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1951
1951 - 0831.PDF
522 FLIGHT, 4 May 195i\ HERE AND THERE The Jet Era NEXT week's issue of Flight, May 1 ith, will be an enlarged number mainly devoted to jet aircraft and gas-turbine develop- ment; specially illustrated reviews of both historical and current types will be included. All who are interested in the subject should make certain of obtaining this important issue by placing orders with their news- agents. In the Festival Road Show THE Whittle W2/700 turbojet will be one of the exhibits in the Festival of Britain Land-travelling Exhibition which opens at the City Hall, Manchester, tomorrow, May 5th. Alongside this historic unit will be other gas turbines, early and modern, loaned by the National Gas Turbine Establishment, while the respective manu- facturers have contributed an Adder and a Goblin. Nautical and industrial gas-mrbine exhibits come from B.T.H., Parsons, Metropolitan-Vickers and other firms. The Gipsy's Revenge ACCORDING to reports from Durban on Saturday, A. Cdre. Sir Frank Whittle made an exemplary "dead-stick" landing in a Tiger Moth when its engine cut out com- pletely at 1,500ft in a loop. He was practising aerobatics at the time—his first spell at the controls in six years. Well worth quoting is Sir Frank's classic com- ment on the incident: "It was a case of the piston engine getting its own back on me." Busiest British Airfield DURING 1950, the Air Service Training airfield at Hamble, Southampton, handled a record total of aircraft movements— 74,782 take-offs and landings, a daily FOURSOME: Cioster test-pilots Mike Kilburn (front cockpit) and Brian Smith pose for their photo- graph in a Meteor 7; Jim Cooksey flies alongside in another Mk 7; and Russell Adams presses the trigger of hit Spted Graphic—producing this unusually snug study of the 600-m.p.h. trainer. average of 205. The runner up was a R.A.F. training station (unnamed for security reasons) with a total of 60,790. Total movements at London Airport and Northolt last year were respectively, 37J776 and 58,848. Flights from Hamble, all made without incident, included the first take-off of the Sapphire-Meteor. Russia's "Canberra" A CORRESPONDENT in Germany has sent us a general-arrangement drawing (re- produced here) of a Russian twin-jet bomber which resembles the machine illustrated in Flight of April 6th. Bombers of this type, he reports, are stationed at Oranienburg, north of Berlin. They have a surprisingly low landing speed and the JLJv;&^ BRITISH VISITORS to Avro Canada, seen here inspecting the new tip-tank of the CF-100 Canuck, are (left) Sir Roy Dobson, president of the Canadian company, and Sir Frank Spriggs, managing director of the parent Hawker Siddeley Group. Their guide is SjL. Baudoux, chiefR.C.A.F. test-pilot. SPLAY-FOOTED: Layout of Soviet twin-jet bomber, according to a correspondent in Germany (see paragraph on this page). design of the undercarriage—the wheels of which retract into fairings—is the subject of special comment: the main wheels, it appears, are sharply splayed out. In the tail is a large object "like the pipe of a Boeing KB-29 tanker" and which our correspondent thinks is a twin or triple gun. New Neptunes TWO new versions of the U.S. Navy's main anti-submarine aircraft, the P2V Neptune, are announced by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. The latest patrol version is the P2V-5, powered by two Wright R-3350 compound engines, each of 2,350 h.p., and differing from earlier models in its acquisition of a nose turret. Internally, it carries more radar and electronic equipment. Another new Neptune is an air-sea rescue model,
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