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1040 FLIGHT International, 2JJune (970 INDUSTRY International Products Company News Shipborne Ferranti The Microwave Group of the Electronics Department of Ferranti Ltd has been awarded a para metric amplifier sub-contract as part of a Ministry of Defence (Navy) contract won by GEC-AEI (Electronics) Ltd for the development of a small ship-borne satellite communications terminal (Scot). The sub-contract covers the tailoring of existing designs to produce a develop ment model suitable for the GEC-AEI system, and includes an option on a further eight production equipments. The parametric amplifier has a very low noise characteristic, which, without the aid of cooling for maximum simpli city and minimum cost, is instrumental in allowing the use of the small- diameter (3^ft) dish aerial which is incorporated in the equipment. Computers for HSA Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd has placed a significant order with Honeywell for two medium scale, multi-processing scientific com puters. The computers, both H632 systems from Honeywell's Series 32 range, are to be delivered to Hawker Siddeley's Hatfield factory this summer and are collectively valued at approximately £150,000. Forming the basis for an advanced aircraft simulation system, the two com puters will play a central role in a new simulation centre being developed to satisfy all of Hawker Siddeley's research and test requirements. The computers, A Britannia of RAF Air Support Command flies past the antenna of the Plessey ACR430 radar at Norwich Airport following the official opening of the airport by Mr Roy Mason, President of the Board of Trade, on May 30. The ACR430 at Norwich is the first to be delivered to an airport authority. It has been designed specifically to meet the needs of both civil and military airfields for an accurate surveillance radar approach aid and short range surveillance radar equipment Printed circuit board assemblies move on conveyor track Relectrovert 364 wave-soldering system at Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical in Son Diego, California. A moving wave of molten solder, heated to 500° F, 260°C seals electrical connections on boards, which are used in aircraft and spacecraft guidance and control systems. The technique is claimed to be three times faster than conventional hand soldering which replace analogue facilities cur rently Used by the group, will work in a dual mode, with one H632 handling the computing and input/output func tions associated ' with standard peri pherals, and the other handling the com puting and input/output for the special purpose simulator cabin. Export Success Nearly £100 million in value of aerospace products were exported from the UK in the first four months of this year. This figure is an increase of more than £7 million over that for the same period in 1969. April was a particularly good month for the British industry; according to Customs and Excise returns, aerospace exports totalled £27,624,000, with over £1 million of this figure accounted for by guided weapons. The leading markets for British products are the European Economic Community (£15 million, so far during 1970) and the Commonwealth (£13 million). Firebee Contract BAC's Guided Weapons Division has received a £22,000 contract from the Ministry of Technology to study the feasibility of operating the supersonic Firebee II target aircraft system from the Mintech range at Cardigan Bay, Wales. This contract follows a sales and manufacturing agreement made between BAC and Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical Co, San Diego, Calif, the manufacturers of the Firebee II, in 1968. The feasibility study will last about a year, during which time all aspects of operating Firebee II for service practice firings of weapon systems will be investi gated, including methods of retrieval and compatability with existing range facili ties. Extensive use will be made of the flight simulator at Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical Co. Firebee II can be launched from under an aircraft's wing or from the ground. PEOPLE AND POSTS George C. D. Russell, Chairman and managing director of Handley Page from 1962 to 1966, Mr George Clifford Dowsett Russell died suddenly on June 12 at the age • of 68. He had succeeded the late Sir Frederick Handley Page as chairman and managing director, and after his own retirement retained a seat on the company's board. Mr Russell had joined Handley Page as an engineering apprentice in 1919: later he held a number of technical and administrative posts and during the Second World War was personal techni cal assistant to Sir Frederick Handley Page. In 1947 he was appointed com pany secretary and in 1953 became assistant managing director. Nadgeco Appointment Nadgeco Ltd, the six-nation company responsible for the installation of the Nato Air Defence Ground Environment, has appointed Mr Richard H. Reed to be vice- president of operations. Mr Arthur Nicholls has been made managing director of Delaney Gallay Ltd, in succession to Mr Denis Harwood-Jones who was recently made divisional chief executive in charge of Lindustries' engineering companies. Mr Nicholls joins Delaney Gallay from the Boeing Company in Seattle. Mr Jess F. Dowdy has been promoted to division manager, aerospace products, of the Borg-Warner International Corp. Mr G. R. Wrixon has been appointed editor of the two organs of the Royal Aeronautical Society, The Aeronautical Journal and Aerospace. The appointment of Mr P. W. W. Coultard as cargo manager is announced by British Air Ferries. Mr Coultard will be based at BAF's Southend head quarters.
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