by the Aeronautical Division of GEC (Industrial Heating), and more recently by their subsidiary company Claudgen Ltd. Herman Smith, who have been manufacturing this equipment on behalf of GEC for the past 18 months, now own all design and sales rights for this equipment, and will continue to operate a complete spares and overhaul service both for new units and for units already in use. Rolls-Royce Appointments Mr J. Wood has been appointed assistant divisional managing director (plans and programmes) at Rolls-Royce, Derby. General manager, Scottish group of factories, Aero Engine Division, since November 1963, Mr Wood has worked largely on the development and service of R-R civil engines since 1946. Mr F. O. Thornton has taken over the post of general manager, Scottish group of factories. A divisional director, Mr Thornton was formerly responsible for production planning and control for the Aero Engine Division. The following appointments have also been made: Mr J. E. B. Perkins has become divisional production inventory planning and control manager, Derby; Mr A. C. McWilliams has been appointed work centre manager, Scottish Machining Work Centre; Mr A. Harvey Bailey has become work centre manager, Derby Machining, Assembly and Overhaul Work Centre; Mr P. Brabrook has become production manager, Scottish Group Staff; and Mr J. Webster has been appointed divisional procurement policy manager, Derby. Makers of "Hi-Way" maintenance staging, the Aircraft DiYision of Martin Thomas Ltd (Hayes Road, Southall, Middx) have introduced "Fly-Away" kits designed to be flown out to aircraft in trouble away from their bases. In these three pictures a typical kit is shown in its transportable form and assembled for use as a tail-unit tower and os a powerplant dock Carillon of bells? Four 8\ft-dia propeller ducts for the Bell X-22A V/STOL research aircraft during assembly at Bell Aerosystems' factory at Buffalo, NY. The ducts will be mounted in a dual tandem arrangement, fore and aft on the X-22A fuselage, and the 7ft propellers within them driven by four GE T-58 free-turbine engines through a system of gears and shafts. The first of two X-22As being built under a USN contract will be completed this spring USA More Engines for Hercules General Motors' Allison Division has received from the Lockheed-Georgia Co orders in excess of 15.8m for T56-A-7 turboprop engines for the C-130 Hercules. Deliveries under the new orders are scheduled to start in May and will continue until August. The T56 has been in production at Allison since 1956 when it became operational in the initial version of the C-130. The current T58-A-7, which has a power : weight ratio of 2.4 s.h.p./lb, is essentially the same size but is rated 300 s.h.p. higher than the original T56-A-1 engine for the first Hercules. Australasia New R.F.D. Factory in Australia R.F.D. Group Ltd of Godalming, Surrey, has opened a new Australian factory, operated by its Australian subsidiaries R.F.D. Co (Australia) Pty Ltd and Parachutes Pty Ltd. The factory, at Keys Road, Moorabbin, Vic, will treble the capacity of the Australian companies, which are engaged in the production of liferafts and lifejackets for military and civil applications and para- chutes for personnel and supply dropping. The subsidiaries' other factory at Wren's Road, Moorabbin, is being retained.
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