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Aviation History
1937
1937 - 0088.PDF
b FLIGHT. JANUARY 14, 1937. A Fairey Seal of the Fleet Air Arm operating as a float plane. (R.A.F. Official photograph.) two or three duties with a high degree of efficiency has been encouraged. In the Fleet Air Arm to-day we have two types of torpedo - spotter - reconnaissance biplanes—the Blackburn Shark and Fairey Swordfish—designed, as their designation implies, for functioning as spotting or recon naissance machines or for deliver ing torpedo attacks. In actual fact they are equally efficient bombers. Both models are two- bay biplanes, the Shark being powered with a Siddeley Tiger VI and the Swordfish with a Bristol Pegasus III. Although normally employed as deck-landing types these machines can at will be fitted with floats and operated from catapults or lowered into the sea from a warship by a derrick. A crew of two or three is carried, depending on the work to be undertaken. The Hawker Osprey, another model well represented in the Ranger (U.S.A.). Courageous and Glorious (G.B.). Gotland (Sweden). Saratoga and Lexington (U.S.A.). Eagle (G.B.). Albatross (Australia). Akagi (Japan). Hermes (G.B.). Hosho (Japan). Kaga (Japan). Beam (France). Ryujo (Japan). Furious (G.B.). Langley (U.S.A.). Argus (G.B.). A group of the world's aircraft carriers reproduced, to scale, through the courtesy of Brassey's Naval and Shipping Annual. It will be noted that although all are carriers every one has not a flight deck, certain of them being planned with a view to operating seaplanes by means of catapults and derricks. Commandant Teste (France)
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