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FLIGHT International, 27 June 1963 1021 floor has quickly removable sides and back. That the floor measures 5ft 8in wide by 17ft long indicates that the Cargomaster would accept not only normal packaged loads but also such specialized items as cars or cattle. Payload is six tons, and the vehicle is powered by a Ford 592E diesel. VTOL Co-operation Detailing their own part in the Mirage III V and the VJ-101, Avica Equipment Ltd, Mark Road, Hemel Hempstead, Herts, state that they believe, "in view of the importance of VTOL and STOL combat aircraft of all types, and the strides which are being made in France and Germany hard on the heels of our Hawker P.1127." that the part which British manufacturers are playing in Europe in this field should be made known. Avicaflex internally sleeved stainless steel bellows expansion joints have been selected by Marcel Dassault for use through out the lift-engine airstart piping system on the Mirage III V; and Avicaflex type "W" stainless-steel flexible pipes and clips are used by Entwicklungsring Sud on the VJ-101. High-pressure Flexible Tubing In a refer ence to a Flight International mention of "the only 4,0001b/sq in (281kg/sq cm) flexible in Europe" in the June 6 Paris Show Guide issue, the Power Flexible Tubing Co Ltd, Derby Works, Vale Road, London N4, state that as actual manufac turers of flexible tubing they have had on the market, since February 1960, stainless steel flexible tubing, designed for the air craft industry, capable of operating at this pressure. COMPANY NEWS Mr D. J. Millard of Boulton Paul Aircraft (news item below) Boulton Paul Director Mr Dennis J. Millard, chief engineer of Boulton Paul Aircraft Ltd since 1961, has been appointed to the board of the company, which is in the Dowty Group. Mr Millard, who is 50, joined Boulton Paul in 1938 and was closely associated with, and later responsible for, the design of BP gun turrets used on many British and American aircraft in the Second World War. He was also responsible for the fully powered flying control systems installed first in the Princess flying-boats, then in the BP delta-wing research aircraft and cur rently in the Vulcan, Valiant, Buccaneer, Belfast, VC10 and BAC One-eleven. Napier Commercial Manager Mr J. M. Gardner, AMiprodE, has been appointed commercial manager of the Luton Division of D. Napier & Son Ltd, an English Electric Group company. He will be responsible for all commercial activities —including sales, contracts, services and publicity—in the division, which specialises in all forms of aircraft electrical ice protec tion, control and detection equipment and heated windscreens, windows and canopies. Mr Gardner, who is 38, joined Napier in 1951 as senior technical assistant in the research department. During the war he flew with the RAF, in the PFF and subse quently in Transport Command. GpCaptD.P, Hanafin, CBE, DFC, AFC, for merly OC Experi mental Flying Dept, RAE Farnborough, who has joined S. Davall & Sons Ltd, precision instrumentation en gineers, of Greenford, Middx, on retirement from the RAF USA IGE HFB 320 Contract An order worth more than f 2m has been placed by Hamburger Flugzeugbau GmbH, 10 Kreet- slag, 2103 Hamburg Finkenwerder, West Germany, with International General Elec tric Co, for GE a.c. and d.c. power genera ting systems and instruments for 150 HFB 320 Hansas. IGE is a division of General Electric Co, 159 Madison Ave, New York 16, NY. The electrical systems, consisting of a.c. generators and d.c. starter generators with associated regulators and controls, have been sold as a package. Instruments include fuel flow systems, temperature indicators and tachometers. Delivery is to be spread over the next four years. The 320 Hansa Flight International, June 6 and 13) is powered by two rear- mounted General Electric CJ610-ls. Project Surveyor Computers Beckman Instruments Inc, 2200 Wright Avenue, Richmond, Calif, recently announced re ceipt of a $500,000 contract from Hughes Aircraft Co for two analogue computers to be used in the development of the Project Surveyor space vehicle and other aerospace programmes. The equipment will be de signed and built at the company's Berkeley Division, Richmond, Calif, for Hughes' Space Systems Division in El Segundo. The Berkeley Division manager. Mr Frank J. Newman, has said that the computers will be used to solve design problems in the control and guidance systems of the Sur veyor vehicle and to simulate landings of the spacecraft on the moon. Rocket Motor Cases Contract A research contract for the design, fabrication and testing of four ultra-high-strength 40in- diameter rocket motor cases has been received by Curtiss-Wright Corp, Wood- Ridge, NJ, from the Research and Tech nology Division, Air Force Systems Com mand, Edwards AFB, Calif. The cases are to be made of 18 per cent nickel maraging steel. France Alitalia Autolanding Alitalia is to become the first airline to offer fleet-wide cap ability for automatic landing by fitting its 16 Caravelles with the Lear/Sud single-channel system. Initially, the system will be used for landing in lOOft/imile minima and a certification programme is under way in France to this effect. The automatic land ing capability is not intended for routine commercial use, though its operation has been convincingly demonstrated by several hundred successful landings, a number of them in actual blind conditions. Sud state that all future Caravelles will be fitted with the Lear/Sud system as standard equip ment at no extra cost. European representatives of Lear Sieg- Ier are American Avitron Inc, who have subsidiary companies in many European countries. The F. L. Douglas (Equipment) Cargomaster, described at the foot of col 3 opposite. It is seen, right, at zero loading height; below, with the floor fully elevated; and in the third picture with the floor at an intermediate position and closed-in for the road mm
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