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1947
1947 - 0426.PDF
26o FLIGHT MARCH 27TH, 1947 HERE JET STEERED. Stanley Hillier flieshis latest helicopter, which has a tail jet similar to that used in this countryin the Weir W.9, which was demon- strated at the S.B.A.C. show at Radlettlast year. The torque compensation is of opposite hand to that of the W.9. The Goblin-Bluebird */r HE installation of a de HavillandGoblin turbine jet unit in Sir Mal- colm Campbell's Bluebird will save 430lb in weight as compared with the original craft and offer an enormousreserve of power, should Bluebird prove capable of utilizing it. The Goblin, ofcourse, is comparatively inefficient at speeds of the order of 140 m.p.h., but itis stated that the net propulsive efficiency of the original piston engine-screw com-bination was only 45 per cent. Picking Up the Threads - T~\EVASTATED by war the Polish air-•*-' craft industry is slowly being re- established arid the Aircraft DesignCentre in Warsaw has resumed work. Apart from the two-seat CS10 and CS11a tw%hre-passenger all-metal transport, known as the CS12, has been designed. Sweet Swan of Avon " A VON " is the seemly name likely to<L1 be conferred on the A.W.55 (Bra- bazon 1ID) transport monoplane. Thispromising 36,500-lb transport will be powered by four A.S. Mamba airscrew-"turbine units. v t Inner CleanlinessS YNTHETIC detergents derived frompetroleum, announced by Shell last week, are particularly suitable forcleaning the interior fittings of aircraft. They do not attack aluminium or itsalloys. Air Survey ORDERS for Williamson cameras andequipment have been received from the Geodetic Institute of Denmark foran important air survey of Greenland, scheduled to begin shortly. This islargely the outcome of a recent flying visit to Denmark by Mr. J. E. Odle,assistant managing director of the Wil- liamson Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Back Area Postal Service /^ONNELLAN AIRWAYS, which oper->—' ates from Alice Springs in Central Australia, is owned, managed and con-trolled entirely by Mr. E. J. Connellan. He is also his own chief pilot. A subsidyof ^10,000 is paid annually to the com- pany, which provides mail services toabout sixty small townships within the Northern Territory. No air-mail sur-charge is levied on either letters or parcels sent to these districts, and mailruns are made fortnightly over the whole route, which totals 5,611 miles. In November we published brief speci-fications of the type of aircraft suitable for the sort of work done by _ thiscompany. There would seem to be a cer- tain demand, especially in Australia, fora type which is robust and efficient, capable of carrying four or five pas-sengers and a load of about 1,650 1b, while being at the same time compara-tively simple to manufacture. The Quest for Speed UNDER the title "The Endless Questfor Speed " Iliffe and Sons have just published The Autocar Portfolio of MotorRacing, containing 12 full colour plates from drawings by the late F. GordonCrosby which give pictorially the spec- tacular history of the motor car from theearly days to achieve 60 m.p.h. with the utmost difficulty, through those greatraces which have served to develop the motor car until it has become what weknow to-day. There is a world of ad- venture and romance behind this seriesof pictures, as well as a whole history of racing development and by inference, HERE AND THERE. B.O.A.C.'s security' branch now has a strength of 600, widely distributed over the routes. On the left is s^en a security warden at London Airport, and on the right Sudanese wardens on parade at Almaza.
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