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1970
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46-47 FLIGHT International, 8 January 1970 INDUSTRY International Products Company News Watch for the 70's Omega has brought out a new chronograph watch called the Flightmaster, which has been designed especially for pilots. With five control knobs it is not a simple instrument and is quite heavy, but its various dials give most of the details a pilot is likely to need. The knob at 3 o'clock is for winding the movement and setting the white hour and minute hands. Working simultaneously is the a.m.-p.m. dial on the left hand side which acts as a 24-hour indicator separating the 12 hours after midday and after midnight. Two buttons either side of the winder operate the stop-watch sweep second hand and the two other small dials move in conjunction with this. They indicate 30-minute and 12-hour intervals respec tively. The knob at 10 o'clock sets a second hour hand, coloured blue, which can be used to indicate time in another time zone. The fifth knob, at 8 o'clock, controls the rotating bezel. Price of the watch is £84 10s. Westland Helicopters Ltd are to use carbon-fibre composites experimentally to build helicopter airframe components, transmission shafts and rotor blades. This follows a development programme on a Wasp tail section made from glass-fibre- reinforced plastics. First production Turmo III C4 helicopter engine produced by the Rolls-Royce Small Engine Division, under test at Leavesden. Engines for RAF SA.330 Puma helicopters will be assembled in the UK. Parts for more than 100 Turmo III C4 engines have already been produced at Leavesden under the Anglo-French helicopter agreement, and have been shipped for assembly by Turbomeca SA in France Omega's new Flight- master chronograph, obtainable from Tyme Ltd, 5 New Bond Street, London Wl William Wanie & Co Ltd, of Barking, Essex, has received a large order for its Mark 4 air-starter hose from the Royal Dutch Air Force. The hose is made from specially prepared heat-resistant red silicone polymer with an interply of white silicone bonded to an outer cover of close-weave Terylene. A replaceable anti-scuff jacket is provided. Gloster Saro Ltd, of Hucclecote, Glos, has received an order for five Somerset Mk III aviation fuellers from Shell Inter national Petroleum Ltd. The vehicles, which will be based overseas, have a capacity of 4,000 Imp gal, 18,1801it. Rocket Research Corporation of Red mond, Wash, has received a $100,000 (£41,700) contract from NASA to evalu ate recently developed spontaneous cat alysts. The object is to investigate a new monolithic catalyst structure which should lower the cost of hydrazine con trol rockets. Dowty Seals Ltd has won approval from the Boeing Company for the supply of synthetic rubber seals for aircraft hydraulic systems. The seals are manu factured from an ethylene-propylene- based compound specially developed for use with the mandatory phosphate-ester- based mon-flammable hydraulic fluids which can attack other seal materials. Litton Technische Werke of Freiburg/ Breisgau, West Germany, and Litton Systems Inc, of Woodland Hills, Calif, have announced that, subject to govern ment approval, a licence agreement has been concluded to manufacture the LN-15 inertial navigation system at Freiburg for the European market. The system uses digital technology, gas bearings and materials such as beryllium. PEOPLE AND POSTS Mr Ian C. Dick has been appointed general manager of High Duty Alloys Ltd, a Hawker Siddeley company. Mr John MacNaiughton has been appointed vice-president of manufacturing for Spar Aerospace Products, Toronto. Mr D. C. Field has been made quality control manager of the new QC depart ment of the Power Supply Division of Coutant Electronics Ltd. Mr J. A. Johnstone has been named head of the Civil Sales and Product Support Organisation for Hawker Sidde ley Aviation at Hatfield. Mr Jack G. Anderson, president of Kaman Aerospace Corporation, has been elected to the board of directors of Kaman Corp, Bloomfield, Conn. Mr Jean G. Helvey has joined Boreas Corp of Miami, Fla, as vice-president, aircraft sales and financing. Mr B. D. Agardy has become vice-president, pur chasing and spare-parts sales. Mr William G. Holiday has been named vice-president of manufacturing, King Radio Corp, Olathe, Kansas, in succession to Mr James R. Harris who has resigned. Mr Charles A. Kingsford-Smith, son of the Australian aviation pioneer, is now a group leader in the signal sources department of Hewlett-Packard's Love- land Division, Colorado.
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