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IOO FLIGHT JULY 27TH. 1944 AIRCRAFT SUSPENSION SYSTEMS the length, and ovalling in the cross-sect ion of the tube. It will further be realised that these deflections are most serious at the lower bearing of the undercarriage, where the bending moments are at their highest value. The bearing illustrated is composed of a bronze liner split radially into a number of segments, each segment being bonded to the other and to an outer shell with a plastic medium. A little thought will show that these segments, being elastically suspended around the sliding member, will, by virtue of the degrees of freedom established, com pensate for deformities such as have been outlined above and permit the telescoping undercarriage to compete on equal terms with its young brother, the levered under carriage. A further advantage of such a compensating device is that the sealing glands used at the base of the shock absorber will also "follow" the deformed contour of the sliding tube and thus eliminate the leakage of fluid and air at this critical point. QANTAS QUALITY 'PHE original de Havilland D.H.86 aircraft VH-USC Can- -*• berru, one of the six supplied to Qantas Empire Airways iu 1934, has now flown 1,500,000 miles. Capt. Lester J. Brain, chief test pilot of Qantas, flew this craft out from Croydon to Brisbane in August, 1934. From December that year it did four years' regular service on the 4,361-mile Brisbane-Singapore section of the England-Australia mail, and when Short Empire flying boats took over the route, YH-USC was sold to McRobertson Miller Aviation until requisi- tiorigfi^m^theyKoyal Australian Air Force at the beginning of war asS/flying classroom for navigators. Subsequently, intas got^the aircraft back again for war transport duties, including^ieriaAsupply dropping in New Guinea and service in the Mount Hageli evacuation and in the Buna campaign. tNow^ Canberrk is flying the Qantas inland route once \mf Vt Mayftist 1944, its log showed 11,664 hours, which aee\l averaging 125.9 m.p.h., accounts for 1,468,533 miles. The D.H.86 Canberra IN NORTHERN WATERS (Top) A Corsair, hit by flak, is brought in by its wounded pilot at 11 p.m. in the Arctic sunshine. (Right) H.M. escort carriers Emperor and Striker, with their attendant destroyer, roll in a heavy swell. (Bottom) Vought Corsairs and Fairey Barra cudas on the" flying deck of one of the carriers British carrier-borne aircraft discovered an enemy convoy of two 6,000-ton merchantmen and one 3,000-ton supply ship, escorted by four flak ships, north east of Stadlandet, off the Norwegian coast. Both merchantmen were hit, the stern was blown off the supply ship and all four flak ships were silenced and left burning. The Ad miralty communique citing the action declared that the convoy was virtually annihilated. V Q 71 \\l TV?? ypi*
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