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Aviation History
1953
1953 - 1147.PDF
Power plsnt I Blackburn Bombardier Rotor diameter .. .. .. 32ft Fuselage length 28ft sin Gross weight .. .. 2,100 lb Max. speed .. .. .. Itj m.p.h. Smnxlers-ltoe Skeeter THE Saunders-Roe Skeeter is the only English example of the small helicopter. With an all-up weight of 2,100 lb and a rotor diameter of 32ft it carries a crew of two, and is suitable for a wide variety of duties from personal transport to cable-inspection and low-level reconnaissance. The Skeeter Mk 2 and Mk 3 are for civil use, the Mk 2 representing a major redesign of the earliest Mk 1. Mks 2 and 3 were powered by the Gipsy Major of 145 h.p., but in the latest civil version, the Mk 3B, a Blackburn Bombardier 702 of 180 h.p. gives more power and a consequent increase in performance. For the Army, the Mk 3B has been developed with a 23-gallon bullet-proof fuel tank giving an endurance at 75 kt of 4 hours; a camera, parachutes or armour plate protection can be fitted. The Mk 4 is a naval version with almost the same equipment and per formance as the Mk 3B, and the same engine, but it derives greater endurance through the fitting of a 27-gallon, crash-proof fuel tank. Latest news from Saunders-Roe concerns a new pulse-jet unit for tip propulsion. Power plant Span Length Gross weight Max. speed Alvls Leonides 52ft oin 34ft 7in 5,400 lb .. 162 m.p.h. ^ rC\ Scottish Aviation Prestwick Pioneer AT Prestwick Airport last month the first of at least five of these extraordinary machines ordered for the Royal Air Force was formally handed over, and it is a tribute to their qualities, and to the amount of development behind them, that two are being put into service in Malaya without the usual period with a home squadron. The "helicopterish" take-off and landing attributes of the Pioneer are already known to Farn- borough-goers. The type can be furnished to operate as a four-seat passenger aircraft, as an ambulance (carrying pilot, patient, nurse and, if necessary, a doctor), for air photography, dual-control training, or crop- dusting, or as a mailplane—to pick up and deliver mail in remote areas where landing is impossible. Low-speed performance is obtained by the fitment of full-span controlled slats, together with Fowler-type flaps. Both systems are operated by one control. Attached to the variable- incidence tailplane are very powerful balanced elevators. Tailplane incidence is controlled by an electric actuator operated by switches on the control column.
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