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1942 - 1712.PDF
FLIGHT AUGUST irrH, iota :%* II THE BOEING AT-15 CREW-TRAINER : First training aircraft specifically designed and equipped for integrated tactical training of complete crews, the AT-15 >s iR reality a small bomber, complete even to bomb, rack;-,-, power-operated gun turret, regulation bomb-aimer's: position in the plastic-enclosed nose, and full radio and navigations! installations. It is constructed largely of non- ttrategic materials. In place oi the usual aluminium alloy or stainless steel, ir. is built main!;; oi wood, with some steel tubing used in the interna? structure. It has a wing-span of approximately 59 feet and a length of 43 Ivti. Power is supplied by two Pratt and Whitney engines. BOEING CREW-TRAINER !JY! -\ t: >' -1 D mull 1 • plane ( to I- (-qui >] bomb-. It over '•" To pro meiu, ;U-> Wood and Fabric Largely Used in Its Construction KY oi the Boeing AT rew-Trainet to the Army Air Forces for test was recently i by the U.S. War Department, This ne* rcraft, manufactured by the Boeing Aif- it one of its Middle West plants, ir claimed plane spedncaUy d> ited training 0.1 pilots •tors uiei gun crews. to ,.'P. •: flight crews the training in P tea: 90 necessary before they tale Ined machines of thi .• facilities tin aircraft is corn airscrews, radio compass,, . full complement I and radio equip- tlilP train So t: 1 us v. < 1 i alloys in tioil COD! d<?.'f and 59 feci :> of ;2KX> ! id rwU •- as giou d cafitifi 1 at tvpe the'A'l •; veryl in uief >ric eoir surfaces id a lea sites aa rata Cipaeify totally enclosed bomb r; tta iast*step in the student's adva provision has been made in the mac mbeiTB may receive individual instrti: j> tra nirg. Conservation of alurrrn gfij ail critical materials needed in p-.\. aircraft, was a prime consideration i; much like, a small twin-engined bos is coi str icted of steel tubing with 9 nd f.iselage and plywood covered v . Ha,irii> a w'JI1-g span of approxirr >th c-f 4! feet, it has a top speed in < hour with its two Pratt and \Y: with Ha ihlt.on Standard airscrews. icks. need. hine •lion lium duc- 1 the 000- -, incs Americans "At Home" AN American club lor AT. A. pilots, to go «ome way towards making American pilots feel "at home," was opened at Maidenhead on Saturday by ^ir Edward Grigg, M.P., the chair man of the Hospitality Committee >>( the Foreign Office, who aid he hoped the club would prosper as a symbol of "the ties ! two great nations whose mutual for the well-being of the civilised of friendship which un co-operation was esse world in the future. He also expressed bis satisfactk tancous nature of the many oiler;-. Committee referred to in helpi: sojourn on this side ol Lbc Atli American Em' A speech of v.eleon- d'Erianger, OOicer Comi The club [formerly th< "-how I I he spon- eceii ed by the :;, Americans during their .ntic. A Counsellor of the an personnel. ummodore G. tidly -quipped line pool. It is to be AN ftutOre A thai wc until they n the « issued to i' '(sea; Roewefl, \"< I hi- lurb attached to Turbine Booster for Rockets • turbine and prop' >iectiles an ini( and tben drop ofi to reduce rfted States patent recently who has conducted rocket or many years in thi ronlinfi to the description «nd is driven b • k ward jet ol biiristlg la-.es ejected by the rocket. ! blades fastened to tm tu-bire give forward thrust, to thi in the relatively heavy atmosphere near the surface earth. Release mechanism operated by reduction of air pt automatically detaches the assembly when the rocket reaches the substratosphere, freeing the projectile of the weigl drag ol the turbine am propeller and enabling gas-j< pulsion to drive it to greater attitudes, while a parachute oata <!ie turbine assembly safely to earth. New Fire Internal Service THE first interna] air Lne to be operated in Eire was o between Dublin and Limerick yesterday by Aer Lingus Teorania 'Irish Airways, Ltd.). The service will operate from the Dublin Municipal Airport at Colhnstowe. to the Shannon Airport at Rhynanaa anoj apart from improving internal transport facilities in Eire which bave become difficult owing to the shortage of fuel for rail- route will provide a more efficient link with the itic i-dr services operating from the Shannon. • :i e-tood that the return fare between Dublin BB? Limerick will be £5. "Flight" Index ~fiLlCHT index for January-June, 1942, is now available, * price ~!d., post tree, or with binding case, 4s. 4d. Readers' copies can be bound at a cost ol 12s. gd., includ ing postage, but owing to shortage of slafl some delay h> delivery may lie experienced.
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