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The Airspeed AS.8 Viceroy was a British racing version of the Airspeed AS.6 Envoy built by Airspeed (1934) Limited at Portsmouth. The Viceroy was built to order for Captain T. Neville Stack and Sidney Lewis Turner, to compete in the England-Australia MacRobertson Air Race. Only one aircraft, registered G-ACMU, was built. ==Design and development== The Viceroy was a modified Airspeed Envoy. Modifications included: *More powerful, supercharged Armstrong-Siddeley Cheetah VI engines in long chord, smooth NACA cowlings *Strengthened main landing gear to allow higher weight takeoff *An auxiliary petrol tank, capacity was 270 Imp gallon/1,227 litres installed in the aft fuselage *Narrowed fuselage without passenger windows 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Airspeed Viceroy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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