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420 FLIGHT International, 12 September 1968 Inflatable radome (/eft, above) housing a 40ft diameter dish satellite ground station, and in front of it an Idex six-foot dish experimental station: a photograph taken at SRDE. At right above, RRE's latest solid-state nanosecond pulsed radar being attractively demonstrated; its combined transmitter/receiver is mounted behind an I Bin diameter paraboloid aerial GOVERNMENT'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE INDUSTRY... Other Ministry of Technology establishments contributing to aviation and space work are as follows: — The National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, undertakes re- search on the frontiers of knowledge and in direct support of industry. Its aerodynamics division is largely concerned with fundamental problems arising from the design and development of aeroplanes and missiles, in take-off and landing, cruising at subsonic, transonic and swpereonic speeds, and the hyper- sonic flight of long-range missiles, satellites and other space vehicles. The division is also concerned with refinements in standard instruments for measuring airspeed and with the development of various specialised experimental techniques. The division's equipment makes it possible to investigate at flow speeds ranging from a few feet per second to about 20 times the speed of sound. Important contributions are also made by the applied physics division, particularly in the field of physical and auditory phenomena. Other divisions, too, con- tribute to the general pool of research knowledge in metallurgy, photometry, computing techniques and so on. The Explosives Research and Development Establishment at Waltham Abbey is one of the oldest defence establishments In the country. It works on all kinds of solid propellants, high explosives, plastics, rubbers and composite materials. The lire Research Station has designed a gas-turbine foam generator to enable the foam properties and rate of application to be varied independently over a wide range. This promises to be of great significance in solving aircraft crash fire problems. The station is at Boreham Wood, Herts. The Cameo V-Liner ONE OF THE MOST UNUSUAL aircraft to appear in recentyears, the Cameo V^Liner "aerial advertising and in-formation dissemination aeroplane" is taking shape at Slingsby Aircraft Company, Kirkbymoorside. This firm, which has undergone a considerable transformation since controlling interest was taken over three years ago by a group of Yorkshire businessmen, has been selected by the American organisation Cameo (the Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company of Washington, DC) to build a revolutionary aeroplane designed specially for the purpose of aerial advertising, traffic control, geomagnetic survey and a number of other possible applica- tions. (Sensor, April 18.) The V-Liner is a development of the airship advertising (principle, which is fast becoming uneconomic because of high capital and running costs and excessive manpower demands. Market surveys are said to reveal a big potential demand for an aircraft of this type, especially in America and Canada, although aerial advertising is illegal in Britain. The V-Liner (so called because of the shape of the structure) is being pushed along under a four-year, $1.5 million development and design programme in America, Canada and Britain. First flight is scheduled for late 1969. The aircraft has tandem wings, spanning 69ft and joined by a V-sectioned alloy-tube structure 378ft long. Power is supplied by two Rolls-Royce Continental 375 h.p. piston engines mounted over the front wings, while an auxiliary 100 h.p. engine over the rear wing provides power for the electrical display lighting.
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