INSIGHTS – Key Publishing

INSIGHTS

Test pilots generally liked the handling characteristics of the ‘tin-rib’ boats Cloud G-ABHG at Cowes with its original engine arrangement of three Armstrong Siddeley Lynx IVCs, and its original tail configuration. VIA PETE LONDON In August 1929 Cutty Sark G-AAIP undertook its certificate of airworthiness (C of A) trials at the MAEE. The assessing pilot was Flt Lt Charles Cahill. He found ‘AIP’s water performance rather dirty until about half-way to the step. Choppy seas threw spray over the entire