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Amazing Aircraft: Pterodactyl, And The Origins Of The Tailless And Flying Wing

One of the most unusual series of experimental aircraft produced in the UK since the start of powered flight has to be the ‘flying wing’ Pterodactyls designed by Captain Geoffrey T. R. Hill with, in the main, assistance and support coming from Westland Aircraft. This article, updated and revised after having originally been published in Aeromilitaria, is understood to be one of the fullest accounts of these aircraft written so far and includes material accessed in the British National Archives, plus images that have never previously been published. Beginning with the lightweight Pterodactyl I of 1924, Hill took his concept forward through several stages to the test flying of a full-scale fighter prototype, the Pterodactyl V of 1934, and proposals were also made for a flying boat and other versions. No production machines were to be built, but Hill’s attempts to create such radical airplanes for their day should not be forgotten. The Pterodactyl concept was the brainchild of Captain (later Professor) Geoffrey T. R. Hill, and he first began his work towards building and flying a trial airplane in 1923. This effort was looked upon, to begin with at least, as an attempt to improve safety in flight, what Hill described as ‘aerodynamic safety’ – the freedom from accidents caused by a lack of control (1). Faced with the fact that around fifty lives were being lost in the Royal Air Force every year, and with a large proportion of these due to accidents brought about by a loss of control in the air, Hill set himself to try to design an airplane which would “never, through an error on the part of the pilot, get out of control” (2). Having seen the results of Hill’s theoretical work, the Aeronautical Research Committee (ARC) then started wind channel testing at the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE). Watch more aircraft, heroes, and their stories and missions ➤    / @dronescapes   To support/join the channel ➤    / @dronescapes   IG ➤   / dronescapesvideos   FB ➤   / dronescapesvideos   X/Twitter ➤ https://dronescapes.video/2p89vedj THREADS ➤ https://www.threads.net/@dronescapesv... #aviation #aircraft #airplane