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1946
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FLIGHT MARCH 7™, 1945 CANADIAN FOX MOTH different parts in the two aircraft. There is now provision for electric starting. In standard form the range of the landplane is 375 miles, but this can be doubled if the auxiliary tank is fitted. Fuel is normally fed from this to the top tank by wobble pump, but a direct-feed system by engine pump, may be installed. When used as a passenger aircraft there is accommodation for three —two on a hammock-type seat forward, and one a chair-type seat facing aft. With the seats re- moved the cargo space is nearly 50 cubic ft. The payload is 500 lb. and 420 1b. for the landplane and sea- plane respectively. The Fox Moth can be used in con- ventional, floatplane or skiplane form, and there are " combination " fuselage fittings for all. A very large loading door is provided on the port side. This view of the FoxMoth also shows the new type engine cowlings and the position of the oil tank. D.H. 83c FOX MOTH PERFORMANCE Landplane Skiplane Seaplane Speed max. (s.I.) MOm.p.h. 108 m.p.h. 96 m.p.h. Cruising at 2,100 r.p.m 96 m.p.h. 94 m.p.h. 84 m.p.h. Fuel consumption (recommended cruising) 6.4 gal./hr. 6.4 gal./hr. 6.4 gal./hr. Endurance (recommended cruising) 3.9 hr. 3.9 hr. 3.9 hr. Range (recommended cruising) : 25 gals 375 miles 368 miles 328 miles 35 gals 525 miles 515 miles 460 miles 50 gals 750 miles 735 miles 656 miles Stalling speed 52 m.p.h. 52 m.p.h. 54 m.p.h. Take-off run 256 yd. — — Landing run—no brakes ... ... 163 yd. Rate of climb (s.I.) 525 ft./min. 5l0ft./min. 450 ft./min. Service ceiling 10,500 ft. 10,000 ft. 9,000 ft. WEIGHTS Landplane Skiplane Seaplane Empty weight (including standard equipment) : Pilot, fuel and oil 1,219 Ib. 1,258 1b. 1,444 Ib. Payload 510 1b. 4711b. 399 1b. All up 2,100 1b. 2,100 Ib. 2,214 Ib. DIMENSIONS (Landplane) Length 25ft. 9in. Span 30ft. lOlin. Height 8ft. Sin. Ground clearance 2*t. 2in. (flying position) Cabin—5ft. 3in.—2ft. 9in.—3ft. 6in 49.3cu.ft Undercarriage track 6ft. Wing loading .* 8.5 Ib.'sq. ft. Power loading 15 Ib./B.H.P. U.S. FIRM'S TECHNICAL TRAINING INSTITUTE '"TECHNICAL training courses for those of their youthful-1- employees and apprentices adjudged capable of profiting thereby are provided by a number ot British aircraft firms,but at least one American concern has gone a good deal further by inaugurating what is described as a "new type of schoolto train engineers and mechanics for the peacetime era of flight." This is the Northrop Aeronautical Institute, which is to offerboth home study and resident courses and will operate in new, specially designed buildings at Northrop Field, Hawthorne,near Los Angeles. It is being run as a special division of Northrop Aircraft Inc., and as a "placement bureau" to aidgraduates in obtaining posts is part of the scheme it is clear that the institute is not intended exclusively for Northroppersonnel. James L. McKinley, who has had wide experience in the fieldof technical education, is to be director of the new institute, and the instructional staff will comprise engineering, produc-tion, service and training experts. The buildings contain modern classrooms, laboratories, and machinery, and the vari-ous curricula.are designed to encourage students to try out their imaginative ideas. R.A.E. STUDENTS AND THE FUTUREW HEN Mr Arthur Woodburn. Parliamentary Secretary toM.A.P., presented prizes to students at the Royal Air- craft Establishment Technical College at Farnborough re-cently, he told them that British science had saved the world from Hitlerism and that the lessons of the past proved thatnations which lagged only slightly behind in the development of weapons, tactics, strategy, and scientific thought foundthemselves outfought, outmanreuvred and defeated. Students at the R.A.E. Technical College were entering a great worldof discovery and achievement, and the college was giving an example in the combination of general education with hightechnical qualifications. Clearly our young men and women —particularly those working on aeronautical development-were called upon to play a great part in this new epoch, and their future attainments could not only benefit their owncountry, but contribute in great measure to understanding between the nations.Tracing the traditions of the R.A.E. back to H.M. Balloon Factory at Woolwich in 1878, Mr. Woodburn mentioned someexamples of its recent contributions to aeronautics. These included wind tunnel tests at speeds up to Coo m.p.h. carriedout since 1942 on models of all our modern high-speed aircraft, the use of tropic test chambers to produce various climaticconditions and so prevent corrosion of aircraft components, the development of V.H.F. radio communication, automaticpilots and cameras, and experiments in the use of liquid oxygen and nitrous oxide for producing temporary increase of •'power at high altitudes. We were, he concluded, only on the threshold of discoveriesdifficult to appreciate, and when we remembered that the Germrn rocket which bombarded London travelled through theair undamaged at 3,600 m.p.h., we realised that even the Gloster Meteor's record of 60C m.p.h. was the beginning andnot the end of achievement. TURBINE-JET PROPULSION MANY readers have written in appreciation of the coloured supplement devoted to an explanation of gas turbine principles in FLIGHT of 21st February. Copies are still available as a separate four-page supplement, price 6d. post free, from FLIGHT offices.
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