Fane F.1/40

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F.1/40
Role air observation postTemplate:Short description
National origin United Kingdom
Manufacturer Fane Aircraft Company
Designer Gerard Fane
First flight 1941
Number built 1

The Fane F.1/40 was a 1940s British air observation post aircraft design by Captain Gerald Fane's Fane Aircraft Company (formerly C F Aircraft Ltd[1]).

Design and development

In 1938, Nicholas Comper, the designer of the Comper Swift single-seat light aircraft, started work on the design of a two-seat light aircraft, intended for the recently announced Civil Air Guard, the Comper Scamp. The Scamp was a high wing monoplane with a pusher configuration, a tricycle undercarriage and with a single fin tail mounted on twin tail-booms, with a wingspan of Script error: No such module "convert". and a length of Script error: No such module "convert".. It was intended to be powered by a single Script error: No such module "convert". Walter Mikron engine, but this engine was unavailable and instead a Script error: No such module "convert". 2-cylinder Praga engine was selected, and the aircraft redesigned as a single-seater, the Comper Fly, as a result of the reduction in power. A prototype Fly was built at the College of Aeronautical Engineering at Brooklands Aerodrome but was incomplete when Comper died on 18 July 1939. In June 1940, the Fly was taken to Heston Aircraft Company for completion and testing, but it failed to become airborne, and the type was abandoned by Heston.[2]

Captain Gerald Fane, a long-time customer of Comper, then took over development of the Scamp/Fly, redesigning it as a larger, two-seat aircraft with the tail mounted on a single tailboom, powered by an Script error: No such module "convert". Continental A80 flat-four engine and intended for the army co-operation role. The aircraft was initially called the Fane F.1, but was later known as the Fane F.1/40 after the Air Ministry specification F.1/40 for an army cooperation aircraft.[3][4][5] It was of pusher configuration with a high wing set behind the pilot. A single example serial number T1788 was first flown on 21 in March 1941 and tested by the Air Ministry at Heston Aerodrome.[4][6] It was in competition with the General Aircraft GAL.47 but neither were selected for service use. In September 1941 the F.1/40 was registered G-AGDJ to the builders,[7] but was scrapped sometime during the war.[4]

Specifications

Data from British Civil Aircraft since 1919 Volume 2[4]

General characteristics

Notes

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  1. ↑ Flight
  2. ↑ Meaden 2005, pp. 93–94, 96
  3. ↑ Meaden 2005, pp. 94–95
  4. ↑ a b c d Jackson 1973, p. 333
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  6. ↑ Meaden 2005, p. 94
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References

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External links

  • Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". – Flight article on Scamp
  • Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". – Flight 22 January 1977 Letters p184
  • The Nick Comper Website Script error: No such module "webarchive".
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