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ABC Scorpion II
The ABC Scorpion is a 30 hp (22 kW) two-cylinder aero engine designed by British engineer Granville Bradshaw for use in light aircraft. The engine was built by ABC Motors Limited and first ran in 1921.Gunston 1989, p.9. Variants ;Scorpion I :1923, 30 hp (22 kW) ;Scorpion II :1924, 34 hp (25 kW), increased bore and stroke. Applications * ABC Robin * Boulton Paul Phoenix * BFW M.19 * BFW M.23 * Comper Swift * de Havilland Humming Bird * Farman Moustique * Hawker Cygnet * Heath Parasol * Hendy Hobo * Henderson-Glenny Gadfly * Kay Gyroplane * Luton Minor * Mignet HM.14 ''Pou-du-Ciel'' * Parmentier Wee Mite * Peyret-Mauboussin PM X * RWD 1 * SAI KZ I * Saynor & Bell Canadian Cub * Short Satellite * Snyder Buzzard * Udet U 7 Kolibri * Wheeler Slymph * Westland Woodpigeon Survivors The only ANEC II ( ''G-EBJO'') flies regularly at the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden and is powered by a Scorpion II. Specifications (Scorpion I) See also References Notes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Aircraft
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is a Wikimedia movement affinity group for contributors with shared goals. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sister projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by '' Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outside organizations relevant to the field at issue. For e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henderson-Glenny Gadfly
__NOTOC__ The Henderson-Glenny H.S.F.II Gadfly was a British single-seat low-wing monoplane designed by K.N. Pearson and built by Glenny and Henderson Limited at Byfleet, Surrey, England in 1929. Design and development The Gadfly was a low-wing monoplane with a fixed conventional landing gear and an open single seat cockpit. The first aircraft, powered by a ABC Scorpion, ABC Scorpion II engine, first flew at Brooklands in April 1929. It was designated the Gadfly I and was Aircraft registration, registered ''G-AAEY''. It was fitted with Pearson rotary ailerons and re-designated Gadfly II when it achieved a world altitude record of in the 200 kg class on 16 May 1929 piloted by G.L.P. Henderson. The second aircraft was a Gadfly II ''G-AARJ'' which first flew in August 1929 and was exported to Canada, where it was damaged beyond repair at Kitchener, Ontario, on 25 August 1931. The final aircraft was Gadfly III ''G-AARK'' which was the same as the Gadfly II but fitted with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westland Woodpigeon
__NOTOC__ The Westland Woodpigeon was a British two-seat light biplane designed to compete in the 1924 Lympne light aircraft trials. Design and development The Woodpigeon was a conventional wooden biplane powered by a 32 hp (24 kW) Bristol Cherub III engine. Two aircraft were built. The first made its first flight on 14 September 1924;James, Derek M. ''Westland Aircraft since 1915''. London: Putnam, 1991. , p. 111 the second aircraft, registered ''G-EBJV'', flew in trials but was not successful. The second aircraft was re-engined with a 30 hp (22 kW) ABC Scorpion and increased wingspan in 1926 for the 1926 Lympne trials but again was not successful. In 1927 the two aircraft were re-engined with 60 hp (45 kW) Anzani 6 radials and redesignated Woodpigeon IIs Jackson 1974, page 332 Variants ;Woodpigeon I : Bristol Cherub III-powered variant, two built. ;Woodpigeon II :Two Woodpigeon Is re-engined with Anzani engines. Specifications (Woodpigeon I) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wheeler Slymph
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Udet U 7 Kolibri
The Udet U 7 Kolibri (Hummingbird) was a single engine, single seat, parasol wing light aircraft, designed and built in Germany in the mid-1920s. Though they had some competition success and set an unofficial lightplane duration record, only two were produced. Design and development The wooden, cantilever, two-spar wing of the U 7 was almost trapezoidal in plan, with sweep on the leading edge, out to ellipsoidal tips. It also thinned outwards in section with most of the taper on the upper surface, giving some anhedral. Short ailerons extended to the tips. The wing was mounted over the fuselage on six streamlined steel struts; two upright tripods ran from the forward spar to points on the upper and mid fuselage and two inverted V-struts joined the rear spar to the upper fuselage. When the U 7 first appeared in 1924 it was powered by a Douglas flat twin, mounted in a squared-off cowling with its cylinders exposed for cooling. By June 1924 this had been replaced by a Douglas fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snyder Buzzard
The Snyder Buzzard was a light sport aircraft produced in the United States during the early 1930s. The designer/builder was Bud Snyder. Design and development Designed to fill the lowest segment of the civil aviation market, the Buzzard was a single-seat single-engine fabric-covered aircraft of conventional configuration. The wing was parasol-mounted. The ABC Scorpion engine, mounted atop the wing, drove a pusher propeller In an aircraft with a pusher configuration (as opposed to a tractor configuration), the propeller(s) are mounted behind their respective engine(s). Since a pusher propeller is mounted behind the engine, the drive shaft is in compression in nor ... Specifications See also References {{reflistAerofiles Buzzard entry Single-engi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Satellite
The Short S.4 Satellite was a small British two-seater sporting monoplane, produced in 1924 to take part in the Air Ministry's Two-Seater Light Aeroplane competition on 27 September of that year. Design Design began in July, with only weeks available before the competition, so the monocoque fuselage was of conventional design, with wooden box spars; the ribs however were of duralumin, as were the tailplane, elevators, fin and rudder. The cantilever wings had a span of 34 ft (10.3 m) and they, the tail and the fuselage were fabric-covered. The Satellite was fitted initially with an ungeared Bristol Cherub engine, with which it had a top speed of without a passenger. History The aircraft was initially fitted with an ungeared Bristol Cherub engine at the Air Ministry's Two-Seater Light Aeroplane competition at Lympne in 1924, where the Satellite was flown by the company's chief test pilot J. Lankester Parker. The engine delivered insufficient power to fly with a passenger, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saynor & Bell Canadian Cub
The Saynor & Bell Canadian Cub was a single engine, single seat parasol wing monoplane, designed and built in Canada in 1930. It was intended to be a simple and economical vehicle with which pilots could increase their flying experience. It was destroyed on take-off after a few months of flight and no more were built. Development Aircraft engineers George Saynor and Robert Bell came to Canada from England in 1928 to work with Canadian Vickers, only to be made redundant two years later. They then collaborated in the design of the Canadian Cub, intending to produce a simple and economical single seater in which newly soloed pilots could build up their flying hours. They worked in the basement of a Montreal house aided by other Canadian Vickers employees but bearing the financial risk themselves. The Canadian Cub was a parasol wing monoplane with a wooden framed, fabric covered, constant chord wing which was swept at 10° to move the centre of gravity aft and keep the nose short ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SAI KZ I
The SAI KZ I was a sport aircraft built in Denmark in 1937, the first aircraft built by the Kramme & Zeuthen firm. Design and development The KZ I was a low-wing cantilever monoplane of conventional design, with fixed tailwheel undercarriage and an open cockpit with a single seat. Construction throughout was of wood. Only a single KZ I was constructed, and it disappeared during the course of World War II. During the 1970s, a flying replica was built, with work started by Gunnar Fjord Christensen in 1972 and sold to the Danmarks Flymuseum The Danmarks Flymuseum is a museum located at Stauning Vestjylland Airport, Stauning Airport in Stauning (village), Stauning, Denmark. It has a collection of around 70 aircraft from the period 1911 until 2000. Around 60 aircraft are on display. ... in 1977. The completed aircraft, powered by a more powerful but heavier , Volkswagen flat-four engine, flew for the first time on 20 November 1988 and in 2008 remains part of the museum's colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RWD 1
The RWD 1 was a Polish sports plane of 1928, a single-engine high-wing monoplane constructed by the RWD design team. Development The RWD 1 was the first aircraft constructed by the RWD team of Stanisław Rogalski, Stanisław Wigura and Jerzy Drzewiecki in the Aviation Section of Mechanic Students' Club of Warsaw University of Technology. It was designed in late 1927. The plane was built with a financial help of the LOPP organization. One prototype was built for static trials, and one flying prototype (registration SP-ACC), completed and flown by the designer Jerzy Drzewiecki in September 1928. Its unusual feature was a unique, fish-shaped fuselage, similar to early Messerschmitt's designs ( M17). Two crewmen sat in tandem inside the fuselage and had only side openings in its upper part. In front of the pilot's head there was an upper part of the fuselage, supporting wings, limiting his view forward, though its profile was thin. This shape was repeated in following RWD designs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peyret-Mauboussin PM X
The Peyret-Mauboussin PM X, PM 4 or Mauboussin M.10 was a low power, single-seat, high wing cantilever monoplane. Only one was built but it set several records in the under class both as a landplane and a floatplane. Design and development The Peyret-Mauboussin PM X was the first of three designs to come from the firm formed by Pierre Mauboussin and Louis Peyret in 1928. It was designed to be as simple, inexpensive and cheap to run as possible to encourage more people to fly and was originally intended to compete at the September 1928 Orly International Lightplane Competition (''Concourse d'avions légere'') but was not completed in time. It had a one-piece wing, straight-tapered in plan out to elliptical tips and mounted on top of the fuselage. It also tapered outwards in thickness, with a horizontal lower surface, and had camber (aeronautics)#Definition, reflexed camber or double curvature. Its aspect ratio (aeronautics), aspect ratio of 10 was high for the period. Structu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parmentier Wee Mite
The Parmentier Wee Mite (sometimes Noel Wee Mite) was a British two-seat, parasol monoplane designed by Cecil Noel and first flown in Guernsey in 1933.Ellis 1979, p, 102 Design and development The Wee Mite was a parasol monoplane with a welded steel frame with wooden wings and a fixed landing gear with a tailwheel. Designed by Cecil Noel and built by him and Harold James Le Parmentier it was initial powered by a ABC Scorpion and first flown at Vazon Bay, Guernsey on 10 April 1933. The test flights or hops were not promising and after a forced landing and a damaged fuselage The fuselage (; from the French ''fuselé'' "spindle-shaped") is an aircraft's main body section. It holds crew, passengers, or cargo. In single-engine aircraft, it will usually contain an engine as well, although in some amphibious aircraf ..., the aircraft was rebuilt with a British Salmson AD.9 engine and a lengthened fuselage by . It was successfully flown around Guernsey in a 50 minute flight on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
