FlightGlobal.com
Home
Premium
Archive
Video
Images
Forum
Atlas
Blogs
Jobs
Shop
RSS
Email Newsletters
You are in:
Home
Aviation History
1924
1924 - 0287.PDF
MAY 22, 1924 overall width of the machine is then only the width ot the tail plane. Constructionally the Dietrich-Gobiet D.P. VII follows Fokker practice to some extent, in that the fuselage is built up of steel tubes braced with piano wire. The covering is the usual doped fabric. Welding is used as in the Fokker machines for joining struts to longerons. Apart from its depth, there is nothing unusual in the fuselage, which is of rectangular section. The cockpit has room for two occupants if necessarv, the passenger straddling a box seat behind the pilot, after the fashion of the pre-War Morane-Saulnier monoplanes. The Haacke two-cylinder fiat-twin engine is mounted in the nose of the fuselage, and it will be observed that a particularly " clean " entry is provided for the air, the upper part only of the cylinders projecting. The undercarriage is of the usual V-type, of streamline section steel tubes, but lateral bracing is by diagonal struts instead of wire. As distinct from the fuselage construction, the wing is an all-wood structure, with three-ply and spruce box spars, and wooden ribs. The ailerons are of considerable length, extend ing inward to the point of attachment of the wing-bracing E H Royal Air Force Pageant THE fifth Royal Air Force Aerial Pageant, which will take place at the London Aerodrome, Hendon, on Saturday, June 28, when it is hoped that some of the members of the Royal Family will be present, will embody several new features. Instituted in 1920, the Pageant now forms an in tegral and important part of the annual training of the Air Force, and provides a valuable stimulus to keenness and effi ciency in the many squadrons taking part in the flying dis plays. The programme has been devised to show in an interesting form the many-sided activities of the Royal Air Force, and to illustrate the progress which has been achieved struts. The controls are of usual type, and all control cables pass inside wing and fuselage respectively. It is understood that, the flying tests with the experimental machine having proved satisfactory in every way, the machine will now be put into quantity production. In this respect the Germans appear to have advanced farther than we, inas much as several makes have been, or are being, put into quantity production. Thus the Mark Monoplane, which resembles the D.P. VII in that it has a steel tube fuselage, but differs from it in being a parasol monoplane, has been produced in fairly large numbers for some time. The main characteristics of the Dietrich-Gobiet D.P. VII are as follows : Length o.a. 5 -4 m. (17 ft. 8J ins.) ; span 8 m (26 ft. 3 ins.) ; height 1 -95 m. (6 ft. 5 ins.) ; area 10 -625 sq. m. (114-5 sq. ft.). Weight empty 180 kg. (396 lbs.); useful load 160 kg. (352 lbs.) ; total loaded weight 340 kg. (748 lbs.). Power loading 9-6 kg./h.p. (21 -15 lbs./h.p.) ; wing loading 32 kg./sq. m. (6-52 lbs./sq. ft.). Speed 115 km./hour (71 -5 m.p.h). Ceiling 2,400 m. (7,875 ft.). Range 350 km (217 miles). Fuel capacity sufficient for 3 hours. Petrol consumption for 100 km. (62 miles), 8 kg. (17 -6 lbs.), oil con sumption in three hours 2 -5 kg. (5 -5 lbs.). It will be noticed that the ratio of useful load to empty weight is very good. E E in the technical development of aircraft. This year, owing to the growth of the Air Force on the home defence and naval sides, it has been found possible to introduce new features which should make the display more comprehensive and attractive. Space limitations make it quite impossible to illustrate fully the work of the flying service either at the British Empire Exhibition or at the Royal Tournament, and it is at the Aerial Pageant that the public at home and visitors from the Dominions are afforded the opportunity of observing at first hand the progress of service flying since the conclusion of the War. a E E E AERO GOLFING SOCIETY SPRING MEETING : Above, Sir Henry White-Smith and Col. Bristow playing for the tenth hole. Below, Lieut.-Comdr. Perrin and Capt. T. Hinshelwood on the thirteenth green. 287
Sign up to
Flight Digital Magazine
Flight Print Magazine
Airline Business Magazine
E-newsletters
RSS
Events
