Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 50 Issue 5

Editorial

Over the past few months we have expressed some quite strong views on a number of matters of interest to the British aircraft industry and it seems that we are not alone in our…

I.C.A.O. Assistance Projects

ICAO has announced that it will undertake large‐scale technical assistance projects at a total cost of more than US$23 million.

The Armed Forces Helicopter Repair Facility

Captain J. A. Beadon, MSc, BSc (Eng), CEng, MIMechE, MRAES, RN, joined the Royal Navy as a graduate engineer and was commissioned as an Air Engineer Officer from the Royal Naval…

The Rotary Wing Industry — 2001 AD

Robert R. Lynn

What will be the state of the rotary‐wing industry in the near future?

V/Stol for the U.S. Marines

Thomas H. Miller, Jnr.

Because it is a small, mobile service that must make the most of every asset, the Marine Corps in the 1940s and early 1950s began to use the utility helicopter as a weapon system…

British Airways Tri‐Star: Present and Future

Terry Ford

British Airways has for some time been operating TriStar ‐1 aircraft over a wide range of sector lengths and is currently planning the introduction of the ‐500 longer range…

News and views

British Aerospace and Aerospatiale of France have been chosen to receive the 1978 Whitbread Award for the Promotion of Franco‐British Co‐operation, in recognition of the…

Avionics

Sperry Flight Systems' TERN 100 automatic navigation system and the Sperry SPZ‐500 integrated automatic flight control system are now certified for operation in Lockheed‐731…