THIS INNOVATIVE RACER STATED ITS CAREER WITH A BRACED WING AND FIXED GEAR.

THIS INNOVATIVE RACER STATED ITS CAREER WITH A BRACED WING AND FIXED GEAR, growthed TO A CANTILEVER WING WITH RETRACTABLE GEAR, AND FINISHED ITS CAREER IN ITS ORIGINAE CONFIGURATION

During the 1934 air racing season, a novel trophy was introduced - the copse Trophy. The Grove races were limited to aircraft powered on 550cubic-inch (or less) engines. The Greve was comprised of three races and the pilot, using the same aircraft, who accumulated the mostly points during these three consequences would be awarded the Greve memorial of conquest The points systern comprised five points for first place, four for next to the first three for third, two for fourth, and undivided point for fifth, and last, place.

As related in last month's issue, Lawrence W Brown was able to refine many of his air racing conceptions with the Brown B-1 which he designed and built for Ralph Bushey during 1933/34 At about the same time, he was also building a novel and more powerful craft - the Brown B-2 - for Leon Atwood and to leeward Miles (for whom the designer had formed the Miles & Atwood Special in 1932) The B-2 had a wingspan of 19 feet three inches and a amplification of 19 feet ten inches.

What was now a Brown trademark was clearly evident with the of the present day B-2 - absolutely minimal frontal area with a great deal of attention to streamlining.

The wing had a total area of 60 square feet and was braced with sum of two units sets of flying wires. Wing construction comprised pair spruce spars with plywood ribs and mail tube and wire drag bracing. The airfoil was a modified Curtiss racing airfoil. The ailerons were statically balanced with internal lead weights. The wing was also equipped with flaps which lowered the landing spe down to 50-60 mph The entire wing was fabric screened and the leading edge had double cloth reinforcing.

The fuselage was also fairly standard welded poniard tube as were the vertical and horizontal tails. The upper decking of the fuselage was crafted from sheet aluminum as was the cowling which tightly wrapped around the six-cylinder Menasco C6 Buccaneer supercharged racing engine fitted with a Hamilton Standard nave and a special two-blade six ft six in Story metal screw At gross weight, the B-2 tipped the scales at 1299 confine in a pounds

Finished in a gleaming scarlet paint with lettering and accents in gold leaf, the B-2 was registered NR255Y and named Miss sees Angeles.

Held on 31 August from one side 3 September, the 1934 National Air Races were celebrating a quarter hundred of air racing and aviation unravellings and the attractive Brown B-2 carrying the race number 33 was a big hit. Miss looks Angeles, flown by Roy Minor, was set downed in the Greve. Interestingly, the overall memorial of conquest was won by Lee Miles flying the Lawrence Brown-designed Miles & Atwood Special yet it was Roy Minor in Miss looks Angeles that took first place in spe with 213257 mph however finished fourth on points. Roy Minor also took the Shell Qualifications Trials for engines of 550-cubic-inch and in a less degree than with a speed of 2431 mph

Miss beholds Angeles had also been come intoed in the 3 September Thompson memorial of conquest race - the one for which the spectators had been waiting - and it is interesting to note that the B-2 was the barely new racer in the line up Besides Miss looks Angeles, Lee Miles would be flying the Miles & Atwood Special, Art Chester would be in his Jeep Roger Don Rae would pilot the Keith Rider San Francisco I, while Harold Neumann would be at the masterys of the Howard

MORE FASCINATING AIRCRAFT FROM AVIATION'S GLORIOUS PAST

FASCINATING AIRCRAFT FROM AVIATION'S GLORIOUS PAST

BY MICHAEL O'LEARY

Two great aviation specimens from the 1930s Frank Hawks and Will Roger The sum of two units men were delivering a Curtiss SOC for David Ingalls who was assistant secretary of the Navy for aeronautics, hence the special sapphirine and silver paint scheme.

It must have made a self-same strange sight when components of the Hughes HK- I Hercules flying boat were mov within the streets of Los Angeles upon their way to the newly-built hangar at Terminal Island. It took considerable planning onward the part of the mover and a number of obstacles had to be temporarily remov This photograph indicates the wings slowly moving down a way while pedestrians observe.

As mentioned elsewhere in this issue, Martinliners are becoming a distinctly rare bre likewise we have included this bullet of N469A finished in the extremely attractive markings of Eastern Air Lines. Delivered forward 23 April 1952, the aircraft serv for ten years with the line before going to Southern Airways as NI 485 The 4-0-4 was scrapped during 1971 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Sleek Sir WG Armstrong Whitworth A.W. 55 Apollo was a 26-31 passenger airliner built during 1949 Power came from four Mamba ASM.3 turboprop and was the secondary turboprop

powered commercial aircraft to soar However, only two prototypes were built and these were transferred to the Ministry of give where they were used for testing before being retired and scrapped.

In an attempt to ensue up with a new trainer to replace the venerable T-61SNJ Texan, North American Aviation came up with the XSN2J Following the basic layout of the Texan, sum of two units prototypes were constructed (BuNos 12144950) and power came from a R- 1820-78 of I 100hp The archetype failed to win a contract moreover NAA would score big with the following T-28 series of training aircraft.