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Aviation History
1956
1956 - 1766.PDF
FLIGHT HOME OF THE PIONEERS COME of the advantages of a good home are apparent in the workmanship and short-field performance of the Prestwick Pioneer family of aircraft, the second of which—the Twin Pioneer—recently received its Certificate of Airworthiness. The main offices of Scottish Aviation—the Pioneer's manu- facturers—are in the fine building at Prestwick seen below. It was originally built as the Palace of Engineering for the Bellahouston Empire Exhibition in 1938. Glimpses of Twin Pioneer manufacture are shown above. At right, control runs to the port Alvis Leonides are being installed and, on the left, with propellers and most of the cowlings in place, two aircraft reach the final assembly stage. By building for a highly specialized market, Scotland's avia- tion industry—after a late start—has good hopes of breaking into the business on a substantial scale. Each version of the Pioneer has been designed to bring modern transport to out- of-the-way places where elaborate landing grounds cannot be constructed, and rugged construction and specialized aero- dynamic features were adopted with this in view. Scottish Aviation's next venture, timed for the early sixties, is to be a Rolls-Royce Dart-powered TurboPioneer (a drawing appeared in Flight for August 3).
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