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Air Enthusiast Magazine Vol 3 #5 1972 November Superior Sub-Hunter Air Skimmer p
Air Enthusiast Vol 3 #5 1972 November Superior Sub-Hunter
Published Monthly.
Contents:
218 AIRSCENE The monthly round-up of news and background to the news presented under section headings for Military Affairs, Civil Affairs, Aircraft and Industry and new Civil and Military Aircraft Contracts.
223 SUPERIOR SUB-HUNTER A new version of the Sikorsky Sea King, the SH-3H, has been developed to give the US Navy added anti-submarine capability. The features of this new version are described and illustrated, with a new cutaway drawing, and the evolution of the S-61 family is traced.
231 EXECUTIVE EXCELLENCE Hawker Siddeley's new HS.125 variant, the Series 600, offers the business traveller some marked advantages over the earlier, smaller versions, more than 270 of which have now been sold. The manner in which the improvements have been obtained is explained and details are given of 20 variants that preceded the Series 600.
237 FRONT OFFICE EVOLUTION - III L F E Coombs continues his survey of cockpit design and instrument layout with a consideration of the multi-engined military aircraft from the 'thirties to the end of World War II.
241 NO HARBINGER OF SUMMER The Messerschmitt Me 262 held promise of great success for the hard-pressed Luftwaffe in the closing stages of World War II, but it was a promise destined to remain unfulfilled. Some of the characteristics that made the Me 262 such a potentially outstanding aircraft are described in this "Viewed from the Cockpit" feature by Capt Eric M Brown, and a new cutaway drawing is presented.
249 TALKBACK Readers of AIR ENTHUSIAST offer comments of general interest.
251 THE AIR SKIMMER PROJECT The range of aircraft tested in the USA with "X" designations already embraces such exotic and unusual vehicles as the hypersonic X-15, the tail-sitting X-13, the tilt-wing X-18 and the laminar-flow X-21. The latest addition to the series is a single-seat home-built flying-boat, the X-28, recently tested by the US Navy for reasons explained in this account.
253 MODEL ENTHUSIAST Modelling comments, the latest kits reviewed
and two pages of colour profile drawings of the Fairy Swordfish.
258 FIGHTER A TO Z Continuing the AIR ENTHUSIAST encyclopaedia of the
world's fighter aircraft, from the Avis I to the Avro 566 Avenger.
261 PLANE FACTS Answers to readers' enquiries from the AIR ENTHUSIAST files: Bristol Racer; Convair Model 110; Short S.18 "Knuckleduster"; Columbia KIL-1.
263 AIRDATA FILE Technical data, photographs and general arrangement drawings for the Ilyushin 11-86; Cessna 337 Pressurised Skymaster; Westland Commando; Britten-Norman BN.2A-BS Islander; Government Aircraft Factories Nomad 24; Hawker Siddeley 1182; Short SD.3-30; Vaught
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