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1975
1975 - 0908.PDF
814 WORLD NEWS of all air-carrier accidents but draws no conclusions from the statistical tables. A fuller analysis will be pub lished when final figures become avail able. Paris Salon opens next week There will be 575 exhibitors and 190 aircraft from 20 countries at Le Bourget next week when the 31st Salon de l'Aeronautique is formally opened on Friday May 30 by the president of France, M Giscard d'Estaing, May 29 will be the press preview day. Though there will be fewer exhibitors than at the 1973 Salon, the show will still feature the contenders for the major production orders of the next decade. Face to face for the first time will be the F-16, Mirage F.1E and Saab Viggen, the types which are hotly contesting the European F-104G re placement order. There also will be the F-15 Eagle, F-14 Tomcat, YF-17, A-10 and both of the competing Uttas helicopters, the YUH-60 and YUH-61. Concorde and a production-model Tu-144 will face each other. New Zealand will participate for the first time, showing a Fletcher Fu-24 and the CT.4. The United States, Russia, Britain and Canada will have national block stands. The main Russian emphasis indoors will be on the Apollo-Soyuz mock-up; the real space craft will fly during July. VFW-Fokker will be showing a full-scale model of the Soacelab manned shuttle payload. Significant absentees from the show include Piper, Martin Marietta and Hughes Aircraft. At the week-ends the Salon will be ooen to the general public from 0930hr to 1800hr, but public access will be limited until 1230hr during each week day. There will be individual flying demonstrations every day, but the only major display programme will be on June 7 and this will not include formation aerobatics, with the possible exception of the Rothmans team, and no "group flights". Civil air craft will only demonstrate their normal range of manoeuvres. On June 8, the final Sunday, all the display aircraft of June 7 will be parked in a public enclosure while helicopters, small aircraft and para chutists give their displays in the background. Full details of means of access and layout of the show will appear in Flight next week, together with an outline guide to exhibits and a review of the aviation scene on the eve of the show. First on-the-spot report from Le Bourget, prepared by our team of specialist writers, cameraman and artists will appear in Flight for June 5 and will be followed on June 12 by an in-depth review of the new trends and developments and an illustrated report of the main flying display. All entrance tickets: bought during the show will be drawn in a raffle for which the prize will be a return flight for two by Concorde to Caracas, Vene zuela, with a three-day stay in the City. $118 million Canadian grants During the past ten years the Cana dian Government has made grants totalling $118 million (about £49 mil lion) to the country's two main air craft companies, de Havilland Aircraft of Canada and Canadair. The latter received $53-7 million and de Havil land $64-5 million. All but $8-2 mil lion of this is defined as potentially recoverable, presumably in the form of levies on sales. The Canadian Government has bought de Havilland and is negotiat ing to purchase Canadair with a view to creating a single, independent Canadian aircraft company. Back to Pratt & Whitney Canada's United Aircraft engine concern is changing its name to Pratt & Whitney Aircraft of Canada, thus reverting to its original style follow ing a change of name to United Tech nologies by parent company United Aircraft of Canada. The international segment of the parent company is changing its name to United Tech nologies International and will in due course move from East Hartford into a new head-office building in Hartford, Conn. The other members of the group. FLIGHT Intcrnotiono/, 22 May I97S Pratt & Whitney Aircraft at East Hartford, Sikorsky Aircraft at Strat ford, Conn, Hamilton Standard at Hartford, Norden at Norwalk, Conn, and United Technology Centre at Sunnyvale, Calif, retain their original names. US research examined The US Congress is to take a "top to bottom look" at all military and civil aviation research sponsored by the US Government over the next year or two. Research effort will be steered towards programmes leading to hard ware. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will be encouraged to concentrate on basic research, includ ing such fields as hydrogen fuel, and to "get out of the hardware business." This was said last week by Congress man Dale Milford (Texas), chairman of the aviation sub-committee of the House of Representatives Science and Technology Committee. Public transport accidents The registration of the Philippine Airlines HS.748 which crashed on take»off from Manila on May 10 (Flight last week, page 781) was RP-C-1029. • A Bristol 170 of Air Express, VH-SJQ, crashed in the Bass Strait on May 10; one pilot was killed and the other is missing. An engine is re ported to have failed. • The lower rear fuselage of a British Airways TriStar was damaged during an automatic landing at Heath row on May 12. There were no injuries to passengers or crew. • The trailing edge of a starboard flap detached from British Airways 747 G-AWNB during a training flight at Prestwick on May 16. That missing Swordfish Many readers were disappointed that the Fairey Swordfish Flightcolour did not appear last week, as billed on the cover. It appears at the back of this issue. We regret the vexation caused by this editorial gremlin. Dassault will show a mock-up of the Falcon 50 at the Paris Salon. It is seen here looking no less real than the Falcon 20 and Falcon 10 alongside
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