M.Goodall, A.Tagg British Aircraft before the Great War (Schiffer)
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CLARKE monoplane
This is the only Clarke powered aircraft of which information exists, as it was described in The Aeronautical Journal of October 1910, having won a prize for its design in a competition. It was for Clarke's own use, and was reported to be nearly ready for trial, probably at Brooklands. No reports of trials or successful flights appeared. The machine was a canard with a monoplane foreplane serving as elevator and with a front mounted rudder. Lateral control was by warping the wing.
Power: 25/30hp Thames four-cylinder horizontally opposed water-cooled driving a 7ft 6in diameter Clarke propeller.
Data
Span 30ft
Foreplane Span 14ft
Mean chord 5ft
Mean foreplane chord 3ft 6in
Area 150 sq ft
Foreplane area 50 sq ft
Length 20ft
Weight allup 750 lb
CLARKE double triplane
This machine, with front elevator and biplane tail, was under construction in September 1911 when P.K. Turner of The Aeroplane inspected the Kingston works. No further reports of its existence can be traced.