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Aviation History
1937
1937 - 0170.PDF
A high-performance Italian bombing and reconnaissance flying boat (750 h.p. Isotta- Fraschini "Asso."). Japan uses this type of machine—the Navy 95—for reconnaissance. France's new single-seater fleet fighter The Dewoitine D.373 with Gnome-Rhone K.14 engine Curtiss F11C-3, which is basically similar to the bomber- fighter, but has a fixed cantilever undercarriage. A few obsolescent Martin two-seater dive bombers capable of handling 1,000 lb. projectiles are on charge, but it seems that these are being superseded by BG-is made by the Great Lakes concern. These have Twin Wasp fourteen-cylinder engines and do about 180 m.p.h. Various models of the Vought Corsair, with wheel or b FLIGHT. JAN. 21, 1937. float undercarriage and Wasp engine, are used from carriers and catapult-equipped warships. The very latest development in this well-tried series, used, apparently, exclusively with wheel undercarriage, is the SBU-i scout bomber with tapered wings and Twin Wasp Junior engine. Like other navies, the U.S.N. has been experimenting with Autogiros, and has lately taken delivery of a Wilford Gyroplane with 155 h.p. Kinner radial and float undercarriage. A Curtiss monoplane with two vengines is rumoured to be under develop ment for carrier work. France The French Navy has only one aircraft carrier of accepted type (Beam), the Commandant teste being classed as an avia tion transport and having no flight deck. The Beam dis places 22,146 tons and is a com paratively slow vessel, making only about 21 knots. She has accommodation for 41 aircraft, or roughly double that of the Commandant Teste. A great deal of obsolescent equipment is on hand, but is gradually being replaced. The new standard fleet fighter is a single-seater Dewoitine parasol mcnoplane whh 800 h.p. Gnome Rhone Mistral Major (K.14) fourteen-cylinder supercharged radial. This machine, equipped for deck landing, is capable of about 230 m.p.h, and is armed with four machine-guns. The French Navy has shown interest in the possibilities of the fleet-fighter dive-bomber type and had constructed for test a low gull-wing monoplane, known as the 140 C.2, equip ped with a 690 h.p. Series X Hispano Suiza " cannon " en gine, and capable of 208 m.p.h. Unhappily, this machine disin tegrated during diving trials. An unusual shipboard recon naissance type has been adopted, this being the Potez 452 monoplane flying boat with 350 h.p. Hispano Suiza radial. A two-seater, the 45.:, is stressed for catapulting, and is fitted with Handley Page automatic slots, giving it a minimum fly ing speed of 45 m.p.h. The maximum speed is 134 m.p.h. A single-seater fighter similar in conception has also been built as a prototype, and with one of the new 700 h.p. two- row Hispano radials, is capable of 208 m.p.h. Two fixed machine-guns or one 20 mm. canon can be specified. It seems that the Hispano-engined Levasseur biplanes used for reconnaissance will soon give way to new equip ment. The fuselage of this type of machine is specially strengthened and fitted with a planing bottom not unlike that of a flying boat, and the undercarriage has an
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