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Aviation History
1949
1949 - 1517.PDF
English Electric Canberra B.I. (2 R.-R. Avon) THE COLOUR OF SPEED I j*CVR the old-fashioned English summer, now -*• ended, the aircraft industry is truly thankful. Prototypes flourished in the sunny weather; "development" machines put in the hours at a most heartening rate; and production types were passed out with a minimum of meteorological interference. The long, fair days were a boon not only to test pilots but to Flight cameramen, the pick of whose season's colour-work is now presented. In the largest of the studies bordering this note a Gloster Meteor 7 dual-control jet trainer is frolicking high in the blue haze over Hawker P. 1502 (R.-R. Nene) Gloucestershire (though one might think that the white-clouded horizon—far distant for any vehicle except a jet aircraft—signified an Alpine range). Two of the three remaining colour studies portray, in the Hawker P. 1052 and Vickers- Supermarine 510, new experimental fighters. By virtue of their back-swept wings (and, in the case of the Supermarine, raked tail surfaces also) these types easily exceed the Meteor's speed of 600 m.p.h. Sturdy and compact in appearance, the English Electric Canberra bomber is seen to be finished in cerulean blue. Gloster M Vickers-S
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