FLIGHT AND AIRCRAFT ENGINEER

(January 14^th 1955)

The magazine published for the serious aero enthusiast and the official organ of the Royal Aero Club.  Packed with technical and specification data and well illustrated with photographs and drawings throughout.

Front cover:

Advert:  Guided Weapons For Defence By Fairey

In this issue:

Growing Pains  (Editorial)

From All Quarters  (Britannia and the seven seas, DC-8 order forecast, F-102 modifications, Amy Johnson scholarship, Living up to its number, Canadian airlift, Avro-Canada lay-off, Fraternal retirement, Rolls-Royce chief test pilot, And now the SeaMaster.  Includes photographs of a Hawker Hunter F.1, take-off and landing of a Convair YF-102A [Delta Dagger] and the Martin SeaMaster [x4])

Here And There  (D.H. 110 order?, A Beryl turbojet reappears, Helicopter drop tanks, Denied, Secretarial, Helicopter question-time, Air photography exhibition, NATO standardisation post, Vancouver CAI branch plus a photograph of a Piasecki H-21C fitted with a drop tank)

Turboproposals – American And French Designs For Two Classes Of Traffic  (Short reviews of the Lockheed L-1449 and the Nord-2600.  Includes small 3-view outline drawings of each aircraft)

The TV Film – War Over Italy

Rocket Combustion Instability Investigated

High-Lift Generation: Part 2  (High-lift realities, Stall abolition, Static lift.  A 3-page article illustrated with diagrams and charts)

Aircraft Intelligence  (A review of the latest aircraft from Great Britain, the US, Canada, Switzerland and France.  These are the English Electric Canberra, the Short S.A.4 Sperrin, the DH Canada Beaver Amphibian, the Nord 1203 Norecrin, the Nord 2501 Noratlas and the General Electric VTO.  Includes a photo of the Avro Canada F-100 Mk. 4 together with a 3-view illustration of the Martin B-75B Canberra)

Dart Development – Impressive Record Of The First Civil Turboprop  (A lovely 4-page article illustrated with photographs, diagrams and cutaway drawings)

Transonic Trainer  (A short preview of the North Ameican Aviation private venture dual control trainer – the TF-86)

Twin Mean Business – Amercian Light  Twin-Engined Executive Aircraft Reviewed  (An excellent 4-page article discussing a number of twin-engined executive aircraft coming out of the United States.  These include the Cessna 310, the Aero Commander, the Piper Apache, the Riley ’55 and the Beech B50 Twin-Bonanza of which there are lovely photographs of all together with small 3-view outline drawings of the Beech Twin Bonanza C-50, the Piper Apache, the Cessna 310 the Riley ‘55 and the Aero Commander 560)

Civil Aviation  (A.N.A. interest in the Herald, PanAm’s Atlantic freight plans, Boeing 707 progress, Air-Ferry plans for 1955, Airline accidents in 1954, US airlines carry 34 million, Pakistan express, BEA dispute: the last word?, India-US aviation discussions, Brevities.  Includes photographs of a TCA Super Constellation and a DH Canada Beaver)

Club And Gliding News

National Air Races, 1955

Famous Flights  (A one-page article of 7 maps highlighting seven famous flights – Montgolfier’s hot air balloon flight, 1914 Schneider Trophy flight won by Britain in a Sopwith Tabloid seaplane, First non-stop Atlantic flight [Alcock & Brown], First Atlantic crossing by airship [R.34], First solo Atlantic crossing [Lindbergh], First trans-Pacific flight, The 1934 “MacRobertson” race)

Service Aviation – Royal Air Force And Fleet Air Arm News  (No. 27 Sqn. Standard presented, New Year Honours, Aircraft carriers discussed, Wartime fighters for museum.  Includes a photograph of a Bristol Sycamore helicopter)

Vibration Testing – Some Useful Adaptations Of Standard Instruments

The Industry  (Special purpose pneumatic tools, Fuel system relief valves, In brief)

plus more including adverts for Dowty Swivel Couplings (colour), Terry’s Springs, The Graviner Firewire, the Short Seamew, Oldham Aircraft Batteries, State Express 555 [cigarettes], Decca Radar, The Palmer Tyre Limited, Rotol Proellers, the Napier Eland, GoodYear Aviation Products, the Rolls-Royce Dart, Flight Refuelling Limited, Shell Aviation Turbine Fuel, the Irvin Air Chute of Great Britain Limited, Desoutter Tools and the Bristol Britannia (colour)

The cover of this issue exhibits some knocks and bumps to the cover page edges and light rubbing to the spine (see photograph).  The staples are rusty but sound and continue to hold all pages securely.  All pages are present, free from tears, creases and marks other than some age-related discolouration to the page edges.  The magazine is in very good overall condition for its age.