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1952
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344 FLIGHT, 28 March 1952 HERE AND THERE Valiant No. 2 MR. GEORGE EDWARDS, chief de signer of Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd., an nounces that the second prototype of the Vickers Valiant jet bomber will probably fly during the first week of April. The 1,000th Enemy IN Tokio last week the Far East Air Force claimed that, since the Korean war started, their pilots had destroyed 394 Communist aircraft, probably destroyed 107, damaged 473 and possibly damaged six. Results of several battles on March 20th brought the total to almost exactly 1,000. Queer Bird in Korea AN American Sabre pilot reports an encounter with a new high-wing fighter which, according to his reckoning, is about 2ft longer and 2ft broader in span than the Mig-15. It appeared, he said, to be more efficient at low altitude than the standard Mig, but about 50 m.p.h. slower. No Place to Hide ALMOST every day civilians fine the fence of the Boeing airfield at Seattle to goggle at the huge XB-52 jet bomber prototype on its taxying trials. The machine is still regarded as more or less secret, and only one photograph (as printed in Flight of January 1 ith last) has been released. The eight Pratt and Whitney J-57S are said to start with a belch of black smoke and flame, and the bomber lumbers along the con crete runway and quickly overtakes two station wagons which race ahead to photo graph the action of its undercarriage. Already it has broken up the 7-in-ihick BOTTOMS UP: Although most Austers ore regarded as non-aerobatic, the clipped-wing Aiglet Trainer (Gipsy Major) is an exception. Last week we photographed this unusual piece of in verted flying from the rear-doorless AmbulancejFreighter; Ranald Porteous was the Aiglet pilot. concrete runway. At the conclusion of each taxying run a parachute billows from the tail and the wheel brakes can be heard screeching from half a mile away. THE INSTRUMENTS OF AIR POWER NEXT WEEK'S issue of Flight—dated Friday, April 4th—will be a greatly enlarged number containing a survey of MILITARY AIRCRAFT OF THE WORLD. Profusely illustrated, much of it in photogravure, this review will cover the whole range of military types of the nations, and will give all the noteworthy facts about their equipment that are known or are permitted to be published. Other features will include plan-view draw ings of 14 experimental and produc tion single-seat fighters. Readers who wish to make sure of getting this issue —valuable as a work of reference— should order from their newsagents. More Powerful Sabres MR. R. GILPATRIC, Under-Secretary of the U.S.A.F., has announced that faster Sabre fighters will be coming off the pro duction lines next month. They will be powered with General Electric J-47-27 NEW FORMULA in power-plant location is manifest in this design-study for a medium-range jet transport by the French S.N.C.A.S.E. group. The three turbojets—two on the fuselage sides and one in the tail—are Atars. turbojets in place of earlier marks of the J-47, and will be fitted with "more power ful guns or rockets" than those now in use. Mr. Gilpatric added that production of aircraft for the U.S.A.F. and Army was expected to reach a peak of about 900 a month by the middle of this year. No fighters were expected to be equipped with guided missiles until next year at the earliest. R.C.A.F. Packets DELIVERY from the United States of the first Fairchild C-119 Military Packet for the Royal Canadian Air Force is expected next month. Plans to purchase C-119S were made towards the end of iast year. Arming Yugoslavia FROM Belgrade a special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph reports that between 200 and 300 piston-engined fighters are believed to be on their way to Yugoslavia from the West. All should have arrived before the summer is out and nearly half will be British. Finalized Mistrale THE first S.N.C.A.S.E. Mistrale (Nene- Vampire development) to be fitted with an ejection seat flew for the first time on February 25th. As far as is known, this is the first Vampire development to be so equipped; powered by a Hispano Nene, the type is in fairly large-scale production. Sailplane's 44,000ft FLYING above the Sierra Nevada range in a two-seater sailplane last week, two members of the Southern California Soaring Association claimed to have reached 44,000ft; the figure is being put forward as a record. The present F.A.I, altitude records for sailplanes stand at 42,100ft (single-seater) and 38,220 (two- seater). Australian Napalm Rocket THE R.A.A.F. Meteors now operating in Korea are using "flaming onions"—rockets which deliver napalm incendiary material instead of explosive. The new weapon, which was first used on February 8th, is an R.A.A.F. invention and is made by the Service itself. It was designed by F/L. John C. Smith, a squadron armament officer who recognized that the napalm "bomb" had certain limitations and that a more accurate method of delivering napalm was required. The first "flaming onion"
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