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Eartoground 32 AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING December 1971 be done effectively without undermining the role and confidence of those who must manage and execute the projects? "Obviously," he concluded, "somehow be­ Ear to ground tween us all we have got to get nearer to producing the ideal solution." First airship for twenty years Construction of the first airship to be seen over Britain for over 20 years will begin soon at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Bedfordshire. A team of technicians of the Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Co will build the airship which is expected to be ready for test flights in April. This new airship, which will be named "Europa", will be 192ft long, 59ft high and 50ft wide and will be inflated with helium. Power during flight will be provided by twin six-cylinder 210 h.p. engines giving the airship a 500 mile range. Cruising speed will be Aerospace instrumentation at Cranfield form, a Decca Doppler radar and map display, an 35 m.p.h. with a maximum of 50 m.p.h. The normal Provisional programme of the seventh International Elliott air data unit, and a Ferranti ISIS sight head. flying altitude will be between 1,000 and 3,000ft with Aerospace Instrumentation Symposium, has been Another important feature in the 105G is a modified a ceiling of 7,500ft. The airship will have a 23ft long announced. It will be held at Cranfield from 20 to 23 wing leading edge, using a so-called "peaky profile", cab and will be able to carry six passengers in addition March with the exhibition occupying the afternoon of which has already been tested in about 150 flights and to the pilot. the Tuesday. Details available from the Symposium enables load factors in the high-speed regime to be Goodyear has constructed more lighter-than-air Organiser, Department of Flight, Cranfield Institute more than doubled. craft than any other company in the world and this of Technology. In order to adapt the stick forces at high speed to will be the 300th built by the company. Of this num­ the new wing configuration, an elevator servo system ber 55 have been civil airships the others were built Old Russian engines never die will be incorporated. A rain-repellent system will also for military use. be introduced. Old aircraft engines never die - they are used for power production, if they are in Russia. Two 70,000kW engines of the TU 104 which are no A Yugoslav Gazelle longer airworthy are being incorporated in the design Yugoslavia is to produce a special version of the of a 140,000kW gas turbine station to be built at Anglo-French SA 341 Gazelle helicopter. The Jugo- Kazan on the Volga. Tests show that power plants import light helicopter version, originally developed with aircraft engines can be brought up to designed under the responsibility of Aerospatiale and in co­ capacity in two minutes, so the plants are highly operation with Westland Helicopters, will be powered practical for peak hours. Furthermore the cost of a by the Astazou III turbine. kilowatt is less than for conventional steam plants. The converted aircraft engines can work on Livery preview natural gas or diesel fuel and they have noise ab­ A preview of the 1972 style internal livery of the sorbers and exhaust filters. Skyvan is available to passengers of Malaysian Air As they can be easily moved on lorries, barges or Charter. This first production aircraft includes rail cars, they are being used for power stations in individual overhead luggage lockers in the forward sparsely populated areas. half of the 20 seat layout, big airliner comfort standard seats and jumbo-style panoramic windows. These Fluidic ejection seat fortunate passengers will be travelling on feeder routes Prototype fluidic controls for a new pilot ejection to the Jumbo jet ingernational trunk routes. seat being developed for fighter aircraft are being produced for the US Navy by Honeywell Ltd. The seat leaves the aircraft at a rate of 60ft/scc under a Extended 727 4,0001b thrust rocket motor that is fired for a half The first new high-performance 727 Boeing jet second. Mr Ronald Bailey, programme manager at airliners are to be delivered to All Nippon Airways Honeywell, said the controls will operate inde­ of Japan early next year. They will be new high-gross pendently of the aircraft in keeping the pilot and his weight aircraft with extended range and higher seat upright as it is rocketed from the aircraft. payload capability with a maximum weight of Special throttle for the Airbus "The fluidic control system is closed loop and has 191,000 lb, an increase of 18,000 lb over the standard A special version of the automatic throttle control no moving mechanical parts, thus providing low 727. They carry a full payload of up to 800 miles system required for the A300B European Airbus is maintenance and high reliability," Mr Bailey said. further. to include two modes. One will control the engines The system uses a type of freon fluid that has high They also have a "superjet look" interior with more during take-off so as to achieve maximum permissible density and employs thrust-vector-control secondary space for passengers, larger overhead storage com­ thrust under the given conditions. In the other the injection to produce a stability moment (force times partments and improved cabin lighting and air engine thrust will be controlled in function of the distance). Also included is a vortex rate sensor and conditioning. commanded air speed during cruise and landing five fluidic amplifiers in cascade. approach. The throttle levers are not to have a back- clutch so that there is no need for overriding the Three-nation company have MRCA Radome designs Passenger carrying RB 211 for February delivery clutch manually in order to overpower the control The British Aircraft Corporation is collaborating The first passenger carrying Rolls Royce RB 211 system. with AEG-Telefunken and Fiat in submitting pro­ engines are due to be delivered in February. This is The throttle control system is being manufactured posals to Panavia for development and manufacture ahead of schedule, largely because of the extensive by Bodenscewerk Geratetechnik GmbH who are of the Radome for the Multi-role Combat Aircraft. use of ground rigs on which systems had been de­ BAC will be providing their facilities for microwave also participating in the manufacture of the SPAD veloped and refined to the point that when they are plastics production, probably the most sophisticated brake control system as well as the trim computer on the aircraft they are already "debugged". Conse­ in Europe and already producing the largest range of and landing flap sensor. quently all major aspects of the aircraft, such as Radomes in Europe; Telefunken their reinforced flutter testing, proving of the speed range and con­ plastics facilities and Fiat their extensive electronic Jaguar weapon control system trollability is already about six weeks ahead of facilities. Acceptance of the Plessey Communications design schedule. for the Jaguar weapon control system means the system will be divided into two parts. The main unit Next year is TF 34 Engine year The future of international co-operation will house the control logic while the control unit 1972 promises to be General Electric's TF 34 high "Internationalised companies with, ideally, inte­ will be equipped with pilot operated switches in­ bypass turbofan engine year. The 9,0001b thrust grated managements, finance and physical resources cluding a "clear aircraft" switch. Solid state and operated with maximum efficiency in our mutual engine has been selected by the US Navy for their digital techniques are to be employed and no single interests," is how Mr David Price, parliamentary Lockheed built S-3A anti-submarine warfare aircraft fault can cause an unscheduled release of weapons under secretary of state for aerospace forecast the scheduled for first flight early next year. Then in the or disable the jettison system. The initial production future in a speech at Edinburgh. But, he warned, to summer, two TF 34 engines will be powering the order is valued at about £150,000. achieve this it will be necessary "to move well beyond first flight of the A 10 US Air Force advanced close ad hoc collaboration on particular projects to a much support aircraft. Further than this, the TF 34 has deeper degree of industrial association" and he went been selected to power the US Air Force AWACS Guidance subsystem goes ahead on to point out this will need great initiatives at aircraft being developed by the Boeing Company. Production of the short range attack missile industrial level taken within an assured framework of guidance subsystem for the US Air Force is expected government goodwill and encouragement. Extended Saab 105 to continue at least into May, 1973. This confidence Prototype of an extended Saab 105G, designed to Mr Price pointed out that any major advanced is engendered by an initial funding of 3·29 million extend mission capabilities of the 105, is expected to aircraft project which may be undertaken in Europe dollars for the second phase of the contract held by in the foreseeable future would require more launching the Kearfott Division as sub contractor to the fly in March. While still powered by two GE J-85-17B money than the private sector can ordinarily com­ Boeing Company. jet engines, the 105G will have a new avionics pack­ mand. If the extra is to come from the taxpayer, age. This will include a high-precision navigation and Kearfott supply the gyro stabilised platform, com­ then the government must insist the funding is satis­ attack system consisting of a Saab BT9R laser ranging prising a two axis non-floated design with two gyros factorily monitored. 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32 AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING December 1971 be done effectively without undermining the role and confidence of those who must manage and execute the projects? "Obviously," he concluded, "somehow be­ Ear to ground tween us all we have got to get nearer to producing the ideal solution." First airship for twenty years Construction of the first airship to be seen over Britain for over 20 years will begin soon at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Bedfordshire. A team of technicians of the Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Co will build the airship which is expected to be ready for test flights in April. This new airship, which will be named "Europa", will be 192ft long, 59ft high and 50ft wide and will be inflated with helium. Power during flight will be provided by twin six-cylinder 210 h.p. engines giving the airship a 500 mile range. Cruising speed will be Aerospace instrumentation at Cranfield form, a Decca Doppler radar and map display, an 35 m.p.h. with a maximum of 50 m.p.h. The normal Provisional programme of the seventh International Elliott air data unit, and a Ferranti ISIS sight head. flying altitude will be between 1,000 and 3,000ft with Aerospace Instrumentation Symposium, has been Another important feature in the 105G is a modified a ceiling of 7,500ft. The airship will have a 23ft long announced. It will be held at Cranfield from 20 to 23 wing leading edge, using a so-called "peaky profile", cab and will be able to carry six passengers in addition March with the exhibition occupying the afternoon of which has already been tested in about 150 flights and to the pilot. the Tuesday. Details available from the Symposium enables load factors in the high-speed regime to be Goodyear has constructed more lighter-than-air Organiser, Department of Flight, Cranfield Institute more than doubled. craft than any other company in the world and this of Technology. In order to adapt the stick forces at high speed to will be the 300th built by the company. Of this num­ the new wing configuration, an elevator servo system ber 55 have been civil airships the others were built Old Russian engines never die will be incorporated. A rain-repellent system will also for military use. be introduced. Old aircraft engines never die - they are used for power production, if they are in Russia. Two 70,000kW engines of the TU 104 which are no A Yugoslav Gazelle longer airworthy are being incorporated in the design Yugoslavia is to produce a special version of the of a 140,000kW gas turbine station to be built at Anglo-French SA 341 Gazelle helicopter. The Jugo- Kazan on the Volga. Tests show that power plants import light helicopter version, originally developed with aircraft engines can be brought up to designed under the responsibility of Aerospatiale and in co­ capacity in two minutes, so the plants are highly operation with Westland Helicopters, will be powered practical for peak hours. Furthermore the cost of a by the Astazou III turbine. kilowatt is less than for conventional steam plants. The converted aircraft engines can work on Livery preview natural gas or diesel fuel and they have noise ab­ A preview of the 1972 style internal livery of the sorbers and exhaust filters. Skyvan is available to passengers of Malaysian Air As they can be easily moved on lorries, barges or Charter. This first production aircraft includes rail cars, they are being used for power stations in individual overhead luggage lockers in the forward sparsely populated areas. half of the 20 seat layout, big airliner comfort standard seats and jumbo-style panoramic windows. These Fluidic ejection seat fortunate passengers will be travelling on feeder routes Prototype fluidic controls for a new pilot ejection to the Jumbo jet ingernational trunk routes. seat being developed for fighter aircraft are being produced for the US Navy by Honeywell Ltd. The seat leaves the aircraft at a rate of 60ft/scc under a Extended 727 4,0001b thrust rocket motor that is fired for a half The first new high-performance 727 Boeing jet second. Mr Ronald Bailey, programme manager at airliners are to be delivered to All Nippon Airways Honeywell, said the controls will operate inde­ of Japan early next year. They will be new high-gross pendently of the aircraft in keeping the pilot and his weight aircraft with extended range and higher seat upright as it is rocketed from the aircraft. payload capability with a maximum weight of Special throttle for the Airbus "The fluidic control system is closed loop and has 191,000 lb, an increase of 18,000 lb over the standard A special version of the automatic throttle control no moving mechanical parts, thus providing low 727. They carry a full payload of up to 800 miles system required for the A300B European Airbus is maintenance and high reliability," Mr Bailey said. further. to include two modes. One will control the engines The system uses a type of freon fluid that has high They also have a "superjet look" interior with more during take-off so as to achieve maximum permissible density and employs thrust-vector-control secondary space for passengers, larger overhead storage com­ thrust under the given conditions. In the other the injection to produce a stability moment (force times partments and improved cabin lighting and air engine thrust will be controlled in function of the distance). Also included is a vortex rate sensor and conditioning. commanded air speed during cruise and landing five fluidic amplifiers in cascade. approach. The throttle levers are not to have a back- clutch so that there is no need for overriding the Three-nation company have MRCA Radome designs Passenger carrying RB 211 for February delivery clutch manually in order to overpower the control The British Aircraft Corporation is collaborating The first passenger carrying Rolls Royce RB 211 system. with AEG-Telefunken and Fiat in submitting pro­ engines are due to be delivered in February. This is The throttle control system is being manufactured posals to Panavia for development and manufacture ahead of schedule, largely because of the extensive by Bodenscewerk Geratetechnik GmbH who are of the Radome for the Multi-role Combat Aircraft. use of ground rigs on which systems had been de­ BAC will be providing their facilities for microwave also participating in the manufacture of the SPAD veloped and refined to the point that when they are plastics production, probably the most sophisticated brake control system as well as the trim computer on the aircraft they are already "debugged". Conse­ in Europe and already producing the largest range of and landing flap sensor. quently all major aspects of the aircraft, such as Radomes in Europe; Telefunken their reinforced flutter testing, proving of the speed range and con­ plastics facilities and Fiat their extensive electronic Jaguar weapon control system trollability is already about six weeks ahead of facilities. Acceptance of the Plessey Communications design schedule. for the Jaguar weapon control system means the system will be divided into two parts. The main unit Next year is TF 34 Engine year The future of international co-operation will house the control logic while the control unit 1972 promises to be General Electric's TF 34 high "Internationalised companies with, ideally, inte­ will be equipped with pilot operated switches in­ bypass turbofan engine year. The 9,0001b thrust grated managements, finance and physical resources cluding a "clear aircraft" switch. Solid state and operated with maximum efficiency in our mutual engine has been selected by the US Navy for their digital techniques are to be employed and no single interests," is how Mr David Price, parliamentary Lockheed built S-3A anti-submarine warfare aircraft fault can cause an unscheduled release of weapons under secretary of state for aerospace forecast the scheduled for first flight early next year. Then in the or disable the jettison system. The initial production future in a speech at Edinburgh. But, he warned, to summer, two TF 34 engines will be powering the order is valued at about £150,000. achieve this it will be necessary "to move well beyond first flight of the A 10 US Air Force advanced close ad hoc collaboration on particular projects to a much support aircraft. Further than this, the TF 34 has deeper degree of industrial association" and he went been selected to power the US Air Force AWACS Guidance subsystem goes ahead on to point out this will need great initiatives at aircraft being developed by the Boeing Company. Production of the short range attack missile industrial level taken within an assured framework of guidance subsystem for the US Air Force is expected government goodwill and encouragement. Extended Saab 105 to continue at least into May, 1973. This confidence Prototype of an extended Saab 105G, designed to Mr Price pointed out that any major advanced is engendered by an initial funding of 3·29 million extend mission capabilities of the 105, is expected to aircraft project which may be undertaken in Europe dollars for the second phase of the contract held by in the foreseeable future would require more launching the Kearfott Division as sub contractor to the fly in March. While still powered by two GE J-85-17B money than the private sector can ordinarily com­ Boeing Company. jet engines, the 105G will have a new avionics pack­ mand. If the extra is to come from the taxpayer, age. This will include a high-precision navigation and Kearfott supply the gyro stabilised platform, com­ then the government must insist the funding is satis­ attack system consisting of a Saab BT9R laser ranging prising a two axis non-floated design with two gyros factorily monitored. And how, he asked, can this bombing and rocket firing computer, a Sperry plat­ which is described as the heart of the system.

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