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1938
1938 - 1496.PDF
j FLIGHT. MAY 26, 1938. stuck m the ground) when the Army has no other means of communication. Very low, accurate flying is, of course, essential. A supply of small bags may be stowed in the Hector for dropping replies. Future A.C. aircraft (the next type to see service will be the 229-m.p.h. slotted and flapped Lysander with Mer- cury engine) will be camouflaged like the new fighters and bombers, but the Hectors are finished in the beautiful silver dope which for so long has character- ised R.A.F. aero- planes. and retains the unusually fine flying qualities of the basic Hart design from which, by way of the Audax, it was developed. On the port side of the fuselage, firing along a channel in the cowling and with its breach in the pilots' cockpit, is a belt-fed Vickers machine-gun and over the rear cockpit, which is so designed that the wind-balanced gun-ring is well sheltered, is a drum-fed Lewis. Under each lower main plane is a bomb-rack which can be used without modification for the car- riage of supply containers with their para- chutes. Attached to the axle of the undercarriage is a rod which terminates in a hook. This is used for collecting messages slung on a cord be- tween two upright poles (or rifles with bayonets (Above) A formation touch-down by Singapore ": Ills of No. 209 (G.R.) Squadron. In the circle is the Westland Lysander, the newest Armyco-operation machine ordered for the R.A.F. Below is a view taken at Gosport in the torpedo shops. -V.', ^WftMBt'11*'
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