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650 DEUTSCHE LUFTFAHRTSCHAU 1962... BRITAIN'S PART BEAGLE Aircraft Ltd This new and progressive British company will be represented by actual examples of the Beagle-Auster Aire dale and Terrier 2, and by an indoor mock-up of the Beagle 206. Particulars will be available of other aircraft in the Beagle range. The Airedale is a four-seater powered by a Lycoming 180 h.p. four-cylinder engine driving a McCauley constant-speed propeller. At a cruising speed of 130 m.p.h. fuel consumption is 7gal/hr. The cabin is roomy; flying instruments are placed directly in front of the pilot, engine instruments at the centre and radio to the right. An Airedale will shortly be delivered to Flight International. Staff member Mark Lambert, having flown the fully certificated production version, reports handling qualities as "sweet and smooth." Maximum range with a 7001b payload and 30gal of fuel is 560 miles. The Terrier 2 differs from the Terrier 1 in having a larger tail unit, differential ailerons, redesigned flaps and a modified under carriage. The aircraft is a two-three-seater, powered by a de Havilland Gipsy Major 10 of 145 h.p. Maximum continuous cruising speed is 107 m.p.h. and maximum range, with a payload of 5451b and 23gal of fuel, is 280 miles. The production version of the Beagle 206 will be a larger and more capacious aircraft than that formerly publicized. Powered with two Rolls-Royce Continental G10-470^A engines of 310 h.p., it will have a span of 43ft and a gross weight of 7,0001b. Maxi mum continuous cruising speed will be 220 m.p.h. and initial rate of climb l,530ft/min. Maximum range is quoted as 1,950 miles. The Beagle 218 four-seater will have two Rolls-Royce Conti nental O-300 engines of 145 h.p. and a cruising speed of 175 m.p.h. A recent addition to the range is the Autogyro with a McCul- loch engine of 72 h.p. Gross weight is 5801b. Bristol Siddeley Engines Ltd Bristol Siddeley go to Hanover this year with the added backing and resources of the de Havilland and Blackburn engine companies, both of which they acquired last November. Seventeen major products are scheduled for exhibition. The Aero Division's products cover the whole regime of aircraft and missile propulsion, ranging from piston engines and turbo- props to turbojets, turboshaft and ducted fan engines, ramjets and rocket engines. In addition, several types of ancillary power units are manufactured. Items on public show for the first time in Federal Germany will include the Pegasus lift/thrust engine, Viper turbojet and Stentor rocket engine. The de Havilland and Blackburn products are also being shown for the first time in Germany. Bristol Siddeley exhibits are an Olympus turbojet with reheat; Pegasus lift/thrust ducted fan; Viper turbojet; Thor ramjet; Stentor and Gamma rocket engines; and PR37 rocket boost units. De Havilland will show a Gnome turboshaft engine; Coupled Gnome turboshaft engine; Gnome turboprop; Spartan liquid-propellant rocket engine; and RDS59 auxiliary power unit. Blackburn exhibits are Nimbus turboshaft engine and Artouste, Palouste and Cumulus auxiliary power units In view of the possibility that a P. 1127 VTOL/STOL strike aircraft will be visiting Hanover (and in any case the type will be prominently featured on the Hawker Siddeley stand) special interest attaches to its power plant, the Pegasus lift/thrust engine. The Pegasus has, in fact, been selected for a number of projects, ranging from supersonic fighters to four-engined transports Take-off thrust is exceptionally high in relation to cruising thrust, while the specific fuel consumption when throttled back for cruising is very low A key feature is the use of movable jet nozzles —directed downward for lift, backward for thrust, forward for barking flight, or in any intermediate direction. This makes possible the design of both single and multi-engined VTOL aircraft in which FLIGHT International, 26 April 1962 AT HANOVER all the engines are of the same type and the whole installed thrust is available for vertical take-off. Used in combination with pure lift engines, which are also being developed by Bristol Siddeley, the Pegasus can provide at its most economical throttle setting all the propulsive thrust necessary for conventional flight and, at take off and landing, contribute its maximum thrust to meet the VTOL requirement. The Pegasus is a two-shaft, high by-pass ratio ducted fan in which the fan and high pressure compressor rotate in opposite directions so that there is little resultant gyroscopic couple. The high pressure compressor, its turbine and the nine-chamber cannu- lar combustion system are closely related to units already proved in service. The engine will go into production with a take-off thrust of 18,4001b. Length (intake flange to exhaust flange) is 98.8in, diameter, 48in, width, overall, 50.8in. Rocket engines are also likely to attract particular attention. The Stentor, in quantity production at Bristol Siddeley's Coventry works, powers the Avro Blue Steel missile. The Gamma Mk 301 is the latest version of the Gamma rocket, which powers the Black Knight re-entry research vehicle. It is similar in principle to the earlier Mk 201 in that it uses kerosine and high-test peroxide as propellants and has four chambers swivelling on trunnions to provide guidance; the chambers and other components, however, have been improved in the light of experience with the Stentor. The PR37 is designed to enable the Australian Jindivik target drone to fly at a greater altitude. The de Havilland Gnome free-turbine turboshaft engine has a special interest for the Continent in that it has been ordered not only for the Westland Whirlwind Mk 10 helicopter, but for the Italian Agusta-Bell 204B and 104G and for the Boeing-Vertol 107. The Spartan is a pre-packaged liquid-propellant rocket engine suitable for air-to-air or air-to-ground missiles or for assisted take off. It is one of a series, of varying size and performance, based on design principles developed by the Thiokol Chemical Corporation of America. The Blackburn Nimbus free-turbine turboshaft engine is in the 1,000 h.p. class and is being produced for the Westland Scout and Wasp helicopters and for the Saunders-Roe SR.N2 Hovercraft. It is also adaptable as an airborne auxiliary powerplant. Artouste auxiliary power units are fitted to the Handley Page Victor B.2, Canadair CL-44 and de Havilland Trident, and are also specified Beagle-Auster Airedale
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