Deekay Knight

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Knight
RoleTwo-seat cabin monoplane
National originUnited Kingdom
Manufacturer Deekay Aircraft Corporation
DesignerSydney Charles Hart-Still
First flight1937
Number built1

The Deekay Knight was a British two-seat cabin monoplane designed by S.C.Hart-Still and built in 1937 by the Deekay Aircraft Corporation at Broxbourne in Hertfordshire, England. [1] It was built to test methods of wing construction that would later be suitable for plastic skinning.

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Development

The Knight was a conventional looking low-wing monoplane, with a fixed tailwheel landing gear, the main legs housed in trouser fairings and powered by a nose-mounted 90 hp (67 kW) Blackburn Cirrus Minor piston engine. [1] It had an enclosed cabin with side-by-side seating for two. [2] It had an unusual wing construction which used four spars and interspars instead of ribs. [3] Though the wing was made of wood throughout, with a stressed plywood skin, the purpose of its novel construction was to explore methods suitable for later use with plastic materials. [3] [4] The wing was tested at the Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough and the root fittings but not the wing failed at 12.3 times the weight of the aircraft, well beyond the target load factor of 9. [1] Only one aircraft, registered G-AFBA, [5] was built which was scrapped sometime during the Second World War. [1] [2]

Specifications

Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1938, [6] The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Aircraft, [1] British civil aircraft since 1919 Volume II [2]

General characteristics

1,300 lb (590 kg) aerobatic

Performance

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Aircraft. London: Orbis Publications. 1985. p. 1420.
  2. 1 2 3 Jackson, A. J. (1973). British civil aircraft since 1919 Volume II (2nd ed.). London: Putnam. p. 300. ISBN   9780370100104.
  3. 1 2 "Towards Thermoplastics: An Interesting Form of Wing Construction". Flight . Vol. XXXII, no. 1491. 22 July 1937. p. 100.
  4. Grey 1972 , pp. 35c–36c
  5. "Registration G-AFBA" (PDF). United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 5 August 2009.
  6. Grey, C.G.; Bridgman, Leonard, eds. (1938). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1938. London: Sampson Low, Marston & company, ltd. pp. 35c–36c.

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