A si-mulated test flight at -100° and an altitude of 90,000 ft. covered this Velvet Glove (above) with frost. Westinghouse engineers remove the missile from the n ew laboratory's big Tenney stratosphere chamber. Below, a Velvet Glove airframe being u sed for torsional studies in the environmental labora tory's torsion rig, which can simulate stresses applied during flight. 28 A New Test Lab A $500,000 em·ironmental test la boratory was recently opened at the H amilton Electronics plant of Canadian Westinghouse Co. Ltd. Operated by the Air Armament Dept. of Canadian \Vestinghouse 's Electronics Di\'., the new En\'ironmental & Ap praisal Laboratory is under the direc tion of Charles A. Mi ll s. Housed in a new 9,000 sq. ft. build ing, the laboratory has been specially designed for the testing of airborne electronic equipment, incl uding guided missiles. C:ipable of carrying out tests on equipment or components in accord ance with most Current JCNAAF, JAN, MIL and other military speci ficat ions, the laboratorv has a wide vari ety of some of th~ most modern em·ironmental test equipment -in Can ada, including machines for vibration, impact, sustained acceleration, climatic, and alt itude tests. A Canadian \Vesting house centri fuge can apply up to 60 G to units weighing as much as 40 lbs. One of the most outstanding pieces of equipment in the laboratory is the Tenney Stratosphere Chamber (Model 160), which was built to Westing house's own specificat ion. The cham ber proper is thought to ha ve a larger volumetric capacity than any other comparable unit in Canada, its mea surements being 8 ft. x 5 ft. x 4 ft. Its range is from - 100°F. to +200 °F. with controlled humidity up to 95~~; and from sea level to 90,000 ft. pressure alt itude . Altitude tests can be carried out from sea level to 50,000 ft. at an average rate of 5,000 £pm climb. It r~quires 30 minutes to reach 90,000 ft . Over the temperature range -50° to + 120°, an average rate of change is 28 °F. per min. For extreme cold test the temperature can be lowered from ambient to -l00°F. in a matter of minutes. A sim ilar period is req uired to reach + 200°F. All conditions can be programmed over a 24-hr. period so th at automatic cycling can be carried out. AIRCRAFT ·• ~::;~!0tiri:;f;r~1:t~ 11~ti1Yt•• • ·•. Vel~ct Gfiw~ riii.s.iilesitsj-.c•~offot . • _firing 011 a laund1 St Mid• ?I sHcccsscs co1winced cnttcS at borne and abn->ad t h:H defence science in Canada w:1s. i,1 it:; own panicolar ~phere, ;;s go~id as ,mywhcre else. Those of us who grew up with the hoard in those c:.t rly duys remember whh pride \he dcvdupmcnt of the Hel ler rocket an anti •tan}. mi~si lc with a unique rc.coille~s rropulsion syslem ut ilizing a Cana than the new. Tbc Chem ie,{! \:Va rfare Laborntnric~ in Onav>'a con~ tinucd to lead th~ field in a var i.eLV of ' protec1ive pr:ivide Turkey next yea r with encugh additional Sabres to equ ip a fo urth fighter gro up. accord ing to Herb::rt Mc ran, Canadian am bassado r at .-\nkar:i. Under the Turkish Canad ian Mutu:il Assist:ince Program of 1953 Canad:i furni shed enough aircr:ift for three g roups. NATO Posting Air Commodore S. W. 8oleman, 49, Air Officer Commanding, Tactical Air Command, Edmonton, has bee n ap pointed Assistant Chief of Staff fo r Plans and Policy at headquarters of Allied Air Forces Central Europ:: , Fontainbleau, France. He succeeds .-\ir Commodore Robert C . Ripley, 42 , who will attend the Imperial Defense College in Britain next January. Group Captain H . G. Richards, 46, TAC chief staff officer, ·will serve :is acting AOC until a replacement 1s named for A/ C Coleman. A/ C Coleman is a 1928 civil engi nee ring gr:idu:ite of McGill University. He joined the RCAF the fo llowing yea r and in the e:i rly thirties partici pated in northern bush flying. Wartime duties c:irried him to various East Coast stations before being transferred to vV:ishington in early 1945. vVar's end fo und him at Guam, in the Pacific, with the U .S. 20th Air Force. 412 to Uplands The RC AF's 412 Transport Squad ron, after 16 ye:i rs :it Ottawa's Rock cliffe Airport, moved bag and baggage last month to U pbnds Ai rport, 10 air miles away. Uplands' longer runways December, 1955 were said to be the chief moti ve. There, the unit will occupy a modern steel arch hangar and share with Air Defense Command a cantileve r hangar. When the squadron was fo rmed in 1939 it had an odd collection of air craft, Tomtits, Fleet Finches and a Grumman seaplane. Later, it acquired Lockheed I0's, 12's and Lodestars, No rsemans, Grumman Gooses and Liberators. T oday it flies No rth Stars, Dakctas, Exped itors and the solitary Canadair Five. For Finer Fuel A new first in nav:il engi nee ring has been achieved with the production of av iation fuel ing equipment fo r the new RC N aircraft carrier, HMCS Bona venture, which will ensure that only pure, properly cs nstituted aviation fuel can be pumped into the ca rrier's air craft. The equipment was designed 011tlct fucl i11 .~ ~Lat ions, c;1 , I, co1nplctc with lucl l·iltn 'wate r sep:1r:1 tors, power opera ted ho,c reel, :111d ~uit:1h lc tank fi lling nozzles. Tiu.: blending appa ratus is the first to be installed 111 a major wa r vessel in any navy. Photo Intelligence The Photographic Interpretation Sec tion of 408 Photo Squatlron at Rock cliffe has been reorganized anti redesignated as the RCAF's Air Photo graphic In telligence Centre. Its func tion will be to provide photo inter pretation fo r Canada's Mobile Striking Force anti for 408 Squadron, which is engaged in aerial mapping in the northland. In atltliticn, it will be responsible fo r interpretat ion of all aerial reconnaisance photos, and will prepare mosaic photographs and photo graphic maps fo r RCAF use. Commantling office r is Squatlron Leader Jack T. Arnold, 40, of St. Thomas, Ont., who formerly headed the Photo Interpretation Section. S/ L THE RAMPARTS WE WATCH: Early version of Velvet Glove air-to-air missile was shown publ icly for first time at AITA convention and is shown here beside one of its ancestors at Quebec. Originally designed by GARDE, the miss ile is under going further development by Canadair, working in close association with the gov ernment agency. Also co-operating with Canadair in t he Velvet Glove program are Canadian Westinghouse , Avro Aircraft, OH Canada, and Computing Devices. and built by S. F. Bowser Co. Ltd. of Hamilton. In planning the Bonaventure's fuel ing arrangements the RCN established three main requirements: equipment to transform two standartl fuels into the specialized mixtures necessary fo r the correct functioning of turbine dri\·en aircraft; equipment to ensu re that all contaminants, particularly water, were remoYed from the fuel as close as pos sible to its entry into the aircraft ; equipment to facilitate the rapidity of both underwing and overwing refuel- 1ng. The installation consists of two sets of fuel blending apparatus with 14 two- Arnold joined the RCAF in 1940 and served on instructional anti operational flying duties in Canada during the war. Since then he has been employed in flyi ng control, administrative and flying duties. In 1954 he joined 408 Squadron. Radar Extension Canada :1nd the U.S. are reported to have agreed in principle to a 600-mile east coast link-up of the Mid-Canada and Pinetree ratlar lines, with Canada footing one third of the bill and the U.S. the remainder. D efence Department olncials des cribed the line as a fill-in and not an 57 UNITED AIRCRAFT PRODUCTS (CANADA) LTD. 5257 QUEEN MARY ROAD, MONTREAL, QUE. 60 mond, Canadian P & W l'ice-president, comments: "It is a natural develop men,t of our present operation. As an associate company of Sikorsky aircraft we have represented them in Canada since the outset in sales. service, and 01·erhaul. Our ol'erhaul experience embraces assembly anc.l many sub assembly operations on helicopters. \ Ve are making the engines -they use, and rhe mechanical components of the hel icopter are similar ,to engine com ponents and can be nude with little addi·tion to ·our present machinery and equipment. Much of -the initial plan ning for this work has already been completed." Alterations? Production plans for th e Velvet Glove, Canada's air-to-air guided mis sile, are reported to hal'e been delay ed to accommodate modifi cations. The nature of :these modifications has not L·een revealed . Howe1·e r, the RCAF is continuing test launchings at the Cold Lake, Alta., air \\'eapons range. using CF-I 00's to heft the 8 foot mis• sile ·in under-wing racks. Canadair Ltd. holds a pre-produc twn contract under authority of the C:rnadian Armament Research & De velopment Establ ishment at Valcartier. Que. Other contributors to the pro gram are Canadian \Vest in ghouse, A 1· ro Aircraft. de Havilland and Compu·t ing Ce 1· ices of Canada . Collins Expands Collins Radio Co. of Canada Ltd .. afte r less than eight months' opera tions. ha s completed a second expan sion of its Toronto plant, bringing floor space from 22.000 to 50.000 sq. ft. Personnel will increase to about 250 when necessary equipment has been installed. Thor Naturalized The Etobicoke plant and all other assets of Thor-Canadian Co. Ltd., Can ada's larges-t supplier of ai rcraft ejector seats, have been acquired by a group of Canadian industrialists and finan ciers headed by F. M. McGovern, long time president of the company duri1, g i•ts 29 years of U.S. ownership. Thor has prod uced more t han 2,000 e,ector seats fo r •the Sabre and the T-33, under contract to Canadair. It has also produced two models of radar antenna and parts for the Orenda rng, ne. l n addit ion. it 1s prod ucing ~ ::7-S- All·: c:1rr ful :in ·1 ' { • •' - !-" rl'1:, h .\l . . \ l an official cn~- mu11y held in the ( :.111a di.1n F1 11lia"Y · Airman First Class, Henri Thopart , of ,vbzingarde. Pas-d e-CaLtis. was aw:mlcd the 13EM by Jean Desy . Q.C., Canadian Ambassa

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