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1949
1949 - 0896.PDF
MAY 19™, 1949 5*3 1 / The compact and handy M.D.450 Ouragan (above) was one of four French jet aircraft with Nenes. Below is the very promising Breguet 761 double-decker. K'pertoire he evolved for his P. 1040 demonstrations. His fast,sustained rolls made a special appeal to the Parisians. By courtesy of the U.S. Navy, in the person of Lt. Cdr.Davies, a Flight representative flew in the record-breaking Lockheed P2V, The Turtle, in its demonstration of rocket-assisted take-off. The Commander "hit the JATO" with about 45 knots on the clock, and the 47,000 lb Turtle, reactingsmoothly to 4,000-lb of jet urge, went kiting up at some 3,000 ft/min. Exercising a turtle prerogative, it turned, and showedthat, on piston-engines alone, it has speed and agility. In the absence of a Shooting Star the U.S.A.F. was repre-scute.'l by a massive Douglas Globemaster transport, the yawn- ing door of which swallowed sightseers by the hundred.Two pure-research aircraft performed—the H.D.10 singte- " 7 Comparable with the Boeing Stratocruiser, and similarly powered with Pratt and Whitney Wasp Majors, the new S.E.20I0 Armagnac is a credit to France's aircraft industry. Twenty-five examples are on order for Air France. seat flying model for an aircraft of extreme aspect ratio,and the S.E.1210, a small-scale precursor of a very large trans- oceanic flying boat. The H.D.10 weighs only 1,060 1b and hasan aspect ratio of 32.5. It flew well, but landed fast. Two appealing light ajnphibians, the Piaggio P.13O and theS.C.A.N.30, next took the air. The Italian has two 215 h.p. Franklins and the French machine two 220 h.p. Mathis vee-eights. The Piaggio has the more attractive appearance, but was somewhat more laboured and noisy in its take-off andclimb; both aircraft, however, performed well. In the general classification of transports, the first to beairborne was the CM.]00, quickly followed by the Nord 2100 twin-engined pusher, both of which aircraft give evidence ofbecoming successful types. The Dassault 315 took-off and performed its display on the starboard engine alone, and onlanding was brought to rest in about 170 yards by use of its braking airscrews. Named Corse II, the S.O.95 clearly showed those qualitieswhich have already given it such an excellent record, after which the appearance of a hare streaking down therunway enlivened the attention of the massing spectators for demonstration of the S.0.30P Bret-gane. The handling qualities of this good-looking and extremely workmanlike aircraft were shownby 70-deg banks without trace of lost height or instability. Britain's Freighter The only British transport demonstrated (inexemplary manner, be it said) was the Bristol 170 Freighter, which was to have been followed bythe Breguet 892 Mercure. Evidently, however, there was something wrong with the latter, forthe pilot merely taxied the aircraft away. The slim-bodied, pressurized, S.E.1010 photo-graphic survey aircraft contrasted with the more corpulent transports. This machine is peculiar inemploying Mercier wing-tip ailerons, the effective- ness of which was convincingly demonstrated bylarge roll-angles without visible trace of slewing or directional deviation. Perhaps the most impressive French aircraftdisplayed at Orly was the S.E.2010 Armagnac. The true size of this machine is belied by itsparticularly graceful shape; first flown on April 2nd this year, it was patently an achievement ofwhich every Frenchman at the display was deservedly proud. Armagnac heralded the appearance of the largetypes, for it was followed by the 44-tonne Breguet 761 Deux Ponts, which left the" ground surprisingly quicklyand impressed everybody considerably by flying past with both its port airscrews feathered. The N.C.211 Cormoranlumbered rather slowly into the air, its enormous fuselage volume being emphasized by the rather high aspect-ratio wingAs it flew past with the outboard port airscrew feathered the •wg Breguet 761 landed and, using reversed airscrew thrust,demonstrated its ability to stop in a very short distance indeed. Although the public were admitted for the display on Satur-day afternoon it was not until the following day that they were able to examine the various aircraft at close quarters.
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