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Aviation History
1953
1953 - 0841.PDF
26 JUNE 1953 FLIGHT 33 The aeroplane The Second Prototype Vickers Valiant. Aerodynamic perfection and almost terrifying beauty are the trademarks of Britain's celebrated four-jet bomber. The Valiant, powered by four Rolls-Royce ' Avon ' engines, has been approved and placed on order for the Royal Air Force. the pilot Aircraft with more than a hint of the future about them — aircraft such as the Vickers Valiant — could never be more than a dream without the experience, professional skill and imagination of the test pilots. And such a pilot is E. B. Trubshaw. At only 28, Ernest Brian Trubshaw is a veteran of the air. In 1948 he left the King's Flight. He flew the Workshop Viking on its South African Tour, joined the staff of the Empire Flying School and, finally, went to Vickers-Armstrongs as a test pilot in 1950. Again and again, in the course of his career, pilot Trubshaw has relied on the benefits of the Shell and BP Aviation Service. He says : " I have always found the Shell and BP Aviation Service most efficient and helpful." Shell and BP Aviation Service Since the time when pilots flew by "dead reckoning" and the "seats of their pants", the sight of a Shell and BP refuelling truck on the tarmac below has been a welcome one. Even more so today. Both the men who make aircraft and the pilots who fly them, have learnt to depend on the Shell and BP Aviation Service to handle the problems of fuelling of lubricating specifications with speed and efficiency. You'll find it's the same, every time—almost everywhere in the United Kingdom. SHELL-MEX AND B.P. LTD., Shell-Mex House, Strand, London, W.C.2 Distributors in the United Kingdom for the Shell and Anglo-Iranian Oil Croups
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