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Aviation History
1955
1955 - 1506.PDF
619 (Above) An ingenious utility vehicle developed primarily tor Army use—the Fairey Ultra- Light. Pilot and passenger can sit facing in opposite directions, and thus have all-round vision. (Right) Purely experimental is Fancy's jet Gyrodyne, wherein the Alvis Leonides engine drives compressors which supply air to tip- jets for take-off and landing. For cruising flight, the greater part of the power is trans- ferred to the propellers. (Below) A Bristol 173 on test over the West Country. The four-bladed rotors superseded the three-bladed pattern earlier this year.
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