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Josef Walter Appointed

General Manager

Of Schottel-Hamburg

Josef Walter

Josef Walter was recently named general manager of Schot- tel-Hamburg, a subsidiary com- pany of Schottel-Werft Josef

Becker GmbH & Co., KG, Spay/

Rhine, Germany.

He was previously the techni- cal and commercial manager of the Comos Shipping Company,

Vienna, Austria, where he intro- duced on the Danube River the first Schottel-Navigator units for the Comos fleet.

Mr. Walter succeeds Heinz Dol- berg, who retired following 20 years of service. He will be an advisor to the company.

Technical Paper And

Brochure Available From

MarineSafety International

A new technical paper on mar- itime simulation training and in- formation on current training programs is now available from

MarineSafety International of

New York City. The paper, which was presented at the recent Sec- ond International Conference on

Marine Simulation held at Kings

Point, makes some important points in putting practical train- ing objectives in perspective with new simulator training hardware.

Also available is a 12-page, full- color illustrated brochure describ- ing all of MarineSafety's training activities. This brochure also con- tains a description of the new

ARPA (Automatic Radar Plot- ting Aid) training.

For additional information and free copies of the MarineSafety literature,

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Award $1.6 Million To

Sperry For Satellite

Positioning System Work

The Sperry Division of Sperry

Corporation recently received a $1.6-million contract from the

U.S. Naval Air Development Cen- ter to integrate the new NAV-

STAR Global Positioning System (GPS) capability into the current navigation system aboard a U.S.

Navy aircraft carrier.

Although the initial integra- tion and testing of the GPS ca- pability for surface ships will be clone aboard a carrier, the U.S.

Navy plans to use this program to determine GPS capability for all its military surface ships. In- tegration programs also are being conducted by the Navy to apply the GPS system to naval aircraft, helicopters, and submarines un- der separate contracts.

Under the contract, Sperry will develop the hardware and soft- ware changes to integrate the

GPS satellite receiver with the

Ships Navigation and Aircraft

A 10,000-psi jet of water promises to revolutionize routine on-board maintenance... especially rust and scale removal of surfaces to be painted.

Butterworth Systems now offers a modern alternative to the age-old chipping hammer. It's their MARINE

LIQUA-BLASTER*

Diesel powered pump of a

MARINE LIQUA-BLASTER onboard a vessel. ultra-high pressure water- blasting equipment.

Especially developed for shipboard use at sea, the MARINE

LIQUA-BLASTER unit uses a diesel or electric powered pump to generate a 10,000-psi jet of water that is directed by a fail-safe, hand-held gun at the surface being descaled. "White-metal" cleaning.

On a badly rusted surface, "water only" blasting removes scale and debris, leaving a surface that is acceptable for standard maintenance painting. If a moderate amount of sand is automatically added to the water jet, a surface can be "white-metal" cleaned more effectively and more efficiently than it would be with dry-sand blasting in a shipyard.

With the MARINE

LIQUA-BLASTER unit, a rust inhibitor can be added to protect the "white-metal" surface against oxidation before painting.

Inertial Alignment System (SNA-

IAS) now aboard 13 Navy carri- ers. The SNAIAS currently pro- vides ship's navigation informa- tion, as well as providing the ini- tial alignment of naval aircraft navigation systems prior to launching from the carrier.

Sperry will build a laboratory model SNAIAS and then modify the SNAIAS aboard the Kitty

Hawk aircraft carrier for at-sea tests of the system, which are scheduled to begin about October 1983.

The NAVSTAR Global Posi- tioning System is a satellite-based ultra-high frequency positioning and navigation system, scheduled to be fully operational in 1986.

Consisting of 18 satellites in or- bits 10,900 miles high, the sys- tem will be able to provide highly accurate three-dimensional posi- tion, velocity, and time data any- where in the world. poop deck. The job was done as routine maintenance with interruptions for bad weather and all-hands tasks. In a little over two weeks the poop deck was "white-metal" cleaned and freshly painted.

Doing the same job in a shipyard would have cost $13,750 at $25 per square meter not including the incremental lay up time to accomplish this task.

Heavily rusted deck (below), after water blasting (left), and "white-metal clean after water-sand blasting (right)."

Get all the facts.

For full details and a copy of an eight-page report, "Shipboard

Cleaning and Descaling with Ultra-high Pressure

Water Blasting", write or call today.

Butterworth

Systems

BUTTERWORTH

SYSTEMS INC. 224 Park Avenue, Box 352,

Florham Park. N.J. 07932 USA

Telephone: (201) 765-1549

Telex: 136434

BUTTERWORTH

SYSTEMS (UK) LTD. 123 Beddington Lane

Croydon CR9 4NX, England

Phone: 01-684-4049

Telex: 946524

PARTEK CORPORATION

OF HOUSTON 3721 Lapas Drive

Houston. Texas 77023 USA

Telephone: (713) 644-3636

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Introducing the Butterworth

Systems

MARINE

LIQUA-

BLASTER"

SHIP MAINTENANCE SYSTEM.

Better than dry-sand blasting.

Because of the high velocity of the water/sand jet, the sand impacts a rusted surface with a much greater force than with regular dry-sand blasting.

The end result is faster cleaning using less sand.

Sand can cause sparking, so it should only be used in non-explosive environments.

Other shipboard cleaning.

In addition to descaling rusted surfaces, a MARINE

LIQUA-BLASTER unit can be used for a number of other on-board cleaning jobs. These include cleaning condenser and boiler tubes, oil spray from machinery, galley grease filters, clogged ports, and the like. For these jobs, as well as rusted surfaces, a variety of guns, lances, round and fan jet nozzles are available.

Proven on-board use.

The experience on a 69,742-DWT tanker, is typical of other vessels that have used MARINE

LIQUA-BLASTER equipment. Here, it was first used to clean a badly rusted 550-square-meter

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