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HERE
THE
Change of Name
AS from August roth, the name of the Fane Aircraft Co., Ltd., has been
changed to Fane Engineering Designs,
Ltd.
Appointment
MR. J. D. BEDDOWS, B.Sc, has been appoi...
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 ...26 FLIGHT
German Jet Figl
Span
Approx. 40ft.
THE MESSERSCHMITT Me 262 jet-propelled single-seater fighter
has two wing-mounted Junkers axial-flow units, and is a clean
design, with very slim fuselage.
Britain in solving the problems presented by ...
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 ...Shooting Star (first flown early in 1944), the first example of
which is shown at 187. A Shooting Star was the first piloted
aircraft to fly solely on ramjet power. Fighter/bomber versions
186 The Messerschmitt Me 262, also under development in 1943.
188 The first Gloster F.9J40 (later the Meteor) to fly—in 1943...
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 ...n which 14 competitors started. In the
centre illustration some of the earliest heavier-than-air machines
(Lilienthal glider of 1896 and Wright biplane) are seen alongside a
pioneer jet aircraft, the Messerschmitt Me 262; they are in Munich
Museum, recently reopened after war-time destruction. At the bottom
is the first picture of Convair F-106A Delta Darts in production,
typifying the new generat...
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 ...e amount we
dropped on Germany—and Germany
is ten times the size of the Japanese
homeland. It is also more thickly
populated, and so the devastation will
be more complete than in the case
of Germany.
MESSERSCHMITT Me 262 SCHWALBE : This German jet-propelled fighterwas the only one of several types rushed into service towards the end of the
European war which was encountered in relatively large num...
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 ...and the first run of Whittle's jet.
German technology advanced into operational service
with both the rocket and the jet in 1944. The first V-2
was launched in anger on September 8, 1944, and the
Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter flew its first operations
(against the US Army Eighth. Air Force) in April,
1944. A new generation of weapons of war had emerged.
Meanwhile across the Atlantic at A...
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 ...at piston-engined transport formula to come—low-
Europe produced the world's first jet engine (Britain's Whittle) and,
shown here in 1945 as a prize of war at Farnborough, Germany's
Junkers-powered Messerschmitt Me 262, the first operational jet
aircraf...
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 ... The airship is
currently on a demonstration
flight around Europe, and will be
flown to Tokyo via Russia later
this month. Nippon Airship
bought the aircraft in March.
ME 262 RETURNS
A replica Messerschmitt Me 262
has returned to flight testing
almost 30 months after it crashed
on landing after its second flight.
The Everett, Washington-based
Me 262 Project had to rebuild the
aircraft...
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 ...h the 707, was
third into that particular arena. If
he means, as I suspect, the superfi
cial similarity of podded jet engines
mounted under wings, I suggest he
goes and has a closer look at the
Messerschmitt Me 262.
Tony Kilbride
Newdigate, Surrey, UK
Hypocrisy?
Thank you for publishing my letter
defending Boeing from the virulent
"sneer and smear" attacks by Airbus
(Flight Internatio...
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 ...st possible aileron control. The flaps,
like everything else on this aircraft, are
manually operated and easy to move.
The beautifully shaped fuselage is very
reminiscent of the Second World War
Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter. It is
constructed of glassfibre skins with a fill
ing of foam forming a very tough sand
wich; the T-tail has conventional tailplane
and elevator with a tab for tr...
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 ...More thorough
inspections needed
IagreewithCaptPeterTomkinson
(Flight International, 14 - 20
November) - one single factor
does not cause an accident.
However, in most accidents, as
in the Conc...
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 ...DECEMBER 14, 1939 IP <§GTi?
*M:31tsB S
MESSERSCHMITT ME 109.
Daimler Benz DB 601 of
1,150 h.p.; four mach ne
guns (shell-gun optional) ;
340 m.p.h. plus
CURTISS
Pratt and
Wasp of
HAWK
Whitn...
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 ...|c FLIGHT, October 23, 1941
The crew of a Short Stirling about to board their machine while another Stirling in the background taxies to the take-off pom*
A Visit to One of Our Oldest Squadrons Which ...
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 ...FEBRUARY 6TH, 1941.
Fifth of the Series
FRIEND or FOE?
Aid to Aircraft Identification : Two More Opposing Types Compared
Points the Spotter Should Note
Lockheed Hudson Bomber : Radial-engines set clos...
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 ...MAY I5, 1940 455
THE "O/400" TRADITION (CONTINUED FROM PACE b
guessed 250-260, expecting quite a mild zoom to follow.
Certainly we were not counting on such a sharp tilting
of the horizon and such rap...
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 ...Fligh' " copyright drawing.)
ON REFLECTION the Hurricanes, and, for that matter, all the Allied fighters, seem to have the Me's, He's, Do's and Ju'sperfectly "buttoned up." We illustrate what must be ...
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 ...SEPTEMBER 2OTH, 1945
GERMANY'S WAR
AIRCRAFT
8-635 which, although based on a Dor-
nier design and composed two Do 335s
connected side by side by a new centre
section (as in the He lllz), was allo-
cat...
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 ...MAY 23RD, 1946 521
use of the small chamber alone en-
ables a given thrust to be obtained for
a lower fuel consumption than would
be possible by throttling the larger.
B.M.W. developed a series of bi-...
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 ...DECEMBER 14TH, 1944
LIBS. OVER BURMA : R.A.F. Liberators, with Thunderbolt fighter cover, on their way to make a daylight attack on Rangoon.
A Break in the Rains : Qermans Bomb Their Own Towns : The...
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 ...FEBRUARY 22ND, 1945 FLIGHT 203
American photograstaff-. bringine^,~-'a*erial
cameras"to mount with-
in a Mosquito. Most ofthe photographs are
taken from verygreat altitudes.
MOSQUITO U.S.A.A.F.
Great ...
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