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1936
1936 - 1803.PDF
14 FLIGHT. JULY 2, 1936. Were it not for the rear gunner's turret it would be impossible to distinguish this military version of the Envoy from its civil counterpart. The covered forward gun trough can be seen below the control cabin. Flight photograph.) in South Africa, and no full-time operator should be needed on the regular services. The makers give an official and consequently conserva tive time figure for the necessary conversion as thirty-two man-hours, though in fact, we are told, it can be done in less than three hours by skilled men under careful super vision. This means that, if necessary, a Service-trained transport pilot, who is accustomed to flying the machine in all weathers, could be taken over with the converted machine almost at a moment's notice in case of emer gency. The new Envoy, in fact, rather gives the lie to those who have always claimed that the essentially civil machine cannot be usefully converted for war purposes. The flying characteristics of the flapped Envoy were explained in Flight of March 19 this year, and the value of a steep approach, a comparatively low landing speed, and a good take-off are no less great in the case of a military machine operating at times over forbidding country with few possible landing places. With 305 h.p. Cheetah IX engines the civil version has a maximum speed of 210 m.p.h., and, though no figures for the military version can be given,~ the addition of a turret, a forward gun, and bombs should not reduce this speed by more than 20 m.p.h. As a matter of fact, Mr. The field of fire provided for the rear gunner can be visualised in this picture, which also shows the useful fact that the undercarriage, when retracted, can still be used for emergency landings on rough ground. Flight photograph.)
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