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1947
1947 - 0695.PDF
MAY IST, 1947 FLIGHT 405 HORNED VAMPIRE : This flight view of the de Havilland Vampire II with Rolls-Royce Nene turbine jet shows to advantage the supplementary intakes necessitated by the double-sided impeller. SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Force and Naval Aviation News and Announcements PromotionsT HE following promotions to Air Chief Marshal are announced: Air Marshal Sir Koderic M. Hill from January 16th, Air Marshal Sir Norman H. Bottomley from March 23rd. R.A.F. AppointmentsT HE Air Ministry announces the follow-ing appointments : A. V-M. L. Darvall to be Air OfficerCommanding No. 3 Group, Bomber Command. A.' Cdre. A. C. Sanderson to be AirOfficer in Charge of Administration, Air Command, Far East, retaining his actingrank of Air Vice-Marshal. ^ Naval Appointment Y^APTAIN A. C. G. ERMEN, R.N..^-/ has been appointed for duty at the Admiralty from May 15, and will latersucceed Captain K. A. Short as Deputy Director (training) in the departmentof Naval Air Organization and Training. A Qreat ShowM OBILE telephone exchanges used bythe 2nd Tactical Air Force in the invasion of Normandy, and until the endof the war in Europe, have been con- verted into showrooms for mobile exhibi-tion which will tour the country and give the people in all parts of the U.K.an opportunity of learning about the work of the R.A.F. These mobile ex-hibitions will carry out the main recruit- ing drive for the R.A.F. and W.A.A.F.There are to be eight separate units. Six mounted,on 60-foot "Queen Mary" trailers and two housed in railway-carriages to reach the outlying places. The Nene'Vampire ALLUSION was made in Flight of^ April 17th to two Marks of the de Havilland Vampire powered with theRolls-Royce Nene. Photographs on these pages show the Mark II version,which has already attained a height of 51,000ft at Boscombe Down.The Mk. II is an experimental air- craft and no production order will b«placed, though the Nene gives a better take-off climb and ceiling by comparisonwith the Ipwer-powered Mk. I. It is pointed out by Rolls-Royce,Ltd.,. that as the airfrome was not de- signed to take a turbine with a douMc-sided impeller, it has not been possible to use all the 5,000 lb thrust availablefrom the Nene. The photographs show that two intakes have been built intothe nacelle. DEEP BREATHING EXERCISE : Another view of the Nene-Vampire showing thespecial breathing arrangements for the Nene. This Vampire variant has an exceptional rate of climb and ceiling. W/C. "Johnnie" Baldwin has taken itto 51,000ft.
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