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1947
1947 - 0392.PDF
iv. Advertisements FLIGHT MARCH 20TH, 1947 REFUELLING IN FLIGHT INCREASES PAYLOADS, thus multiplying the earning capacity of long-distance airliners. ELIMINATES hazardous heavily laden take-offs. DISPENSES with landings for fuelling purposes. MINIMISES wear and tear. REDUCES operating costs. IT IS SIMPLE, CERTAIN, SAFE. It has been TESTED AND PROVED during ten years of constant research and it made possible, during the war years, the carriage of worth-while bomb loads on otherwise impossible missions. It can now be carried out daily in all parts of the world just as well at 200 ft. as at 25,000 ft. above sea level. PASSENGERS are unaware that refuelling is taking place and the FREEDOM OF ACTION of the Receiver aircraft is unrestricted from start to finish. WEATHER CONDITIONS need not interfere as refuelling can be carried out in storm and cloud conditions, or a more favourable rendezvous can be arranged. REFUELLING BY NIGHT is as easy as by day, special lighting arrangements providing ideal formating conditions for the tanker pilot. FIRE RISKS DO NOT ARISE because (0) electrical potentials are equalized by initial contact between the Tanker and Receiver aircraft lines at least 200 ft. from each aircraft ; (b) the two aircraft remain automatically bonded by the hose whilst fuelling ; (c) the whole system is inhibited by inert gas before and after fuel is passed ; (d) the reception coupling is automatically flooded with methyl bromide as the nozzle leaves it. INTERCEPTION is certain because all Tanker aircraft are fully equipped with the requisite Radar which enables interception to be made under any conditions. CONTACT IS CERTAIN. Three factors only are involved : two of them, the angle of the Receiver aircraft's trailing line and the firing angle and elevation of the fixed line-thrower aboard the Tanker are constant; the third, the position of the Tanker at the time the line is fired is the only factor dependent upon the human element and this position has a margin of error of 1,000 ft.— more than sufficient to secure certainty. FLIGHT REFUELLING LIMITED LITTLEHAMPTON. SUSSEX, ENGLAND
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