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1915 - 0317.PDF
MAY 7. '9'5 fUM engine. The chassis is, on the other hand, placed very tar forward, supporting, infact,theengineonly,leavingthecom- bined weight of pilot, passenger, controls and instruments unsupported, an arrangement which would seem to impose the pilot, Mr. Harold Kantner, is said to have felt so confident in the stability of his mount that he let go of the controls and made a prolonged flight with his hands raised above his head. The new Gallaudet military tractor biplane. severe bending stresses in the body in a heavy landing. In the Gallaudet military tractor biplane the influence of German designing practice can be clearly traced in the backswept main planes and upturned ailerons. The arrangement of the fuselage is somewhat reminiscent of the Handley Page biplane in the manner of carrying the lower plane right across instead of attaching the two halves of it, as it is done in most machines, to the sides of the body. Also in the covering of the body is German influence notice able, as this takes the form of three-ply instead of the usual fabric covering. The chassis is of the Vee-type, having the rear members continued forward in the form of tusks or short skids. The engine is a 50 h.p. Gnome, which it is intended later, we understand, to replace with a Gyro. A hemispherical nose-piece encloses the centre part of the propeller so as to form a good entry for the air. During the first flight of this machine ® ® The Aerial Raid on Suffolk. As barren of results, from a military point of view, as its predecessors was the aircraft raid on certain parts of Suffolk in the early hours of Friday of last week. No lives were lost, but both in Ipswich and Bury St. Edmunds some house property was burned. About 12.20 a.m. incendiary bombs were dropped at Ipswich, in Waterloo Road and Brookhall Road, with the result that three houses were burnt out, some of the sleeping occu pants having remarkable escapes. Some more bombs were dropped at Whitton, and then the airship went on to Bury St. Edmunds, where a large number of incendiary bombs were dropped in the neighbourhood of the Butter Market and other parts of the city, five or six shops The Gallaudet in (light. Like the Gallaudet machine, the Heinrich military tractor may be said to belong to the "Arrow" type, having slightly back-swept main planes, of which the upper has a pronounced over hang. These extensions are braced in a down ward direction by cables running to the lower ends of the outer pair of inter- plane struts, but no provision has been made, it appears, for bracing them upwards either by means of king posts or some similar arrangement. The body is of rectangular section, and is armoured in front so as to protect, as far as possible, the engine, observer, and pilot. With the new no h.p. Gyro motor, which is, by the way, the first motor of that type to be delivered, a speed of 46 to 90 m.p.h. is anticipated, a very good speed range for an armoured machine. For a span of 35 ft. and a length of 24 ft. 6 ins., the machine has a weight of 950 lbs. ® ® being more or less badly damaged by fire. It will be seen that, according to the German report, "Coast fortifications at Harwich were bombarded." In the evening of the same day there were a number of reports as to airships having been seen off the coast. At Wells four were said to have been seen over the sea. Some of the reports probably related to British aircraft on scouting duty. Hostile Aircraft Over Dover. ACCORDING to reports from Dover, a hostile aero plane was sighted on Sunday morning flying in a westerly direction. The anti-aircraft guns opened fire, and the machine disappeared in the direction of Folkestone. It was at a great height, and no bombs were dropped. 317
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