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Aviation History
1950
1950 - 1767.PDF
Johnny Baker shows that the Avro Shackleton is a machine of character—and capacity, (below) the Avro Ashton POST-FARNBOROUGH IMPRESSIONS veteran in this regard, but to adhere to his planned sequence of manoeuvres. Of these, the most spectacular was a series of three loops from take-off which won acclaim from experienced Meteor pilots. A tour of the parked aircraft was, as always, highly rewarding to technical observers. It was noted, for example, that the Varsity has sprouted wing "fences" in the style of the Comet and Venom, and that the admirable, asymmetric "petal" cowlings of this type were reproduced in the Viscount 700. The Viscount, incidentally, flew on one occasion with only one of its four Darts operative, and the undercarriage was lowered before these units were restarted. There was some comment that on one or two occasions the landing speed of the Viscount seemed rather faster than usual, though there was little fear that this airliner will achieve notoriety for "hot" landing characteristics. The Mambas of the Armstrong Whitworth Apollo were fitted with de Havilland airscrews—four-bladers inboard, three- bladers outboard—whereas those on the Short S.B.3 had (Below, left) NosewhMl assembly of the Fairey 17 (to be comparedwith adjacent Blackburn sketches) (Bekr*, centre) Nosewheel and mainwheel assemblies of theBlackburn Y.B.I anti-submarine aircraft (Below, rijht) Viscount 700 inboard nacelle, showing intake tode-icing heat-exchanger and flush intake to cabin-pressure blowers. The oleo leg is offset from the centre-line to clear the jet-pipe four-blade Kotols. The thrust of the Mambas in the Short is obviously not augmented by residual jet-reaction, for the jet pipes were seen to be turned through a right angle and to eject downwards. Both the Fairey and Blackburn anti- submarine aircraft rolled with only one Mamba in action.
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