544

FLIGHT.

NOVEMBER 19,

1935.

A MILITAK]
Points of Interest j

The installation of the inverted-vee Renaults in the new Hanriot 220. also the bracing arrangements and the cockpit enclosure.

Note

The cowling of the Loire 250 fighter merges into the wing and fuselage as shown above Below is a sketch of the nose of the new Mureaux 190 fighter, showing the method of admitting cooling air to the 450 h.p. inverted Salmson canon engine.

The tail of the Fokker G.i.

The booms are of metal construction.

i2Ygrs delivers only 860 h.p. as against the 1,000-odd of our Merlin. Nevertheless it has some interesting features. Basically it is a low-winged cantilever monoplane of metal construction, with metal and fabric covering, embodying flaps and a retractable undercarriage the wheels of which are sharply toed outward when in their down position. The air-heated cockpit enclosure is of fairly conventional design. The Hispano engine carries a 20 mm. canon which fires through the airscrew shaft, and two rifle-calibre machine guns are fitted outboard in the wings, where they are fired and loaded pneumatically. The U.S.S.R. presents one of its highspeed stressed-skin fighters of which we have heard so much b u t seen so little. With the designation 2KB-19, it mounts an M.ioo liquid-cooled engine and is somewhat reminiscent in general appearance of a Spitfire. Its ground angle seems abnormally large but, all things considered, the machine seems quite a sound design. Four wing guns are fitted, there being four normal triggers on the spade grip of the control column. The

laterally retracting undercarriage makes a backward movement during retraction, presumably t o clear the main structural members. A retractable radiator is mounted under each wing. Although it cannot be considered a thoroughly modern type, the D.510, the sole Dewoitine exhibit, is of interest to British visitors because an example has been ordered by our own Air Ministry for experimental work, mainly, it its believed, with the canon between t h e cylinder banks of the 860 h . p . Hispano Suiza 12Y engine. The machine on show is equipped with the new type of exhaust system which seems t o be coming into general use on liquid-cooled Hispanos. This takes the form of flat pipes curving vertically downward from the ports and braced to the fuselage. Each pipe is split down its centre to permit the escape of the gases.

Bought

by

Britain

The D.510, of course, is a low-wing cantilever monoplane of all-metal construction fitted with a fixed divided undercarriage and mounting no flaps.

The latest Dewoitine development is the D.513 which has flaps and a retractable undercarriage, and is generally cleaner than its forerunner, particularly in its radiator installation. A speed of about 300 m . p . h . is claimed, which is something like 50 m.p.h. faster than for the D.510. t h e two gull-winged fighters are the Polish P.Z.L. P.24 which appeartd in the Grand Salon two years ago, but which, since t h a t time, has been adopted in quite considerable numbers, and the French Loire 46 which has been the subject of a production order from the French Air Ministry. Turkey has ordered sixty p Z L ; P . 2 4 ' s , "Greece is having forty and Roumania ten, in addition to her n o P . n ' s in service. The standard power plant is the Gnome Rhone 14 Kfs of 900 h.p., which gives a maximum speed 01 267 m.p.h. at 14,000 ft. Two Oerlikon " F F " canons are carried in the vvuv> and a pair of machine guns can o mounted in the fuselage. Provision made for up to 220 lb. of bombs. Excellence of view is, of course, o