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Aviation History
1951
1951 - 1178.PDF
22 June 195i PRESENTED IN PARIS J Exhibits on Show in the Grand Palais or to be Displayed at Le Bourget ILLUSTRATED here are French and Dutch aircraft, and one • important item of British equipment, now on view in the Paris Salon or due to appear at Le Bourget next week. At the head of the page is the S.E.2415 prototype, with two Hispano-Suiza Nenes staggered, one above the other, within its massive fuselage. This type may be developed either as a heavy fighter or as a light bomber, and is dubbed "Grognard" (i.e., a member of Napoleon's Old Guard). Below this remarkable French prototype is Standard Telephones and Cables' radio-altimeter Type S.T.R.30—frequency- modulated and capable of recording the height of an aircraft during ail stages of an approach down to the time when the wheels touch the runway. The maximum height recorded is 5,OOOft; the minimum, 3ft. Then comes the Rolls-Royce Derwent-powered Fokker S.14 jet trainer, which has side-by-side ejector seats and many other features to commend it to prospective buyers. The helicopter at lower left is the S.O.1120 Ariel III, which made its first flight on April 19th: it has a gas turbine which feeds propulsive ducts at the blade-tips. Finally, there is the experimental Nene-powered S.O.30—France's counterpart of our Nene-Viking.
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