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1934
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FLIGHT, MAY 3, 1934 DEUTSCHE SCHONHEIT : The Messerschmitt 35 is very clean and has a fine performance. The Swastika leaves no doubt as to its country of origin. company also had one of their twelve-cylinder water- cooled 600/700 h.p. engines on the stand. The Italian Exhibit " Motherly looking " best describes the Caproni 125. It has no forward view at all for the pilot or passenger, and it is therefore a good thing, as one critic was heard to say, that blind flying instruments were fitted. The general layout follows that of the normal two-seater tandem biplane. The fuselage is deep, with a large belly under- neath containing the fuel tank. The engine has been kept high in front of the cockpits, and the wind screens are mereh^ sheets of cellon covering the cockpits and reaching no higher than the line of the engine. The pilot and passenger can only, therefore, look at the dashboards, unless they hang out over the side, and even to do that they have to open their " lids." The wings are as small as the fuselage is large, and the whole does not give the impression that the speed range can be large. A Colombo 150 h.p. six-cylinder engine supplies the power. An interesting point is the ring oil cooler, which is placed around the cowling opening just behind the airscrew boss; it looks as if it might be a good feature provided the air at that point is not too dead. The stand also carries several models and photographs of other Caproni aero- planes. The other Italian representative of the aircraft manu- facturing industry is Savoia. Up to Sunday this machine had not arrived, but it was understood to be the same type of small amphibian which we illustrated in connection with the Egyptian Meeting. On Saturday a Breda 39 low- wing monoplane was put on the stand, a machine which was also at Cairo. German Aeroplanes Pretty to look at but rather giving a feeling of flimsy- ness, the Adler was the only all-steel aeroplane in the show. It is built by Adlerwerke at Frankfurt, and sells at about £690 in Switzerland with the 80 h.p. four-cylinder inverted Hirth engine. It is quite a normal two-seater tandem biplane, with a fair amount of stagger and the pilot's cockpit placed well aft. The top speed is given as 108 m.p.h. (175 kmjh), the landing speed as 40 m.p.h. (65 km/h), and the climb as 3& min. to 3,280 ft. (/ 000 m). This aeroplane was previously known as the Gerner, and the type has been used for some years in German schools. Adler only started building it in January this year. It is of welded construction throughout with fabric covering for the fuselage and supporting surfaces. The Klemm being shown is an old friend to readers of FLIGHT, as it is the property of Herr Schwabe, and the machine in which he not only competed in the Egyption Circuit of the Oases but also made a flight to Capetown and back. Neither its Siemens radial engine nor its cabin seat- ing four persons has been specially prepared for the Show. In fact Herr Schwabe only arrived at the aerodrome a few days before the opening, and was then first asked by the Klemm factory to allow his property to be exhibited. Surrounding it on the stand are an interesting range of models of other Klemm aeroplanes. Undoubtedly the nicest looking stand is that of the Bayerische Flugzeug Werke. They are show- ing a Messerschmitt M.36, which is finished with a highly glossy pale blue cellulose, and all around the stand are pots of pale blue hydrangeas. Certainly no ROUES PNEUMATIQUES: Dun- lop's Stand is at the side of the Main Hall and includes their pneumatic wheel brake as well as a range of their tyres.
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