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1969
1969 - 0108.PDF
86 AIR TRANSPORT.. FLIGHT International, 16 January 1969 LIGHT COMMERCIAL & BUSINESS first Jetstream for the home market arriving at Oxford Airport, Kidlington, on January 3 before going into CSE's hangar for furnishing, painting, and installation of equipment for the customer, Clarke Chapman & Co Ltd. Delivery is expected in seven to eight week's time CSE's Jetstream heralds Kidlington expansion THE FIRST HANDLEY PAGE JETSTREAM for the United Kingdom market was delivered to Kidlington last week so that CSE (Aircraft Services) Ltd could install avionics, furnish the interior, and paint the aircraft to customer requirements. The Jetstream was flown from its manufacturer's airfield at Radlett, Herts, on January 3. It is expected to take some seven to eight weeks before the work is completed and the air craft is ready for delivery to Clarke Chapman & Co Ltd, marine and electrical engineers and boilermakers of Gateshead, Co Durham. Despite the wet condition of the grass airfield at Kidlington, the Jetstream made a routine landing in 500yd using only reverse thrust. Delivery when the aircraft is complete will be made to the North East Regional Airport, where it will be flown by the customer's chief pilot, Captain W. A. Gray. The work on the Jetstream is taking place in the first of two hangars which are being converted for the purpose; it is being undertaken by CSE (Aircraft Services) on behalf of CSE International Ltd, sole Jetstream distributors for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Normal capacity of the two hangars will be six Jetstreams; they have been carefully sealed, insulated and repainted, and will provide comfortable working conditions for the CSE personnel engaged on the fitting out programme. At the moment a number of Handley Page engineers are working alongside CSE on the aircraft, bringing it fully up to modification standards compatible with a full C of A. Later production aircraft will arrive at Kidlington in a more advanced modification state and eventually with full C of A. The second Jetstream to arrive at Kidlington is due to be fitted out for the British Steel Corporation. The new Jetstream hangars are part of a big expansion and rebuilding programme which has been taking place at CSE over the past few years. New buildings have cost about £150,000. One of the new facilities is a remarkably well- equipped radio workshop which CSE showed to invited guests and the Press last week. The need for expansion in the company's radio division has resulted from increasing business in other divisions with consequent further radio overhaul work, the requirements of the Jetstream programme, and the appointment of the group as Collins dealers. The workshop area of the new radio facility is air- conditioned and lightly pressurised. It was designed in con sultation with Mr Ken France of Collins to provide full maintenance, overhaul and modification facilities for a wide range of equipment. Rigs range from those required for a simple general aviation VHF transceiver to those needed for the more sophisticated avionics equipment in current airline use. Installations in the radio workshop include consoles for general aviation VHF communications, general aviation VHF com/nav, airline VHF com/nav, general aviation ADF, air line ADF, air traffic control transponder and DME, airborne search radar, HF communications, audio systems, and flight systems computers. Mr John Fereday is chief radio engineer at the new workshop and his assistant is Mr L. Collett. A general expansion of staff is envisaged as work continues to accelerate. Also working to full capacity for the Oxford Air Training School, which is a major part of the CSE complex at Kidlington, is the simulated flight division, which achieves a high standard of authenticity and realism through the use of modern equipment and training techniques. The department has a Comet 2 simulator (built originally by Redifon) on which CSE has incorporated many of its own refinements, six D4-type Link trainers, and a twin-piston-engine simulator. Oxford Air Training School, said to be the largest civil flying school in Europe, has a fleet of 50 aircraft for instruc tion, and accommodation for 300 students. It will provide the facilities for all the conversion courses for Jetstream pilots. CSE employs more than 250 people at Kidlington. Another project nearing completion is an engine overhaul test facility. Engineers at work at the consoles in CSE's new radio workshop at • Kidlington. Installations include test equipment for VHF communications, VHF com/nav, and ADF for airlines as well as general aviation, ATC and DME, and other units
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