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1957
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100 FLIGHT HERE AND THERE Pembrokes for Germany AN announcement from Hunting PercivalAircraft, Ltd., says that they have signed a contract worth "more than £2m" withthe West German Government for the supply of Pembrokes. Deliveries arescheduled to begin within a few months. Syrian Rumours THE U.S. State Department said last weekit had received "unconfirmed reports" that aircraft of Soviet origin, believed to beMig-17s, had been delivered to Syria. There are also reports of Soviet tech-nicians and pilots there. Nee Ouest THE two French companies Sud-Est andOuest Aviation have been united as the Societe" Sud Aviation. The president ofthe new company, M. Georges Hereil, said that the merger would speed productionof French aircraft and add to the expan- sion of the industry. Low-cost Kolibrie THE cost of the Kolibrie H-3—which itsdesigner, in a description for Flight's special helicopter issue last November,said had "a low initial price"—has now been quoted as 70,000 guilders (about£7,000). This, it is claimed, makes it the cheapest helicopter in the world. Kingly Gesture IN the early hours of January 11 KingHussein of Jordan saw from his palace an aircraft circling Amman airport andrealized it was in trouble. He drove to the airport, ordered the runway lights to beput on and personally made radio contact with the pilot of the aircraft, a Lebaneseairliner en route from Beirut to Kuwait. It subsequently landed safely. Bell Appeal AN order from the U.S. Army for 84H-13H helicopters and spares, on a fixed- price type of contract amounting to morethan $3 million, has been announced by the NASAL ACCENTS: The new picture of Lockheed F-104As (top) emphasizes the "needle nose" and shows a firing port for a Vulcan six-barrelled 20 mm gun and the double-shock air intakes. Prominent, even in the nose of its monster Douglas C-124 test-bed, is a Pratt and Whitney T57 turboprop—at 15,000 h.p. the most powerful of its kind. Bell Helicopter Corporation. This is inaddition to previous contracts, under which the Army has ordered 105 H-13Hs (mili-tary version of the 47G-2) for use as liaison and training aircraft. Used-car Wisdom CURRENT prices for used cars and thefacts about this much-discussed market are the subject of an enlarged special-feature issue of our associated journal The Autocar next Friday (February 1). Prac-tical information and advice on purchasing a used car will be included, in addition toseveral special articles and all the usual features. Helicopter Pioneer NAMED as the first man in this countryto fly a helicopter, Mr. Robert Graham, C.B.E., F.R.Ae.S., has retired from theCivil Service after nearly forty years and joined private industry with Microcell,Ltd. While he was at the R.A.E., Farn- borough, from 1920 to 1926 Mr. Grahamwas seconded to Mr. Louis Brennan, whom the Air Ministry had commissioned todesign a helicopter; and as test pilot and chief engineer he flew the Brennan heli-copter in 1925. The Air Ministry, how- ever, decided not to proceed with it. During the last war Mr. Graham was concerned atthe R.A.E. with pressure cabins, high- altitude equipment and aircrew safetyequipment. He designed the egg-shaped air-pressure chamber for Sir WinstonChurchill's wartime flights. He went to the Ministry of Supply in 1950, his last postbeing Director of Aircraft Mechanised Engineering Equipment, Research andDevelopment. He is to be technical direc- tor of Microcell, Ltd., responsible for re-search and development in the aircraft and mechanical engineering divisions atCamberley, Surrey. Agricola for N.Z. THE first Auster Agricola to be sold inNew Zealand was delivered recently to Airlift (N.Z.), Ltd., of Rongotai Aero-drome, Wellington. The chief pilot and manager of the company, Claude R.Stephenson, has successfully completed a variety of operations (dropping super-phosphate, lime and basic slag) with the Agricola in his first 60 hours on the type. All Aboard PREFERENCE for aircraft carriers ratherthan land bases for French air forces was recently expressed by Admiral HenriNomy, Chief of Staff of the French Navy, quoted by Paris Radio. Land bases sufferfrom "nationalist troubles," he said. The last war had shown that the aircraft carrierwould remain the backbone of the great navies, and this was more true today thanever before. Philip Kidson Joins S.B.A.C. FORMERLY in charge of publicity atA. V. Roe and Co., Ltd., Manchester, Mr. Philip Kidson has joined the technicaland exhibitions section of the S.B.A.C. At the time his resignation from A. V. Roeand Co., Ltd., was announced it was stated that Mr. Kidson was seeking an appoint-ment in the south of England for the benefit of his wife's health. .. . . PIONEER AIRBORNE: A hitherto unpublished photograph of the Brennan helicopter in flight (see news item above). The 60ft rotor was driven by small propellers at two of the blade- tips, powered through shafting from a 230 h.p. B.R.2 (Bentley rotary) engine mounted hori- zontally.
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