FLIGHT

Aircraft, Spacecraft, Missiles

(September 9^th 1960)

This is a special larger issue containing the Farnborough Report

The magazine published for the serious aero enthusiast and the official organ of the Royal Aero Club.  Packed with technical and specification data and well illustrated with photographs and drawings throughout.

Front cover:

Advert:  The RAF Benevolent Fund – Battle Of Britain Week

In this issue:

From All Quarters  (The 150m touch, Britain’s first satellite, “Taffy” Jones – obituary, Leon Biancotto – obituary, Fifty years of DH aeroplanes, In brief.  Includes small photographs of the Blue Water surface-to-surface missile and the DH 53 Humming Bird in flight)

BLC [Boundary Layer Control] For Drag Reduction

Inside Spadeadam  (A review of a rocket test stand in Cumberland)

Air Commerce  (Skyways and the Argosy, BEA and the Herald, QANTAS profit puzzle, Walk up – walk on, Sabena subsidised, Fixed period notams, Crisis in Ceylon, Viscounts for Cambrian, Canadair 540s for Quebecair, American supersonics, Next step to a Midland airport, Britain’s transatlantic terminals, Three thousand hours for the Dart, New angles on traffic rights, France gives London to the US, Which are the busiest airports, Brevities.  Includes photographs of the DH Heron in flight and a Bedford truck carrying a Palouste silenced I.p. air starter in the form of a pack used at Prestwick Airport)

Twenty-First SBAC Show – The Regrouped Industry Displays Its Wings

            The Aircraft  (A summary of 47 British aircraft and helicopters in alphabetical order from the Armstrong Whitworth AW 650 Argosy to the Westland Whirlwind.  In addition to four half-page photographs of the Armstrong Whitworth AW 650 Argosy, the Blackburn Buccaneer, the prototype Avro 748 and the Folland Gnat Trainer there are smaller photographs of the Jet Provost T.4, the Hawker Hunter two-seater, the Vulcan B.2, the Lancashire Prospector and the Short SC.1.  It should be noted that against the name of some aircraft is a small “” mark in blue ink – presumably placed by the original owner)

            Britain’s Latest Transports  (A one-page of profile drawings by comparable size of transport aircraft from the diminutive Short SC.7 Skyvan to the Vickers-Armstrongs Super VC.10 with an inset of descriptive text)

            Monday’s Flying  (A 2-page report illustrated with small photographs of a formation of a variety of Westland Helicopters, a formation of four Lightnings, the Handley Page Victor B.2, the Sea Vixen and a largeformation of Hawker Hunters)

            Highlights And Sidelights Of The Static Show  (A lightplane turboprop, The optimised BS.75 turbofan, Propulsion for VTOL … and supersonics, A communication satellite project, Strategic stand-off bomb, Seacat’s guidance revealed, VTOL control and lift fans, New propeller, Side-folding nose gear, Constant-speed-drive starters, New HF data link, Multiple feel simulator, New noise suppressor, New pipe materials.  Includes a small photograph of a model of the Westland SR-N2 hovercraft)

European Congress Of Aviation Medicine  (New methods, Element of prediction)

Looking-In On The Industry – Impressions Of Aircraft And Engine Production In 1960  (An interesting 10-page feature presented in a series of impressions based on visits to a number of firms which have been recorded by drawings and verbally with a supplementation of photographs.  The aim has been to look at progress in some of the industry’s main centres.  Illustrated with some lovely sketches of aircraft including the Handley Page Herald, a Jet Provost under assembly, the DH Comet 4B production line, the Blackburn NA.39 [Bucanneer], a DH Gyron Junior engine being installed into a modified Javelin plus a Martin-Baker ejection seat test rig)

            The Flying Display Pilots  (3 pages of portrait photographs and a brief summary of each of the forty-eight test pilots who are demonstrating aircraft at the SBAC show)

Testing Circumstances – Routine Of The Test Pilot’s Day  (Varied experience, Avoiding airways)

Flight System Survey  (BOAC order Marconi 60 series, New Elliot tape recorder, Electro-pneumatic pressurisation control, Collins weather radar)

Missiles And Spaceflight – Control Of Outer Space  (Types of co-operation, A preliminary examination, An insoluble problem?, Specific problems, Government and industry roles, Antarctic Treaty analogy)

Sport And Business  (Includes a small photograph of the Dewoitine D-26)

Service Aviation – Air Force, Naval And Army Flying News  (MEAF appointment, Queen’s Chaplains, 893 Sqn. re-formed, Technical training SASO, In brief plus a photograph of a formation of aircraft including a Spitfire PR19, Hurricane IIC, Meteor F.8, Hunter F.6, Javelin FAW.9 and a Lightnng F.1 plus a photograph of the aircraft on the tarmac at RAF Coltishall)

plus more including adverts for the Lockheed STOL Hercules (double-page), Field Aircraft Services Limited (double-page), Redifon ATC Radar Simulator, Rellumit Aircraft Refuelling Equipment, Decca DASR-1 Surveillance Radar, Murex Ground Power Units, Palmer Aero Prooducts Ltd., Marconi Doppler Navigation Equipment, Henshall Airliner Galley Equipment, Burnley Aircraft Products Ltd., Honeywell Micro Switches, the Republic F-105 Thunderchief, Rist’s Wires & Cables Ltd., Ferranti, Vinten Cameras & Photographic Equipment, Plessey, Irvin Air Chute of Great Britain Ltd., Fibreglass Limited, the Handley-Page Dart Herald, Westland Helicopters, Bristol Siddeley Engines Limited (double-page), English Electric Constant Frequency AC Generating System – Victor B.2, High Duty Alloys (colour), Hobson Fuel Booster Pumps (colour), De Havilland Trident, Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer 3, the Hunting Jet Provost, Martin-Baker Ejection Seats, Lucas Rotax (4-page colour fold-out), Delaney Gallay Ltd Oil Coolers and Fuel Heaters (colour), G.Q. Parachute Co. Ltd., Vandervell Bushes (double-page), Graseby Instruments Ltd., BAC TSR2, Cossor Radar and Electronics Limited, Flight Refuelling Limited, British Oxygen Aviation Services, Marconi Airport and Radio Systems, Weston Aircraft Instruments, SkyHi Service and Salvage Equipment, Bolton Hangar Doors, Cellon Aircraft Finishes – Jet Provost (colour) and the AW.660 Military Transport.

Other than a few bumps, marks and knocks to the cover and page edges and corners (see photograph) this magazine is in very good condition throughout with all pages firmly held by the rusty but sound staples.  All pages are present, intact and free from tears and have no creases or significant marks other than some typical light age-related discolouration to the page edges.