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Страна : Великобритания

Год : 1930

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Flight, July 1929

BRITISH AIRCRAFT AT OLYMPIA

VICKERS (AVIATION), LIMITED

   As previously mentioned, the Supermarine and Vickers exhibits will be staged on the same stand, and in addition to complete aircraft the Vickers Group will show a wide range of equipment, instruments, armament, etc. However, it is with complete aircraft that we are chiefly concerned here. Of these, Vickers (Aviation) Limited will exhibit two machines, the very large "Victoria" troop-carrier, and a small single-seater monoplane fighter.
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   The remaining Vickers machine to be exhibited on this stand will be an interception fighter. Carrying the Vickers works series number type 151, this is a low-wing monoplane of all-metal construction and fitted with a Bristol "Mercury II A" engine. As the title indicates, the type 151 is designed for intercepting enemy aircraft at a great altitude, and this necessitates not only a phenomenal rate of climb but also a very high-speed at 20,000 ft. or more. The Bristol "Mercury II A" engine is supercharged in order to maintain its power at altitudes. Performance figures of the Vickers 151 cannot be given, but it is permissible to point out that in its construction duralumin is largely used, even to the wing covering which is of this material. Incidentally, the Vickers interception fighter will be the only British aircraft at Olympia to have metal wing covering. The details of the construction have already been dealt with in FLIGHT to some considerable extent, although not as referring to this particular machine. It may be recalled that the duralumin sheet wing covering is applied to the duralumin internal wing structure by the patented Vickers-Wibault process.
   The fuselage is also entirely of metal (duralumin) construction, and the machine is designed to carry two Vickers' guns as its armament. The undercarriage is provided with hydraulically-operated wheel brakes of the Vickers' patented type, which has previously been described in FLIGHT.
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