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1986
1986 - 0838.PDF
INDUSTRY Dowty wins vectored- thrust contract CHELTENHAM Dowty Boulton Paul is to supply the fly-by-wire (FBW) Harrier tailplane actuation for BAe and the Royal Aircraft Establishment. The Harrier has been converted by the College of Aeronautics at Cranfield, and will be tested by RAE Bedford as part of Britain's vectored-thrust aircraft advanced flight control (VAAC) programme. The digital FBW flight con trol system will test British Aerospace's VAAC design con cepts, the most important research element of which will be investigations in the pitch plane. Dowty has produced the FBW actuator and a hyd raulic spring box for control of the Harrier tailplane. The FBW actuator has duplex electrical signalling with linear velocity displace ment transducers for servo valve spool position and ram position feedback. Output loads from the actuator are controlled by an integral load limit valve. In the event of failure, the actuator is de- energised by a solenoid valve and the FBW system is declutched from the existing mechanically signalled con trol circuit. Since 1956, when a Tay- engined Viscount became the first aircraft to fly with an FBW flight-control system, which was designed and manufactured by Dowty Boul ton Paul, the company has evolved FBW equipment for a range of aircraft including the Vulcan, Buccaneer, VC10, Concorde, Tornado, BAe One- Eleven, A300-600, Agusta 129, AMX, FBW Jaguar, and BAe's latest Experimental Aircraft Programme (EAP) fighter demonstrator. • Dowty Boulton Paul becomes the first British supplier to the Boeing-Bell V-22 Osprey. After a two-year "hard sell" of its advanced active control expertise, the British company has been awarded a contract worth potentially £10 million for the supply of two actuators per rudder, each full time fly-by- wire and operating at 5,0001b/in2. Mexico signs up with BAe MEXICO CITY British Aerospace has signed a technical co-operation agreement with Mexico, paving the way for collabo ration between the two coun tries. The agreement follows initiatives taken during 1985 by the Mexican authorities and British Aerospace, and the visit to the United King dom by the president of Mexico last June. British Aerospace and the Mexican authorities will study a whole range of civil aviation and aerospace indus trial activities to identify areas of common interest. Mexico has a big and varied air transport industry, and its two national airlines will carry more than 16 million passengers in 1986. The coun try also has a large general- aviation sector. These civil Mexican indus tries clearly offer a big poten tial for the manufacture and operation of BAe products such as the A300, A310, A320, 146, 748, ATP, Jetstream 31, and 125. British Aerospace has industrial partnership agree ments with 23 countries covering technology transfer in manufacturing, as well as support and training. Dowty Boulton Paul's fly-by-wire actuator for the RAE's vectored- thrust aircraft advanced flight control (VAAC) programme Carbon wing for Osprey Wing skin for the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, of which six prototypes are to be ordered, is made by Bell's new Ingersoll tape-laying machine at Fort Worth. First flight is scheduled for 1988. WHO'S NEWS Dr Giinther Wagner moves from MTU Munich to become managing director operations MTU Maintenance Langen- hagen, reporting to Manfred Holz. Giinther Kell moves from MTU Maintenance to MTU Munich as manu facturing director. Bengt Eriksson is promoted to president and chief execu tive officer of Volvo Flygmotor, effective August 1. He succeeds Gunnar Johansson, who next year becomes president and chief operating officer of AB Volvo. Per-Erik Mohlin takes up the new position of vice- president and general manager of Volvo Flygmotor's aerospace division. Canadian John Feneley succeeds Norwegian Ole Haga as chairman of the Inmarsat council, decision making body of the 45 member-country Inter national Maritime Satellite Organisation. Societe Europeenne des Satellites appoints Marcus Bicknell commercial direc tor. He joins SES from Music Box, the London-based music television channel available via the ECS F-l satellite. Peter Paraskos is promoted to president and chief execu tive officer of Systron Donner, taking over from Christopher Power, who transfers back to parent company Thorn EMI in London, where he takes over as managing director of the new sensors and security systems business. Graham Baker is appointed European sales manager for Systron Donner's inertial division. Baker joins Systron Donner from GEC Avionics. Penril appoints Alva Bonda, treasurer since 1970, presi dent and chief executive offi cer, succeeding Kenneth M. Miller, retiring. Harry Christenson, the company's principal financial officer, is named executive vice- president and chief operating officer. Gould NavCom Systems appoints Hugh Windland director field marketing. He was most recently manager military requirements for Litton data systems. MEL avionics division appoints Norman Dyer manager lightweight airborne systems. Dyer was previously manager system design at Westland. Ray Williams is named military marketing manager of Fiberite Corporation, an ICI subsidiary. Williams has more than 30 years' experi ence in composite technology, and was previously with the manufacturing and engineer ing divisions of Teledyne Ryan, General Dynamics, and Narmco. Page Avjet Corporation appoints Bob Greer general manager sales, aircraft modification and mainte nance division. He was previously with Grumman Bethpage and Atlantic Aviation. WHAT'S HAPPENING "Plastics in Civil Aircraft Construction and Furnishing" is the theme of the Aeroplas 86 conference at the Brussels Sheraton Hotel, May 21-22. Contact Carole Kluth, BIS Marketing Research, 13 High Street, Thornbury, Bristol BS12 2AE. England; tel 0454 419505. FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, 5 April 1986 •
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