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Aviation History
1956
1956 - 0417.PDF
FLIGHT, 13 April 1956 417 AIRCRAFT INTELLIGENCE U.S.A. McDonnell F-lOl Voodoo. Thirty-one test and pre-production Voodoo fighters have been completed by McDonnell Air- craft, and the first production machine is expected to leave the line in June. Temco 51. This single-jet primary trainer, a competitor of the Beech 73, is claimed to be about 50 m.p.h. faster (i.e., about 345 m.p.h.) though similarly powered with the Continental YJ69-T-9 turbojet of 920 lb thrust. The design is characterized by an astonishingly slender rear fuselage, or tail boom, by small lateral air intakes, and a mid-mounted wing. Boeing YC-91J. One of these four-engined turboprop transports has returned to Kelly Air Force Base, Texas, after an18,000-mile round trip to Tokyo, marking the first Pacific crossing by an American-built turboprop aircraft. The 2,500-mile trip from Tokyo to Midway was made ata height of about 30,000ft and at a ground speed of nearly 400 m.p.h. Chance Vought F8U-1 Crusader. A 45-million dollar U.S. Navy contract for additional Crusader carrier-borne fighters has been received by Chance Vought Air- craft, Inc. This follows an initial order totalling about $100 million announced last December. France S.E. Aquilon. Fifty of these two-seat carrier-borne all-weather fighters (de- veloped from the D.H. Sea Venom) have now been delivered, so completing the first and second orders placed with S.N.C. A.S.E. on behalf of the French Navy. The third batch is now coming forward and will consist of an additional forty machines— all single-seaters. Breguet Vultur. The Breguet 960-01, first prototype of the Vultur, has been fitted by Hispano-Suiza with a boundary- layer control system. The machine is now flying at Toulouse. Marcel Dassault Prototypes. At the Marcel Dassault St. Cloud works the first M.D.550 delta-winged fighter, now called the Mirage, is being fined with its rocket engine, and the second prototype is being completed. Three other prototypes of a new design are now under construction. The first is the M.D.26, powered by one Orpheus turbojet and built to the NATO light ground attack specification; the sec- ond is the Mystere 22 intercepter and tac- tical support aircraft (Turbomeca Gabizos) built to a French Air Force specification;and the third is the Mystere 24, which is a private venture of Marcel Dassault. TheMystere 24 is identical to the two types previously mentioned except that it ispowered by a S.N.E.C.M.A. Atar turbo- A new picture of a Chance Vought F8U-1 Crusader carrier-borne fighter of the U.S. Nary. A news item concerning the type appears on this page. jet of 7,700 lb. All three machines have very low all-up weights. The airframes are identical, with 45-deg wing sweep, 6 per cent thickness/chord ratio, and 2 deg 30 min anhedral angle. Nord 2502. The first of two Nord 2502Noratlas transports, equipped with wing- tip-mounted Turbomeca Marbore boosterturbojets, has now logged more than 2,000 flying hours on U.A.T.'s Central Africanroutes. The crews are said to express their entire satisfaction with the handling of theaircraft. Chile Indigenous Light Aircraft. Chilean radioreported a few days ago that the Chilean Minister of Public Works and the vice-chairman of the National airline, Don Adalberto Fernandez, piloted the first air-craft ever built in Chile—by the Fanaero works. The flight was made from Cerrillosairfield. The machine is described as being light and suitable for touring and lightcargo work. MAX HOLSTE M.H.1521 BROUSSARD (Pratt and Whitn«y R-M5 Woip Junior) Span 45ft Length 28ft 2in
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