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1933
1933 - 0445.PDF
FLIGHT, AUGUST 31, 1933 The Saro "Cloud " arrives at Riga for the demonstration. AN AMPHIBIOUS DEMONSTRATION TOUR FLIGHT has always held that amphibians are a type of aircraft to be encouraged. The scope given by the possession of an undercarriage which will permit the machine to be landed either on the water or on the land is so great that it is of incalculable advan tage in many parts of our Empire. Unfortunately, for many years designers have seemed unable to achieve a per formance in an amphibian which made it a commercial proposition when compared with more normal machines. Now that condition has been changed, and in the Saro range of amphibians we have aircraft which can take their place in the world wherever there is serious work to be done. Below we give#a report in diary form, which we have obtained from Saunders-Roe, Ltd., the directors of which firm have just completed an extensive tour in a Saro " Cloud " : — The Saro '' Cloud '' (G-ACGO) was fitted with two Armstrong-Siddeley " Serval " 340-h.p. engines. It com pleted its initial experimental test nights at Saunders-Roe Works, Cowes, on Saturday, July 15. July 16.—At 12.40 p.m. a demonstration tour of Northern and Central Europe was started. The pilot was Capt. S. D. Scott. Mr. John Lord and Mr. J. de C. Ballardie, both directors of Saunders-Roe, Ltd., were aboard. One mechanic was carried, who maintained the aircraft and engines throughout the tour. Lympne was reached in 50 min. A straight course from Lympne across the North Sea brought Amsterdam in sight in 1 hr. 45 min. July 17.—Flew to Rotterdam and demonstrated to local air officers. July 18.—Landed at Dutch Military Air Force Station, ^usteburg, where the officers inspected the boat. Left during the afternoon for Copenhagen, arrived at 7.30 p.m., and landed on the Civil Aerodrome. July 19.—Special permission was obtained from the Har bour Board for a landing to be made in Copenhagen. July 20.—Left for Gothenburg at 2.10 p.m. Demonstra- lions were made on the aerodrome and on the sea. Oslo 'Was reached at 7.15 p.m. Met by our old friend Col. ft'mkenberg, Chief of the Norwegian Air Force. AT BRUSSELS : From left to right—John Lord ; Capt. S. D. Scott (pilot) ; A. Wallace Barr ; V. Bloos (repre senting Cellon in Belgium) ; Van der Goes (agent for Hawkers and Handley Page in Belgium) ; and J. de C. Ballardie. July 21.—Demonstrations made to the Navy and Army and Air Chiefs at Oslo and Horten, a naval seaplane base about 80 miles from Oslo. July 22.—Flew from Oslo to Stockholm. July 23.—At Stockholm we were joined by Mr. Wallace Barr,' Managing Director of Cellon, Ltd, Flew across the Baltic to Visby in the Island of Gotland, where the Manag ing Director of Swedish Airways—Capt. Carl Florman—was interviewed. The return flight to Stockholm was made the same evening. The Saro " Cloud " in a small river at Wyszkow, in Poland, where a landing was made almost in the dark. 869 D
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