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1952
1952 - 0031.PDF
FLIGHT, 4 January 1952 PROCEEDING SMOOTHLY according to the makers, are the current flight trials of the Fokker S.14 side-by-side jet trainer (Rolls-Royce Derwent turbojet). It may be recalled that the machine made its first flight on May 20th, 1951. FROM ALL QUARTERS The New Year Honours THE names of several distinguished aeronautical scientists appear in the New Year Honours list, published as we go to press. Among them are Prof. L. Bairstow, C.B.E., F.R.S., F.R.Ae.S., chairman of the Aeronautical Research Committee since I949> and Mr. D. R. Pye, C.B., M.A., Sc.D., F.R.S., M.I.Mech.E., F.R.Ae.S., Provost of University College, London, since 1943 and formerly Director of Research, Air Ministry, from 1937 to 1943 j both become Knights Bachelor. Among members of the industry who figure in the list are Mr. W. Lappin (who, at Derby, is responsible for Rolls-Royce liaison with the R.A.F.), and Mr. H. H. Burton, a director of the English Steel Corporation; both are made C.B.E.s. Similar honours go to Mr. H. L. Stevens, O.B.E., F.R.Ae.S., M.I.Mech.E., Principal Director of Equipment Research and Development (Air), Ministry of Supply, and to Mr. William Deane, Assistant Secretary, Air Ministry, and to Mr. W. W. Withers, F.A.I., chairman of the council of the R.A.F. Benevolent Fund. A number of senior officers of the R.A.F. receive honours, details of which are given on p. 24. A list of the remaining Service and civil names of interest to the aviation community will appear in our pages next week. Maiden Flights r * is expected that test flights of the Bristol 173 helicopter (two Alvis Leonides) will take place at Filton during the next few days. The first of B.O.A.C.'s Proteus-powered Bristol 175 air liners (picture on p. 22) is likely to fly in time to appear at the S.B.A.C. Display. From America it is officially reported that the power plants of the eight-jet Boeing B-52 bomber have undergone ground- running tests at Seattle, prior to an imminent first flight. A recent French "first" was the initial flight of an Atar 101 axial turbojet in a Marcel Dassault M.D.450 Ouragan fighter. The pilot was Col. Rozanoff, the date December 5th, and the air field Melun-Villaroche. Ambrosini (Gipsy Queen) Records FLYING an Ambrosini S.7 single-seat trainer, Count Bonzi recently established a series of new F.A.I, class records in the 1,000-1,750 kg category. The aircraft concerned was similar to that described in our "In the Air" series article (Flight, August 24th, 1951) but in place of the 225 h.p. Alfa 115, the record machine had a 250 h.p. de Havilland Gipsy Queen 30 with D.H. constant-speed airscrew. j -. , . .^-. I mmmm<* ,,„,,,,, *~ SWEDEN'S FIRST DELTA: Designated Saab-210 Dragon, this experi mental delta-wing aircraft has been undergoing taxying tests at Linkoping, in Sweden. The power unit is an Armstrong Siddeiey Adder turbojet, and, as on our own deltas, a braking parachute is provided. There is a "kink" in the leading edge. A twin-jet fighter based on the Dragon— which has not yet ffown—is projected. This version of the Queen has direct drive and is unsupercharged; it achieves its maximum power output at 2,500 r.p.m. Count Bonzi's records are as follows : 100 km closed-circuit, 358.673 km/hr (222.84 m.p.h.); 1,000 km closed-circuit, 347.362 km/hr (215.85 m.p.h.). These speeds were 87 km/hr and 124 km/hr higher respectively than the previous records. An Avon-Duchess A LARGER, higher-powered version of the Saunders-Roe Duchess flying-boat, with six Rolls-Royce Avon turbojets in place of the de Havilland Ghosts specified for the first project, is announced. Data (figures for Ghost-powered machine bracketed) are: Span 138ft (135ft 6in); length, 125ft (124ft 6in); loaded weight, 150,000 lb (130,0001b); max. speed, 559 m.p.h. (550 m.p.h.); most economical speed, 475 m.p.h. (468 m.p.h.). The Avon version would climb to 30,000ft in 14.6 min, and take off (10 m.p.h. wind) in 1,300 yd. Two Recent Appointments F/L L. MASSEY HILTON, D.F.C., A.F.C., A.F.R.Ae.S., who has been appointed an additional assistant managing director of the Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd. He joined the company in 1931 (and its board in 1934) after service in the Royal Navy and the R.A.F. MR. P. E. GORDON-MARSHALL, who has joined the Bristol Aero plane Co., Ltd., as executive assistant to Capt. K. J. G. Bartlett, director. He has had nearly 21 years' service in the industry, culminating in a direc torship of Airspeed in 1946. Communists Fine C-47 Crew £44,000 A FORTNIGHT ago we reported that American representa tions concerning the U.S.A.F. C-47 forced down by Russian fighters on the airfield at Papa, Hungary, on November 19th had met with the usual Soviet refusal to give information. Further developments have since occurred. On December 23rd the C-47's crew of four, who had been languishing in gaol for a month, were brought before a military court on a charge of "violating Hungarian territory." It was alleged that they were "unable to give any satisfactory explanation of the intended use of the military maps, parachutes, blankets and portable radio found in the plane" and that "there was no doubt that they were intended for spies and disruptive elements in Hungary." (The U.S. notes of protest had previously explained that this was standard survival equipment.) The trial was brief, and ended in the four men being fined some £11,000 each, with the alternative of three months' imprisonment. The C-47 was to be confiscated. On December 26th it was announced that the U.S. State Department would pay the fines, and that the crew would be released forthwith.
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