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Aviation History
1950
1950 - 1671.PDF
•tember 1950 I9SO YEAR by year, on the eve of the S.B.A.C Display, authority is given fornew types of aircraft to make their public debut. As this annual reviewoi modern British aircraft goes to press it is impossible to forecast with any worth-while degree of accuracy the number of hitherto secret, or semi-secret, machines which will appear at Farnborough between September 5th-10th, though it is safe to predict that the impressive variety of types represented in the follow- ing pages will, by that time, have been appreciably widened. Certainly there will be important new variants of established designs. As always, it has been our purpose in this survey to present the salient facts about each type for the benefit of everyone attending Britain's great air event, be he a prospective buyer, technician, student, or a member of the interested public. Read in conjunction with data tables elsewhere in this issue, the descriptive text will, it is hoped, prove a valuable medium of reference and recollection. The photographs will serve as a recognition guide to what we believe are the world's finest aircraft. „. MILITARY TYPES ' Armstrong Whitworth (Gloster) Meteor N.F.I I A LTHOUGH the basic airframe of this•iX type is of Gloster design, it has been developed for night-fighter duties bySir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft, Ltd., at whose works it is now in seriesproduction for the R.A.F. The extended nose houses radar and the four 20 mmHispano guns have been transferred to the wings, the outer panels of which areof greater span than those of the Marks 4 and 8 single-seat fighters. Ejecrtor seatsare provided for the pilot and radar operator. Auster A.O.P.6 and T.7 THE record of the little Auster militarymonoplanes is too well known to need recapitulation. Whereas the Mark 6 isan "air observation post," the Mark 7 has been developed for ab initio trainingin pilot-instruction and army co-operation, though it can quickly be adapted forA.O.P. duties by removing the cushions from the starboard seat and installingradio in a quick-fitting crate. In the Mark 7 the instrument panel is rearranged to bemost beneficial to the pupil. Span. 36ft; gross weight. 2,122 lb; max speed.122 m.p.h. Auster A.2/45 AN altogether larger and heavier typethan the Auster A.O.P.6 and T.7,this prototype Auster is powered by a D.H. Gipsy Queen engine. Avro Athena IN experimental versions of the Athenaadvanced trainer, the A.S. Mamba and R.-R. Dart turboprops have been success-fully installed, but the type is most commonly powered with a Merlin pistonengine, this being the main distinction of the T.2 version. From the outset theAthena was planned for day and night flying-training, navigation, gunnery,bombing, photography and glider-towing. Servicing and maintenance have beenfacilitated by broadly sub-dividing (1), articles for which periodic attention isimperative; (2), those likely to require periodic attention ; and (3), those expectedto give trouble-free service over long periods. Span, 40ft; gross weight, 8,554 lb (bombing).
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