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Aviation History
1932
1932 - 1077.PDF
FLIGHT, OCTOBER 27, 1932 on the biplane, so that placing of bulkheads, wing fittings, strut fittings, etc., is unaltered. The wings are not designed to fold on either machine. Bristol-Frise type ailerons are used on both types. The undercarriage of both machines is of the " split " type, with oleo-pneumatic compression struts and Dunlop wheels fitted with Bendix brakes. A castor- ing tail wheel is fitted, and permits the machines to be swung in very small circles by the independently - operated wheel brakes. On the biplane the shock-absorbing leg is attached to the lower wing. On the mono plane a somewhat elaborate struc ture has been used, so as to enable the same points of attach ment to be used by the common undercarriage unit. The power plant of both machines is the Armstrong- Siddeley " Jaguar " IV C, of 400 h.p. In the monoplane the engines are carried in streamline 1005
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