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Aviation History
1962
1962 - 1916.PDF
Bristol T.I88 " ".'.' . "' •'"'" . ' ••• • •••:•. '"• • : •' •:• D.H./25 Westland Scout and Wessex VCIO and photographers 408 FLIGHT International, 6 September 1962 TWENTY-THIRD SBAC SHOW - . . MONDAY'S FLYING Our own cherished recollection of Monday is the sight of two newsvendors picketing the road running down to the aircraft park, one placarding "'The Plane Makers Hit Back,*' the other proclaiming "Farnborough Gloss on Crisis Look." This while the two P.1127s were astounding the cognoscenti of 117 countries and territories, while three Tridents sailed serenely round and about, while . . . But let us note down the more significant and exciting things that occurred. There will be more to say next week. The Bristol 188 (with its Hunter chase-plane fussing in the distance) looked, as it should, like a shining steel scalpel for making new incisions into the higher Mach regimes. Clearly it handles well. The H.P.I 15, an exotic moth in form and markings, was greatl> reassuring in respect of the supersonic airliner project—and con tributed a quite abandoned wing-over and dive. Super-powered, the Vulcan with special Olympus shattered and stunned the senses. In aerobatic finesse the CFS Jet Provost T.4s wove their magic through the bumps, and, jointly with a solitary specimen, affirmed the superiority of this more powerful mark. Of the Avro 748 and Herald we need only say that the 748 Series 2 cut a handsome dash in its Brazilian Service markings, and that the Herald 200 of Maritime Central—blue and white against grey—presented a chastely Whistlerian picture. The modest field-demands of both were emphasized. A covey of Westland helicopters—two Gnome Whirlwinds and a Wessex—stood off while a Scout showed its uncommon agility. At the extremities of the static line-up the Whirlwinds exhaled fain! whiffs of smoke as though enjoying a quiet puff in the entr'acte. Among a romping pack of Beagles, including the two 206s, the Mk 11 and the Wallis autogyro, the 218 was enchanting. Everyone declared it to be a poppet or a pippin—or something equalls cuddlesome or succulent. But for concerted brilliance and wonder ment the two Hawker P. 1127s won unrivalled acclaim. There is a mystery, an alchemy, about these aeroplanes which no amount of technical explanation can dispel. Having performed like Hunters they transformed themselves into helicopterish devices with uncanny, impish powers of manoeuvre in every plane and direction. Lustrous, magnificent, seemingly bowing without distinction to right and left as it changed from bank to bank, a single Trident proceeded regally across. Two others passed over in token of Hatfield's mounting effort. The 125 looked modish, eager, adapt able and greatly desirable. For might and majesty, of course, the VC10 lorded the occasion (though every one of its 84,0001b of thrust was manifestly at work in bearing it aloft). Yet, like the Trident, it betokened frugal needs at take-off and landing. Two Gnats snapped around in their unchallengeable style, as did two Lightnings in theirs; and the Hunter two-seater demonstrator seemed the more welcome this year when it was declared as having recently achieved a Mach number of 1.25. We conclude these fleeting impressions with a brisk salute to the Royal Navy and the RAF—the Sea Vixens, the Buccaneer, the Scimitars; the blue Hunters and the black-topped Lightnings From their spectacular and punctilious succession of ordered manoeuvres we single out the "twinkle roll" of the Scimitars, the masterful cruiserweight ring-work of the 'Vixens, the dextrous card- shuffling of the Hunters and—for sheer stunning, scarifying bru tality—the "burner burst" of the Lightnings. It really seemed as if the plane makers were hitting back. Two of the three D.H. Tridents The two Hawker P.II27s
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