Tilbury Flash

Tilbury Flash
Role	Racing monoplane
National origin	United States
Designer	Owen Tilbury
First flight	1932
Status	Preserved
Number built	1

The Tilbury Flash is a single-seat American racing monoplane designed and built in the 1930s by Owen Tilbury and Cecil Fundy. The aircraft was built in 1932 and was entered in the US National Air Races. At Cleveland, at the time it was described as probably the smallest racing aeroplane in the world. ^[1]

The Flash was on display at the McLean County Museum of History in Bloomington, Illinois, ^[2] but has since been removed ^[3] to make room for the Cruisin' with Lincoln on 66 Visitors Center. The Flash is currently on display in the Central Illinois Regional Airport. ^[4]

Specifications

Data from ^[5]

General characteristics

• Crew: one
• Length: 11 ft 10 in (3.61 m) later increased to 12' 5"
• Wingspan: 14 ft 8 in (4.47 m) later increased to 17' 10"
• Powerplant: 1 × Church-Henderson , 45 hp (34 kW)

References

1. "News Flash". Air-Britain Digest. 25 (1). Air-Britain: 30. 1973.
2. McLean County Museum of History - The Tilbury Flash
3. McLean County Museum of History YouTube Channel- Video: Moving the Flash"
4. "Historic racing plane now hanging at Central Illinois Regional Airport" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04.
5. American airplanes:Ti - Ty