NEW TRAINING AIRCRAFT

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25226, 3 July 1947, Page 3

NEW TRAINING AIRCRAFT

CHIPMUNK TO ARRIVE IN N.Z. NEXT MONTH Designed specially to meet the requirements of service and civil flying schools, the de Havilland Chipmunk trainer is expected in New Zealand about the end of August. A low-wing monoplane, the Chipmunk is a successor to the Tiger Moth, in which tens of thousands of pilots throughout the British Commonwealth first learned to fly. The Chipmunk is a training aircraft capable of providing tuition’from primary flight instruction to advanced aerobatics and instrument flying training. ft has tandem cockpits with a 360 degree view from each. Official figures on the Chipmunk’s performane are: top speed, 143 miles an hour; cruising speed. 124 miles an hour; initial rate of climb, 900 ft a minute: without flaps the stall occurs at 50 miles an hour, and with flaps at 30 degrees this is reduced .to 43 miles an hour; fuel consumption, 19.4 miles a gallon. These figures are for sea-level conditions at an all-up weight of 18001 b. With the Gipsy Major engine—still officially approved for 1260 flying hours between overhauls —the Chipmunk is nearly 40 miles an hour faster than the Tiger Moth.