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Aviation History
1950
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FLIGHT, 16 February 1950 SOME OUTSTANDING AERO ENGINE DIVISION ACHIEVEMENTS OF 1949 PHOEBUS In I 'ebrtmry a Phoebus made its first flight, installed in the bomb^ bay of a LJwoln. THESEUS Tlx Hermes 5 powered by four Theseus pro- peller-turbines made its first flight in August. COUPLED PROTEUS The ronpled Prof HIS power unit ran for the first time in Sovember. COUPLED CENTAURUS 'I'bis power unit com- pleted its 150 bom type-test in April and flew in the Braltazoii in September. HERCULES 634 J :our Her cults 634 engines in B.E.A. and A1rwork Ltd., Vikings, each ran for i.noo hours between orrrbauls. CENTAURUS In April a Centaurus 18 powered Hawker I'ury broke the I .oruhn-Kome record, previously belt! by a I 'ampire. HERCULES 763 Hermes 4 production continued. FKgbt- tested in U.K. and Khartoum. Air- worthiness trials near- ing completion. HERCULES 733 T.E.A. Solents com- pleted airworthiness trials and all four air- craft were delittred to New Zealand. T II V. AEROPLANE COMPANY I. I M I T E D E N O 1. A N D
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