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1958
1958 - 0073.PDF
FLIGHT, 17 January 1958 75 AIRCRAFT INTELLIGENCE The upper picture shows a Siebel Si 2040 which- has reappeared in German service. A number of these light transports—very popular with the war-time Luftwaffe—hove been refurbished for German civilian use. The helicopter (or rather the elaborate helicopter mock-up) is the Kaman HU2K-1 ordered "in prototype quantity" by the US. Navy. Note the retract- able undercarriage; the engine is a T58 (p. 79 ., understood that the final 15 have beencancelled. Japan ^ ^ Fighter Equipment. The controversy as towhich type of American supersonic fighter should be adopted by Japan's Air Self-Defense Force continues. Five types are on the list—the North American F-100DSuper Sabre, priced at 250 million yen; the Convair F-102A Dagger, at 470 millionyen; the Lockheed F-104A Starfighter, at 324 million yen; the Grumman F11F-1FTiger; and the Northrop 156. West Germany Borgward-Focke-Kolibri 1. The foregoingis the designation of the first helicopter to be designed and built in the Federal Re-public since the war. Powered with a 260 h.p. Lycoming engine, the new helicopterwill carry the pilot and two passengers and will be adaptable for multiple roles. Speedis quoted as 100 m.p.h. Price is said to be between DM. 150,000 and DM. 200,000.A larger helicopter is being developed under the same auspices. U.S.A. Martin P6M SeaMaster. After twicelosing a prototype through malfunctioning of the control system for the horizontaltail, Martin have designed a new empen- nage for the Seamaster which will be seenin a matter of days when the first re- engineered machine flies at Baltimore.There were originally 24 P6M-2s on order, but this quantity has now been reduced(first to 18 and now, it is believed, to 13). The production machines will have fourPratt and Whitney J75 engines and the new Sperry SP-30 transistorized flight system. France Dassault Miditerranee. It is reliably re-ported that there is "a good chance" that the Dassault Mediterranee jet-propelledexecutive aircraft will fly during 1958. It will have civil and military applications andwill carry eight or nine passengers for 1,550 miles. Two low-power turbojetswill be installed in under-wing pods. Dassault Mirage III. The prototype ofthis mixed-power intercepter is still on test and ten pre-production examples arebeing constructed. Last year the first machine exceeded Mach 1.8 in horizontalflight. The pre-production aircraft will be fitted with the Atar 9 turbojet, and the pro-duction version—the Mirage IIIA—would be similarly powered. Morane-Saulnier 1500 Epervier. Thistwo-seat ground-support aircraft is shortly to fly. It will be equipped for the launchingof air-to-ground missiles and will be initially powered with a Turbomeca Mar-cadau turboprop of 400 h.p. Subsequently the Bastan of 750 h.p. will be installed. Netherlands Hunter Production. Originally the Fokkercompany was to have built 460 Hawker Hunters—204 for the Netherlands and 256for Belgium. The last machines of the con- tract will be delivered in 1959, but it is NORTH AMERICAN F-187A (Pratt * Whitn.y JTS) Span ... about 37 ft. Length about tt ft.
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