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Aviation History
1951
1951 - 0552.PDF
34* FLIGHT In c/osc company with the photographic aircraft, the P-56 shows its neatly cowled SOQ-h.p. A/vij Leonides radial engine and roomy cockpit with side- by-tide seating. The P-56 has been ordered for the R.A.F. (fie/ow) Detail view of the sturdy fixed undercarriage with oleo-pneumatic leg incorpor- ating (at top) a taxying lamp PERCIVAL CLOSE-UPS New Views from Luton: P-56 Leoni (Above) In charge of P-S6 test-flying is R. G. Wheldon (left), Percival's chief pilot; D. M. Boy, a war-time chief pilot, is now the company's assistant sales manager. The frontal appearance (left) of the P-56 is trim and tidy; the width of undercarriage-track can be readily appreciated. As seen in this stern view, control-surfaces are metal-covered and the fuselage is of simple rect- angular section. TheP-W is an all-metal aircraft.
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