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Aviation History
1956
1956 - 0529.PDF
FLIGHT, 4 May 1956 529 AIRCRAFT INTELLIGENCE Boeing B-47B Stratojet. The first air-craft—a B-47B—destined to be a jet- propelled "hurricane hunter" left theBoeing plant at Seattle on March 26th for White Plains, N.Y., for modification as aU.S.A.F. meteorological aircraft. It will make high-altitude checks on tropicalcyclones, while specially fitted B-29s and B-50s continue in their work of low andmedium level observation within the storms. Beech T-34B Mentor. The U.S. Navyhas placed a second order for an unspeci- fied number of T-34B Mentors to a valueof $4m. The type has been in production for the Navy since 1954 and was phasedin as a basic trainer at N.A.S. Pensacola last November. It is gradually replacingthe SNJ (Harvard). of a large number of H-21C helicopters.Deliveries will begin in June and will continue for a year. The agreementfurther stipulates that supplies may be continued subsequently with aircraft manu-factured under licence by S.N.C.A.S.O. The S.E.212 Durondal taking oft on its first flight at Istres recently (see paragraph below). Notable features are the knife-edge wind- screen, long ventral stroke under the forward fuselage, rocket motor housing under the aft fuselage and very large tin area. Czechoslovakia Praga £-11. Designed by T. Slechta,this multi-purpose light aircraft recently won a design competition. It resembles theBoeing L-15 in appearance, but has a nosewheel undercarriage. There is side-by-side seating for two people in front, and a single rear seat. Duties originallyintended for the E-ll included agricul- tural, ambulance, liaison and A.O.P. work.A Walter Minor 6III engine of 160 h.p. was fitted, but with this unit the machinewas found to be underpowered and pro- duction was cancelled. The prototype isbeing used for parachute jumping. France Breguet 901. Including the prototype,five Breguet 901 high-performance gliders have now been completed. During theWorld Gliding Championships at Saint Yan this summer two will be used by theFrench team and six others will be loaned to American, Canadian, Australian, NorthAfrican, Japanese and Swedish competitors. S.N.C.A.S.E. 210 Caravelle. Followingthe French participation in the Royal Easter Show in Sydney and a subse-quent world-wide tour by M. Georges Hereil, president and director-general ofS.N.C.A.S.E., it is reported that orders for the CaraveHe are being negotiated withseveral of the world's airlines. S.N.C.A.S.E. 212 Durandal. The firstflight of this new delta-winged intercepter was made at Istres on April 21st. At themoment is has only die power of a S.N.E.C.M.A. Atar, with variable-areaefflux, but the housing for the rocket motor, which will later make it supersonic,is already to be seen under the after fuse- lage. The windscreen is a knife-edgedstructure, apparently without a central "spine". Main-wheel retraction appearssimilar in layout to that of the Nord Griffon. A long ventral strake extends fromthe lip of the intake back to the level of the wing leading edge, crossing the nosewheel-bay door. The nosewheel appears to be hydraulically steerable, and the wing isvery thin. Taxying trials were carried out at die maker's airfield by Pierre Maulandiand eidier he or Cmdt. Carpentier made the first flight. S.N.C.A.S.O. Helicopters. Mr. Don R.Berlin, president of the Vertol Aircraft Corporation (formerly die Piasecki Heli-copter Corporation) and M. Glasser, president-director-general ofS.N.C.A.S.O.,recendy reported an agreement between their two firms for die supply byS.N.C.A.S.O. to die French Government GRUMMAN W-»P COUGAR Pratt and Whitney J4S-P-8 Span ... ... 34ft tin Length (over probe) 45ft 9in
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