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1943
1943 - 0779.PDF
FLIGHT 3. A Sunderland carries four bunCs, and at least two of the crew must remain aboard all the time the aircraft is afloat. Note the camera and mounting over the porthole. accumulated experience, he has attended special courses at both Bristols and Shorts in order that he might be quite iamiliar with the Pegasus engines and their controls. To simplify the first pilot's work on these four-engined flying boats, all the engine instruments sufch as the revolution counters, oil thermometers and pressure gauges, boost gauges, fuel cocks and cooling gill controls come to a panel in the centre section at the rear of the main control cockpit. It is the flight engineer's job during the long 12-hour patrols continually to check the functioning oi all the power plants. Only master controls and instruments are fitted in the pilot's cockpit. When the machine is at rest it is the flight engineer's job to check over all the engine controls and supervise any main- tenance work carried out by the ground staff on the engines. No "passengers" are allowed in Royal Air Force machines and everyone in the crew must be able to pull his weight in the event of a scrap developing. The flight engineer, therefore, is also a trained air-gunner and is capable of handling any of the power-operated turrets. 4. Signalling ashore with an Aldis lamp for the dmghy to pick up some spares. 7. Entrance and exit for engine inspection is throughthe astro-hatch. 8. Lending the maintenance staff a hand in over-hauling one of the starboard Pegasus engines.
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