Similar to a Bleriot XI, the Scottish Aviation Co. Dart was constructed during 1911 with modifications mainly to the undercarriage. A single-seater, it was powered by a 35 hp JAP eight-cylinder engine.
Scottish Aviation Dart
Monoplane
Scottish Aviation Caledonia
The Caledonia monoplane was built by the Scottish Aviation Co. from designs by Mr. F. Norman, the General Manager of the Company.
Mr. Norman is standing by the machine in overalls and talking across to Mr. Wilson, of the W. W. Proofing Co., a firm which is making a speciality of balloon fabrics in Glasgow.
The single-seat Caledonia was powered by a 35 hp JAP eight-cylinder engine and was fitted with a four wheel undercarriage, plus skids and flying in November 1911.
Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer
The 16-passenger civil Twin Pioneer prototype, G-ANTP, made its first flight on June 25, 1955 ass a 16-passenger civil type, powered by two 550 h.p. Alvis Leonides engines, and the first military version made its maiden flight on August 29, 1957.
Deliveries to the RAF began in early 1958, the Service making good use of the type’s impressive STOL characteristics – the aircraft only needed 300yd by 100ft to operate – while carrying out important supply and relief work in Aden, Kuwait, Kenya, Borneo and Singapore, as well as at home.
The Twin Pioneer saw considerable service in the utility role during the late fifties and through most of the sixties. 87 were built, including 39 for the RAF.
Type: Pioneer CC Mk.2
Engines: 2 x 560hp Alvis Leonides 531/8B
Wing Span: 23.32m / 76 ft 6 in
Length: 13.79m / 45 ft 3 in
Height: 3.73m
Wing Area: 62.24sq.m
Empty Weight: 4627kg
Max.Weight: 14601.5 lb / 6622kg
Cruising speed : 137 kt / 254 km/h
Service ceiling : 20013 ft / 6100 m
Cruising altitude : 2461 ft / 750 m
Wing load : 21.73 lb/sq.ft / 106.0 kg/sq.m
Range : 637 nm / 1180 km
Load: 16 seats, 907kg
Crew: 2
Armament : 13 Sold. / 9 + 3 Verw. / 1542kg / 907kg ext.
Scottish Aviation Pioneer
First aircraft produced by Scottish Aviation was the Prestwick Pioneer single-engined five-seat STOL monoplane, first flown 1950. For counter insurgency the Scottish Aviation A.4/45 Prestwick Pioneer 2 was to fill the niche. It came about via the Pioneer 1 and was re engined with the more powerful Alvis Leonides engine.
In service with the RAF as the CC.Mk.1, the Pioneer was in Malaya, Aden, and the UK.
Scottish Aviation Pioneer
Engine Alvis Leonides 504/1
Span 49 ft 9 in
Length 34 ft 6 in
Mauw 5400 lb
Cruising speed 120 mph
Scott Viking 2
The Scott Viking 2 is a two-seat side-by-side sailplane of conventional wooden construction. The cantilever gull wing was fitted with spoilers and variable droop ailerons. The undercarriage consisted of a main skid, main wheel of fixed centre, and tail bumper.
The first flight was at Dunstable on 27 August 1939.
Wing span: 18.60 m / 51 ft 0 in
Length: 6.73 m / 22 ft 1 in
Wing area: 21.83 sq.m / 235 sq.ft
Aspect ratio: 16.4
Empty weight: 231.34 kg / 510 lb
AUW: 412.77 kg / 910 lb
Wing loading: 18.55 kg/sq.m / 3.80 lb/sq.ft
Max L/D: 24
Min sink: 0.63 m/sec at 56 kph / 2.3 ft/sec at 35 mph
Scott Viking 1
The Scott Light Aircraft Ltd of Dunstable, UK, built four Viking 1 during 1938/39. The first flew at Dunstable on 6 November 1938. Of wood construction, they feature a cantilever wing, fitted with spoilers and variable droop ailerons. They were priced at £265 ex-works. The outbreak of WW2 in Sept 1939 ceased production.
The third built, c/n 114 Registration marks BGA 416, G-ALRD, AHU, survived. History Bought new by W.E. Filmer of the Southdown GC in 1939, flew in the 1939 Camphill Nationals.
Believed to have been stored during WW2 and thus was never in RAF/ATC ownership. Passed to the ownership of R.D. Dickson in 1948.
Bought by the Coventry GC in 1951 and then to Lou Glover in 1962 who owned it for 40 years before selling it to Mike Beach in 2001. Sold to Willem den Baars in May 2004 and acquired by the GHC in August 2015.
Notable flights: The logbook starts in 1948. We know it went to 15,000 ft in wave at Sutton Bank, otherwise no details. Was at the 1972 Firle Beacon meeting which commemorated the famous 1922 Itford Hill event. Also at the Sept 1999 Percy Pilcher memorial meeting close to Husbands Bosworth.
Major restorations in 1948 and 1960 and the last, including recovering, in 1992 done by Lou Glover. The last C of A expired 19th Sept 2012. The Viking flew at Lasham for the first time on Sunday 15th May 2016 flown by Gary Pullen.
Owned by the Gliding Heritage Centre, Lasham, following funds being raised for its purchase by a substantial number of Vintage Gliding Club members.
Wing span: 15.54 m / 51 ft 0 in
Length: 6.05 m / 19 ft 10 in
Wing area: 15.89 sq.m / 171 sq.ft
Aspect ratio: 15.4
Empty weight: 167.83 kg / 370 lb
AUW: 245 kg / 540 lb
Wing loading: 15.38 kg/sq.m / 3.15 lb/sq.ft
Max L/D: 20
Min sink: 0.76 m/sec at 53 kph / 2.5 f/sec at 33 mph
Undercarriage: main and tail skid
Scott Ironsides XS-1 / Ol’ Ironsides
Construction of the aircraft was started by Ron Scott in the mid 1960s starting with a model rather than a drawing.
The Scott Ol’ Ironsides is an early homebuilt aircraft using wood construction with stressed fiberglass panel construction. Ol’ Ironsides is a strut-braced high-wing aircraft with conventional landing gear arrangement. The wooden fuselage is made of Sitka Spruce. Fiberglass composite skins were formed in 4 x 8 sheets using two layers of cloth with resin over a waxed Masonite table. The landing gear legs, fuel tank, wink tips, wheel pants, and cowling were also formed out of fibre-glass. Scott integrated elements of the Bowers Fly Baby and Champion J-1 Jupiter construction with the Wittman Tailwind airfoil and general layout into the design. The craft cost US$1530 in 1969.
Ol’ Ironsides first flew on 22 November 1969 with a Continental C-85 engine sourced from a Cessna 140. In 1985 the prototype aircraft was restored and re-engined with a Continental O-200 and Sterba wooden propeller.
A 79-year-old pilot suffered head injuries after crashing his single-engine airplane at an airstrip in East Troy on Saturday, November 24th 2012. The crash happened just before 3:30 p.m. It occurred on a privately-maintained grass airstrip known as Air Troy Estates. Many residents who reside nearby have planes and hangars adjacent to the runway. The pilot, identified as Ronald Scott, was attempting to land his plane on the runway when he crashed. He had to be removed from the plane — which ended upside down. He was taken to a Waukesha Hospital to be treated for his injuries. Scott was flying an experimental 1969 Scottbuilt (he designed and built this plane) fixed wing XS-1 known as “Old Iron Sides”. The Walworth County Sheriff’s Office and the FAA were coordinating this investigation.
Ol’ Ironsides
Construction Number (C/N): 1
Registration Number: N1879
Engine: 1 × Continental C-85, 85 hp (63 kW)
Engine: 1 × Continental O-200, 100 hp (75 kW)
Wingspan: 19 ft 6 in (5.94 m)
Wing area: 79.2 sq ft (7.36 m2)
Length: 17 ft (5.2 m)
Empty weight: 720 lb (327 kg)
Gross weight: 1,125 lb (510 kg)
Fuel capacity: 18 USgal
Cruise speed: 117 kn; 217 km/h (135 mph) , 145 mph (233 km/h) with O-200
Stall speed: 48 kn; 89 km/h (55 mph)
Rate of climb: 1,200 ft/min (6.1 m/s)
Seats: 1
Science & Technology Agency Asuka
The Asuka, which first flew in October 1985, is a derivative of the Kawasaki C-1 tactical transport. The original P&W JT8D engines have been replaced by four Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries FJR710/600S high bypass ratio turbofans.
The engines are mounted above and ahead of the wing leading edges. The exhaust airflow is directed across the wing extrados and attaches to the trailing edge flaps in whathas been termed “Upper Surface Blowing”. The resulting depression caused by the Coanda effect produces the desired lift force.
The STOL conversion takeoff run to 15m on the first flight was 509m, including a 394m ground run. Takeoff speed was 72 kts. The landing run from 15 m was 439 m, including 320 m on the ground.
STA claims the plane is only experimental and that there are no immediate development prospects.
Schubert Der Fledermaus
Der Fledermaus is a one-of-a-kind homebuilt designed and built by E. Alvin Schubert with specific parameters: ease of entry good visibility stability in flight, economy of building and operation, single-place only able to use a VW engine. He picked up a used 25-hp VW in 1960 and rebuilt it to deliver 36-hp with 88-mm cylinders and heads. All goals were achieved. Built circa 1975, it was registered N7873.
Gross weight 745 lbs
Empty weight 441 lb
Fuel capacity 7 Usgal
Wingspan 21 ft
Length 16 ft
Engine 25-hp VW uprated to 36 hp with 88mm cylinders
Vmax 120 mph
Cruise speed 90 mph IAS
Climb rate 600-800 fpm
Ceiling 10,000 ft
Takeoff run 600 ft
Landing roll 800 ft
Schwerdtfeger & Zimmermann Air Swing
Single seat single engined high wing mono¬plane with conventional three axis control. Wing has unswept leading and trailing edges, and constant chord; cruciform tail. Pitch control by elevator on tail; yaw control by fully flying rudder; roll control by ailerons; control inputs through stick for pitch/roll and pedals for yaw. Wing braced from above by kingpost and cables, from below by cables; wing profile double surface. Undercarriage has three wheels in tricycle formation with tailskid; suspension on all wheels. Push right go left nosewheel steering connected to yaw control. Brakes on main wheels. Aluminium¬-tube/steel tube framework, without pod. En¬gine mounted below wing driving pusher propeller.
Publicly shown for the first time at Aero 83 exhibition at Friedrichshafen, the Air Swing first flew in April 1983. Two prototypes were built, powered by a Lloyd 22 hp engine.
The Air Swing uses a double triangular frame whose front tube is extended above the wing where it is supported with a second strut, the two acting as a kingpost and forming an inverse V above the wing. The aircraft has an additional peculiarity in that it uses the large diameter boom which carries the empennage as the axis of rotation for its three bladed propeller.
Engine: Lloyd LS400, 22 hp at 5500 rpm
Propeller diameter 50 inch, 1.28 m
Toothed belt reduction, ratio 2.0/1
Max static thrust 177 lb, 80kg
Power per unit area 0.17hp/sq.ft, 1.8 hp/sq.m
Length overall 18.0 ft, 5.50 m
Height overall 7.2ft, 2.20m
Wing span 33.5ft, 10.20m
Constant chord 3.9 ft, 1.20 m
Sweepback 0 deg
Tailplane span 9.0ft, 2.75 m
Total wing area 132 sq.ft, 12.2 sq.m
Wing aspect ratio 8.5/1
Wheel track 5.2 ft, 1.60 m
Fuel capacity 5.3 US gal, 4.4 Imp gal, 20.0 litre
Empty weight 221 lb, 100 kg
Max take off weight 508 lb, 230kg
Payload 287 lb, 130kg
Max wing loading 3.85 lb/sq.ft, 18.8 kg/sq.m
Max power loading 23.1 lb/hp, 10.5kg/hp
Load factors; +6.0, 3.0 ultimate
Never exceed speed 71mph, 115kph
Economic cruising speed 50mph, 80kph
Stalling speed 29mph, 47 kph
Max climb rate at sea level 240 ft/min, 1.2 m/s
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