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1964
1964 - 0137.PDF
I High and mighty, the Belfast taxies out, 94 fUGHT International, 16 January 1964 A GREAT DAY FOR BELFAST First Flight of Ulster's Big Transport: a Pictorial Record NEVER in Flight International'% experience has the first flight of a prototype been so well recorded photographically as that of the first Shcrt Belfast heavy logistic transport for the RAF, on Sunday, January 5. We therefore make no apology for repeating two photographs used in last week's issue to make a complete pictorial sequence, from the aircraft taxying out for its first take-off to the cracking of a well-deserved bottle of champagne after larding. In achieving such splendid coverage of the first flight, Shorts' publicity staff deserve great credit—none more so than Mr "Herbie" Edgar, the company's chief photographer, and his staff, responsible for these pictures, and Mr Jack Sherburn, pilot of the Queen Air 80 chase plane from which they were taken. Even when chief test pilot Denis Tayler made an overshoot on his first landing at Aldergrove ("I came in too high and too fast," he explained) the Queen Air did not slip in position a detectable ten feet—no mean feat when the difference in power and acceleration between the Belfast and a Queen Air is considered. The pictures should be studied in the sequence indicated by the caption numbers. 3 At 6,000ft chief test pilot Tayler levelled out to try the cruising regime . . .
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