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1935
1935 - 1054.PDF
4Q8 FLIGHT. MAY 9, 1935. THE FOUR WINDS ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL QUARTERS A Feline Fade-out? A '' hush-hush '' new Armstrong Siddeley en gine has been named "Mastiff." British'designed Slots for V.S. Three floatplane am phibians, each with de vices for increasing the speed range, were sub jected to competitive trials by the U.S. Navy. The winning machine, of which 135 examples have been ordered, utilised Handley Page full span'' slots and flaps. For Cadastral Survey Monospar A Monospar S.T.I2 has been ordered by the Spanish Government for photographic work in connection with the compiling of maps, from which the area, nature and extent of taxable land can be gathered. A Protracted Qlide Accompanied by a passenger, Rastor- guyev, a Russian gliding instructor, has remained aloft for 26 hr. 29 min. in an SH-5 glider, thus, it is claimed, breaking the world's endurance record for two- seater gliders. * •. • • QUEER BEASTIES FROM AMERICAN WATERS. A flight of Curtiss BF2C-l's from America's latest aircraft carrier Ranger. These peculiar-looking retractable-undercarriage biplanes are fitted with 700 h.p. "Cyclones " giving a maximum speed of well over 200 m.p.h., and, apart from their employment as fighters, are used extensively as dive bombers, when they carry nearly 500 lb. of projectiles apiece. Not to be Missed Readers of Flight are strongly advised to obtain to-morrow's issue of The Auto car, which will contain an announce ment regarding a remarkable map offer. French Pou>er for a C.30 A C.30 Autogiro intended for a French destination has been fitted with a 200 h.p. Salmson nine-cylinder radial, driving a Ratier airscrew. —AND THEIR LAIR The U.S.S. Ranger, newest American carrier, is 770ft. long and 90ft. in beam. She carries four squadrons of fighter-bombers and a complement of 'utility " amphibians, bringing the total of American carrier-based aircraft to 271. Her crew consists of 113 officers and 1,407 men. "Moscow Flier—Platform Four" The possibility of landing an aeroplane with a train of gliders in tow was demon strated recently in the U.S.S.R. A Y-2 machine and a glider which it was towing landed simultaneously—the glider some 65 ft. to the side of the aeroplane. Round the Maypole Two hundred Wright-engined fighters, about 120 of the famous four-engined bombers, 37 bombers with twin engines, and 330 general-purpose biplanes were among the 700 first-line military machines which paraded over Moscow on May Day. " Mew Qull " Mods. Mr. E. W. Percival states that his "Mew Gull" is being still further cleaned up for the coming season. Alterations to the fuselage shape and undercarriage fairing should add a few m.p.h. This fascinating little aeroplane will probably race again for the King s Cup and, possibly, make a record-break ing trip to Paris. Twenty-five Years Ago From " Flight " of May 7, i910 "It is Sir Hiram Maxim's in tention, when the preliminary ex periments with his biplane have been brought to a satisfactory conclusion, to fit gyroscopic con trol. The gyroscope is designed to operate, through a relay mecnanism, a cylinder contain ing a piston to which an operating rod is attached."
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