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.
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