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-232 f LIGHT MARCH I2TH, 1942 BEHIND THE LINES Service and Industrial News from the Inside of Axis and Enemy-occupied Countries Oerlikon THE activities Expansion of this company, •*• famous for its machine-guns, are rapidly expandingalso beyond the fron tiers of Switzerland. A new plant has been established in Spain and another one in occupied Belgium. In Febru ary the company started the produc tion of aircraft in a new factory situated on the Vierwaldstaetter-Lake (Switzerland). In Search of Fuel A NEW addition to German Oil **• Companies is the Lower-Danube Petroleum Company, recently regis tered with a capital of one million RM. A concession granted to the company authorises the prospecting and exploitation of petroleum and oil products within the territory of Lower- Austria. From previous geological surveys of this region it appears doubtful whether the activities of the new company will make any serious contribution to Ger many's fuel supply. The Dorniers THE Dornier Do 217 twin-engined -*• bomber was described in Flight, February 12th, 1942. Here are some further details: — Span, 72ft. Length, 63ft. sin. Wing area, 830 sq. ft. Empty weight, 16,800 lb. Normal useful load, 12,050 lb. Maximum useful load, 18,020 lb. Gross weight, 30,850 lb. and 35,000 lb. respectively. Normal wing load ing, 36.5 \b.Jsq. ft. Normal power- loading, 13.2 lb./h.p. (6 kg/c.v.). Performance figures claimed are: Maximum speed, 294 m.p.h. at 19,000ft. Cruising, 200 m.p.h. Range at maximum gross weight, 4,500 miles. Do I7z TT seems that the production of the -*- Do 215 twin-engined bomber, which was powered with 12-cylinder liquid-cooled DB engines of the type DB 600 of 1,050 h.p. or DB 601 of 1,150 h.p., or DB 603 of 1,300 to 1,500 h.p., has been abandoned in favour of a model Do ijz which differs from the above by the use of Bramo Fafnir 9-cylinder air-cooled radials of 1,000 h.p. This type has also a slightly lower empty weight than the Do 215 (11,500 lb., against 11,680 lb.) and a greater useful load. Empty weight, 11,484 lb. Gross weight, 18,931 lb., or, with longer take-off run, 19,481 lb. Normal equip ment and aimament, 1,661 lb. Mov able equipment and ammunition, 99 lb. Fuel, 4,015 lb. Oil, 242 lb. Grew of four. Bomb load, five or, exceptionally, ISOTTA-FRASCHINI ENGINE "GAMMA" : One of the recent developments of the Italian aircraft engine industry. It is an air-cooled, supercharged, 12-cylinder ' vee engine. Rated power 1,600 h.p. Take-off power 1,700 h.p. at 2,200 r.p.m. ten bombs of no lb. each, making 550 or 1,100 lb. Two bombs of 550 lb. each or, if desired, 20 bombs of no lb. each may be carried as an alter native for short-range operations where, of course, less fuel supply is needed. Nazi Dispersal HTHE German aircraft and accessories -*- industry is sparing no efforts to disperse production over the entire Reich, and in particular to establish new enterprises in such regions which are considered less vulnerable to air attack. An important part of this policy is the reorganisation of the air craft industry taken over in the occu pied countries. In Rumania, Czecho slovakia, Poland and Italy the air craft industry has been stiffened up by the despatch of German experts, organisers and foremen. Furthermore, German factories are continuously establishing branches in the more distant parts of the Reich. Thus the " Flugmotoren Ostmark," a subsidiary of Junkers, has been established in Vienna for the produc- , tion of aircraft engines; the Junkers works in Erfurt are now engaged in the production of fuselages. The Daimler-Benz and the Deutsche Ben- zinuhren (Instruments) have both established production branches in Alsace. The well-known wireless equipment manufacturers, Friesecke- Hoepfner, have a plant operating in Lower-Silesia, and the Heinkel Com pany has a branch in Poland. Sea-going Gliders ? ACCORDING to reports in the Por- •**• tuguese Press, seaplane gliding is being reorganised in Germany and placed under the direction of Jacht- mann, a prominent member of the N.S.F.K. (National Socialist Air Corps). Jachtmann is one of the pioneers of German amphibious gliders. The co-ordination of the production of seaplane gliders and the intensive training suggests plans for some future operations in which gliders able te_ alight on land or sea may be used. STILL IN SERVICE : The Arado A.95 general- purpose biplane with a trousered undercarriage with folding wings. Power plant : one 880 h.p. B.M.W. 132 Dc nine-cylinder radial air- cooled engine, enclosed in long-chord cowling, with leading-edge ex haust - collector ring.^.i(,) Another version is used as a bomber-torpedo- reconnaissance catapult seaplane.
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