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Everybody in the R.A.F. had heard of Dick and David Atcherley, the flying twins. Dick was the stuntman:he clowned his way to fame in prewar days by chasing cottontail rabbits in a souped-up biplane, dragging one wingtip in the dust at 80 m.p.h. David was more conventional: he commanded a peacetime fighter squadron at the age of 34. In the Battle of Britain, the flying Atcherleys were among the famed few to whom so many owed so much. In 1950, both became Companions of the Order of the Bath...
...mind, no one believed it could be done. But when the British aviation show opened at Farnborough this fall, he had already managed to do the trick three times and he was ready to demonstrate it to an incredulous public. Flying a Meteor that was loaded to capacity with wingtip fuel tanks and two dozen 90-lb. rockets, Zura successfully performed his Fin Sling...
Bell's convertiplane will resemble a conventional airplane with helicopter rotors spinning above each wingtip. After it is in the air, the rotors will be tilted 90° forward, thus turning into propellers to fly the craft like an airplane. When the time comes to land, the rotors will return to the helicopter position. Bell believes that the changeover can be accomplished safely and in only a few seconds...
...bombers-the Canberra is basically a handsomely cleaned-up version of traditional designs, with a wing that looks fairly conventional to the man on the ground. Powered by two Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet engines, it is rated at a top speed above 600 m.p.h., can be fitted with wingtip tanks to extend its range. The Canberra was designed as a high-altitude radar bomber, can also perform all normal fighter maneuvers, and has shown possibilities as a low-level ground support plane. Said Pilot Callard: "A most docile aircraft-it's so easy...
...Odium, who bought control of Consolidated at a time when the Air Force was thinking of cutting back B-36 orders, and now stands to gain by the Air Force's decision to spend $500 million more on new B-36 orders and modifications (among the modifications: auxiliary wingtip jet engines...