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AUGUST 18, 1927 THE 1927 SCHNEIDER TROPHY CONTEST Some Notes on the " Crusader " and the Race Itself* IN last week's issue of PLIGHT we were able to give some particulars of two of the three British challengers for this year's Schneider Trophy contest, and we now follow this up with some brief notes on the third machine constructed for this important event. As announced last week, three types of high-speed seaplanes were constructed to Air Ministry order—our participation in this year's contest being a " Service operation "—the Gloster- Napier IV, the Supermarine-Napier S-5 (both of which types seaplane, designed for the firm of Lieut.-Col. W. A. Bristow, Consulting Engineers and Aircraft Designers, by Mr. W. G. Carter—whose name is not unfamiliar to many of our readers, and who was at one time designer to the H. G. Hawker Engineering Co. It was constructed by Short Bros., Ltd., of Rochester, and is fitted with a Bristol " Mercury " air-cooled radial engine. This latter feature alone makes the " Crusader " a machine of more than usual interest, as this is the first time that a machine [" FLIGHT " Photographs THE THIRD BRITISH SCHNEIDER CHALLENGER: Front view of the Short-Bristol "Crusader" mono- seaplane, which is fitted with a Bristol " Mercury " air-cooled radial engine. were dealt with last week), and the Bristow-Short-Bristol " Crusader." ^On Thursday last this latter machine was " on view " at the Felixstowe Air Station, and we are thus enabled to give herewith some particulars and illustrations of the " Crusader." We cannot, of course, as explained before, give anything but a general outline of its characteristics. Th " Crusader," like the " S-5," is a low-wing mono- of this type—a high-speed racing seaplane—has been fitted with an air-cooled radial engine (excepting, of course, the early rotary engines). In fact, it was with the object—apart, of course, from-bringing^ back the "Cup"—of testing out the possibilities of high-speed seaplanes fitted with air-cooled engines that the " Crusader " was designed. An air-cooled engire naturally presents a greater frontal [" FLIGHT " Photograph THE OTHER TWO BRITISH CHALLENGERS : So'as to enable our readers [to form a comparison of all thn-emachines we give herewith views of the Supermarine-Napier S-5 and the Gloster-Napier IV—both of which w«e described in last week's FLIGHT. 576 '
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