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1938
1938 - 0094.PDF
FLIGHT. JANUARY 13, AMERICA CLEANS UP Two Monoplanes and a Biplane with Some Interesting Features At the top is a striking view of the Curtiss P-36 single-seater ordered in quantity tor the U.S. Army Air Corps. It is a cleandesign to the modern formula, but the undercarriage, which twists when retracting (as on the Miles Kestrel Trainer), gives rise to two excrescences. Below the Curtiss are two Great Lakes dive bombers. It will be seen that the original version, on the left,has been developed into an exceptionally clean biplane (right) with a retractable undercarriage and a performance much superior with the same engine. At the bottom is a Curtiss A-18 tw:n-Cyclone attack machine, a shapely two-seater which carries a big, armament load. SOME RECENT BOOKS Gipsy Major Aero Engine. Price 3s. Published by H.M. Stationery Office, Adastral House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2.W ITH the characteristic detail and thoroughness of all AirMinistry handbooks, this volume offers complete information about the De Havilland Gipsy Major I and IIengines, also details of procedure for servicing and inspection. Large numbers of photographs and diagrams support thedescriptions fane's All the World's Aircraft, 1937, Compiled and Edited by C. G Grey and Leonard Bridgman; 2 guineas, Samp- son JLow, Southwark Street, London. *"pHIS newest edition of a monumental work stands out among JL the aeronautical publications of the year like some all- seeing, all-knowing colossus. Since 1911 those responsible lor the compilation of Jane's have striven to compress their in- formation on the aerial equipment and operations of all nations into a tome of practical dimensions, and the modern version of the work offers its wealth of facts and data in a most con- venient form. Sub-divisions are : Development during 1936 of civil aviation in every country ; descriptions of the flyingservices of all nations ; modern aircraft of all nations, illus- trated by photographs and G.A dsawings with specifications,aero engines of all nations; and, finally, airships of the world There are errors, but their detection will defy all but the mostexacting technician. To say that the publication is as good as ever if not better, is praise enough The Story of the Zeppelins "Zeppelin," by Capt. Ernst A. Lehmann. 154., Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd FN his introduction to this book, written after Capt. Left- -»- mann's death, Cdr. Charles E. Rosendahl writes ; " As he left the scene of the blazing Hmdenburg, practically dragged away for medical assistance, fatally burned and sick at heart. His entirely clear mind running rapidly over his profound and basic airship knowledge . . Lehmann could only repeat " 1 don't understand it, I don't understand it-' " The attitude of mind which prompted that remark, the great faith in the venture to which Lehmann had devoted his
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