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1932
1932 - 0030.PDF
FLIGHT, JANUARY 8, 1932 *V FLIGHT Photo. More Fedrey Aircraft for Belgium • THE " FIREFLY " (ROLLS-ROYCE " KESTREL " ENGINE) : One of the machines of which considerable numbers have been ordered by the Belgian Government. AN ANGLO-BELGIAN ENTENTE : Left to right, Adjutant Caryn of the Section Technique at Everes, Adjutant Verboomen, also of the Section Tech nique, Sqdr.-Ldr. M. Wright, Foreign Representative of the Fairey Company, Captain Guillaume, of the Section Technique, Flt.-Lt. Staniland, and Flt.-Lt. Hilton, both Fairey Company test pilots. (FLIGHT Photo.) 30 S [|r~'HE Fairey Aviation Co., V_3 I Ltd-> informs us that 111 through Avions Fairey S.A., of Gosselies, Belgium, a contract has been received exceed ing in value £300,000 for aircraft and engines. It would appear that the Belgian Air Force is well satisfied with the products of the Fairey com pany already in commission, as this repeat order, which exceeds 60 air craft, has been received before the completion of the first contracts, received last year. This is the most important contract which has been placed by a foreign government with a British firm since the contract placed by Belgium last year with the Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd., and was secured by the Fairey company in the face of very keen competition. The demon stration machines sent over, it is claimed, went through their trials without the slightest hitch. The sixty-odd aircraft ordered will be of two types: The " Firefly " single-seater fighter and the " Fox II " two-seater. The " Firefly," one of which is shown in one of our photographs, is a remarkably clean machine, its lines being very easy and its fuselage of small cross-sectional area as well as of good streamline form. It is claimed that during the acceptance tests held some time ago the " Fire fly " definitely proved itself the world's fastest single-seater fighter. The two-seater " Fox II " is a descendant of the original " Fox " introduced by the Fairey company several years ago, when it had a per formance far outclassing any two- seater of that time, and being well ahead of most single-seaters in speed.
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