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Aviation History
1938
1938 - 1867.PDF
JUNE 30, 1938. FLIGHT. 641 COMMERCIAL AVIATION (CONTINUED) : WORLD NEWS Adaptation K.L.M. is reported as being interested in an adaptation ofthe Fokker T.5 bomber, which is normally fitted with two Pegasus engines. The machine appears to be unsuitable for use as a passenger carrier, but may have some special appli- cation. Private Douglas THE original Douglas D.C.i has been purchased by LordForbes and, through the courtesy of the Barking Town Council, is temporarily to be found on the site of a proposed park near the Ford woiks. The machine now has a pair of Cyclone F.52s and constant-speed airscrews and a range of 1,500 miles at 200 m.p.h. at 8,000ft. T.W.A. radio equip- ment and a comprehensive de-icing system are installed. It will eventually be based at Lord Forbes' private residence in Ireland. ; D.D.L. Steps Out FROM July 15 the Danish company, D.D.L., is operatinga through service from Oslo (presumably using the mili- tary aerodrome there until Fornebo is ready), via Gothenburg- Copenhagen-Hamburg, to London. This 1,600 km. run, which is one of the longest in Europe, will be operated with the com- pany's new Foi.ke-Wulf Condor. No tewer than eight Euro- pean companies, it appears, are in the bidding for the use of Oslo's new airport when it is opened next year. Imperial Indignation STRONG expressions were used in sympathy with Mr. WoodsHumphery by various speakers at the private dinner given to him by members of the Imperial Airways staff last Fri- day. Lt.-Col. H. Burchall, the general manager, and Major R. H. Mayc, his technical co-manager, each spoke in very in- dignant terms of the treatment meted out to Mr. Woods Humphery and of the "unjustifiable and beastly attacks" which had been made in the House. The entire affair was alluded to both by these speakers and by Capt. Wilcockson as a purely political move and the various statements which have been made were described as a "disgrace" to the British Empire. In his reply, Mr. Woods Humphery said that he was sure they would get a square deal from their new chairman, and that they would give Sir John Reith the same loyalty which they had given him. Telegram- of sympathy and good wishes were sent to the dinner from the Central, South and East African areas, from Qantas Empire Airways and from the Brussels office. A few days previously, Mr. S. A. Dismore had written a letter on the same general subject to the Prime Minister. Probably the staff of Imperial Airways had previously had little chance of giving their views on the situation, but, surely, these strong comments should have been made publicly many months ago when there might still have been time to fight a successful battle in defence of Mr. Woods Humphery's and the company's good names. They must now make the best of the new situation. Far East Extensions TN addition to the concession recently obtained to fly between *- Batavia and Manila in pool with Pan-American Airways. K.N.I.L.M. have also obtained the French Government's' per- mission to extend the Batavia-Singapore service as far as Saigon, the capital of Indo-China. Incidentally, the route to be used by K.N.I.L..M. on their service to Sydney will be via Soerabaya, Bali, Koepang, Dar- win, Cloncurry, Longreach and Brisbane, with night stops at Bali and Cloncurry. The outward journey will take two and a half days and the inward two days, with one night stop. Consolidated Goes Commercial * THE CONSOLIDATED AIRCRAFT CORPORATION esti- -1- mate that by using "materials and technique available, and power plants that would be available by the time such a plane could be completed" they could construct a 300- passenger flying boat. Preliminary plans provide for a single hull with a retract able planing bottom and retractable outboard floats. Six 2,000-h.p. engines will drive 20-ft. airscrews through shafts. Passengers will be accommodated on one deck extending approximately 88 feet fore and aft in the hull and 116 feet laterally through the wing. At the root the thickness of tin- wing will be over eleven feet ; foot and tip chord figures arc 48ft. and 14ft. respectively. Other data are : Span, 272ft. ; length, 144ft ; wing area, 8,400 sq. ft. ; gross weight. 400,000 1b. ; wing loading, 47.7 Ib./sq. ft.; power loading, 33.3 lb./h.p.; cruising speed, 300 m.p.h.; range (with crew of thirty, 300 passengers, baggage, mail and cargo) 5,000 miles. Of more immediate interest to the commercial operator is an amphibian version of the twin-engined monoplane flying boat supplied to the U.S. Navy under the designation PBY. This model has a tricycle undercarriage and retractable wing tip floats. Test Model AT the flying boat base at Sartrouville, near Paris, lastweek, a first flight of fifteen minutes was made by the reduced-scale flying model of Air France-Transatlantique's new 40-ton six-engined flying boat, the CAMS-Potez 161. The CAMS-Potez is two-iilths the size of the full-sized proto- type. Instead of the six 860 h.p. Hispano Suiza 12 Y engines which will be fitted to the prototype, the model is powered by six 40 h.p. Train engines. M. Hurel, the chief designer and pilot on the test flight, thinks that the old wind tunnel ex- periments with small wooden models of three or four feet in length will not be adequate in future for testing such machines. The additional cost of building a complete flying model is, he thinks, justified on the ground that fewer modifications are necessary later on. - It will be remembered that Glen Martin had a similar flying scale model in action in America, and, in this country, Mr. Miles proposes to build such a model if and when there in justification for proceeding with his big transnort proposition. ECONOMICAL EXPERIMENT: The scale The buddxng of models of this sort gj £T3Kb X the chief designer.
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