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1947
1947 - 0243.PDF
FEBRUARY 13TH, 1947 The Impatient Pirate k'FHE U.S. Navy's prototype VoughtJ- Pirate jet fighter has been flown from Connecticut to Muroc Dry Lake,California. Lest this should be construed as some sort of unofficial record it mustbe mentioned that the machine was stowed in two Fairchild Packet freighters. From Chase to Crest ANY curator, sportsman or legateehaving a superfluous moose-head is invited to get in touch with W/C. RowanRobertson, O.C. No. 242 Squadron, R.A.F. Oakington. A moose-head figuresin the Squadron crest and the taxidermal trophy is needed for the Mess. Prospec-tive donors may care to know that "242 " has an enviable record in Trans-port Command and is now equipped with Yorks. Goblin-powered "Bluebird"F OR his attempt in the spring to breakhis own world's water speed record of 141.7 m.p.h., Sir Malcolm Campbellwill be using a de Havilland Goblin II in his famous boat Bluebird.At very high speeds of this order aero- dynamic problems will supersede hydro-dynamic factors, particularly as no under-water shafting or propeller is en-tailed. To determiHe the various quantities,a^aven-foot model of Bluebipd has been \ I65- \Jf WIND AND WATER : Here is Sir Malcolm Campbell (extreme right) with the testmodel of Bluebird (see adjoining text) at the Fairey works. Left and centre are Major Frank Halford, the Goblin's designer, and Cdr. Peter du Cane of Vospers Ltd. " Claw trouble my dear " tested in the Fairey Aviation Co.'s windtunnel, and, as a result of this, Vospers, Ltd., designers and constructors of theboat, have been enabled to carry out the necessary modifications. , ; Comparative Thrusts '"PHE Goblin II has a static thrusti- rating of 3,000 lb for a weight of 1,500 1b, and in the light of this it is ofinterest that the maximum thrust de- veloped by the propeller at the recordspeed of 141 m.p.h. was approximately 2,200 lb. It is calculated that, at maximumspeed, the gas speed of the jet effluent will be about 1,000 m.p.h., whilst theair consumption will approximate to 800 cu ft/sec.The shaft h.p. delivered by the turbine will be between six and seven thousand. " Greeks at Luton ARISING out of a visit by the ChiefTechnical Officer of the Greek Air Ministry to the Percival Stand at theParis Show, a Royal Greek Air Force Mission visited Luton on February 4thto study the Prentice trainer. The party, consisting of W/C. S. A. Valvis,S/L. H. Papafragas and F/L. Frago- yiannis, was accompanied by Mr. H. B.Bentley, who was technical manager at the State Aircraft Factory, Athens, forthe ten years Between 1928 and 1938. Air Survey Conference DEPRESENTATIVES from Africa,-Cv Australia, Canada and New Zealand have arrived in London by cir during thepresent week for the Empire Air Survey Conference organized by the Londoncompany of the Hunting Aerosurveys Group. Each visitor is the managingdirector of a firm in the Hunting group in his own country.Lasting ten days, this conference is being leavened by a programme of visitsand entertainment which began last Mon- day with a visit to the exhibition of airsurvey work and equipment staged at the Hunting laboratories at Elstree Way. An air trip to Switzerland has also beenarranged for Dominion representatives who wish to visit Wild's Map-making In-strument factory as a grand finale to their conference. Aerial ReliefW ITHOUT delving protractedly intoofficial records, we can't be dog- matic about it, but we should certainlyimagine that this winter has produced the most severe conditions of frost andsno\/ ever known in Britain. Certainly we do not recall ever reading so manyreports of towns and villages cut off by snowdrifts. Nor can we recall any previous occa-sion when snowbound inhabitants have ha' to be provisioned by air in thiscountry, as happened last week, when supplies were dropped by an Anson fromthe Empire Air Armament School, Manby, to the R.A.F. men at Stenigotwireless station, some 20 miles north-east of Lincoln, while two other R.A.F.stations in Lines, Elsham and Binbrook, were fed from a Dakota by parachuteafter three days' isolation. A number of marooned villages near Scarborough weresimilarly supplied. Margin for Error SIR BEN LOCKSPEISER hit the nailon the head when he told Bedford Chamber of Commerce last week thatbefore the average man could take to the air as he took to the road he wouldhave to have some kind of machine in which he could make a number of mis-takes before he broke his neck, and that the helicopter had not yet quite reachedthat degree of safety. Of course one can break one's neck bya single mistake with a motor car if it's that sort of blunder, bti with any kindof aircraft, as we know V-- .1 at present, there are far more of " that sort of
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