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Aviation History
1935
1935 - 1555.PDF
JUNE 27, 1935. FLIGHT. ^5 A new Bomber Transport : The Armstrong Whitworth A.W.23, which has two 800 h.p. Siddeley " Tiger VI " engines. The Bristol Troop Carrier, unlike most modern machines, is a high-wing monoplane. 700 h.p. each. The engines are Bristol "Pegasus " of radial supercharged engine, which develops 645 h.p. at 15,000ft. In its general lines the Gloster day and night fighter resembles the "Gauntlet," but it has a cantilever undercar riage. Pterodactyl V: In this machine, the '' tail-less '' principle has been applied for the first time to a military aeroplane. The " Pterodactyl V," designed by Capt G. T. R. Hill and built by the Westland Aircraft Works, is a two-seater fighter fitted with a Rolls-Royce "Goshawk" twelve-cylinder water- cooled engine which develops 650 h.p. at 15,000ft. The machine is virtually a ' sesquiplane " in that there is a diminutive lower wing which carries wing-tip skids for steadying the machine on the ground, the wheels of the undercarriage being placed in tandem and partly housed inside the abbreviated fuselage. Owing to the absence of a tail, the field of fire from the rear gunner's cockpit is amazingly wide and unobstructed. The Gloster F.7/30 is a Day and Night Fighter with very high performance. Note the cantilever undercarriage. The engine is a Bristol "Mercury VI," which develops 645 h.p. at 15,000 ft. (Flight photograph.)
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