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1926 - 0651.PDF
u SEPTEMBER 9, 1923 stream effect too difficult, there would seem to be a considerable future for testing wing sections on full scale in this manner at relatively low cost. As regards the wing structure, this is of normal construction, with two main spars, ribs and ailerons. The latter are hinged direct to the rear main spar. In the centre the wing rests on a boys in their work by designing and building machines of their own and entering them in such competitions as may occur: At the same time it was hoped that the carrying out of this- work from the first ideas to the finished aeroplane might help to improve the liaison between the various branches of the staff. When the first machine has been completed it is LENGTH 23-0 ARE AS MAIN PLANES 195-OSo. PI- TAIL PLANIE iS-3SaPr ELEVATORS 13 2 SO FT FIN ......~3 0 Sa.Fr RUDDER 6-0 Sa.Fr. HALTON H.A.C.I BRISTOL "CHERUB"ENGINE 0 i 23*56 7 8 9 10 FEET 9-O No. 8. THE HALTON H.A.C. 1 "MAYFLY " : General Arrangement Drawings, to Scale. cabane of steel tube struts, while the outboard bracing is inthe form of a pair of Yee struts on each side. These struts are steel tubes with wood fairings. No. 8. The Halton H.A.C. 1 " Mayfly " Bristol " Cherub " Engine IN some ways the Halton Aero Club is unique. Formed in December, 1925, as a service club among the staff and appren- intended to arrange for a series of lectures to be given to the apprentices by those responsible for the various branches of the design and construction. The H.A.C. 1, or " Mayfly," as it has been somewhat face- tiously called by the apprentices, is the club's first effort. It has been designed by the school educational staff, and built in the workshops largely by the apprentices under the super- vision, and with the assistance, of their officers, N.C.O's. and MAKING BOTH ENDS MEET : The Tail and the Engine Mounting of No. 9, the Avro engine is an Armstrong-Siddeley " Genet." Avian.'' The tices at Halton, the chief training centre for apprentices in the Royal Air Force, the club already has a membership of more than 1,100, and the funds of the club have been raised by 5s. and 2s. 6d. shares. The apprentices alone have raised in this way ^170. The club was formed with the object of increasing the interest of both the staff and the civilian instructors. Some of the work has been carried out as part of the regular training of the apprentices, but the majority has been voluntary spare time work on the part of all concerned, and one wishes the club every success in the future. It is obviously tackling the job in the right spirit. It is, therefore, all the more to be regretted that as far as 575
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