A single-seat biplane fighter
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Royal Army Aircraft Factory [Sweden] Tumeliten
A single-seat biplane trainer
Royal Army Aircraft Factory [Sweden]
Sweden
Built series of indigenous designs for the Swedish Air Force from the mid-1920s. Early biplane types were the Tumeliten single-seat trainer and J.24B single-seat fighter, followed by S.21H.L reconnaissance biplane.
Royal Army Aircraft Factory [Denmark]
Formed in 1914 to undertake aircraft construction and repair work for the Royal Army Flying Corps. Built foreign aircraft under license before Second World War, including the Fokker C.VE reconnaissance biplane, and Gloster Gauntlet and Fokker D.XXI fighters.
Royal Aircraft Establishment Aero Club Scarab
The Royal Aircraft Establishment Aero Club Scarab c/n 5 was designed by P.G.N.Peters and C.R.Brewer in 1930, using some DH.53 parts. A single-seat parasol monoplane, it was powered by a Bristol Cherub III engine and sometimes known as the P. B. Scarab.
Registered G-ABOH, it was finished in 1930 but was rebuilt in 1931 without having flown.
It first flew in 1932 at Farnborough. It was stored there until 1938 when it was broken up.
Engine: Bristol Cherub III
Wing span: 30.00 ft
Length: 21.00 ft
Royal Aircraft Establishment Aero Club Hurricane
The Royal Aircraft Establishment Aero Club Hurricane c/n 2 was a single-seat, all wood, biplane, with high set wing, designed by S.Childs for the 1923 Lympne Light Aircraft Trials
Powered by a 600cc Douglas motor cycle conversion, it first flew from Farnborough in 1923 as G-EBHS.
It was rebuilt in 1925 with a Bristol Cherub III engine and modified undercarriage.
Wing span: 23.00 ft
Length: 17.03 ft
Royal Aircraft Establishment Aero Club Zephyr
The Royal Aircraft Establishment Aero Club Zephyr c/n 1 was a single-seat, all wood, biplane, powered by a pusher 500cc Douglas motor cycle conversion. The tail was suspended on a twin lattice system from the wing trailing edge.
As G-EBGW, it was first flown at Farnborough on 6 September 1923.
It was broken up in 1925.
Engine: 500cc Douglas
Wing span: 29.00 ft
Royal Aircraft Establishment Aero Club
The Royal Aircraft Establishment Aero Club was formed in 1922 and first flew in 1923.
The Zephyr, Hurricane and Scarab all flew.
The c/n 3 Sirocco single seat for the 1926 Lympne Light Aircraft Trials was not completed. Allocated G-EBNL, it was to be powered by a Bristol Cherub III engine.
Details on c/n 4 are not known.
Roussel 10
Roussel 10 of 1938.
Rossitten-As Training Glider
The Rossitten-As of 1931was a simple glider for basic flight instruction, which could be launched by rubber ropes. It is a typical design of a glider of the years between the wars. The gliders were too small to carry two, so the student had to fly solo.
Length : 20.308 ft / 6.19 m
Height : 7.054 ft / 2.15 m
Wingspan : 35.761 ft / 10.00 m
Crew : 1
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