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Aviation History
1937
1937 - 1825.PDF
JULY I, 1937. FLIGHT. Four striking Flight photographs of the newest British single-seater multi-gun fighter—the Gloster F-5/34 with Bristol Mercury en gine. In the lower view the ma chine is seen soon after taking oft from the Hucclecote Aerodrome. DEBUTANTE QUARTET Four of Our Latest Military Aircraft : A Fighter, Two Advanced Trainers and a Fleet Fighter Dive Bomber »MONG the new and experimental air- /\ craft that were scheduled to *~~2-— * * appear at the R.A.F. Display, the Gloster F.5 / 34 single-seater fighter, the Miles and De Havilland advanced trainers, and the Blackburn fleet-fighter dive- bomber, all incorporate, unorthodox features. The Gloster fighter, a multi-gun model powered with a Bristol Mercury radial, which may later be changed for a sleeve-valve Perseus, has a metal monocoque fuselage and stressed-skin wings, only the elevator, rudder and ailerons being fabric-covered. In the light of the knowledge that certain fighters produced during the past eighteen months or two years have exceeded 300 m.p.h. it is safe to estimate that the Gloster will clock something like that figure. The neat installation of the engine and airscrew is but one of the outstanding features. Controllable j " gills " are fitted to the trailing edge of the Bristol long-chord cowling, which has a leading-edge exhaust, collector ring, and the D.H. two-position airscrew has a spinner. A cowl round the reduction gear housing is also embodied. The Miles-Rolls-Royce mono plane is characterised by very attractive lines and a high per formance. Powered, with the latest type of fully supercharged Rolls-Royce Kestrel—the Mk. XVI, rated at 690 h.p. at 2,600
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