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Aviation History
1955
1955 - 0044.PDF
44 FLIGHT, 14 January 1955 The Mk 4 version of the Avro Canada CF-100 long- range all-weather fighter is now, as this photograph shows, in squadron service with the R.C.A.F. Fitted with belly packs contain- ing eight 0.5'm guns, the machines seen here do not carry wing-tip rocket pods. AIRCRAFT INTELLIGENCE Great Britain English Electric Canberra. Many hun-dreds of Canberras have now been built by English Electric, Avro, Short and Harlandand Handley Page. The most important types in production at the moment are theB.6 and P.R.7; nothing may yet be published regarding the progress of the B.8towards production, or of the possibility of this machine being built by the CanberraGroup firms. In the U.S.A., of course, several variants of the basic B-57 designhave appeared. Short S.AA Sperrin. Some readers willbe familiar with the difficulty which has been experienced in finding methods fordropping stores out of bomb-bays of high- speed aircraft. Most of the troubles havearisen from aerodynamic buffeting, and this has sometimes been cured by fittinga small flap at the forward end of the bomb bay. The second Short Sperrin, VX 161,has been fitted with a ring of small plates around the front edge of the bomb bay,each plate being hinged about its forward edge in a manner similar to that employed in the cooling gills of radial piston-engines. Canada D.H. Canada Beaver Amphibian. Anamphibious version of the Beaver, with floats and retractable wheels, is undergoingtests. Several flights have been made from Downsview and Toronto Island Airports,and although problems of buoyancy and ramp handling are reported to have beenencountered, it is considered that eventual success would vastly increase the useful-ness of the type. France Nord Production. The Nord 1203Norecrin is by no means a new type (it was air-tested by the Editor of Flight as longago as 1947); but a newly announced order for 20 of these three-seaters by a Swissfirm is some measure of the merit of the design. Delivery has already begun. TheNord 2501 Noratlas Packet-type freighter for the French Air Force continues in pro-duction, and of 140 ordered 53 had been delivered by December 15th. Of 110N.C.856 Norvigie A.O.P.s, 52 had been delivered by the same date, U.S.A. U.S. Army Helicopter Competition. Ninecompanies have submitted tenders for a high-performance four-seater utility heli-copter for the U.S. Army. The machine foreseen would rank between the presentthree-seater types and the 8/10-passenger Sikorsky H-19 (which also carries a crewof two). General Electric V.T.O. Special turbo-jets for vertical take-off aircraft, and others equipped with thrust reversers, are to betested by the General Electric company on a 4,500-acre site near Peebles, Ohio. Switzerland Close-Support Fighter. A new Swissfighter prototype, designed for close-sup- port operations from small high-altitudefields, should fly this year. The company responsible is said to be Flug and Fahr-zeugwerke A.G. (FFA), the former Swiss branch of the Dornier concern, which is atpresent turning out Venoms and Vampires. A British powerplant is reported. MARTIN B-57B CANBERRA (Two Wright J6S-W-3 Sapphires) Span 64fc Length 65ft 6in
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