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1955
1955 - 1326.PDF
D.H./ Napier New Elizabethan. A handsome name for ahandsome aeroplane, the title New Elizabethan (rather than the more mundane Eland Ambassador) is intended to stress thetrue purpose of re-engining prototype G-ALFR Golden Hind with 3,000 h.p. Eland 1 turboprops. The aircraft is a demon-strator rather than a test-bed, its role being to persuade poten- tial Eland purchasers of the advantages of re-powering existingtypes of piston-engined airliners with these promising Napier units. An obvious candidate for this treatment is, of course,the Convair-liner, and it is well known that Napiers have them- selves almost completed the first Eland-Convair combination.Being tailored to the existing Centaurus bulkheads of G-ALFR, the New Elizabethan's nacelles do not perhaps show the Elandat its best; jet efflux, incidentally, is exhausted on the outboard side of each nacelle through a short tail-pipe. Nevertheless, theelegant appearance of the aircraft has suffered little. Not only does it sound exceptionally quiet in the air but, we were assured,noise level in the fully furnished 47-seat cabin is abnormally low. Crew members converse comfortably without intercom. de Havilland Heron 2. Now that the Heron is so wellestablished in airline service there is an increasing demand for executive versions. Two examples are shown at Farnborough.An innovation shown by G-ANCJ is the use of feathering D.H. airscrews, developed primarily to meet United States require-ments. In the static park, G-AMTS provides a close-up view of a typical " custom-styled" interior, with its eight seatsgrouped in four facing pairs with tables between. de Havilland Dove. No Farnborough Show would seemcomplete without a Dove. This year the breed is represented by de Havilland's executive demonstrator, G-AMZN, lavishlyfurnished for five passengers. de Havilland Beaver 2. Canada's best-selling bush transport is represented in the static park by G-ANAR, the Leonides- powered Mk 2. It has seating for six, including pilot. English Electric Canberra T.4 and B.8. A Canberra T.4,with " solid" nose and side-by-side seating for two pilots, is shown in the static display. The night intruder B.8, which FLIGHT, 9 September 1955 Looking more than ever like a monster of the deep, 9C potential tons of Avro Vulcan 8. Mk I was upward- rolled beautifully by Roly Folk. THE OPENING OF THE SHOW (Bekw) Tenth off the Luton line, XD 694 is ths first Hunting Percival Jet Provost to have the short undercarriage. Another major change is the use of a hydraulic system. figures in the flying display, is now camouflaged on top, butretains its glossy black coat on the under-surfaces. Though the underwing bomb-pylons are absent this year, the machine isvirtually unchanged. The offset hood, incidentally, is to be a standard feature of all future machines, whatever their role.Apart from giving the pilot a better view, it entails a rearrange- ment of the cabin by which the crew sit in front of the pilot.They have a normal parachute exit door, with airstream shield ahead of it, and only the pilot retains his ejector seat. Fairey Delta 2. Displayed in public for the first time,WG 774, powered by an afterburning Rolls-Royce Avon, is one of the fastest aircraft yet designed in the Commonwealth. Thecontrol surfaces comprise ailerons, elevators and rudder, all being fully powered by Fairey Hydroboosters, and installedclose up against the airframe, with no gap. There are no tabs anywhere on the aircraft. The elevators are of the plain hingedtype with a very large chord. The wing has a thickness/chord ratio of about five per cent, although the leading edge is rela-tively rounded. Dive brakes comprise four large petals disposed around the tail-end of the fuselage. Starboard Napier Eland installation in the New Elizabethan, showing the jet-pipe efflux outboard. Airscrews on this machine are Rotols. Napier engines in toto: Oryx (foreground), E.I51 Eland for the Rotodyne (see p. 452) and fixed-wing Eland. A Rotodyne model appears above.
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