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1942
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TULY ZWD, 1942 FLIGHT 93 BEHIND THE LINES Service and Industrial News from the Inside of Axis and Enemy-occupied Countries Italian Optimism IN order to accumulate reserves for post-war development, the Italian Breda and Alfa Romeo companies have reduced their dividend for the current year from 17.5 to 15 per cent. It is re ported that the Breda has acquired an interest in the Accaiaterrie Romane Co., which has a special process for the pro duction of steel and iron out of sea sand, containing low grade iron ere. The plant of the latter Company is to use the hydro-electric power from the river Tiber. New Materials APART from the production of Buna, the German synthetic rubber, strenuous efforts are being made by the Axis to supplement their rubber supplies from other sources. In Italy some 17,000 acres have been allotted in mglia for the cultivation of a South ^American rubber yielding plant called " Guayule." A special plant for the manufacture of Guayule rubber is now in construction at Cerignola and pro duction is to start in 1944 when the first crops are expected. The occupation of certain Russian territories has enabled the Germans to learn a lot about the cultivation of Kok- saghyz, a rubber-yielding Central Asiatic plant of the dandelion species. This plant is now being extensively cultivated on drained marshes and moorlands. Plantations established by the Russians in Bessarabia are being further expanded The H.S.42, a new trainer developed by the Hispano-Suiza works at Guadalajara, is powered with an Italian Piaggio P. VIIcl6 seven-cylinder air-cooled radial engine of 430 h.p. and new ones established in Hungary and parts ot Rumania. It is interesting to note that large areas of reclaimed marshes in Occupied Poland are now being allotted for the cultivation of Kok-saghyz. French Flying Boats TWO flying- boats, the construction ot which began before the outbreak of war at the Latecoere Aircraft Works, near Toulouse, are now nearing comple tion. The two flying boats are named FRENCH FLYING BOATS : (Above) The hull of the S.E.200 a 66-ton flying boat and (below) the Latecoere 631. Two types of the Latdcoftre 631 are in construction, both powered by six Wright Cyclone air-cooled twin-row radials of 1,600 h.p. each. Marshal Petain and Admiral Lar- tigue and are of the Lat6co6re 631 type. This aircralt has a cantilever wing and tail unit, retractable wing tip floats and is powered by six Wright Cyclone air-cooled twin-row radials of 1,600 h.p. for take-off. Span 188ft. 6in. ; length 154ft. 5in.; wing area 3,770 sq. ft.; empty weight 8i,6oolb.; gross weight from 145,500 to 154,3001b.; wing loading 38.7 lb./sq. ft. to 40.9 lb/sq. ft.; power loading 15 lb. /h.p. to 16 lb./h.p. Maximum speed 220 m.p.h.; cruising speed 160 m.p.h. to 175 m.p.h., and range 3,770 miles with a headwind of 37 Hides per hour. The Latecoere Company is also re ported to have completed designs of two larger flying boats of 120 and 250 tons gross weight, figures which sound ambitious. A picture on this page shows another French flying boat, the S.E.200, con structed by S.N.C.A. du Sud Est and reported in Flight, July 16th (Behind the Lines). Spanish Trainer THE Spanish Hispano-Suiza works has produced an advanced trainer, the H.S.42 This is a low-wing monoplane of mixed construction in wood, welded chromium molybdenum steel tubes and fabric. The U.S.42 has a spacious cockpit arrangement, and is suitably equipped for the training of both pilots and navi gators. The following are the dimen sions of the aircraft: Length 7.88m. (26ft.), height 2.6m. (8ft. 6in.), wing area 16.3 sq. m. (175.5 s1- ft.), total weight, 1,500kg. (3,3001b.), useful load 500kg. i.ioolb.), loading 92 kg./sq. m. (18.8 lb./sq. ft.). The H.S.42 is at present equipped with a Piaggio PVIIci6 engine of 430 h.p. and has a maximum speed of 310km. per hour (192 m.p.h.), a cruising speed of 280 km./hr. (174 m.p.h.), and a minimum speed of 107 km./hr. (66 m.p.h.). It climbs to 3,000m. in ten minutes, has a ceiling of 6, loom. (20,000ft.) and a duration of two hours. The Piaggio PVIIci6 is likely to be replaced later by another power plant.
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