[INDENT]”The number of Dominies (the RAF name for DH Rapides) engaged in this role increased in proportion, but these were again operated mainly under contract by the Bristol Aircraft Company, many of them operating under the title of the Bristol Wireless Flight. “[/INDENT]
I’ll go with busshelter!! Where can one see the Accounts? Who did the figures? And who signed them off? I am not qualified to read a Balance Sheet, or yearly Account, and make reasonable suppositions therefrom. But I have colleagues who are expert in that way of working, and who do this sort of thing for a living. We might (just) be turning over a stone and not desperately best pleased with what comes to light underneath?
Who?, What?, Where?, When?, and How Much? Need figures!!!
HTH
Resmoroh
There is film of that being run as an apprentice training aid, with instruments and controls in the hut behind, on one of the “Royal Air Force – The Unseen Films” DVDs.
Does anyone remember a Spitfire MK21 displayed for a short time at the base of the Vickers building in Millbank London in the mid 1970s.
I was about 11 at the time which would make it 1975? I believe it was LA255
Was it not LA226, which was normally the gate guard at the Vickers factory at South Marston?
I’m seeking an article on the opening of Desford aerodrome, or possibly a flying school there which was featured in one of the issues of aeroplane magazine in 1935! If anyone out there has a copy of this particular article, I would dearly, dearly love to see a scan of it…..
Rgds
FB
There is an article in the 19 December 1935 edition of Flight about the opening of the Reid & Sigrist operated reserve flying school at Desford by the Secretary of State for Air. Flight have all their back-issues scanned and that article can be found at: http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1935/1935%20-2-%200710.html.
The Aeroplane article would presumably have been published the same week.
Actually not, as you use the inner pod for a 2 engine version, hence less offset thrust.
But with a twin engined aircraft a loss of one engine means that you have lost all thrust on one side rather than only half, albeit the thrust line of the remaining engine is closer to the CG.
Very neat, looking for a job with EADS?! Would the tail on the 410 need to be so large?:confused:
Actually it might need to be larger because it has a shorter moment arm; the fin/rudder is usually sized on the need to maintain control during the failure of the critical engine.
However, that said and done I always thought that the USAF/Americans only knew it as the B-57, as that is how they nearly always refer to it. Thought the ‘Canberra’ thing was just a Martin show to keep E.E.co. happy.
The official list of designations, DoD Document 4120.15-L ‘Model Designation of Military Aerospace Vehicles’, lists B-57 variants as Canberra.
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