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JUKE 28, 1923 THE R.A.F. AERIAL PAGEANT A Wonderful Display in Store for Visitors to Hendon IN our issue for June 14 we gave a brief outline of the pro- gramme of the R.A.F. Aerial Pageant, which takes place at Hendon on Saturday, and we now give some further details which we think will be of interest. First and foremost, Their Majesties the King and Queen, the Duke and Duchess of York, the Crown Prince of Sweden, and other members of the Royal Family will witness this year's proceedings. In addition there will, of course, be a large number of notable visitors present—British and International—including the leading members of the mili- tary and civil departments of aviation. The British and foreign delegates to the Inter- national Air Congress are also attending. Perhaps greatest interest centres round the various types of machines taking part in the programme, some of which will be seen—by the general public, at all events—for the first time without their " veils of secrecy." Some of the new machines to be " paraded " this year are certainly interesting, and splendid examples of the development of British aircraft design. Amongst the outstanding machines taking part will be some that have been specially designed for co-operation duties with the Navy. Two of the most important are new ship's fighting aeroplanes designed to ascend from and alight on the decks of aircraft carriers as well as on land aerodromes. These are the Fairey " Fly- catcher '' and the Parnall " Plover." Both are fitted with 320 h.p. Siddeley " Jaguar " engines, and are small-span land type tractor biplanes. The" Flycatcher" has single " N " interplane struts and the usual Fairey hinged trailing- edge flaps. It has the kinked, or cocked-up, fuselage peculiar to " deck-landing " aircraft. The " Plover " is also a " land " type, with a single pair of interplane struts each side, and its ailerons extend from tip to fuselage on both top and bottom planes. Both machines are capable of high speed'at altitudes exceeding 2 miles in height, and possess remarkable manoeuvrability. Other types of new naval aircraft include the fleet-spotting class and torpedo carriers. The former will be represented by the Avro " Bison " and the Blackburn fleet spotter, which are the latest in this field of design and have qualities of perform- ance of a high order. Torpedo carriers present will be the Blackburn " Dart," with which the naval torpedo-carrier squadrons have been recently equipped, and the Handley Page " Hanley," which is peculiar in having the new " slotted " wing. An interest- ing machine built for naval reconnaissance duties is the supermarine " Seagull," an amphibian with a fine per- formance. The "Blackburn" fleet- spotter is fitted with a 450 h.p. Napier " Lion," and is similar to the Blackburn " Dart " and "Swift " torpedo-carriers, ex- cept that the peculiar kink in the fuselage is not so prominent. Amongst landplanes there are huge new troop-carriers, capable of carrying 25 fully- equipped soldiers, in addition to their crew of two, new single and two-seater fighting machines, long-distance recon- naissance aircraft, bombing machines, and all-metal aero- planes for various duties. The troop-carriers are the twin- engined Vickers " Victoria," a development of the Vickers " Vernon," now in use in Iraq, and the Armstrong-Siddeley "Awana," a twin-engined all-metal machine. The "Vic- toria," as may be seen from one of the accompanying illus- trations, is similar in general appearance to the well-known Vickers " Vimy Commercial," and is fitted with two Napier " Lion " engines. Single-seater fighters will include the famous Siddeley- Siskin, which is capable of a speed of about 150 m.p.h. at an altitude of 3 to 4 miles, and the Gloucester "Grebe," the The Blackburn " Blackburn " Fleet Spotter, 450 h.p. Napier " Lion." 339
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