Fane F.1/40

F.1/40
Role air observation post
National origin United Kingdom
Manufacturer Fane Aircraft Company
Designer Gerard Fane
First flight 1941
Number built 1


The Fane F.1/40 was a 1940s British Air Observation Post aircraft design by Captain Gerald Fane's Fane Aircraft Company (formerly C F Aircraft Ltd[1]).

Design and development

It was designed to Air Ministry specification F.1/40 for an airborne observation post. It was developed by Gerard Fane based on the Comper Scamp.[2] The Scamp had been designed by Nicholas Comper as a two seater but he had not built it but redesigned it as a single seater, the Comper Fly. Fane took the Scamp design and reworked it as the F.1.[3] It was of pusher configuration with a high wing set behind the pilot. A single example serial number T1788 was flown and tested by the Air Ministry at Heston Aerodrome in March 1941.[2] It was in competition with the General Aircraft GAL.47 but neither were selected for service use. In September 1941 the F.1/40 was registered G-AGDJ to the builders,[4] but was scrapped sometime during the war.[2]

Specifications

Data from British Civil Aircraft since 1919 Volume 2[2]

General characteristics


Notes

  1. Flight
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Jackson 1973, p. 333
  3. Scamp nickcomper.co.uk
  4. "Registration G-AGDJ" (PDF). United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority. Retrieved 2009-11-25.

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