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Engineers Decide on Monoplane.

THE CANTILEVER

PRINCIPLE. ··

Nol for very inmy years has there been produced a commercial aircraft with so many interesting features as those one finds on in- apecting the new AW. XV mano- planes, which are now passing through the Armstrong-Whitworth shops at Whitley, Coventry. Eight of these machines are on order for Imperial Airways, Ltd, and the "Atalanta." is already flying, and visited the 5.B.A.C. · display at Hendon, where it altracted unusual attention. The others are well on the way, and for once it looks as If the old saying that no new`air- craft type, let alone a batch of large machines, is ever produced on time, will prove false. The "Ala- lanta" has done a deal of flying, and such minor "teething trou- bica," as any new type la likely to Buffer. from, have already been dis- covered, and, as far as can be na- certained, remedied. It is true, of course, that only in actual service over the route for which it was de- signed can it be settled quite de- finitely whether or not a new com- merical aircraft type is entirely Buccessful, but the few difficulties encountered have been tackled and overcome, and the first machine is now reported to be ready for its final, searching tests, according to

a contributor' to “Flight."

For a good many years the British aircrant designer has been content to follow a conservative policy in the general lay-out of his machines. The biplane type had the advantage of low structure weight, and for a very long time

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SATURDAY 5th NOVEMBER, 1932. Being The Official Organ of

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ENGLAND'S NEW MONO-SPAR PLANE.

Unusual in that it is be- ljeved to be.the largest aero- plane in the world with Toldings wings, this new mono-spar plane, developed in England, is said to solve the problem of cutting structural weight, keeping safety, and at the same time permitting a larger load. The single wing of this plane, although of the fold- ing type, as shown at right, is strong enough to bear the weight imposed On the ordinary biplane wings..

MODERN SERVICE STATIONS.

The Progressive Policy of Gilman's.

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SPEED MUST NOT BE IGNORED.

Problems of Insurance.

By Chiltern

the then vehicle and road trafie,

A desire to be fair to all led me The Treasury horse power of a enr to say recently that I am no oppon- to-day beare no relation to its ent of speed. Since then, I havo netual horse powerless to the received many letters from renderaj risk undertaken by the insurance. who complain of my advocacy of company and still less to cor value; speed, ignoring my qualification "in says the reader. Its proper place and in safe cir-

Value and Power cumstances."

Ile takes the case of two care

Those who condemn speed be. each paying £14 tax and saya that: cause it is speed ignore an import; One develops a brake horse power ant factor in the progress of the of 18 or 50 and another only 30, last 100 years.

yet the premium is the same for What was the force behind the ench. A sports car of 12 hp., railways, the steamships, and the developing a high brake power, coming of telephone, telegraph, and driven-as many

are-by bicycle, motorear and aeroplano harum-scarum youngsters, only not the desire for greater speed pays the same premium as a and the benefits it brings? Other family saloon driven by a careful things entered into it, yes, but and considerate motorist. speed was first and foremost the Continuing, he says that a 9 h.p.. impulse.

sports car, with a speed of 70 m.p.h., or more, only pays the

Road Accidents

on

higher performance than we have hitherto been accustomed to in British, commercial acroplanes. Exact performance figures are not yet available, but the cruising

I have never said that speed is Eume premium as a 10 h.p. car speed will probably be somewhere

the cause of road accidents. What with a maximum under 40 m.p.h. in the neighbourhood of 120 m.p.h;

I have eald-and still say is that and, in some companies, the 10 h.p. the increased landing speed made The higher performance, and

speed, in the wrong place and in has to pay more. He dismisseE An permissable by a reliable

the wrong circumstances, is the the question of car value in announcement which ap workshops are complete with the main cause of accidents.

premiums na being of little mo power pears un another page of this latest engineering devices, whlie plant divided into four units, has Supplement, drawing the attention paint shops, and other supple- my views, from experienced axo- companies fix rates

Among many letters upholding ment, as, he says, obviously fow been made the basis of a very of motorists to the service stations mentary departments complete the which, I feel sure, will make most steeply year by year of its life. on value, haustive study by the Armstrong-

torists, was one insurance though the value of the car dropa Whitworth engineers into the sub-of Messrs. Gilman & Co., Ltd., is establishments.

motorists think

On the question of drivers I am ject-biplane or monoplane? further evidence of the rapid.

deeply. This fused to be influenced by the for the purpose in view, the trade locally. It says much for the Texas Company at the present, on car horse power and value, 18 h.p., he argues, why should an the Britian aircraft designer re They came to the conclusion that, strides made in the motor vehicle taken over by arrangement with surance premiums were based on a respondent. If a man driving a The Hongkong station has been reader believes that if motor in- not in agreement with my cor- vogue of the monoplane type monoplane offered the better

driver's record and not, as at pre-12 hp. car sells it and buya an abroad. Nor was he altogether to solution, and the A.W. XV is Lieir the enterprise of Gilman's that mises hitherto conducted by that there would be improvement in the insurance company say he is a be blamed for this attitue. The

interpretation of that solution.

such well equipped and Company at the Junction of Ilen-driving of the reckless minority. wore driver-for, in effect, this biplane type of structure was

Extremely careful streamlining efficient, stations should be con-neasy and Johnston Roads, and He says that in Germany there is is what they do say, to judge by known to be lighter, in machines

is the main feature that impresses trolled by them, for a of the same landing speed, than that of the monoplane, particular-

one when first confronted by the spection reveals to the motorist At Kowloon, the Dare Garage, in force here, but every accident is risk," an 18 h.p. car premium be has been enlarged and refitted. nothing like the trafic regulation the premium he has to pay as a "Atalanta." The designers start that the most up-to-data plants Nathan ly the cantilever monoplane.ed by selecting the cantilever have been installed.

investigated by independent ex-ing conolderably higher than the And as it has been a guiding monoplane, type of wing arrange-

the perts.

one he paid while driving a 12 h.p. Peninsula headquarters, at each principle in British commercial

The motorist, if to blame, knows A good driver is one who has ment. They then decided to pluce Aviation for many years not to the four engines in

Each station has ita hydraulic station there being a large staff that he goes on a black lat and is keen observation; ability to think the lending sanction very high landing speeds, edge of the wing, and to fair them host which permits the most under the constant supervision of particularly careful of his be and act quickly; has himself under a very good case could actually be into the wing surface with as thorough inspection of vehicles are included where may be seen

European engineers. Showrooms haviour.

control; obeye the rules of the made out for the biplane,

Kradual a change of section as with the very minimum of incon- to advantage the latest models in idea of insurance by drivors' re-is the way the car is driven by the Let us see what then to in this road, and uses common sense. It possible. The fairings extend invenience, at the same time ensur-the various vehicles for which cords. fact, very much farther uft on the ing the last word in pressure Messra. Cilman & Co. arc agents, basing premiums on horse power-by itself can do no harm.

The present system of owner that is the risk, for the car wing surfaces then wo recollect lubrication, even to the most Such a progressive policy is in-and value was began when ever having seen before, and the Inaccessable parts. The respective deed a credit to the Colony.

Why, then, by charging him an moter was young. It was fair for extra premium, should the com

pany maintain that because a man changes from a 12 h., to an 18 h.p. he has the qualities of a good driver in a lesser degree?

result is a very gradual merging of the engine nacelles into the

Progress in avro-engine design and construction during the last years has been such that a com- plete breakdown of an engine is nown very rare occurrence. By adopting, as the designers of the A.W. XV have done, a four-wing covering. The engines engined arrangement of the power themselves have been fitted with plant, the chances of what may be drag-reducing rings, so that every- termed a hurried forced landing, thing possible has been done to as distinct from a niere, lelsurely get rid of all avoidable drag. As precautionary innding on a select-

an instance of the degree to which ed site, have become still more drag has been reduced, it may be remote. This means that a some- mentioned that "interferonco what higher landing speed than drag," which is the term used to hitherto adopted can be tolerated. express the extra drag which Once that point, la conceded, the often arises where two com- relative merits of biplane and ponents of an aircraft join each monoplane have to be reconsider other, is nit. In other words, the ed. For the same landing speed, drag of the whole machine is the the monoplane will be a larger sum of the drags of its com- machine, larger, that is, in wing ponents, and not, as is very often span and probably overall length. the case, that sum plus something While the landing speed was low extra ... which represents inter- Lo, who the wing loading was

ference. Much work has been low, the monoplane size is com- done in the Armstrong-Whitworth pared with the biplane, was rather wind tunnel (which is under the prohibitive. As the wing loading control of Mr. Reynolds) on is intronsod in conformity with mollels of the "Atalahta," and the the higher permissible landing low drag achloved le largely to be speed, the defference in size be- attributed to the wind tunnel comes less, and à point is reached work. In fact, as Air Marshal Sir when it is no longer safe to say John Higgins expressed it during that the biplane is, on balanco, our visit to Whitley, the wind the "botter" type.

tunnel can very quickly pay for itself on a job of this sort.

Air Designed for ligh Performance

In the A.W. XV wo have an air- craft designed for a good deal

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On the grounds of equity and common sense, it is contended, the whole position is absurd and the methods out of date. Further, a man who has had no experience in driving can insuro a 12 b.p. at the same premium (apart from the no-claim bonus) as the man who has been on the road 10 yours without an accident. No matter what the h.p, the two are treated alike in the same h.p. class. I this not obsolete and absurd?

Again, a man of experience. with no black marks against him, driving a big car. has to pay relatively much more in promium than the man with a small car and a bad record, for all that happens is that the small cur man has to pay the first £5 or $10 of his claims.

"A car cannot be a risk unless it is used," my ronder adds, “and the risk must increase or decrease according to 'the user driving it. Why, therefore, do not insurance companies recognise that con ditions have changed; drop the unjust Treasury hpl and value method of premique, and dx them on the thing that matters-the record of the driver?”