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1956
1956 - 0265.PDF
FLIGHT, 9 March 1956 263 AIRCRAFT INTELLIGENCE U.S.A. Supersonic Bombers. Reported designa-tion of a projected Boeing supersonic bomber is Project 110. "New chemicalfuels" are mentioned in connection with this machine. According to Aviation Week,the Pentagon is "taking a new look" at the Convair B-58 Hustler supersonic bomberprogramme now that it appears almost cer- tain that the design competition for a newtactical bomber will be cancelled. Teams from Tactical Air Command have beenvisiting Convair's Fort Worth plant in- specting the B-58 mock-up and prototypeunder construction. Boeing RB-A1K. The RB-47K version ofthe Stratojet has been specially modified for Strategic Air Command to undertake bothweather reconnaissance and photography. The crew, as in other Stratojets, numbersthree. Special equipment measures and records wind velocities and directions,moisture, temperatures and barometric pressures, and to maintain a permanentrecord the weather instruments—located on a single panel in the nose—are photo-graphed at regular intervals. Data can be correlated with cloud photographs (alsotaken at regular intervals) for predictions of weather, or under certain circumstancescan be relayed to base immediately. Addi- tionally the RB-47K can undertake high-or low-altitude photographic missions by day or night. Bell H-13H. A contract has been receivedfrom the U.S. Army for 84 H-13H heli- copters equipped with stretcher evacuationkits, two radios, dual controls, and fitted with a new design of skid landing gear andall-metal rotor blades. The engines are 250 h.p. Lycomings, de-rated to 200 h.p. Lockheed XFV-1 Salmon. This V.T.O. project has now been definitely shelved because of difficulties with the power plant. Work on the generally similar Convair XFY-1 and the pure-jet Ryan Model 69 projects is proceeding. Canada D.H.CA Twin Otter. This high-wing twin-engined, big brother of the Otter is likely to have two Pratt and Whitney Twin Wasp engines, though it will be somewhat smaller than the Dakota. Maxi- mum load is reported to be 28 passengers for short hauls, but the machine will retain the Otter's astonishing short-field characteristics. Boeing B-4HB Test-bed. The U.SJV.F. has loaned the R.C.A.F. a B*47B Stratojet for use as a flying test-bed for the new large turbojet being developed by Orenda Of these two Boeing 8-47 variants, the upper is the new RB-47K dual-purpose machine, subject of a paragraph on this page, and the lower is the second XB-47D flying test-bed, powered with two Wright T49 turboprops in- board and two General Electric 141s outboard. Engines, Ltd. The machine will be con-verted at Canadair's Cartierville plant and is likely to be retained by the R.C.A.F. forabout two years. The engine-development test flights will be made by Mike Cooper-Slipper, who will be checked out on B-47s at Wichita later this year. France S.N.C.A.S.O. Vautour. Quantity pro-duction of the twin-jet Vautour is involving more than 300 sub-contracting firms,including S.N.C.A.N., S.N.C.A.S.E.. S.F.E.R.M.A., Marcel Dassault, Breguetand Ratier. The contribution by S.N.C.A.S.O. itself represents only about25 per cent of the total value of the order. DOUGLAS C-1JJA (four Pratt and Whitnay TJ4-P-3) Span 17»ft8in Ungth 152ft Sin
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