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FLIGHT, 13 January 1961 55 The Aviamilano P.19 Scricciolo (90 h.p. Continental) is now in production (see news item on this page). At a gross weight of 7,540/6, the aircraft cruises at 112 m.p.h. Sport and Business SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS for the off-airwayspilot are an old cri de coeur of Flight's Sport and Business page. Ideas for a general aviation guidehave been semi-officially discussed during the past year and the Ministry is understood to be activelyinterested in them (indeed, last spring the MoA issued in limited numbers the experimental LightAircraft Flight Guide, an adaptation of Air Pilot for private flying). But the format of a definitivepublication has yet to be decided and it could be many months before one appears. While this prevarication continues a source of information hasbecome available which shows how real is the demand for infor- mation that illustrates, in more simple terms than that of ourcurrent official publications, aerodrome information and the way about Europe's crowded skies. Jeppesen's Radio Air Route Guide,complete with plastic plotter and contained within a cowhide binder, is reported by R. K. Dundas Ltd, British agents for theUS firm's products, to have reached a volume of sales much greater than they had expected. The Guide gives IFR airwayscoverage but not let-down procedures for the United Kingdom, Europe, the Near East and North Africa. It includes the admirableJeppesen facilities charts, area charts for major terminals, an airport directory with airfield diagrams, provision for approachcharts and codes, and information of a nature that should certainly be included in any British publication for the off-airways pilot—sections on meteorology, radio facilities, air traffic control, ICAO and national regulations, entry requirements, and emergencyprocedures. The service includes weekly amendments and pages can be easily extracted from the binder; it is claimed that themaximum time for revisions should be only ten minutes. The Radio Air Route Guide, in its binder, measures 8^in X 5Jin andcosts £19 12s 6d. More comprehensive manuals are available. Jeppesen equipment offered by R. K. Dundas Ltd, which maybe obtained from 59 St James's St, London SW1, includes different types of flight cases for cockpit stowage, ten different types ofcomputers, various plotters, knee navigation boards and briefing booklets. The US service is, in fact, very comprehensive, but itshould not deter the Ministry and the Royal Aero Club's aviation committee from active pursuit of a more limited (and moremodestly priced) publication matched exactly to the needs of the British general-aviation pilot of 1961. AN EXPANSION in the field of aircraft maintenance is reportedby Grantair Ltd of Grantchester, Cambridgeshire. A full repair service is available for Piper, Auster and other light aircraft: usingthe road transporter illustrated last week, this service is a mobile one and includes maintenance of aircraft on site. The company'snew maintenance base, to be located at Sywell Aerodrome, Northampton, will have Mr G. R. Hampshire as chief engineer.In addition to the maintenance activity at Sywell, Grantair will have aircraft available there for sale and for hire. A PIPER AZTEC has been purchased by Baker Perkins Ltd ofPeterborough for the transport of company executives between Westwood airfield adjacent to the Peterborough works, andsubsidiary factory sites at Leeds, Newcastle, Stoke-on-Trent, Twyford and Luton. It will also be used for foreign flights. UNITED KINGDOM DISTRIBUTOR for the Putzer AircraftCo of Bonn and the Klemm-Bolkow Aircraft Co of Munich is Flair-Aviation Sales of Bromley, Kent. A British demonstrationtour by a Putzer Elster and a Klemm Kl-107 is planned. LATEST LOCKHEED LASA-60 prototype has arrived at theLockheed Azcarate factory at San Luis Potosi, Mexico, where preparations for production are well under way. The first proto-type received its FAA type certificate last April, but the new aircraft is powered by a 260 h.p. turbosupercharged Continentalengine which should provide good high-altitude performance. Grumman Ag-Cat (450 h.p. Pratt & Whitney) demonstrates the use °' the small version of the Swathmaster chemical dispenser. The Swathmaster was developed originally for the Boeing-Stearman Model 75 by Joe Sellers and is manufactured by Transland Aircraft "•< Torrance, California. This Ag-Cat, with a load of over 2,1001b, is operated by Farmers Crop Dusters of Bakersfisld, California THE ITALIAN AERO CLUB issued a specification some timeago for a side-by-side two-seat training aircraft which might be ordered in quantity for the Italian flying clubs. The specificationitself raised more than one eyebrow because it appeared to be written round a machine of something like pre-war vintage. Ahigh-mounted wing, tailwheel undercarriage and a wing loading of only 9.21b/sq ft were among the requirements. A few com-panies, notably Partenavia, produced designs which followed the specification, but Aviamilano defied it and have now gone intoproduction with the low-wing P. 19 Scricciolo. On their own initiative Aeromere are now also reported to be designing anall-metal simplified version of the Falco, which they produce under Aviamilano licence, and it is said to be a potential competitor ofthe French Morane Rallye. The Scricciolo is powered by a 90 h.p. Continental engine andhas a steel-tube fuselage mostly fabric-covered. Gross weight and wing span are respectively 1,5401b and 33ft 9in. The aircraftmade its first important public appearance at the light aircraft show in Venice during last summer and the company is nowcompleting its first batch of ten. The wing is made in two sections bolted together on the aircraftcentre-line, and has a single main spar. Plywood skin is applied above and below the wing between two subsidiary spars fore andaft of the main spar. The plywood is thus only slightly curved RETROSPECT From "Flight" of January 14, 1911 A Transatlantic Aeroplane. Nothing daunted by the failure of theWellman airship to sail across the Atlantic, an American, Harry Grahame Carter by name, has announced that he will make an attemptto fly across the Atlantic in an aeroplane of his own invention. He has estimated that he can do the trip in 54 hours, and can carrysufficient fuel to do this in the hollow tubing of his machine. He hopes to be ready to start from Sandy Hook early in March. We fancy heis wrong in his starting date. and is easier to repair. Glass-reinforced plastics form the leading-edge skin, and the main undercarriage legs are attached to reinforced ribs so that heavy landings do not directly damage thespar. Either nosewheel or tailwheel can be supplied. Early air- craft have a wooden propeller, and later models will have theslightly more powerful 100 h.p. Continental engine. Fuel feed is by engine-driven pump with an electric pump as stand-by.Maximum speed, cruising speed and limiting speed are respec- tively 124 m.p.h., 112 m.p.h. and 184 m.p.h. Other data are:length, 23ft; wing area, 150 sq ft; wing loading, 10.21b/sq ft; empty weight, 9681b; useful load, 5721b; power/weight ratio,171b/h.p.; minimum speed with flaps, 35 m.p.h.; take-off run, 428ft; climbing speed, 740ft/min; service ceiling, 14,400ft.
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