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Aviation History
1950
1950 - 2188.PDF
FLIGHT, 21 December 1950 583 OtfLjh OF THE YEAR British Aircraft Types Have Increased in Number and Improved in Quality in the Past Twelve Months : Fifteen Important First Flights : Deltas now Flying GAPS in the range of British aircraft available at thewar's end have been progressively filled, until now—at the turn of the half-century—-the available selec- tion can.be viewed, if not with complacency, then with real satisfaction. It is true that, compared with their enter- prising and well-endowed American rivals, British manu- facturers are even yet unable to offer a few desirable, even urgently necessary, types of aircraft; but in general there is far more cause for congratulation than for concern. This will have been apparent to everyone fortunate enough to witness the Society of British Aircraft Constructors' Dis- play and Exhibition at Farnborough in September, when 29 turbine-powered and 30 piston-engined machines were presented. Their average weight was over 30,000 lb and their average speed of the order of 400 m.p.h. That our newest high-speed prototype fighters (e.g., Hawker P.1081 and Supermarine 535) concede nothing to any comparable foreign single-seater extant, is certainly not an overstatement, though we must acknowledge America's eminence in the development of heavy two- seaters designed specifically for night and all-weather fight- ing. HappUy, in the Avro Canada Canuck the Common- The Vickers-Supermarine 535 fighter. It is powered by a Ro/is-Royce Afate centrifugal turbojet for which afterburning is provided.
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