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1945
1945 - 0655.PDF
APRIL 5TH, 1945 FLIGHT 367 Light Bomber LILY I : With its deep glazed nose and raised top to tandem cockpits, this Kawasaki light bomber is easy to recognise. It is powered by two 950 h.p. 14-cyl. radials manufactured by Nakajima and Kawasaki, but later versions have Kawasaki type 02 engines of 1,020 h.p. and a dorsal turret at the back of the cockpit enclosure. Top speed of the version illustrated is 285 m.p.h., cruising speed 245 m.p.h. Range with an 800 lb. bomb-load is about 1,000 miles ; armament comprises 7.7 mm. machine guns in nose, aft cockpit, and ventral position aft of the bomb bay. HAWKER DESIGN-STAFF SUPPER N Monday, March 26th, the Hawker design staff held a supper at the Hawker Athletic Club in Kingston. This normally annual event was the first to be held since 1940, and the occasion was taken to bid farewell to Group Captain R. Horniman, who has been with the firm as Air Ministry overseer since 1939. Mr. Sydney Camm presided, and Group Capt. P. W. S. (George) Bulman fulfilled the function of toastmaster. Group Capt. Horniman was the guest of honour, and other guests included Mr. Neville Spriggs, deputy general manager, Mr. M. Robertson, secretary, Mr. Phillip Lucas, chief test lot, and Mr. Davies, resident technical officer. Mr. Camm, in reply to the toast of "Hawker's," proposed by Mr. R. H. Chaplin, thanked the design staff for their efforts and their rate of output througliout the war. In particular, he mentioned the detail draughtsmen, about whom so little is generally said, but upon whose work the success of the Hawker line of single-seater fighters has so much depended. He looked forward with great confidence to the future, when, as a nation, we must always ensure that we have the best types in potential production. He took this occasion to thank Group Capt. Horniman for his very great help and support to the firm during his residence with them. The health of " The Guests " was proposed by Mr. F. H. M. Lloyd, and Group Capt. Horniman replied on their behalf. A presentation of a scale model of the Hawker Tempest was then made to Group Capt. Horniman, on behalf of the design staff, by Mr. W. S. Hollyhock. PUBLICITY DRIVE BY A.C.C.A.A . M. Rochlen, director of industrial and public relations for Douglas Aircraft, has been elected national chairman of the Public Relations Advisory Committee of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America. Mr. Rochlen succeeds L. D. Lyman, assistant to the chair- man of United Aircraft Corporation, as national public rela- tions chairman and will serve for the next six months, John E. Canaday, public relations rianager for Lockheed Aircraft Cor- poration and chairman of the Western Regional Public Rela- tions Committee, and J. W. Sweetser, public relations director for Curtiss-Wright and chairman of the Eastern Regional Pub- lic Relations Committee, will serve as vice-chairman of the national committee. Daring the present year the programme of public informa- tion is to be intensified. The public information programme agreed upon at the February meeting embraces publication _of the aviation industry's War History, Aviation Facts and Figures and other books, pamphlets and reports. AI¥ AILERON SERVO UNIT (Continued from page 366) oversize hole is sufficiently larger than the pin to ensure that the pin is never in contact with the wall of the hole during normal servo operation. A by-pass control cylinder (6) automatically opens the by-pass valve (4) on the servo cylinder should the hydraulic pressure drop below a predetermined value, and thus allows of manual control, the oil on one side of the servo piston being displaced to the other side as the piston is moved along the cylinder. There will, of course, be a certain amount of lost motion between the pilot's wheel and the aileron during manual control as the transfer pin (10) is operating in an oversize hole. The amount of lost motion, however, is said to be very little and for all practical pur- poses unnoticeable. Aileron power-servo can be turned on and off by a stop cock in the cockpit, but it is inadvisable to do this in flight, unless at very low speed, owing to the sudden stress imposed on the system.
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