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1966
1966 - 0181.PDF
110 FLIGHT International, 20 January LIGHT-AIRCRAFT RADIO . . . VOA-6 VOR. Factory price $220, UK price £84. Class 3. ADF31 Fixed loop SS ADF. Factory price $795, UK price £330 plus. Class 1. UDI3 100-channel DME. Factory price $1,250. UK price £478. UGR-1A 20-channel glide-slope receiver. Factory price $790, UK price £302. STANDARD TELEPHONES AND CABLES LTD, Radio Division, Oakleigh Road, New Southgate, London Nil STR 37-39 series 400-channel VHF nav/com, 50kc/s. UK price £855-£l,763. Class 1. Standard Telephones and Cables three-four series VHF communication and navigation equipment—panel-mounted version SR 46A 100-channel VOR/LOC receiver. UK price £550. Class 1. SR 45F Visual/aural marker receiver. UK price £255. Class 1. SR 47B/D 20-channel glide-slope receiver. UK price £377-£482 Class 1. RL 7003-184 VOR/ILS converter/indicator. UK price £130 Class 1. SUNAIR ELECTRONICS INC, 3101 S.W. Third Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. UK agent: FieldTech Ltd, No. 2 Main'enance Area, London (Heathrow) Airport, Hounslov/, Middlesex T 5R Five-channel HF transceiver. UK price £508 5s. Class 1. T10R 10-channel HF transceiver. UK price £531 15s. Class 1. T-22-RA 22-channel HF transceiver. UK price £1,112. Type approved. SA-14-R 14-channel HF transceiver. UK price £740 10s. SA-360E 90-400-channel VHF transceiver. UK price £340-£437. Class 1. SCOTTISH AVIATION AND THE HERCULES MORE details of Scottish Aviation's contract to supply sub-assemblies for the RAFs Lockheed C-130K Hercules were disclosed jointly by Scottish Aviation and Lockheed on January 10. The sub-assemblies comprise six fuselage top and side skin panels, the two undercarriage strong-frames and two external fuel tank pylons per aircraft The contract is worth £890,000— which, over 48 aircraft, represents about 2 per cent of the value of each Hercules. Tenders were put out by Lockheed for these particular sub- assemblies to a number of British firms after consultation with MoA. Lockheed were evidently so impressed by Scottish Avia- tion's "very competitive" bid that they have announced their intention to sub-contract to the Prestwick firm all similar sub- assemblies for further Hercules orders. It is also possible that Scottish Aviation may build other sub-assemblies for these aircraft. There are at present no orders to follow the RAF C-130s down the production line, but Lockheed consider that further work could increase the number of aircraft from 48 to 90 by the end of 1968 and that production could continue into 1970. Mention has been made of new versions of the C-130, for 1966 and 1967, including an advanced version of the assault transport. Scottish Aviation's tender included the cost of shipping the completed sections by sea to Lockheed-Georgia. Lockheed con- sidered one of the most important requirements to be on- schedule delivery of components. ("Our god is schedule" as a Lockheed spokesman reverently put it.) The existing contract, providing work for the next 18 months, will require 200 new employees at Scottish Aviation; recruitment has already started. An assembly hall (the Fokker Hangar) at Prestwick has been cleared in anticipation of delivery of the jigs from Marietta, the first of which arrived at Prestwick by air on January 13 in order to fulfil an urgent production requirement. Lockheed have built over 800 Hercules of 16 different types, and the cost of American-built structural components must by now be nearly minimal. If further British-built components are to be used without excessive cost increase over the correspond- ing native-built item, it is clear that only relatively simple struc- ture work can be considered. Fuselage panels are such an item, employing relatively simple jigs and requiring little or no com- pound shape-forming. It is necessary only to look inside the Scottish Aviation hangars to appreciate how close is the co-operation with Lock- heed; at the time of a Flight visit last week, some 20 CF-104 Starfighters of the RCAF were being overhauled, an L-1649 was having an engine change and a number of T-33 trainers were being stripped of their preservative coatings. Scottish Aviation maintains RCAF Hercules and has been approached by the USAF to assist with certain maintenance problems on its own C-130s. The Prestwick people are clearly no strangers to Lock- heed shapes. Panels built by Scottish Aviation are here shown dark (except the radome, to be produced by Marston-Excelsior)
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