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Aviation History
1938
1938 - 0906.PDF
FLIGHT. MARCH 31, 1938. COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING Work oj the D.H. Technical School : Design, Production, and Ground Engineering Illustrated with "Flight" Photographs) A STEADY increase in the work of the De HavillandTechnical School at Hatfield has made more exten-sive accommodation necessary ; hence the new build- ing in which the school is now comfortably installed and settled down. It is obviously desirable that the school should be self- contained. The new buildings are designed to accommodate 250 students, and all departments required for aircraft production are represented, with the exception of enamel- ling and plating shops. Pupils of any age over seventeen are received, and must have taken matriculation or its equivalent. The courses are for three or four years, with an initial probationary period of six months. If an advanced student is required for a job in the works proper his school course can be sus- pended tor the time during which he is thus occupied, and he temporarily earns a wage. The main courses taken are in aircraft design, engine design, production engineering and ground engineering. These at first include practical work at the Technical School in the mornings and classes in the evenings. Later, when students are in the D.H. aircraft or engine factories, works times are adhered to. From the outset, in order to give a proper sense of respon- (Top left) The drawing office is bright and airy, with a good view of the aerodrome. (Above) The staff : Left to right : Mr. A. W. Seeley (chief instructor), Mr. D. K. Marshall (engine design instructor), Sqn. Ldr. 0. W. Clapp (Principal), Mr. E. W. Dodds (aircraft design instructor). sibility, all work produced by students is actually made use of; no practice samples are produced. The school have designed and built the T.K.i, a two-seater biplane; the T.K.2, a two-seater monoplane, flown in races as a single- seater with extra tankage, and well known to air-racing enthusiasts ; the T.K.4, the smallest racing monoplane to be produced in this country ; and, now in the mock-up stage, the T.K.5, a single-seater pusher monoplane of the tailless type—somewhat resembling the Focke-Wulf Ente—with tricycle undercarriage. This unorthodox production will have a Gipsy Major engine. In all, fifteen machines have been completed by the school, mostly of Moth type. Another job in hand at the moment is the reconditioning (Right) (Below) An hydraulic Brinell hardness testing machinemade by students at a cost of ^12-ios. At work on the mock-up of the new T.K.5pusher monoplane.
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