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OCTOBER 11, 1928 One of the few seaplanes at the Berlin Show. The Heinkel H.E.10 m o n o - plane. The Alba- tros stand is in the background. and the heart-shaped nose radiator found on the machine at Paris. Savoia.—The name Savoia has for many years been associated with flying boats, and at Berlin the firm shows a small machine of this type, the S.59 bis. Presumably the machine is intended for school work, as it does not appear to be of very high power. It shows the flat sides and hollow step which characterised Savoia machines in the days when Laurence Santoni was connected with the firm, and so is presumably not one of the latest types. RUSSIA Soviet Russia makes a very excellent show at Berlin, and it is quite certain that Russian prestige in the matter of aircraft production will increase as a result of this exhibition. The firm titles and names of Russian machines are so difficult to give phonetically that we shall not attempt here to do so, but confine ourselves to brief general descriptions. One machine is a high-wing monoplane equipped as an ambulance. The fuselage is of metal construction, while the wing appears largely made of wood. A rather attractive machine in the form of an all-metal sesquiplane shows traces of Junkers influence in its con- struction, corrugated Duralumin sheet being liberally em- ployed everywhere. The machine has a fuselage of nearly triangular section, and is a single-seater with water-cooled engine. Two Lamblin " lobster pot " radiators are mounted one on each side of the nose. There is a single seat for the pilot, so that it is assumed that the machine, which is too large for a fighter, may be intended for long-distance mail carrying. Next in size comes a small school biplane of orthodox design and construction, fitted with a 5-cylinder radial air- cooled engine. The light 'plane class is represented on the Russian stand by two machines. One is a small low-wing monoplane with its wheels mounted on a single-spring axle, and the other is a strut-braced parasol monoplane two-seater, with its wheels mounted on cantilever struts and a streamline wire as an " axle." Both are fitted with two-cylinder fiat twin air-cooled engines. The Russian exhibit is completed by a very original form of motor-driven sledge. A Bristol " Lucifer " engine drives a pusher airscrew, and the passengers are accommodated in a small cabin. Ahead of this is the driver's seat, which is not enclosed but protected by a windscreen The sledge has three skis or runners, one (steerable) in front and two behind. Through the two rear skis project two tubular sprags, operated from the driver's cockpit by- cables and cranks. Presumably these are intended to act as brakes by digging into the snow and ice. One can imagine quite a high speed being possible with this sledge on smooth ice or hard snow. ffi At the Berlin Show: The exhibit from Czecho Slovakia. m a 867
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