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The General Aircraft GAL.45 Owlet was a 1940s British single-engined trainer aircraft built by General Aircraft Limited at London Air Park, Hanworth. History
General Aircraft GAL.41 – a pressurised experimental aircraft based on the ST-25. One built. General Aircraft GAL.42 Cygnet II – a C W Aircraft design. 10 built. General Aircraft GAL.45 Owlet – one built. General Aircraft GAL.47 – air observation post, one built. General Aircraft GAL.48 Hotspur – a troop-carrying glider, 1,015 built.
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The first production design was the Monospar ST-4, a twin-engined low-wing monoplane with a fixed tailwheel landing gear and folding wings for ground storage. [3] Powered by two Pobjoy R radial engines, the first aircraft (G-ABUZ) first flew in May 1932, and was followed by five production aircraft.
The GAL.47 was a private-venture design of an air observation post (AOP) aircraft. The Fane F.1/40 was the only other competing design. The GAL.47 was a twin-boom configuration with a pusher airscrew. One example was built (test registration T-0224) in 1940 at London Air Park, Hanworth. It was destroyed on 2 April 1942. [1]
The Cygnet was designed at Slough by C.W. Aircraft Limited in 1936. It was the first all-metal stressed-skin light aircraft to be built and flown in the United Kingdom. [1] [2] The prototype, powered by a 90 hp (67 kW) Cirrus Minor engine, and registration G-AEMA was first flown in May 1937 at London Air Park, Hanworth.
The GAL.56/01 conducted numerous flights from RAF Dunholme Lodge and RAF Wittering, variously towed by a Whitley, Supermarine Spitfire, or a Handley Page Halifax. After May 1945, research flights continued at Farnborough, and in August 1947 it was transferred to the GAL Flight Test Department at Lasham Airfield , where the GAL.56/03 and GAL.56/ ...
General Aircraft GAL-38 Fleet Shadower 3-view drawing from Les Ailes January 25, 1947. Data from Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War II [3] General characteristics. Crew: 3 (pilot, observer, radio operator) Length: 36 ft 1 in (11.00 m) Wingspan: 55 ft 10 in (17.02 m) Width: 17 ft 11 in (5.46 m) folded; Height: 12 ft 8 in (3.86 m)