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Aviation History
1978
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1844 FLIGHT International, 17 June (978 Who's selling what What's new Ferranti (Gem Mill, Chadderton, Oldham 0L9 8NP) has announced a new radar video generator, the Cirrus 100. Applications can include ATC simulators and the provision of back ground detail in naval operational training equipment. Two independent picture channels are used, allowing secondary effects—clouds, permanent echoes and sea clutter—to be super imposed over the basic video map. The self-contained unit operates from a 24V DC supply and can be mounted in a 19in rack. Jetway (Box 9368, 3100 South 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, Ogden, Utah 84409) has introduced a ground- level loading bridge. The GL-1 is suit able for small terminals and needs only one foundation. It has double- wall construction and can reach the door sills of the DC-9, Boeing 727 and 737 and similar aircraft. Swing angle ranges from 0° to 90°, and the end cab can be rotated through 15° or extended by 0-76m. Aerospace Aircraft Group (Brooklands Road, Weybridge, Sur rey) has won a £1 million contract to work on USAF F-llls based in Eur ope. Under the agreement BAe Filton will replace the windshields of 45 Fills at RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk. The company has also undertaken to replace the pyrotechnic ejection sys tem and to perform some mainten ance on a further 19 aircraft; this work will be done at Filton. Howell Instruments (Fort Worth, Texas) has appointed Spar Aero space Products (Toronto, Canada) as the Canadian service station for its airborne products and ground test equipment. Howell's airborne range includes servo and solid-state indica tors, hot-section analysers and turbine- engine monitors. Ground equipment is sold under the trade name Jetcal Analyzers and includes test sets for turbine-engine trim and analysis. Sperry Flight Systems (Phoenix, Arizona 85036) is supplying a high- gain antenna system (HGAS) for transferring data between Nasa's Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) space craft and the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS). The first HGAS will be delivered to the God- dard Space Flight Centre in October, one year before the SMM spacecraft is scheduled to be launched. Once operating, SMM will gather data on solar flares and flare-related phenom ena during the next solar-flare peak period in 1980. The 4 • 26ft-diameter HGAS antenna can be steered through a total angle of 220° in each axis, and when deployed from the spacecraft will offer line-of-sight com munication with TDRSS. While Jetway loading bridges have become commonplace at large airports, they are often difficult to install at smaller terminals. The new CL-I loading bridge attaches to the terminal ground floor and is priced to suit second-level airport operators (see story) GTE Sylvania (One Stamford Forum, Stamford, Connecticut 06904) has received a $1-2 million contract covering the installation of communi cations and navigation equipment at Puerto Plata International Airport, Dominican Republic. The company will fit out the control tower and equipment room, and supply a remote VHF communications station and a VOR/DME set. There will be four VHF radio channels, and a complete set of meteorological equipment is also to be supplied. Rockwell International (400 Collins Road NE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52406) is to supply $1-28 million-worth of 628T-1 high-frequency single-sideband radio transceivers to Pan Am. The equipment will be installed in Boeing 707s, 727s and 747s. Park Air Electronics (Northfields, Market Deeping, Peterborough PE6 8LG) has signed an exclusive sales agreement with Comco (PO Box 520, Coral Gables, Florida 33134). Comco will represent PAE in the USA and Central and South America, and will hold stocks of PAE equipment at its Miami base. Who's where Sten. Gustafsson has been appointed president of Saab-Scania as from July 1. He will succeed Dr Curt Mileikow- sky, who has held the post since 1968. Ronald C. Clegg has been named treasurer/controller at Bell Opera tions Corporation, a division formed by Bell Helicopter in November 1975 to carry out a long-term co-produc tion agreement with the Iranians. Sir Richard Smeeton is to retire as director of the Society of British Aero space Companies at the end of Jan- ury next year. He will be succeeded by Air Marshal Sir Charles Pringle, who is to relinquish his position with Rolls-Royce on joining SBAC. John Ferguson Smith has taken over responsibility for civil marketing strategy within the British Aerospace Aircraft Group and is working as managing director (civil). He is now based at Kingston. Alexander Stuart Watson has been appointed marketing director (mili tary) of the British Aerospace Air craft Group. David Sinker has taken over as man aging director of Hunting Survey and Consultants. Mr T. D. Weatherhead, his predecessor, has retired. Admiral Sir Raymond Lygo has joined the board of the British Aerospace Dynamics Group. He has been appointed managing director of the Hatfield/Lostock division.
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