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1952
1952 - 2076.PDF
n6 FLIGHT, i August 1952 SEARANGER.Oneofthe first flight views of the Avro Shackleton M.R.2 (four Rolls-Royce Grif fons), which has mount ings for two 20 mm guns in the redesigned nose, a ventral scanner, and a faired-off tail, with look out position. FROM ALL QUARTERS George Medal for Bill Waterton BEYOND the call of duty—a familiar phrase—has seldom been applied more appropriately than to the actions of S/L. William Arthur Waterton, A.F.C., chief test pilot of the Gloster Aircraft Company, who was last Tuesday awarded the George Medal for his attempt to land the prototype G.A.5 super-priority delta fighter after the elevators had been carried away. According to the citation, S/L. Waterton, knowing that a crash would seriously put back the development and production of the G.A.5, decided to land, although he had an ejector seat and parachute. While the aircraft was travelling at high speed, elevator flutter started and both surfaces became detached, leaving the pilot with practically no control of his aircraft in pitch. He climbed to 10,000ft, experimented, and found it possible to obtain some con trol down to a speed half as fast again as the normal landing speed. He let down and succeeded in landing, though heavily; the undercarriage gave way, fire broke out, and he was only able to free himself with great difficulty. Presumably the control which remained was that afforded by the variable-incidence tailplane. The power and rate of change provided by such a trimming con trol would be too slow to permit anything like a normal landing. New French Air Attache" THE popular French Air Attache in London, Commandant R. Dcrimay, was due to end his tour of duty in that post yesterday. His successor is Cdt. Louis Jacques Andlauer, whose war record will have made him known to many who were serving in the Royal Air Force at the time. From 1940 to 1942 he was working with the Resistance Movement, picking landing fields for Lysanders; then he came to England and served with No. 88 Squadron and No. 342 Lorraine Group. Returning to his native country at the time of the invasion, he commanded a transport squadron and later became an instructor at the Fighter School at Meknes, in North Africa. He was then, for eighteen months, assistant to the Commandant of the Liaison Group at Fontainebleau. With 2,500 hr flying, he holds the Legion d'Honneur, Croix de Liberation, Croix de Guerre, Medaille de la Resistance, and D.F.C. The Cirrus Autocar THE above new designation applies to the Auster J.5G, powered with a Cirrus Major III of 155 h.p. and possessing a higher performance than the now-familiar Gipsy Major version. The aircraft (picture, page 118) is specially recommended for operation from high-altitude airfields and in tropical climates. A spray load of 70 gallons, or a dust load of 700 lb, can readily be carried. A floatplane version will be available, but the following figures apply to the landplane at full load : maximum speed, 127 m.p.h.; cruising speed, no m.p.h.; stalling speed (with flaps), 36 m.p.h. I.A.S.; landing run (5 m.p.h. wind), 130 yd; take-off run (5 m.p.h. wind), 175 yd; still-air range, 485 miles; service ceiling, 14,000ft. Russian Gas-Turbine Alloys PI the description of the Russian variant of the Rolls-Royce Nene given last week it was stated that "Nimonic 80 and 75 have, apparently, been produced in Russia.. . ." This statement should, perhaps, be amplified by pointing out that, although the Russian alloys are compositionally similar to these Nimonics they have not been produced, or fabricated, with the gradually acquired techniques of Henry Wiggin and Sons, Ltd. It is now twelve years since the first creep-resisting Ni-Cr-base alloys were evolved by the Mond Nickel Company's laboratories. Since that time alloys have been developed with progressively improved properties, requiring a parallel development in manufac turing technique. It may be assumed that the practical "know- how" of the working of these advanced alloys has not yet been acquired by Russia, nor has that country obtained any of the many newer and better Nimonics, of which Nimonic 80A, 90 and 95 may be named. The last named is an entirely new material. J. R. B. Hartnoll WE regret to have to record the death of Mr. J. R. B. Hartnoll, of Photo Flight, Ltd., as a result of a flying accident which occurred on Thursday of last week. Born in 1914, and educated at Harrow and University College, Oxford, he learned to fly with the Wiltshire Club in 1936, and soon afterwards joined the R.A.F. Shortly before the war he went to the de Havilland Company, but was called up as a member of the R.A.F.O. and posted as an in structor to No. 3 F.T.S., South Cerney. In 1941 he was seconded to de Havillands as a test pilot. He flew for their Propeller Division until the end of the war, and carried out the initial development flying of the first D.H. braking airscrews. After a short period at the end of the war in the D.H. engine-installation department, he started Photo Flight, Ltd., at Elstree, in 1948. He was now able to combine his interests in aviation and photography, and to specialize in commercial air photographs of high quality. Mr. Hartnoll lost his life when a light aircraft—in which he was returning from photographing a factory in Wiltshire—dived into the ground near Booker airfield, for some reason as yet unexplained. He leaves a widow and three sons. WORLD PREMIERE: Honouring the inaugural showing of "The Sound Barrier," reviewed on p. 134, is H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester, who may be learning something of the Vickers Supermarine Swift—displayed in model form—from its designer, Mr, J. Smith.
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