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Aviation History
1948
1948 - 1456.PDF
The Fairey Firefly 5, half-rolling above, is flown by a Canadian ; the D.H. Chipmunk (below) is Canadian-designed 295 FLIGHT September gth, 1948 Six of the Best Speed, Capacity and Utility Expressed in Air and Ground Studies of Widely Differing Types of British Aircraft EACH of the half-dozen types of new and not-so-new Britishmachines depicted in the Flight colour photographs onthese pages has some special quality, characteristic orpurpose which commends it for special attention. The Fairey Firefly 5, for instance, is notable for its exceptional versatility, being a two-seater, carrier-borne type, suitable for fighting, reconnaissance and anti-submarine work. The Canadian-designed D.H. Chipmunk, on the power of a single Gipsy Major engine, offers exceptional value as an ab initio trainer and has already been ordered for the R.A.F.V.R. Pilots of that thriving Service eagerly await delivery of the first "Chips," but will continue to pine for high-speed Service types, of which the Gloster Meteor 4 inter- ceptor fighter, with its speed of 585 m.p.h., provides such an outstanding example. The De Havilland 108 tailless research aircraft is the machine in which Mr. John Derry established the 100-km closed-circuit record of 605.23 m.p.h. on April 12th. Aero- dynamically, it is one of the most advanced machines in the air to-day. In the Short Solent flying boat we have the modern Newly delivered G/aster Meteor 4 interceptors (two R-R Derwent 5 turbojet units) provide a reassuring spectacle at Horsham St. Faith "mmmm^i djsuKtte^gfffiffif&p, H|f i~im. jmF
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