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Aviation History
1945
1945 - 2056.PDF
OCTOBER I8TH, 1945 A three-quarter rear view of the deHavilland Hornet. This long-range fighter has a top speed of over 470m.p.h. The engines are Rolls-Royce Merlins of 2,070 h.p. Two single - seaterBlackburn Firebrands flying in formation.These Bristol Centaurus- engined " strike air-craft " can carry either a torpedo or bombs orrocket projectiles. The torpedo weighs 850 lb A Miles Monitor II flies with one of its Wright Cyclonesstopped and the airscrew feathered. The Monitor II was designed as a high-speed target-towing aircraft for theRoyal Navy. It is capable of towing a sleeve target at over 250 m.p.h. Its top speed is 360 m.p.h. To simulatedive bombing attacks on ships it is intended to fit dive brakes on production aircraft. This close-up of the de Havilland Vampireclearly shows the retractable nose wheel with its anti-shimmy tyre, the gun ports inthe fuselage and the port air intake for the de Havilland Goblin gas turbine. Three from the Hawker Group. (Above) AnAvro Lincoln flies over a Gloster Meteor taxying out to the take-off point. Duringthe war the Lincoln carried the heaviest bombs dropped by any of the belligerentsand as we go to press the Gloster Meteor is being prepared to make an attack on theWorld's speed record. (Left) The Merlin- engined Avro Tudor I which is the civilcounterpart of the Lincoln. The Tudor was the first of Britain's post-war airliners toreach the flying stage.
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