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Aviation History
1956
1956 - 1685.PDF
FLIGHT, 30 November 1956 847 AIRCRAFT INTELLIGENCE The Me / 10G-4 night fighter, photographed at this year's Battle of Britain Open Day at Andover, is preserved at that station, together with a replica Bleriot XI (having a wooden dummy engine). The helicopter is the Czech HC-2, a two-seater powered by a Praga D engine of 80 h.p. wings, on the sides of the fuselage and onthe fin. U.S.S.R. Beriev Be-6 Madge. Although not offi-cially confirmed, it is believed that the military flying-boat bearing the Alliedcode-name Madge is the Beriev Be-6. The engines are two 3,000 h.p. ASH radials andthe gross weight is about 60,000 lb. It is reported that a number of these flying-boats have been seen on the Khimki Lake, north of Moscow, together with Soviet-built Catalinas. Maximum speed is con- sidered to be about 240 m.p.h. and aturbine-powered development, designated Be-8, is said to exist. In general layout themachine is a gull-wing monoplane with fixed under-wing floats and twin fins andrudders. U.S.A. Sikorsky S-58C. This is the designationof the civil version of the Sikorsky S-58 helicopter, which is distinguished by two"walk-in" doors and has local strengthen- ing to allow an increase of 250 lb in grossweight. This increase results from the installation of equipment to meet C.A.A.certification requirements. Another 100 lb has been added by an increase in skinthickness. Modernized North American F-86D. Sabres of the foregoing (single-seat, all- weather) type are being fitted by North American Aviation's Fresno Division with new wing leading-edges and new wing- tips, and advanced electronic equipment. Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune. A new ordervalued at £9 million has been awarded to the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation onbehalf of the U.S. Navy for P2V-7 Nep- tunes. Production will thus be extendeduntil 1958. This is the U.S. Navy's twenty- fifth order for the Neptune since the typewent into production in 1944, and includes P2V-7s for the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force and the French Navy. Each "-7" carries more than a ton and ahalf of electronic equipment besides magnetic airborne detection gear. Special(ski-equipped) aircraft of the same type are now being prepared for duty in theAntarctic with Rear Admiral Byrd's Operation Deepfreeze. The auxiliary jetpods will permit these machines to operate efficiently from the 10,000ft high plateauxfound in the South Polar regions. Poland Pulse-jet Gliders. The Instytut Lotnictwais now conducting experiments with gliders having pulse-jet power. The two-seatBocian sailplane has been modified to take four small units designed by Eng. Dipl.Wojcicki, each of which develops a thrust of 22 lb. They are attached in pairs underthe wings in the manner initiated on the French Emouchet glider, and the firstflight under their power was made on October 16. East Germany Air Force Markings. The East GermanAir Force markings are black, red and gold vertical stripes in a square, having twoangles vertically opposed. These markings were recently seen on a Russian-builtAntonov AN-2 and were carried on the ILYUSHIN 11-28 (Two VK-1 turbojats) Span 68ft Ungth 62ft
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