Salmon Tandem Monoplane
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TypeLight single-seat sport
National originUnited Kingdom
ManufacturerPercy Salmon
Designer
Percy Salmon
| Tandem Monoplane | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Type | Light single-seat sport |
| National origin | United Kingdom |
| Manufacturer | Percy Salmon |
| Designer | Percy Salmon |
| Number built | 1 |
| History | |
| Introduction date | 1923 |
| Retired | 1923 |
| Fate | burnt, 1935 |
The Salmon Tandem Monoplane was a single-seat sport aeroplane produced for the 1923 Lympne light aircraft trials. The aeroplane failed to fly.
With prizes worth a total of £2,150, the Lympne light aircraft competition of October 1923 attracted 28 entries including the Tandem Monoplane which was given competition number 27.[1]
Designed by Percy Salmon, a draughtsman for the RAE, it was a single-seat tandem-wing aircraft.[2][3][4] It was powered by a 3.5 hp (2.6 kW) Bradshaw motorcycle engine driving a tractor propeller mounted at the end of a strut-braced driveshaft. It was registered as G-EBHQ on 23 March 1923 and was ready to fly several months later.