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108 FUGHT International, 26 January WORLD E W S 1966 Export Deliveries Britain delivered nearly 150 civil air- craft and helicopters to overseas customers during 1966, according to a survey by the Society of British Aero- space Companies. The Society announced on January 19 that the total included 43 BAC One-Elevens, 42 HS.125s, eight HS.748s, eight HS Tridents, six HP Heralds, 11 Beagles and 17 helicopters (eight Wasps, six Whirlwind 3s, two Wessex 53s and one Scout). Full figures for 1966 aviation exports were not available at the time of going to press, but the total value was known to have exceeded £200 million. BAC's Big Share Record export deliveries amounting to £81.5 million for 1966 have been re- ported by British Aircraft Corporation. This represents 63 per cent of the £128.3 million total of aircraft, weapons and spares produced by the company during the year. Total value of new orders received by BAC in 1966 was £149.7 million, of which £101.8 million (68 per cent) was for export. The corporation's total export backlog at January 1, 1967, was £103 million. These figures exclude Con- corde and the BEA order for 18 One- Eleven 500s, as this contract was not completed in 1966. Meanwhile, in France . . . Foreign orders received by the French aircraft industry in 1966 amounted to 2,530 million francs (about £185 million) excluding tax. This does not include orders foT the Concorde, Atlantic and Transall aircraft or for the Hawk mis- sile. The total includes 1,367 million francs (about £990 million) for airframes and complete aircraft, 408 million francs (£30 million) for engines, 270 million francs (£20 million) for helicopters and 240 mil- lion francs (£17 million) for missiles. Rolls/BS "Internal Competition" During 1967 some of the benefits of the merging of the major British gas- turbine interests should become apparent, according to Sir Denning Pearson, chief executive and deputy chairman of Rolls- Royce, in a New Year message to staff published in Rolls-Royce News: The object is to make the most effective use of the total resources by avoiding dup- lication of effort, but at the same time maintaining internal competition, par- ticularly in the creative engineering field. . . . "As far ahead as can be seen it is planned to maintain two major operat- ing units in the large aero-engine gas- turbine field, based on Derby and Bristol respectively, each capable of initiating, designing, developing and manufacturing major aero-engines. Policy co-ordination between the two units will be carried out by the Policy Co-ordinating Committee." First Run for JT9D Pratt & Whitney has run its JT9D turbofan engine for the first time. The engine, which will power the Boeing 747, reached a thrust of some 25,0001b during the first exploratory run, which was "smooth and satisfactory" according to the company. The JT9D will have an initial thrust of 41,0001b with eventual growth to some 47,0001b. Spacecraft Census At least 146 spacecraft were launched into orbit around the Earth or beyond from 118 known launchings during 1966. Of these 94 were American (64 military and 30 civil), 51 were Russian and one was French. This total compares with 170 known spacecraft launched during 1965. These figures are taken from Flight's "Spacecraft Scoreboard" features in this issue (pages 146-49) and that of July 28, 1966. Rateau Case Continues Mr H. Pearson, a director of Rolls- Royce (and formerly Aero-Engine Divi- sion chief engineer, performance and re- search), gave evidence in the High Court on the 36th day of the hearing of the damages claim by Rateau and M Rene Anxionnaz against Rolls-Royce and de Havilland Aircraft. The hearing was last week concerned with the velocity and dis- tribution of air at the face of a jet engine compressor. Both, Mr Pearson said, were determined by engine design alone and not by the intake, which could give a marginal improvement but was liable to cause bad velocity distribution. It was incorrect, he continued, that shutters at an outlet, or the closing of a nozzle, would impart greater efficiency. Mr Pearson said that the problems of shafting, seals and bearings which Rolls- Royce had to solve to run a multi-stage axial flow engine satisfactorily had re- ceived no assistance from the Rateau patent. It was wrong for Prof Marechal of SNECMA to say that design office work was "not inventive or ingenious." Some of Rolls-Royce's most highly qualified and ingenious men worked in its design offices. Mr Benn Looks at Aviation First public comment by the Minister of Technology, Mr A. Wedgwood Benn, on the forthcoming merger of the Ministry of Aviation with that of Tech- nology was made last week in an article by the Minister in the first issue of New Technology, to be published monthly the Ministry of Technology and the Central Office of Information. In a survey of MoTech work he states: — "The aircraft industry is one of the great growth industries of our day. Air travel is expected to grow, worldwide, by about 10 per cent a year, and economic resources put into the civil aviation industry—not only aircraft, everything also required for air trans- port—could increase at something likej the same rate. Growth of this order is a] formidable fact. The electrical industry! reckons on a rise of about seven per cent! a year, and one needs only ito remember I the transformation its expansion hasl brought in industry and in personal life over the last 30 years to get a glimpse of the impact that this other giant will make on industry and on the lives of its users. "It is also an explosive force in development of technology, and its impact is of course much wider than on air and space travel alone. Few forms i production are likely to remain un- affected by the aviation industry's developing technologies. "So as we take stock of all we have i Mini Spitfire Lost Sunday, January 22, at Southend Airport, the Taylor mode its first flight with designer and constructor John Taylor at the controls. Placed second in the 1964 Rollason Midget Racer design competition, the Titch is a development of the Taylor Monoplane, a type popular with amawi builders in Britain and America. The camouflage paint scheme needed MoD sonctim
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