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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: udet on March 10, 2003, 09:47:01 PM

Title: what's this?
Post by: udet on March 10, 2003, 09:47:01 PM

Name, Number, and Engines please...

Title: what's this?
Post by: Widewing on March 10, 2003, 10:04:51 PM

Avro 691 Lancastrian.

Inboard engines are Merlin T.24/2, outboard engines are Rolls Royce Nene turbojets.

Once airborne, the Merlins would be shut down, and it was flown using only the Nenes. A back door way of claiming to be the world's first commercial aircraft to fly solely on jet engine power.


My regards,

Widewing

Title: what's this?
Post by: udet on March 12, 2003, 09:12:15 AM

good job. I have to find even more obscure planes :)

Title: what's this?
Post by: MiloMorai on March 12, 2003, 09:35:14 AM

It was still a British a/c that flew with only jet engines (commercially). The Comet flew 13 days before the Canadian AVRO C-102 Jetliner. (http://www.avroland.ca/al-c102.html)

How is this for a prototype?

"The first flight was without any problems and the only problem in over 500 hours of flight occured on the second flight (16 August 1949) when the aircraft had to make an emergency belly-landing because the main gear would not extend (the damage was so minor that the aircraft was flying within three weeks)."