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fUGHT toternotteno/, 10 June I96S
933
1965:
Netherlands/Belgium...
moieus de I'avion patrouilleur de la Breguet. Pour sa part,
Breguet construit le fuselage arriere du transport Friendship'
lequel. comme on le sait, est aussi construit sous licence aux USA
par Fairchild Hiller. Les commandes de Friendship totalissnt
jctuellement 317, dont plus de 250 ont ete livres.
Dans le developpement du nouvel avion de ligne bi-turbine
Fellowship, Fokkcr s"est associe a Hamburger Flugzeugbau et
VFW en Allemagne, aussi qu'a Short Bros and Harland en Grande
Bretagne. Les accords visent sur la construction et les essais en
vol de deux prototypes, et il est possible que d'autres pays y participent. Le programme Fellowship est subventions par le
gouvernement neerlandais, et 50 pour cent des depenses sont a la
charge de 1'office neerlandais d'etudes aeronautiques. Le gouvernement garantit un pret pour les 50 pour cent restants. Le F.28
Fellowship doit accomplir son premier vol en 1966.
Les Pays Bas furent un des cinq pays qui adopterent Je missile
«ol-air Raytheon Hawk en 1959, et par consequent qui participent
I reorganisation SETEL. Philips est maitre-d'oeuvre pour les Pays
Bas. Telefunken Test pour 1'Allemagne, ACEC pour la Belgique
et Finmeccanica pour l'ltalie.
Fokker F.28 Fellowship
MANUFACTURERS
Declared capital
shareholder*
Personnel
Factory area
(«t ft)
•479.532
AVIOLANDA. Maatschappij voor Vliegtuigbouw N.V., Papendrecht
D.fl. 1.35m
(£134.000 app)
1,250
FOKKER. N-V. Koninklijke Nederlandse
Vl*gtuigenfabriek Fokker, Schiphol-Zuid,
Amsterdam
Republic Aviation
(minority interest)
5,000
Main activities
Production: F-104G Starfighter (North Group Coosortium). Manufacture of missile and aircraft parts.
Overhaul: civil and military aircraft, helicopters
Production: F-I04G Starfighter (consortium); Breguet
Atlantic (consortium); F.27 Friendship Sub-contract:
Hawk missile (Philips). Development: F.28 Fellowship.
Overhaul
EQUIPMENT
Shareholdings
APPARATEN INDUSTRIE. Defense Electronics
N.V., Lange Viiverberg I I , 's-Gravenhage
AVIO-DIEPEN. Industriemaatschappij Avio-Diepen
Personnel
Main activities
Gen. Electric
(parent company)
Military electronics
Aircraft parts and light metal structures
N.V.
PHILIPS. N.V.. Philips Gloeilampen-Fabrieken,
Emmasingel, Eindhoven
SIGNAAL N.V., Hollandse Signaal-apparaten,
Hengelo
VAN DER HEEM. N.V., Maanweg 156 (PO Box
1060) The Hague
82.000
Radio equipment and avionics. SETEL Hawk programme
(consortium)
Automatic and integrated weapon control svitems against air,
surface and sub-surface targets. SATCO ATC System
Avionics
AIRCRAFT
Powerplant
Role
type
Fokker
F.27 Friendship 100/300
F.27 Friendship 200/400
Load
power
Turboprop transport R.R Dart RDa 6
Turboprop transport R-R Dart 528-7E
l.7ISs.h.p. x 2 40/52 pass o r
1.910 s.h p. X 2 II,8901b payload
F.28 Fellowship
Turbofan transport
R-RRB.I83-I
8,6501b X 2
40/60 pass
F-I04G Starfighter
Strike fighter
GEJ79-IIA
I5.800lb
1 crew + weapons
Statue
Performance
317 ordered and Normal cruise 23O-255kt; max
about 250 built in gross, 39.000 or 42.0001b
Holland
(Fairchild
licence:
Breguet
sub-contract: UK
components)
Design
in hand V M O 0 75 Mach; 430kt best-cost
(Neth. UK. Ger-cruise: 54.0001b max gross
many)
350 complete (Belg, Mach 2.2
Italy)
BELGIUM
commitment of the Belgian aircraft industry in recent
years has been within the European production programme
for the Lockheed F-I04G (NASMO). The two main airframe
companies in Belgium, Fairey S.A. and SABCA, together with F.N.
for the J79 engines, and M.B.L.E. (Manufacture Beige de Lampes
e
' de Materiel Llectronique) and other national companies for
equipment, were integrated in December 1960 into the NASMO
western Group for production of the F-I04G. This" originally
included W Germany and the Netherlands, later augmented by
Italy.
The Belgian assembly line for the Starfighter was established at
sselies. by Fairey, where responsibility was undertaken for the
completion of 194 Starfighters. Of these, 30 were assembled from
riai-built components for the Italian air force, while 75 were
Produced for the Belgian air force and 89 for the Luftwaffe. In the
joint production programme between the Belgian companies, the
German consortium, Fokker and Fiat, a total of 949 F-104Gs were
originally due for completion this year, bui these Starfighters may
well be augmented by further orders.
Belgium is also involved in another NATO production programme, for the Breguet Atlantic anti-submarine patroller. Both
Fairey and SABCA are producing airframe components for the
Atlantic within ABAP (Association Beige pour I'Avion Patrouilleur), which also includes F.N. as a member of the NATO
consortium for Tyne construction. Yel another NATO production
project in which SABCA is participating is thai for the Hawk
surface-to-air missile, as part of the SETEL consortium.
Apart from contributions to the ELDO and ESRO European
space programmes, however, the Belgian aircraft industry has no
further main commitments with the completion of the F-l 04G