P.Lewis British Aircraft 1809-1914 (Putnam)
Windsor Model and Gliding Club Gliders
The Windsor Model and Gliding Club was concerned mainly with model aircraft, but members built two successful full-size biplane gliders in 1913, in the second of which they hoped eventually to have installed a 25 h.p. Anzani engine.
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M.Goodall, A.Tagg British Aircraft before the Great War (Schiffer)
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WINDSOR biplane WMA and GC No.3
The powered machine had been under consideration since August 1913, when negotiations to purchase a 25hp Anzani engine were started. This engine was not obtained, but design and construction of the machine proceeded, so that by June 1914, the fuselage was nearly completed, and by September, the wings were ready for covering.
The engine eventually acquired was the Edwards two-stroke from the Bland Mayfly. War had been declared by this time and although the engine was fitted, work on the machine was abandoned. The engine survived in the possession of the Camm family and, after being exhibited in a small museum in Windsor, was handed over to the Brooklands Museum, where it is on display and has recently been reconditioned.
A photograph of the front of the machine and undercarriage gives some indication of the design, which perhaps inspired Sydney Camm to design the Hawker Cygnet much later.
Power: 15/20hp Edwards two-cylinder, horizontally opposed two-stroke made by H.W. Cowley & Co.
Data
Area 320 sq. ft
Est. weight less than 300 lb.
Speed 35 mph
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