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THE Funk Gerat 10 equipment is the latest standardized type, and is installed in all the later bombers and reconnaissance machines of the Luftwaffe.

The purpose of this paper is to identify safety hazards likely to be encountered during post‐disaster recovery and reconstruction, identify barriers to effective safety training and hazard mitigation, and provide actionable guidance on methods to safely avoid and abate such hazards.

Surveys were administered to 400 participants at 13 training sites to evaluate safety practices among reconstruction contractors and workers.

A comparison of survey results to hazards likely to cause injuries and fatalities during post‐disaster reconstruction indicates that little effort is made to assess workers' physical condition or immunization records prior to deployment. Furthermore, data suggest that workers lack safety training in reconstruction‐specific hazards such as electrocution, falls, chemical and biological hazards (e.g. contaminated flood water), and equipment hazards (aerial lifts, ladders, electric equipment, generators, etc.). Findings also indicate that training effectiveness is further compromised by limited language and literacy skills of workers, high turnover of workers, and insufficient resources for adequate safety training frequency and duration, especially among smaller contractors (<100 workers).

The paper is based on original research funded by the US Government following Hurricane Katrina and is intended to aid in the development of targeted training to reduce worker injuries and fatalities during post‐disaster reconstruction.

TO say that the Twenty‐fourth S.B.A.C. Show was an unqualified success is perhaps to gild the lily. True there were disappointments— the delay which kept the TSR‐2 on the ground until well after the Show being one—but on the whole the British industry was well pleased with Farnborough week and if future sales could be related to the number of visitors then the order books would be full for many years to come. The total attendance at the Show was well over 400,000—this figure including just under 300,000 members of the public who paid to enter on the last three days of the Show. Those who argued in favour of allowing a two‐year interval between the 1962 Show and this one seem to be fully vindicated, for these attendance figures are an all‐time record. This augurs well for the future for it would appear that potential customers from overseas are still anxious to attend the Farnborough Show, while the public attendance figures indicate that Britain is still air‐minded to a very healthy degree. It is difficult to pick out any one feature or even one aircraft as being really outstanding at Farnborough, but certainly the range of rear‐engined civil jets (HS. 125, BAC One‐Eleven, Trident and VCIQ) served as a re‐minder that British aeronautical engineering prowess is without parallel, while the number of rotorcraft to be seen in the flying display empha‐sized the growing importance of the helicopter in both civil and military operations. As far as the value of Farnborough is concerned, it is certainly a most useful shop window for British aerospace products, and if few new orders are actually received at Farnborough, a very large number are announced— as our ’Orders and Contracts' column on page 332 bears witness. It is not possible to cover every exhibit displayed at the Farnborough Show but the following report describes a wide cross‐section beginning with the exhibits of the major airframe and engine companies.

Integrating Tachometer A new size 15 Integrating Motor Tachometer, type 105P2Y, recently introduced by the Ketay Department, Norden Division of United Aircraft Corporation, is now available in the U.K. through Ketay Ltd., Eddes House, Eastern Avenue West, Romford, Essex.

A Description of the New Secondary Radar System, SECAR, which has been developed jointly by The Marconi Company and Compagnie Francaise Thomson Houston to provide a Comprehensive Data Link between an Air Traffic Controller and Aircraft fitted with a Secondary Radar Transponder. AN entirely new secondary radar system, SECAR, developed jointly by The Marconi Company and Compagnie Francaise Thomson Houston (CFTH), was demonstrated recently under full operating conditions at Marconi's Rivenhall Establishment, near Witham, Essex. SECAR provides a comprehensive data link between an air‐traffic controller and any aircraft fitted with a secondary radar transponder. Vital information concerning position and movement can be extracted automatically from the aircraft by this system, without attention from the aircrew.

ALL FOUR portable instrument approach and landing aid systems shown at the NATO evaluation competition are of considerable interest and significance.

On show for the first time, a new and unique super lightweight headset to be known as the Minilite will be the main feature of the Amplivox Communications stand at the Paris Salon.

Equipment, Programmes, Techniques and Projects. Concept Engineering Ltd. of 30 White Waltham Airfield Estates, Maidenhead, Berkshire, have designed and made smoke generating machines for some years and as a result of continuous development have now achieved fundamentally new techniques in two aspects of design.

Details of Electrical and Electronic Apparatus with Applications in the Maintenance and Operation of Aircraft, Missiles and Space Vehicles. The bi‐directional counter Type DBC4 is the latest instrument to be developed in the Advance Controls Ltd. range of industrial electronic counters. Two basic types of the instrument are currently available—the first type employing Dekatron count and read‐out circuits, and the second type which utilizes Dekatron counting circuits with Digitron type numerical display. A third instrument, to be released shortly, will comprise solid state counting circuits and Digitron type numerical read‐out and will extend the frequency range up to between 50 and 100 kc/s.