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1923
1923 - 0017.PDF
JANUARY II, 1923 THE PAKS -AEE.0 -SHOW-1922 By THE TECHNICAL EDITOR Continued from page 8.) HYDRA VIONS F.B.A., ARGENTEUIL (S. AND O.) FORMED originally by Lieut. Conneau, who under the nameof M. Beaumont won the first circuit of Britain, after a hard fight against Jules Vedrines, the Franco-British AviationCo., whose managing director now is M. Louis Schreck, has been engaged upon the construction of flying boats for agreater number of years than probably any other French firm. During the War, this country had in service a con-siderable number of F.B.As., which will still be remembered by all who served in the old R.N.A.S.The machine shown this year bears a strong family resemblance to earlier types, but the boat hull does not showthat " scorpion tail " cocked-up appearance which was so characteristic of the older F.B. A. machines. As a dual controlschool machine, the F.B.A. " 16 H.E.-2 " is not remarkable for any original features, having been designed to be easyto fly and to " put down." The boat hull shows the usual F.B.A. flat sides, ply-wood-covered, and has a single step well aft of the centre of gravity. In the nose the hull has a slight V-bottom, but this graduallydisappears until, at the step, it is actually slightly concave, after the fashion popular in Italy. Aft of the step, the bottomis again of V-shape, flattening out towards the stern. The seats for pupil and instructor are placed side by side,some distance ahead of the lower plane. The controls, seats, etc., are mounted on a framework, forming a unitseparate from the main boat hull. The wings are of usual biplane type, but are of considerablygreater thickness than were those of the old F.B.As., in which there was none too much room for spars. The topplane is in one piece, while the two halves of the lower wing are attached to the sides of the boat, and are set at a pro-nounced dihedral angle. Centre-section struts springing up from the deck of the boat, and sloping outward slightly The engine mounting on the F.B.A. H H 0 H B 13 The F.B.A. m Flying Boat: H T h r e e • H quarter front view. H H 0 0 0 E E C 2
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