The Aviation Historian — Issue 21 (October 2017)

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ABOVE Windtunnel tests of the FC.1 were undertaken

with this beautiful handmade model, seen here without a

central fin and with the Fairey-Youngman flaps extended.

The model incorporates a tricycle undercarriage,

although a tailwheel arrangement was also considered.

LEFT & BELOW By the spring of 1939 the FC.1

mock-up was nearing completion in the company’s

experimental workshop at Hayes and incorporated flight

instrumentation in the cockpit, including the central

control pedestal and a Sperry autopilot panel.

PHILIP JARRETT COLLECTION

PHILIP JARRETT COLLECTION