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1954
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FLIGHT, 16 April 1954 CIGAREETS AND WHUSKIE—or at least smoke and alcohol—are factors in the improved take-off performance of the Boeing B-47 bomber, as explained in a news item on page 494. The close-up picture shows the "collar"-type rack with 33 J\TO units, each of 1,000 lb. thrust, in place. HERE AND THERE Hustler Power THE power-plant of the Convair XB-58 Hustler supersonic delta bomber is likely to be four General Electric J79 turbojets, each delivering about 15,000 lb thrust dry. They will be installed in pods. Cheaper and Quicker ACCORDING to a report from Sydney, people living in the country surrounding Broken Hill regularly charter Auster air taxis for visits to the mining town's cinemas. It costs them Is 6d a mile, as against 2s by a road taxi. Rover Turbine Production As it is now some years since the Rover company began to develop small gas tur bines, it is most heartening to record the fact that these units are going into pro duction. Two basic types are to be built: a single-shaft 60 h.p. unit and a free-tur bine engine with heat-exchanger. The latter will be suitable for transport applications—possibly including aircraft— while the single-shaft engine is principally for stationary industrial use. The 60 h.p. engine has a single-sided centrifugal com pressor, with a pressure ratio of only 2.9 : 1. The fuel system is a Lucas/Plessey development, with spill burners, feeding any standard fuel to a single combustion chamber. At 46,000 r.p.m. the overall thermal efficiency is 9.5 per cent, and the s.f.c. 1.46 lb/hr/b.h.p. The bare engine weighs about 116 lb dry. Offshore Migs. REPORTS reaching Formosa indicate that a large new jet aircraft factory, the first in China, is to be constructed at Hangyang, near Hangkow, known in Nationalist times as "the arsenal of China." £3 5m of Russian capital and 150 Soviet experts and tech nicians will be lent for the project. The financial loan will be repaid in goods. Foreign Aid Fund Allocations ACCORDING to a statement to the American Senate foreign affairs com mittee by Mr. Harold Stassen, Director of Foreign Aid, $75m (£26,785,000) in requested funds have been earmarked for British aircraft production for the R.A.F. No further funds have been allocated for French aircraft production. It will be recalled that Mystere IVs were ordered off-shore last year, and the first machines are now coming off the production lines. R.N. Air Day H.M.S. GAMECOCK (R.N. Air Station Bramcote, near Nuneaton, Warwickshire) gives well-advanced notification that its annual "at home" is to be held on Saturday, July 3rd . Naval charities benefited by over £1,000 from last year's event. Flight, in cidentally, is always glad to hear from or ganizers of forthcoming flying displays, so that their dates may in due course be included in "Forthcoming Events." Aeronautical Art Exhibition SOME fine paintings of aircraft, including the Britannia, Comet and Viscount, are to be seen at the one-man exhibition open until April 24th at Biddle's art shop, 164 High Street, Guildford, Surrey. The pic tures are the work of David Shepherd, a promising young artist with an individual, realistic style. His principal patrons to date are B.O.A.C, Vickers and K.L.M. Active Retirement INSTRUCTOR and test-pilot George Lowdell, in 32 years' flying, has served in one or other of those capacities with the R.A.F., the Suffolk Aero Club, Brooklands School of Flying, Wolseley Aero Engines, Reid and Sigrist and Vickers-Armstrongs. Now, at 54, he has embarked on a new career—as mine host of The Chequers, at Slaugham, Sussex, just off the London- Brighton road near Handcross POWER PACKAGE: As reported above, the Rover 1S/60 shaft-drive turbine h now in production. Here, the 60 h.p. set is arranged to drive a water pump, with hose attachment, the whole in a carrying frame. ~ MR. I S. SHENSTONE, chief engineer of B.E.A., presents a prize to J. E. Toplis, best all-round apprentice at the Corporation's engineering base. An R.Ae.S. lecture by Mr. Shenstone , summarized on p. 490.
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