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1949
1949 - 0895.PDF
5°2 FLIGHT The S.0.6000 Triton side-by-side dual-control trainer, with Hispano-Roils-Royce Nene, is fast and handy. Note the lateral intakes in addition to the nose orifice. Two Nenc~ power the strange multi- purpose N.C. 1071 (above). This type is the forerunner of an all-weather fighter of similar layout. Below is the capacious N.C.211 Cormoran freighter. By comparison with the example displayed in the Grand Salon, the S.0.6020 Espadon flown at Orly had. increased fin area. Orly part for its meagre showing in the GrandPalais, and but for the weather the aero- batic Vampire team, the formation ofMetecrs and the Hawker P. 1052 would have been able to give more exciting dis-plays. Even so, they were quite outstand- ing, and their pilots, and those of theFrench jets, are to be congratulated on agreeing to fly at all in such conditions. Less hampered were the Bristol 171 helicopter, and theFreighter, which not only flew convincingly on one engine but delighted the crowd, most of whom would not have seen itbefore, by disgorging three jeeps. The heavy-bomber forma- tions, Lincolns and American B.2gs, did well to arrive over-head in time, but they were obviously handicapped in the semi-overcast twilight. The flying programme, well organized and with exception-ally good timing, started with the helicopters, the two-rotor French S.E.3000 (1,000 h.p. Bramo Fafnir), the Bristol 171and the Westland-Sikorsky. Each executed movements for which they were never intended, as is now the custom withhelicopter demonstrations. A small flock of light aircraft followed the helicopters, wheel-ing around the sky and demonstrating their qualities for ecole and touristne. In this class the French have much more tooffer than the British, and one could not help but marvel at the performance and manoeuvrability of modern low-poweredtwo-, three- and four-seaters. The N.C.853, S.I.P.A. S.901, both with 75 h.p. Minies, and the S.O.7060 Deauville (105 h.p.Walter Minor), all French-built, were joined in the air by the Czech Zlin 22 (75 h.p. Praga) and Sokol M.iC (105 h.p. WalterMinor) and two smaller military trainers—the S.ir Instructor and Beechcralt 45 Mentor—from Holland and the U.S.A.respectively. The two attractive light transports next on the programmewere appropriately called Colonial Twins, being all-metal four- seaters. One, the Czech Aero 45, has two Walter Minors andthe other, the Morane,7oo, two 160 h.p. Potez units. France's new Nene-powered fighters—the Dassault M.D.450Ouragan interceptor and S.O.6020 Espadon, designed for longer range—were performing for the first time in public. Billedwith such star-turns as the Vampire aerobatic team of No. 5 [ Squadron, a Meteor formation (No. 66 Sqn.) and the HawkerP.1052, they acquitted themselves well, if their brief develop- ment background was borne in mind. The Ouragan showedfrom the moment its wheels left the runway—in a creditably short distance—that in rate of climb and turn, landing speedand general handiness it is much closer akin to British" con tem- poraries than the heavy Espadon, which climbed somewhatsluggishly from take-off and never really seemed to get into its stride, though obviously fast. From the same nationalized factory as the Espadon camethe S.0.6000 Triton, with its plump fuselage and astonishingly small wings This two-seat jet trainer (likewise with a Nene)gave a dashing exhibition of speed and manoeuvrability, but its landing, like that of its stablemate, was decidedly " hot." The pilots of two military piston-engined trainers, theS.I.P.A.11 and Morane Saulnier 475, shower special aerobatic adroitness, but if these are advanced trainers we are at a lossfor a description of the Triton. Developed from a deck-landing piston-engined machine, thebizarre-looking twin-Nene N.C.1071 possesses unusual slow- flying qualities; it seemed happiest, in fact, at the lower endof its speed range, approaching and touching down with be- coming sobriety. Though Britain's crack Meteor and Vampire teams did notdisappoint, despite meteorological set-backs, the station-keep- ing of the six Bomber Command Lincolns was hardly worthy ofthe occasion. That a similar formation of U.S.A.F. Super- fortresses did little or no better was cold comfort. In the Hawker P. 1052 Mr. Wade repeated the rythmic
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