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1959
1959 - 2098.PDF
4 September 1959 125 Gloster Javelin FAW.8 Glotmr Jowlia FA W.ff Poww-ptont Two Bristol SMoctaw Sopphir. ASSa.7RSpan !Olt Ungdi ... 56ft 4in HandUy Pag* Victor BJtrowerplant Four Rotts-Roycc Conway RCo. 11Sprni 120ft 114ft Hi* GLOSTER AIRCRAFT CO. LTD. Gloucester, Glos. Telephone: Gloucester 67011 Javelin A number of marks of this all-weather fighter have now been in R.A.F. service forseveral years and the latest variant to be released is the FAW.9. The Mk 9 is similar to its predecessors, but incorporates minor aerodynamic and electronic modifications and rationalizesother improvements effected in the FAW.7 and 8. The former was the first to be fitted with de Havilland Firestreak air-to-air missiles, four of which are carried on underwing pylons, as wellas two Aden 30 mm guns in the wings. It was also the first to be fitted with the more powerful Bristol Siddeley Sapphire 200 series engines; the FAW.8 is distinguished by having reheat. Thesethree versions have a battle camera in the starboard wing outboard of the pylons, stall-warning sensers on the upper skin of each wing and dynamic-pressure intakes above the rear fuselageserving the feel system for the fully-powered, all-flying tail. As well as accommodating Firestreaks, the pylons can carry MicroceD 37-tube honeycomb launchers for 2in spin-stabilized rockets. Allmarks of Javelin can carry two ventral tanks, side by side, each holding 250 Imp. gal. The later marks of Javelin have excellent high-subsonic performance and even the earlier versions were inthis respect comparable to the Hunter. Pilot and observer are accommodated in tandem under linked sliding canopies and sit in Martin-Baker automatic ejection seats. Any of a number of typesof powerful A.I. search radar is installed in the nose. Fully powered ailerons are mounted outboard on the kinked-delta wing and split flaps are fitted inboard, ahead of the trailing-edge.Slotted airbrakes extend above and below the wing. Javelin FAW.ls, armed with four 30 mm Aden guns and not capable of carrying missiles, firstwent into R.A.F. service in limited numbers in 1956. They were immediately followed by the FAW.2, the main innovation of which was the all-flying tail. New features of the FAW.4 werea feel system for the all-flying tail, radar altimeter, new interception radar and a revised tail fairing. In the meantime, Air Service Training Ltd. modified an FAW.4 to a pilot trainer designated T.3.This had a revised cockpit, increased internal fuel capacity, simplified radar, cockpit periscopes and a fuselage lengthened by 4ft. Vortex generators ahead of the ailerons, and blunt trailing-edges forthe latter, were also incorporated. The FAW.5 was based on the FA W.I but had more fuel and the all-flying tail. The FAW.6 was a similar modification of the FAW.2. HANDLEY PAGE LTD. Claremont Road, Cricklewood, London N.W2. Telephone: Gladstone 8000 ' Victor B.I We recorded a year ago that the first squadron of the Victor B.I "crescent wing"jet bombers (four Bristol Siddeley Sapphire turbojets) had been formed in No. 3 Group, Bomber Command. Other formations have since been equipped, including a photographic-reconnaissanceunit. A crew of five is accommodated in the characteristically shaped nose section, which carries alarge bombing and navigation radar in its lower part. Excellent handling characteristics result from the use of high-lift flaps and drooping leading edges, in conjunction with a high set tailplane. Theeight-wheel bogies of the main undercarriage unit retract rearwards to lie within the wing and there are large airbrake surfaces at the rear end of the fuselage. It is the makers' proud claim that during 1957 a Victor of this mark exceeded the speed of soundby a margin of about 15 m.p.h. and at a height of about 40,000ft. In order to reduce to a minimum the number of complicated final-assembly jigs, relatively simplesub-assembly jigs have been extensively used. This structural break-down has readily lent itself to the manufacture of corrugated sandwich-skin panels, consisting of a corrugated core ofaluminium alloy sheet attached to an inner skin by blind rivets and to an outer skin by spot welds. The result is a light structure of excellent stiffness and strength, wherein bending loads are carriedby the skin. Conventional stiffening components have been considerably reduced in number. Corrugated panels enable fuel tanks to be pressurized without weight penalty and allow much spacewhich would otherwise have been devoted to structure to be made available for these tanks and other equipment. Production of the first two marks of Victor has attained peak rates and the following facts werereleased earlier this year: The Victor needs 15,000 drawings and has 40,000 detail parts; its electrical system is connected by over 40 miles of cable; it has 2,200 items of equipment supplied bythe Government or outside manufacturers; more than 100 sub-contractors are involved. Victor B.2 It has been stated by the Minister of Supply that this improved mark of Victorwill remain one of the mainstays of Bomber Command for ten years. Four Rolls-Royce Conway RCo. 11 rurbojets, each of 17,250 1b thrust, are installed and there are some notable externaldifferences including increased wing span, enlarged air intakes and retractable scoops just forward of the tail fin. When extended these scoops draw in ram air to drive turbo-alternaters for high-altitude emergency auxiliary power. Auxiliary power for use at low altitude is supplied by a Blackburn Artouste gas turbine in the starboard wing root. On the ground the Artouste is usedfor starting the Conways, thus rendering the Victor B.2 independent of outside assistance on remote airfields. In a demonstration earlier this year a Victor B.2 was observed to take off after a run of only 410 yd, using 100 per cent thrust from two of its Conways and reduced thrust from the other two.
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