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1934
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1126 FLIGHT.. OCTOBER 25, 1934. THE PRINCE'S VISIT : His Royal Highness chats withMessrs. Campbell-Black and Scott (on left) ; on the right are Lt.-Com. H. E. Perrin, Secretary of the R.Ae.C, andMr. Lindsay Everard, M.P. (Flight Photo.) son, had suffered a forced landing at St. Neots, due to a minor oil-feed trouble, on the way to Mildenhall, and the machine had been scratched. But there was a world of interest in the new types and those which had not previously been seen in this country. The design of the unlucky Bellanca monoplane, for in- stance, has been based on data for a long-range recon- naissance machine for the American Navy, and the engine was, in fact, developed for Service use, and is the only one of its kind to be found on a civil aircraft. It de- velops 700 h.p. at 8,500 feet, though the best cruising power is obtained at between T2,ooo and 14,000 feet. It weighs, without equipment, only 994 lb. With 300 gallons of fuel on board, the Swoop has, according to Bonar, taken off in six seconds, and the whole 500 gallons can be dumped in 44 seconds. Bonar also gave the range, with full tanks, as 3,220 miles at 235 m.p.h., the full-out speed as 265 m.p.h., and the landing speed, with rather less than half-load, as 56 m.p.h. The Bellanca has a welded steel fuselage, faired to an oval section, and, as the machine is a wire-braced mono- plane with an inwardly retractile undercarriage, a pair of kingposts take the lift wires. The cockpits are placed well back, and Bonar can lower his seat so that Fitz- maurice may see the flying instruments when he takes over. Special D/F equipment, of visual and aural type, developed for the U.S. Navy, is used. Rollasons, inci- dentally, were attending to all the work on the machine. Gradually, the number of entrants who might have hoped to reach Bagh- dad in one hop were being ruthlessly cut down by the race officials. Col. Roscoe Turner's Boeing 247-D, actu- ally the first of its type and used by United Air Lines in America, had been licensed in the U.S. to carry 950 gallons, but three tanks were sealed to comply with the regulations, and it appeared on Wednesday that the machine could hope to get no far- ther than Athens without refuelling. Capt. Stack's Airspeed "Viceroy" was another unfortunate. It began to appear as if only the three D.H. " Comets," the Bellanca, and the Granville monoplane were likely to attempt to travel directly between all the controls. The Pander S.4's performance re- mained something of a mystery, and Slot, the designer, claimed, when questioned, that " his memory was bad." Few people realise that this machine, renamed Panderjager, was originally designed as a bomber with a pair of two-row 700 h.p. Wrights before being taken over as a long- range, high-speed mail carrier and fitted with three Wright "Whirl- winds," each giving a maximum of 420 b.h.p. Apparently, the designer was not satisfied that the Panderjager was properly equipped for the Austra- lian race, but all the minor troubles appear to have been cured. In its present form it cruises at a speed be- tween 180 and 190 m.p.h. Miss Jacqueline Cochran's original entry, the Northrop, had been with- drawn owing to trouble with the A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR: Lord Londonderry,Secretary of State for Air, is conducted round the aerodrome by (left) Mr. Lindsay Everard, M.P.(Chairman of the Organising Committee), and Lieut. Col. F. C. Shelmerdine, D.C.A. (Flight Photo ) \0
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