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Aviation History
1944
1944 - 0130.PDF
a FLIGHT Studies in Recognition Aircraft in F BEAUFIGHTER (Two 1,600 h.p. Bristol Hercules) PRIMARILY a two-seater long-range day and night fighter, the " Beau " is also in service as a fighter-bomber and as a torpedo aircraft. With four 20 mm, cannon in the nose of the fuselage and six o.303in. machine guns in the wings, there is no more heavily armed fighter in existence. The torpedo ver sion is now fitted with Youngman '' bellows '' flaps in addition to the normal trailing-edge type. Powered by two 1,600 h.p. Bristol Hercules sleeve-valve radial engines, its top speed is over 330 m.p.h., service ceiling 30,000ft., and range 1,500 miles. Recognition points include very short nose, mid-wing with flat-centre-section tapering in plan and thickness, dihedral and increased plan taper to outer panels, round tips. Tailplane has pronounced dihedral angle, tapers on trailing edge only, rounded tips. Fin and rudder characteristically Bristol. "Astrodome" amidships. Dimensions: Span 57ft. ioin., length 41ft. 4m., height 15ft. ioin., wing area 503 sq. ft,. LATEST of the DB-7 series, the P-70 may be described as the t U.S.A.A.F. version of the Havoc night fighter and its arma ment consists of four 20 mm. cannon grouped in the nose of the fuselage. A 37 mm. cannon has also been tried experiment ally. Actually the name Havoc is not now used by the R.A.F. as this night-fighter version of the DB-7A is no longer in service, but it is applied by the U.S. Army to the A-20 attack-bomber. The British "intruder" version of the DB-7B, however, retains the name Boston III. Powered by two 1,600 h.p. Wright Double Cyclones, the P-70 has a top speed of approximately 300 m.p.h. and a service ceiling of 30,000ft. Its recognition points include long blanked- in nose with four projecting cannon, deep narrow fuselage, \ 4 shoulder-wings tapering sharply on the trailing edge, heavy underslung nacelles which extend behind the trailing edge, and dihedral tailplane. Dimensions: Span 61ft. 4m., length 47ft., height 15ft. ioin , wing area 465 sq. ft. Bristol Beaufighter, Two-seater. Douglas P-70, Two-seater Night fighter.
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