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1949
1949 - 0793.PDF
FLIGHT MAY 5TH, 1949 time for the present crop of prototypes. A few large piston engines are quite promising (three it least are developments of well-known earlier units) and, as always at Paris, there are very many light engines, of which a few are in production. Across the Seine from the Grand Palais, on the Espla- nade des Invalides, is a dis- play of airfield construction equipment and a Morane ambulance. Here, too, is a clear space already used for helicopter arrivals and depar- tures. The following notes are a preliminary appraisal of the principal exhibits at the Salon, and will, it is hoped, prove useful to visitors during the remaining ten days. Military and Research Aircraft BREGUET.—A strange, nameless anti-submarine air- craft, apparently with an Armstrong Siddeley Mamba turboprop in the nose and a turbojet in the fuselage, is shown by a model to have an intriguing R/P installation, retractable into the fuselage, and folding wings. A sect/on of the " Grande Nef", with the Centre light aircraft and assorted Czech types in the fore- ground and the S.0.95 Corse // light transport tail-on to the camera. Beyond are vrideiy differing French, British and American machines. • ,%. FIAT.—Trim-looking military trainers with tandem seats MARCEL DASSAULT.—The proclamation "a French air- are the Merlin-engined G.59 and the G.46 with a Gipsy craft in the international class," propped against the plump little M.D.450 Ouragan single-Nene fighter, is at once an affirmation of French progress and of English and American The Salon at a Glance quality. The day before the Presidential opening, Colonel Rozanoff had taken the first prototype of this interceptor to a height of 26,250ft in five minutes. Ballast was carried to bring the take-off weight to 12,120 lb. A later version will have a wing raked at 30 deg. Three prototypes are to be supplied to the French Air Ministry; the first was ordered on July 1st, 1948, and flew on February 28th this year. A Martin Baker ejector seat is fitted. Queen. Both are shown " in the flesh." They are devel- opments of the G.55 fighter, to which the G.59A variant being a single-seater, bears a close resemblance. -| FOKKER.—" Nosewheel or tail wheel for trainers? " is a pertinent question posed by Fokker. As solutions, in the 2-3-seater basic category, they offer the S.n with tail- wheel and the tricycle S.12. A model of the S.13 shows it to be a serviceable-looking twin-engined (P. and W. Wasp) crew trainer with a nosewheel. The greatest interest is being aroused by models and drawings of the very attrac- tive S.14 jet trainer (one Derwent V) with side-by-side ejector seats and pneumatic dive brakes on the rear fuse- lage. Weight and performance data are cautiously withr. held, though descriptive material is available. ;? LEDUC.—It was learnt at the opening of thf show that the Leduc 010 ramjet aircraft, aij§ launched from a four-engined Languedoc, had; a few days previously, attained a speed of 440 m.p.h., using half thrust, at a height of 13,000ft. Previously the machine had flown as a glider only. The pilot, M. Gonord, was using the ramjet for about ten minutes. The landing speed is given as 95 m.p.h. •'.;• LOCKHEED.—On the Lockheed stand afe models of the F-80 jet fighter and the ConstitiiJ tion transport as supplied to the U.S. Navy. ^ MORANE.—A "run of the mill" production M.S.474 deck-landing trainer for the French Navy is shown with bombs and R/Ps appended. Machines of this same general type are already well established in service. The M.S.701 light colonial twin, also on view, is available as a military trainer. ;•- PILATUS.—This Swiss firm shows a P.It The Italian Piaggio P.136 amphibian. Fiat G.59 and'§ G.46 trainers, Ambrosini Grifo and the tail of the -:« Macchi 308. |
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