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AUGUST 25, 1927 in the upper portion of the fuselage immediately behind the fireproof bulkhead. A petrol filter is mounted, at the lowest point of the fuel system, on the front face of the fireproof bulkhead, below the engine mounting. The oil tank is mounted in the fuselage, below the petrol tank, and underneath it is a self-regulating oil cooler. This latter keeps the oil delivered to the engine at an even tempera- ture by automatically controlling the flow of oil through the cooling space. The armament of this machine includes two 0-303 Vickers guns mounted on either side of the fuselage, with belt boxes accommodating 1,200 rounds of ammunition, and a Lewis gun mounted on a Scarff ring with five double drums of ammunition ; the Vickers' guns are operated by C.C. gear. Provision is made for pilot's and gunner's parachutes, Yerey pistol and cartridges, and oxygen apparatus. The principal characteristics of the Bristol Type 101 are :Span (both planes) Chord Gap Wing area Angle of incidence Dihedral angle Stagger (at leading edge) Weight empty Weight laden Weight per sq. f t. Weight per b.h.p. Speed range Climb to 10,000 ft. . . Climb to 20,000 ft. . . Service ceiling 33 ft. 7 ins. 6 ft. 0 ins. 5 ft. 3 ins. 320 sq. ft. 3° 4° 3 ft. 0 ins. 2,100 lbs. 3,540 lbs. 11 06 lbs. 7-85 lbs. 60-140 m.p.h. 9 mins. 30 mins. 21,000 ft. THE INTERNATIONAL AERO SHOW AT COPENHAGEN By THE TECHNICAL EDITOR On board s.s. "A . P. Bemstorff." " somewhere in the North Sea " August 23, 1927 IN almost all respects a small nation is handicapped by its very smallness, a fact which is perhaps likely to be overlooked or at least to be imperfectly realised by the great countries of the world. Denmark for all its efficiency, for all its splendid system of education, its extensive use of co-operative societies, its advanced culture and its generally high standards of living, has not been able altogether to escape the effects of its diminutive size, and in attempting to form an opinion ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY ENGINES AT THE COPENHAGEN AERO SHOW : The famous 14 cylinder " Jaguar " of the International Aircraft Exhibition which opened in Copenhagen on Saturday of last week, August 20, one should, in order to be fair, make every a lowance for this fact. Moreover, it should be remembered that this is the first exhibition of its kind to be held in Copenhagen, consequently any shortcomings in the organisation, any traces of amateurish- ness, should not be treated too severely. We have all had to learn by experience, and from discussions with various exhibitors at the Copenhagen Aero Show ilt is fairly evident that those responsible for the organisation have, by their extraordinary courtesy, their willingness to meet exhibitorsin every way possible, and their obvious anxiety to help, more than made up for such shortcomings due to inexperienceas have necessarily been met with occasionally. Bearing all these things in mind, the first international aero show to.beheld in Copenhagen can be said to form a very good beginning and although naturally the exhibits do not approach innumbers those of a Paris aero show, or of the Gothenburg show of 1923, the Forum in Copenhagen is well worth visitingduring the next week or so. It was somewhat unfortunate that we should have decided to visit the exhibition on the first two days, since the already relatively small number of aircraft on view had been further reduced by the non-arrival of several machines from France, Germany and Czecho- slovakia, which had been held up by adverse weather conditions en route, and by various other causes. However, as far as could be gathered, none of the machines now on their way to Copenhagen is of very novel type, and thus their absence from the list in the present issue of FLIGHT is not really a very serious matter, the more so as the Copenhagen Show should not, we think, be judged so much on the number of aircraft exhibited, as on the fact that our neighbours across the Xorth Sea are beginning to realise the im- portance of aviation and are anxious to develop among the broader masses of the population that " air-jnindedness " which we are doing our best to foster at home. In order to place before readers of F'LIGHT as soon as possible a brief resume of what is to be seen at Copenhagen, these notes arc being written under somewhat un- favourable conditions, a strong south-westerly wind having kicked up a rather nasty sea in which s.s. Bernstorff, of" Det Foreneac Dampskibs-Selskab is performing some very peculiar antics and i.-, incidentally, serving to make '•'•<- wish all the mbre for the day w'''" "'• such a hull.shall be fitted with wines, making the journey from F2sbjerg to Harwich in four hoi:.::, instead of 24 (or rather 28 as the trip now promises to t.i '-' owing to the strong head wind), and the worst shall be an occasional small " bump " in place of the incess .. pitching to which the company is now being subjeti • However, FLIGHT goes to press tomorrow night, and coi' quently these notes have to be written with the writer i. ^ position which is only very occasionally vertical. The rut" * " feet " of the editorial " Corona " have a fairly good ^ ,^ but even so the machine every now and then performs t1 590
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