The Comper Scamp or Fly was not completed and Capt. Gerard Fane, a supporter of Comper, redesigned the design with was in 1940 build and flown in 1941, the Fane F.1/40.
The Fane F.1/40 was a 1940s British Air Observation Post aircraft design by Captain Gerald Fane’s Fane Aircraft Company. The Comper Scamp or Fly was not completed and Capt. Gerard Fane, a supporter of Comper, redesigned the design to Air Ministry specification F.1/40. The Scamp had been designed by Nicholas Comper as a two-seater but he had not built it but redesigned it as a single seater, the Comper Fly. Fane took the Scamp design and reworked it as the F.1. It was of pusher configuration with a high wing set behind the pilot.
A single example of the Fane F1 (later f1/40), registered G.AGDJ, serial number T1788 was flown and tested by the Air Ministry at Heston Aerodrome on 21 March 1941.
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 as the Fane F1 to the builders, but was scrapped sometime during the war.
Engine: 1 × Continental A-80, 80 hp (60 kW)
Wingspan: 37 ft 0 in (11.28 m)
Length: 23 ft 5 in (7.14 m)
Max takeoff weight: 1,500 lb (680 kg)
Crew: 2
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