Taylor Titch
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The Taylor Titch is a British fixed-wing homebuilt aircraft, developed in the 1960s by J.F. Taylor.[1] since 2025[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., examples are still being built and flown.[2]
Development
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Taylor designed the TitchTemplate:Efn as an entry in the 1964 Midget Racer Design Competition promoted by Rollason.[3] Among the criteria requested was that it had to be a single-seater powered by a Rollason Ardem flat-four engine, design limits were ±6g, maximum wing area of 65 sq ft and a maximum weight of 750lbs.[3] As a result of Taylor designed a high performance single-seater, the Titch based on his earlier Taylor Monoplane.
At the closing date of the competition 42 designs had been submitted. The winner was a project named Beta, with the Titch placing second.[3]
Taylor built the prototype, registered G-ATYO, at Leigh-on-Sea, Essex between 1965 and 1966. The Titch first flew at Southend Airport on 4 January 1967.[4]
The designer John Taylor was killed when the prototype Titch crashed at Southend on 16 May 1967. The marketing of plans for both his aircraft designs were taken on by his wife and later his son.[5]
since 2011[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., 40 examples had been completed and flown.[6]
Design
The Titch is a single-seat low-wing cantilever monoplane of all wood construction, similar to the Monoplane. It has fewer metal fittings than the earlier design, and full size wing rib plans are supplied for the tapered wing panels. With a cruise speed in the region of 160 mph (260 km/h), it is an effective cross-country touring aircraft, and is also fully aerobatic. May builders install a Continental or Lycoming engine, some examples have been built with Rotax, and Walter Mikron engines.[4]
Specifications (Prototype)
See also
Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era
Notes
References
Notes
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- ↑ Air Trails, Winter 1971, p. 78.
- ↑ Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16, page 129. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. Template:Catalog lookup linkScript error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".
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- ↑ a b Purdy 1998, p. 267.
- ↑ Dunnell Aeroplane June 2017, p. 129.
- ↑ Bayerl and Berkemeier 2011, p. 122.
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Bibliography
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- Dunnell, Ben. "Aeroplane Archive: Taylor Made". Aeroplane, Volume 45, No. 6, June 2017. pp. 127–129. Template:Catalog lookup linkScript error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn"..
- Jackson, A.J. British Civil Aircraft since 1919, Volume 3. London: Putnam, 1974. Template:ISBN.
- Purdy, Don: AeroCrafter: Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition. Benicia, California: BAI Communications, 1998. Template:ISBN.
- Taylor, John W.R. (ed.) Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1969–70. London: Jane's Yearbooks. 1969.
- Taylor, John W.R. (ed.) Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1980–81. London: Jane's Publishing, 1980. Template:ISBN.