Search the Flight Archive
Your search returned 100 results. (A maximum of 100 results are returned, ordered by relevance)
 ...LIGHT 18 JANUARY 1952
Today the majority of
British aircraft designers |
specify
PERCIVAL PRENTICE
PERCIVAL PROVOST
PERCIVAL PRINCE
PERCIVAL SEA PRINCE
HANDLEV PAGE MARATHON
VICKERS-ARMSTRONG 508
*AII these aircraft are fitted with Palmer brakes
FERODO LIMITED, CH A PEL-EN-...
|
 ...ice p e r i e n c e
The de HaviHand Gipsv Queen 32 enoine and
the bracket-type two-blade constant-speed
quick-pitch-change propeller are htted as
the standard power unit of the new
Percival Prentice trainer.
LAN...
|
 ...light, December 18th, 1947
GIPSY RELIABILITY
for the aircraft of to-day
Percival Prentice, powered by a Gipsy Queen 32
direct-drive normally aspirated engine of 250 b.h.p.
driving a de Havilland bracket-type, constant-
speed quick-pitch-change propeller.
D E HAVILLAND
G 1...
|
 ...70 FLIGHT
MILITARY MISCELLANY
rawI SEPTEMBER 12TH, 1946
The Percival Prentice (top left) is a promising new 3-seat trainer. To its right is the Boulton-Paul P.108, the first trainer with
a turbine-airscrew unit (A.S. Mamba or R.R. Dart). Centred are the attrac...
|
 ...OVEMBER I3TH, I947 FLIGHT Advertisements. 21
In Production —for the Royal Air Force
The Percival Prentice T. Mark I, designed to Air Ministry Specification,
is a 3-seat trainer of metal construction. It is in production for use by
the Royal Air Force for basic flying training, aerobatics...
|
 ...loy
by MAY&REY'S.
H.J.MAYBREY&CO.LTD
Specialists in Light Alloy Castings
WORSLEY BRIDGE ROAD • LONDON • S.E.26
Telephone : BECKENHAM 0044
Sand foundry:—Croydon Road, Elmers End, Kent
EQUIPMENT
on the PERCIVAL PRENTICE
MAIN WHEELS No. 866B. 725-71
smooth tread.
• TAIL WHEEL No 873 350-31
twin contact.
# PNEUMATIC BRAKES
# SILVOFLEX fireproof and standard
flexible pipe assemblies on engine
and airfr...
|
 ...UNE 17TH, 1948 FLIGHT Advertisements. 9
The Percival
R.A.F. BASIC TRAINER
The new Percival Prentice three-seat Basic Trainer, embodying a comprehensive range of
equipment, is expressly designed to fulfil the requirements of modern military pilot training.
The side-by-side seating s...
|
 ...8 Advertisements. FLIGHT SEPTEMBER I6TH, 1948
of the sound
goes into the R.A.F.'s new basic
—the Percival Prentice T Hark i-rrare the
Class ! aluminium castings in DT&1>04 alloy
by MAYBREY'S.
H.J.MAYBREYeCO.LTD
Specialists in Light Alloy Castings
APPROVED BY THE A.I.D. AND A.R.B.
WORSLEY BRIDG...
|
 ...0 sq. miles of Canadian terri-
tory has begun, with three of the tenair detachments which will be engaged
on the survey already operating. 3,000sq. miles of territory have been photo-
graphed so far.
Percival Prentice Under Licence
'"THE Hindustan Aircraft Co., which
-*- has not hitherto manufactured com-
pleted aircraft, is to produce training
machines under an agreement with the
Indian Governmen...
|
 ...ollege
pose six of their new
Prentices in commendable
echelon.
Cranwell Air Training
THE Flying Training School of the Royal Air Force College was the first unit to receive afull complement of thirty Percival Prentice basic trainers. Prentices were first flownfrom Cranwell on August ioth last year, and instruction commenced just over a month
later, on September 15th. Now three entries of cadets ar...
|
 ...d by models,
photographs and drawings, and that detailed technical
data will in many cases be available to accredited
individuals and bodies.
Flight's own contribution in furthering acquaintance-
The Percival Prentice is a dual-
control machine with three seats
—one for a student who is enabled
to "watch points."
Some clever design work was necessary to
convert the Spitfire single-seat fighter iat...
|
 ...-RoeSR45. The Smaller model represents the SRAi
twin-jet fighter flying boat.
Trainers all : (1) Bristol Buckmaster ; (2) MilesMartinet, with target-towing gear ; (3) Fairey
Firefly Trainer ; and (4) Percival Prentice. "»_ .. V. • " •
2J6. SE...
|
 ...precise functions
it will be called upon to fulfil. The flying training policy of
the Royal Air Force has, naturally enough, been subjected
to periodic modification during the past few years; and the
Percival Prentice can be regarded as a transition between the
light-aircraft category of the ab initio trainer as exemplified
for so long by the Tiger Moth, and the higher-powered,
heavier and more ad...
|
 ...NOVEMBER 2OTH, 1947 FLIGHT 591
FIGHTER NAVIGATOR : Proposed duties of the de Havilland Sj
navigation of
CAS. Return
MARSHAL of the R.A.Fder, Chief of the Air
at Northolt from
November gth
Middle East....
|
 ...he New Basic Trainer
Structural Analysis of the Percival Prentice : Simplicity, Inherent
Strength and Ease of Production are -Keynotes of Design
WHEN Specification T23/43 was being evolveditemizing the requirements for an entirely new typeof basic ...
|
 ...sides. New specifications were issued, only to be drastically
modified; but no vital changes occurred. True, in the R.A.F. new
formulae were introduced: for instance, the three-seat primary/
basic Percival Prentice was adopted by the R.A.F. and the pattern
of the Prentice—dictated by economy—was imitated elsewhere.
But though some hundreds of Prentices were built, the type is
shortly to be s...
|
 ...
is an Alvis Leonides, specially adapted for use in helicopters, the
rotor diameter is 48ft 6£in and the gross weight about 5,200 lb.
THE QUEEN'S REVIEW OF THE R.A.F. . . .
Participating aircraft
Percival Prentice: Built to a specification of 1943, the Prentice
(above) first flew early in 1946. A 2/3-seater basic trainer, it
continues to serve the R.A.F. extensively in its T.i form. The
eng...
|
 ...ents.
In view of the predominant importance of training in
the R.A.F. to-day, special interest attaches to the Boulton
Paul Balliol and Avro Athena, both announced during the
year, and to the smaller Percival Prentice, already being
delivered to meet an urgent Service requirement. From
tactical and technical standpoints favourable comment was
evoked by the Heston A.2/45 A.O.P. and the Scottish
As ...
|
 ...oyal Naval Air Stations. These areIT.M.S. Kestrel (Worthy Down) ; H.M.S.
Coldcrest (Dale) and "H.M.S. FieldfarelEvanton). -
basic training, with economy in outlay and manpower, will be the job of the Percival Prentice.
A sketch of the tail appears overleaf. , <,
Royal Air Force and
Naval Aviation News
and Announcements
Tree Planting in Walcheren
BY bombing dykes to destroy theGermaij^^dfJfence sys...
|
 ... received a new Commandant and
new basic training aircraft. An opportunity was afforded
last week for a brief visit to Cranwell to meet the Com-
mandant, to see the cadets at work and to hear how the
Percival Prentice has been received by the instructors and
their pupils. Air Commodore G. R. Beamish, C.B., C.B.E.,
one-time Cranwell cadet and recipient of the Sword of
Honour, also a former Irish an...
|
Browse by years
Advertisement
