Aircraft transparencies

ONE hundred and seventy‐five delegates from Italy, France, West Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, the United States and the United Kingdom met in London on November 3 and 4, to participate in an Aircraft Transparencies Symposium organized by the Society of British Aerospace Companies. This Symposium, the first of its kind to be arranged by the S.B.A.C., concerning a facet of aerospace engineering which has hitherto received rather less than its fair share of attention in the world's technical forums, took the form of nine papers read by leading authorities in this field, discussion following each individual paper, and an exhibition of windscreens, canopies and windows produced by leading transparency manufacturers in this country and North America. The full proceedings of the Symposium are thesubject of detailed coverage in this issue of AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING.