#supermarine s.6b

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1974 ad for Airfix model kits:

Supermarine S.6B - Designed by R.J. Mitchell who went on to design the Supermarine Spitfire.

BAC-SUD Concorde - BAC stood for British Aircraft Corporation and SUD was Sud Aviation. Concorde first flew in 1969, began commercial flights in 1976 and was retired in 2003.

Cutty Sark - still on public display at Greenwich, London.

H.M.S. Manxman - launched in 1940 and broken up (scrapped) in 1973.

Republic F-84F Thunderstreak - Entered service in the US in 1954, it retired from the USAF in 1964 but was still flown by National Guard units into the early 70's.

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Supermarine S.6B. You can see the lines that will become the Spitfire in this bird.

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The Macchi M.C. 72 was designed for the Schneider Trophy competition, but was completed too late, after the British Supermarine S.6b had already won. The Macchi design finally lived up to expectations when it set a new world speed record (over water) on April 10, 1933, with a speed of 682 km/h (424 mph). It was piloted by Warrant Officer Francesco Agello (the last qualified test pilot after previous pilots had been killed in the attempt).

The aircraft's designers felt they could do better and surpass 700 km/h (430 mph) with the M.C. 72. This was achieved on October 23, 1934, when Agello piloted the M.C. 72 at an average speed of 709.207 km/h (440.681 mph) over three passes. As of 2023, this record remains the highest speed ever attained by a piston-engined seaplane.

Ivanhoe Gambini, “Record of Agello”, 1934. Tempera on cardboard, Italy. Private collection. Source

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Supermarine S.6B ‘S1595’ by Alan Wilson Via Flickr: Winner of the Schneider Trophy, 1931. Designed by Reginald J. Mitchell, it was a development of Mitchell's earlier S.4 which had won the 1925 Schneider Trophy race. The S.6B was powered by a supercharged Rolls-Royce 1900 hp engine. It marked the culmination of Mitchell's quest to "perfect the design of the racing seaplane" and represented the cutting edge of aerodynamic technology. It is one of the major technical achievements in British aviation between the two world wars. Not only did the aircraft win the 1931 Schneider Trophy, but also, two weeks later, became the fastest vehicle on earth, setting an absolute speed record of 407.5 mph It joined the Science Museum in 1932 and is now on display, still unrestored, in the ‘Flight’ Hall. Science Museum, South Kensington, London. 16-6-2015

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Supermarine S.6B

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Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 1st Baronet, was born on March 27, 1863. He was an English engineer famous for his designs of car and aeroplane engines with a reputation for reliability and longevity. With Charles Rolls (1877 – 1910) and Claude Johnson (1864 – 1926), he founded Rolls-Royce.

Rolls-Royce initially focused on large 40-50 horsepower motor cars, the Silver Ghost and its successors. Royce produced his first aero engine shortly after the outbreak of the First World War and aircraft engines became Rolls-Royce's principal product.

Royce's health broke down in 1911 and he was persuaded to leave his factory in the Midlands at Derby and, taking a team of designers, move to the south of England spending winters in the south of France. He died at his home in Sussex in the spring of 1933.

Following a decline in trade after the Second Boer War, and the arrival of increasing competition by cranes and dynamos from Germany and the United States, Royce began considering the motor car as a potential new product for the company. With his fascination for all things mechanical he became increasingly focused on motor cars and bought first, in 1901, a small De Dion and in 1902 or 1903 a 1901 model two cylinder Decauville. This did not meet his high standards and so he first improved it and then decided to manufacture a car of his own which he did in a corner of the workshop in 1904.

Two more cars were made. Of the three, which were called Royce and had two cylinder engines, one was given to Ernest Claremont and the other sold to one of the other directors, Henry Edmunds. Edmunds was a friend of Charles Rolls who had a car showroom in London selling imported models and showed him his car and arranged the historic meeting between Rolls and Royce at the Midland Hotel, Manchester, on 4 May 1904. In spite of his preference for three or four cylinder cars, Rolls was impressed with the two-cylinder Royce 10 and in a subsequent agreement of 23 December 1904 agreed to take all the cars Royce could make. These would be of two, three, four and six cylinders and would be badged as Rolls-Royce.

The first Rolls-Royce car, the Rolls-Royce 10 hp, was unveiled at the Paris Salon in December 1904. In 1906 Rolls and Royce formalised their partnership by creating Rolls-Royce Limited, with Royce appointed chief engineer and works director on a salary of £1,250 per annum plus 4% of the profits in excess of £10,000. Royce thus provided the technical expertise to complement Rolls' financial backing and business acumen. By 1907 the company was winning awards for the engineering reliability of its cars.

The Rolls-Royce Eagle was the first aircraft engine to be developed by Rolls-Royce Limited. It was introduced in 1915 to meet British military requirements during the First World War and proved to be one of only two aero engines made by the Allies that was neither a production nor a technical failure.

Royce & Company remained in business as a separate company making cranes until 1932 when it was bought by Herbert Morris of Loughborough. The last Royce-designed crane was built in 1964.

The partnership ended when Rolls died in 1910 in a crash of his Wright Flyer aircraft.

Royce had always worked hard and was renowned for never eating proper meals which resulted in his being taken ill first in 1902 and again in 1911. Ill health had forced his move away from Derby in 1912. In the same year, he had a major operation in London and was given only a few months to live by the doctors. In spite of this he returned to work but was prevented from visiting the factory, which had moved to larger premises, fitted out to detailed plans by Royce, in Derby in 1908. He insisted on checking all new designs and engineers and draughtsmen had to take the drawings to be personally checked by him, a daunting prospect with his well-known perfectionism. He had a villa built at Le Canadel in the south of France and a further home at Crowborough, East Sussex. In 1917, Royce moved to the village of West Wittering, West Sussex.

In October 1928, he began design of the "R" engine while walking with some of his leading engineers on the beach at West Wittering, sketching ideas in the sand. Less than a year later, the "R” engine, designed in his studio in the village, set a new world air speed record of 357.7 miles per hour and won the Schneider Trophy of 1929. When the Ramsay MacDonald government decided not to finance the next attempt in 1931, Lucy, Lady Houston, felt that Britain must not be left out of this contest and sent a telegram to the Prime Minister stating that she would guarantee £100,000, if necessary, towards the cost leading the Government to reverse their previous decision. The result was that Royce found that the "R" could be made to produce more power and the Supermarine S.6B seaplane won the Trophy at 340.08 mph (547.31 km/h) on 13 September 1931. Later that month on 29 September, the same aircraft with an improved engine flew at 407.5 mph (655.8 km/h), becoming the first craft to fly at over 400 mph (640 km/h) and breaking the world's speed record.

Henry Royce married Minnie Punt in 1893 and they set up home together in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, and were joined by his mother, who lived nearby until her death in 1904, and Minnie's niece, Violet. The Royces moved to a newly built house in Knutsford, Cheshire in 1898. The couple separated in 1912.

Royce, who lived by the motto "Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble", was awarded the OBE in 1918, and was created a baronet, of Seaton in the County of Rutland, in 1930 for his services to British Aviation. He had no children and the baronetcy became extinct on his death.

After he fell ill, Royce was looked after by a nurse, Miss Ethel Aubin for twenty years (after his death she married G.H.R. Tildesley, Royce's solicitor). He died at his house Elmstead in West Wittering on 22 April 1933. His cremated remains were initially buried under his statue at the Rolls-Royce works in Derby, but in 1937 his urn was removed to the parish church of Alwalton, his birthplace.

In 1962, a memorial window dedicated to his memory was unveiled in Westminster Abbey. The window is one of a series designed by Ninian Comper dedicated to the memory of eminent engineers. He is also commemorated in Royce Hall, student accommodation at Loughborough University, and until 2011 at one of Peterborough's Queensgate shopping centre car parks. The Sir Henry Royce Suite, a business suite, is named after him at the Peterborough Marriott Hotel in the Alwalton business park.

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1931 *Supermarine S-6B* - Schneider Trophy winning seaplane.

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Supermarine S.6A ‘N248’ by Alan Wilson Via Flickr: c/n unknown. Built in 1929 as a Supermarine S.6 and entered in the 1929 Schneider Trophy race. She was disqualified for turning inside a marker, but still set world records for closed circuits of 50 and 100km. For the 1931 race she was rebuilt with new floats and a bigger engine and was redesignated as an S.6A. She did not take part in the event, being kept in reserve, although the S.6Bs ‘N1595’ and ‘N1596’ were successful in winning and retaining the title as well as setting a world airspeed record. N248 was falsely marked as N1596 for many years, but returned to her correct markings for the opening of the Southampton Hall of Aviation in 1983. Solent Sky, Southampton, Hampshire, UK 21st August 2020

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Supermarine S.6B, bisavô do Spitfire.

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ROLLS-ROYCE DÜNYANIN EN HIZLI UÇAĞINI ÜRETECEK http://bit.ly/2SMow86

ROLLS-ROYCE DÜNYANIN EN HIZLI UÇAĞINI ÜRETECEK

Rolls-Royce, dünyanın en hızlı ve tamamen elektrikle çalışan uçağını üretmek amacıyla zorlu bir yarış için kolları sıvadı. Bu sıfır emisyonlu uçağın, saatte 480 km’nin üzerinde hız hedefiyle birlikte rekorlar kitabına girmesi bekleniyor.

İngiltere’nin güneybatısında bulunan Gloucestershire’ın dış kesimlerinde bir hangarın içerisinde Rolls-Royce’tan ve başka birçok yerden görevlendirilmiş arı gibi çalışan İngiliz mühendisler, tasarımcılar ve veri uzmanlarından oluşan bir ekip, tarih yazmaya hazırlanıyor. Bu ekip, daha önce eşi benzeri görülmemiş, yüksek performanslı bir elektrikli uçak üzerinde çalışıyor. 2020 yılında İngiltere semalarında uçması planlanan uçağın saatte 480 km hıza ulaşmasıve dünyanın en hızlı elektrikli uçağı olarak tarihe geçmesi bekleniyor.

Bu rekor kırma girişim Rolls-Royce’un elektrifikasyonda lider olma stratejisini destekleyici üçüncü bir havacılık dalgasının öncüs�� olma amacıyla oluşturulmuş Uçuşun Elektrifikasyonunu Hızlandırma (ACCEL) isimli girişiminin bir parçası. Elektrikli motor ve kumanda üreticisi YASA ile havacılık start-up’ı Electroflight dahil olmak üzere birçok ortağın bir araya geldiği ACCEL, kısmen İngiliz hükümeti tarafından finanse ediliyor. Ekipte, elektrikli uçağın tasarlanması için Formula E yarışı dünyasının en iyi isimleri bir araya geliyor.

Havacılık Tarihinde Devrim Yaratacak Bir Adım

Rolls-Royce, ACCEL projesini Farnborough Air Show’da duyurdu. “ACCEL, havacılık tarihinde devrim yaratacak bir adım,” diyen Rolls-Royce ACCEL proje yöneticisi Matheu Parr sözlerini şöyle sürdürüyor: “Teknoloji harikası bir elektrik sistemiyle çalışacak olan bu uçak, uçuş için şimdiye kadar üretilmiş en güçlü bataryaya sahip olacak. Önümüzdeki yıl, Galler sahil şeridindeki bir iniş pistinde altın madalya için uçmadan önce uçağın kabiliyetlerini, birçok zorlu test ortamında ortaya koyacağız.”

İnovasyon ve ilklerle dolu tarihiyle Rolls-Royce, böyle iddialı işlere oldukça alışık. Şirket, 1931 yılında İngiltere’nin prestijli Schneider Kupasını almasına yardımcı olarak Rolls-Royce’u havacılıkta lider konuma getiren bir zafer kazanmasını sağladı. İngiltere’nin rekor kıran yarışçı deniz uçağının ismi Supermarine S.6B. Rolls-Royce’un “R” motoruyla birlikte o gün, saatte 343 mil yaptı. Kıyaslamak gerekirse, 2017 yılında Siemens tarafından tamamen elektrikli bir uçakla kırılan mevcut rekor saatte 210 mil.

Parr ve ekibi, modern e-uçuş sınırlarını aşmaya ve hatta Supermarine’in rekorunu kırmaya çalışıyor. Bunu yapmak için bir dizi eşsiz zorlukların üstesinden gelmeleri gerekecek. Birçok hız ve performans rekorunu kıracak kadar güçlü, uçacak kadar hafif ve aşırı ısınmayacak kadar stabil, büyük bir batarya üretmek zorundalar. Parr, “Saniyede 20.000’den fazla veri göstergesini izliyor, pervanelere güç sağlamak ve itiş kuvveti oluşturmakla görevli aktarma organlarının batarya voltajını, sıcaklığını ve genel sağlığını ölçüyoruz. Şimdiden, benzersiz tasarım ve entegrasyon zorluklarından birçok ders çıkardık, ayrıca sadece elektrikli ve sıfır emisyonlu uçak alanında bir öncü olmamızı değil, bu alanın liderliğini de yapmamızı sağlayacak know-how’ı elde ediyoruz. Bu noktada kendimize olan güvenimiz sınırsız.” şeklinde konuştu.

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Rolls-Royce, gezegenimizin temel enerji ihtiyaçlarını karşılamak üzere en temiz, en emniyetli ve en rekabetçi çözümleri beraberinde getiren gelişmiş teknolojilerin öncü üreticisidir.

Rolls-Royce’un 150’den fazla ülkede müşterileri bulunmaktadır. Bu müşteriler arasında 400’ün üzerinde havayolu ve leasing müşterisi, 160 silahlı kuvvetler, 70 donanma dahil olmak üzere 4.000 denizcilik müşterisi ve 5.000’in üzerinde enerji ve nükleer müşterisi yer almaktadır.

2017 yılı ekonomik kârı 15 milyar sterlindir. Bu tutarın yaklaşık yarısı, satış sonrası hizmetlerden elde edilmiştir. Aralık 2017 sonu itibarıyla firmanın aldığı ve ilan ettiği brüt sipariş tutarı 78,5 milyar sterlindir.

Rolls-Royce 2017’de AR-GE çalışmalarına 1,4 milyar sterlin yatırım yapmıştır. Ayrıca Rolls-Royce mühendislerini bilimsel araştırmanın öncüsü kılan 31 farklı Üniversite Teknoloji Merkezinden oluşan küresel bir ağı desteklemektedir.

Rolls-Royce’un 50 ülkede 55.000 çalışanı bulunmaktadır. Bunların yaklaşık 19.400’ü mühendistir.

Grup, stajyer ve yeni mezun istihdamı ilkesine ve çalışanların becerilerinin geliştirilmesi hususuna kuvvetle bağlıdır. 2017’de dünya çapındaki eğitim programları aracılığıyla 313 yeni mezun ve 339 stajyer istihdam edilmiştir.

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RT ron_eisele: 13 September 1931. Great Britain won the Schneider Trophy outright. Lieutenant John Boothman completed in a Supermarine S.6B at 340.1 mph. pic.twitter.com/lctmJP5osb

— 段东升 (@dds0201) September 13, 2019

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Rolls-Royce is building the world's fastest electric airplane

Rolls-Royce is building the world’s fastest electric airplane

Way back in 1931, Rolls-Royce helped Britain claim the Schneider Trophy, awarded to the Supermarine S.6B racing airplane after it set a speed record of 343 miles per hour. Of course, nowadays that speed isn’t particularly impressive. What would be a milestone, though, is hitting such a velocity with an airplane powered by electricity. And that’s exactly what Rolls-Royce plans to do as part of its…

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The United Kingdom wins the Schneider Trophy outright. Lt. John Boothman completes the course at Calshot Spit in a Supermarine S.6B at 547.297 km/h (340.1 mph).

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Supermarine S.6A ‘N248’ by Alan Wilson Via Flickr: c/n unknown. Built in 1929 as a Supermarine S.6 and entered in the 1929 Schneider Trophy race. She was disqualified for turning inside a marker, but still set world records for closed circuits of 50 and 100km. For the 1931 race she was rebuilt with new floats and a bigger engine and was redesignated as an S.6A. She did not take part in the event, being kept in reserve, although the S.6Bs ‘N1595’ and ‘N1596’ were successful in winning and retaining the title as well as setting a world airspeed record. N248 was falsely marked as N1596 for many years, but returned to her correct markings for the opening of the Southampton Hall of Aviation in 1983. Solent Sky, Southampton, Hampshire, UK 21st August 2020