The de Havilland T.K.5 was an unflown 1930s
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single-seat canard research aircraft, designed and built by students of the de Havilland Technical School.
Design and development
The T.K.5 was built by students at
Stag Lane Aerodrome
Stag Lane Aerodrome was a private aerodrome between 1915 and 1933 in Edgware, north London, UK.
History
The land for an aerodrome was purchased by the London & Provincial Aviation Company (Warren and Smiles - Michael Geoffrey Smiles of Bonning ...
between 1938 and 1939.
[Jackson 1974, page 323] It was a low-wing monoplane with a 140 hp (104 kW)
de Havilland Gipsy Major IC piston engine driving a pusher propeller.
The only T.K.5, registered G-AFTK, was tested by
Geoffrey de Havilland
Captain Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, (27 July 1882 – 21 May 1965) was an English aviation pioneer and aerospace engineer. The aircraft company he founded produced the Mosquito, which has been considered the most versatile warplane ever built,D ...
in 1939 but it refused to leave the ground and was scrapped.
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T.K.5
1930s British experimental aircraft
Canard aircraft
Pusher aircraft