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1934
1934 - 1191.PDF
NOVEMBER 15, 1934. FLIGHT. "93 Bellanca monoplane entered by Hospitals Trust, Ltd It did not meet with success. I have no wish to belittle the performance either of the Dutch and American pilots or of the American machines. It has, indeed, served a useful purpose. It has brought home to the British public the fact that there are air transport lines flying in the United States at an average speed of some 160 m.p.h. Even though the general aver- age of all the American companies is only some 130 m.p.h., and even though this is achieved at a cost to the United States Post Office of between four and five million pounds a year, with petrol at something like sevenpence per gallon only, it is all to the good that the British public should be taught to look for higher speeds. We are going to get them. Plans for a 7^-day service to Australia are already laid and have been in existence for some time. We already have transport machines capable of cruising at 145 m.p.h. The really important lessons of the Melbourne Race are that, given the de- mand for a particular type of machine, the British air- craft industry is thoroughly well capable of producing it, and that a machine built by a British company to do a particular job can be relied upon to do it. The British aircraft industry still takes first rank in the quality of its products. The Press will be doing a sendee to the industry and to their country if they will make that fact clear in the eyes of the world. If they do that, the British industry will not let them down. THE PARIS SHOW A Guide to the Exhibits : British Aircraft, Engine and Component Manufacturers Better Represented than in the Past r THE SETTING : To be opened to-morrow, November 16, by the President of the French Republic, the ParisAero Show remains open until Sunday, December 2. It is being staged in the Grand Palais des Champs Ely sees, shown in the drawing above. THE Fourteenth International Aero Exhibition,which is to be officially opened at the Grand Palaisby M. Albert Lebrun, President of the French Republic, to-morrow morning, promises to be more truly international in character than most Paris Aero Shows of recent years. In addition to France, which will, as usual, be very well represented, the British section will include a greater number of firms than has usually been the case, and, of other nationalities, Germany, Italy, Czechoslovakia and Poland will be represented. Holland, for the first time for many years, will be an absentee, Mr. Fokker having decided not to exhibit. Britain at the Show Several complete aircraft will be exhibited by British constructors. Armstrong Whitworth will be represented by an A.W. "Scimitar " single-seater fighter, while the associated company, A. V. Roe and Co., will show a type 626 training biplane and an Autogiro C.30 P. Hawker Aircraft, Ltd., will be represented by a Special " Fury Day and Night Fighter biplane, while Hawker structural methods will be well illustrated by a wing built entirely in stainless steel. . . More fully represented than the aircraft firms will be the aero engine makers. For example, Armstrong-Siddeley Motors will have a very comprehensive range of engines, which will include the 700 h.p. " Tiger," the 600 h.p. " Panther," the 340 h.p. " Serval," the 277 h.p. " Cheetah," the 215 h.p. " Lynx," and the 150 h.p. 7-cyl. " Genet Major." The Bristol Aeroplane Company will have two novelties in the 600 h.p. " Perseus " and the 400 h.p. " Aquila," both nine-cylinder radial air-cooled sleeve-valve engines. The former is of 24.8 litres capacity and the latter of 15.6 litres. In addition, there will be on the Bristol stand a " Mercury VI," a " Pegasus III," and a " Pegasus IV." The last is the most highly supercharged. Four distinct types will be exhibited by D. Napier and Son, i.e., a 160 h.p. " Javelin,>! a 305 h.p. " Rapier II," a 700 h.p. Halford-Napier " Dagger," and a Napier- Junkers " Culverin " of 720 h.p. The " Rapier " and '' Dagger '' are particularly interesting, in that they are of " H " formation, seen from th,e front. The " Rapier " has sixteen cylinders and the " Dagger " twenty-four. Both are air-cooled. The " Culverin " is the Junkers Jumo 4 built under licence in England by D. Napier and Son. On the Rolls-Royce stand the most interesting engine will, perhaps, be the " Kestrel VI " of 600 h.p. normal rating. This engine is supercharged to 11,000 ft., and is cooled by a composite system employing both a steam condenser and a water radiator. A fairly comprehensive range of British parts and accessories will be shown in the Salon. The Dunlop Rubber Co., on the stand of their associated
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