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Aviation History
1938
1938 - 0033.PDF
H^S-jis 4- |**# r<% The new Consolidated XPB2Y-I patrol bomber (four TwinWasps) recently completed. This machine is in competition with a Sikorsky boat with similar characteristics. ing speed (75 per cent, throttle) of 270 m.p.h. will be obtained. It will perhaps be the Curtiss-Wright transport that will take the next step into thinner air. While on the subject of stratosphere flying we must not neglect to mention the most recent endeavour. A well- known pilot, none other than Jimmie Doolittle, has taken delivery of a new two-place Seversky for experiments between 25,000 and 30,000ft., to determine fuel consump- tion and reaction under high-altitude conditions. The Shell Petroleum Co. is the sponsor. Estimated top speed is 350 m.p.h. at 30,000ft., using 100-octane fuel. The ship is similar to Frank Fuller's Bendix-winning Seversky, with a compartment in the rear for a passenger. Other recent Seversky developments are a Navy fighter and a two-seater fighter for export. A Seversky "Twin"? * •- It is rumoured that Seversky is working on a twin- engined ship with wing panels that retract about 8oin. each for high-speed flying. Fleetwings, Inc., are now building a stainless-steel wing for a Seversky pursuit. Other Service types are a mid-wing seaplane Vought fighter, and the new Douglas torpedo machines and North- rop dive bombers now being completed rapidly for the U.S. Navy. While the latest Bellanca racer is being made ready at Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, N.Y., by Alexis Papana for his flight to Rumania, two new Bellancas are being built. One will be a single-engined, low-wing, all-metal, full cantilever monoplane, and the other a twin-engined, low-wing monoplane that will sell for less than 10,000 dollars (^2,000). Bellanca have been very successful in keeping details of these machines secret, as have Fair- child, with their new large sportplane. Perhaps there will be a wheel in its nose and Fowler flaps. Getting away from the flurry of all-metal design are two new ships all set to take their maiden flights. They are Vance Breese's and Allan Lougheed's twin-engined low-wing efforts. Both are of all-wood construction with The specialBellanca built for theRumanian Captain A.lexisPapana for a transatlanticflight. The nose engine isa Fairchild Ranger in-verted vee and the outboardunits are six- in-line Men-ascos. A tank for the first of the Boeing Clippers (four 1,500 h.p.two-row Cyclones) now under construction for trans-oceanic work. single-spar full-cantilever wings. Vance Breese's ship is being built by the Bennett Aircraft Corp. in Hawley Bowlus's sailplane and trailer shop. Mr. Breese is one of the better-known American test pilots as well as being an engineer, his most publicised achievement being a spec-
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