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    Heir Characteristic: G.A. Owlet

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    The Owlet is a two-seater training aircraft developed by General Aircraft from the Cygnet light aircraft. It has an all-metal construction with open tandem cockpits and a tricycle landing gear. Key specifications include a 32ft 5in wingspan, 24ft 7in length, 7ft 3in height, and 150hp Cirrus Major engine giving it a top speed of 125mph. Its tricycle landing gear allows it to land at speeds ranging from 60-80mph, making it suitable for initial training in tricycle techniques and night flying.

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    The Owlet is a two-seater training aircraft developed by General Aircraft from the Cygnet light aircraft. It has an all-metal construction with open tandem cockpits and a tricycle landing gear. Key specifications include a 32ft 5in wingspan, 24ft 7in length, 7ft 3in height, and 150hp Cirrus Major engine giving it a top speed of 125mph. Its tricycle landing gear allows it to land at speeds ranging from 60-80mph, making it suitable for initial training in tricycle techniques and night flying.

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    The Owlet is a two-seater training aircraft developed by General Aircraft from the Cygnet light aircraft. It has an all-metal construction with open tandem cockpits and a tricycle landing gear. Key specifications include a 32ft 5in wingspan, 24ft 7in length, 7ft 3in height, and 150hp Cirrus Major engine giving it a top speed of 125mph. Its tricycle landing gear allows it to land at speeds ranging from 60-80mph, making it suitable for initial training in tricycle techniques and night flying.

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    The Owlet is a two-seater training aircraft developed by General Aircraft from the Cygnet light aircraft. It has an all-metal construction with open tandem cockpits and a tricycle landing gear. Key specifications include a 32ft 5in wingspan, 24ft 7in length, 7ft 3in height, and 150hp Cirrus Major engine giving it a top speed of 125mph. Its tricycle landing gear allows it to land at speeds ranging from 60-80mph, making it suitable for initial training in tricycle techniques and night flying.

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    JUNE IOTH, 1943

    heir Characteristic
    G.A. OWLET

    RECTANCULAR CENTRE SECTION

    FIXED TRICYCLE UNDERCARRIAGE

    TAPERED NQSf

    DIHEDRAL

    SLICHT TAPER

    DIMENSIONS
    Span Length Height .. Wing area 32ft. 5in. 24ft. 7in. 7ft. 3in. 173 sq. ft.

    ITH the advent of the tricycle (or nose-wheel) undercarriage on a number of American military types which R.A.F. pilots,might be called upon to fly, it was felt by General Aircraft that there was a place among elementary training types for a simple two-seater trainer having the tricycle undercarriage arrangement. Nor did the production of a machine of this type present the makers with any new problems, for they had pioneered the tricycle undercarriage in this country several years before the war when they produced an experimental model of the Monospar S.T.25 so fitted, and after taking over the Cygnet light aircraft in 1938 they converted this to the tricycle arrangement. The Owlet is, in fact, a development of the Cygnet and is of all-metal construction. The major change is the substitution of open tandem cockpits for the side-by-side seating, enclosed cabin of the Cygnet. But the rear portion of the fuselage, which is a monocoque boom attached by four bolts (and easily detachable for maintenance) is identical

    with that of the earlier civil type. The wings are covered in duralumin sheet and the twin tail-unit is also entirely of metal; in fact, only the detachable coaming of the forward component of the fuselage, which is of wood, provides an exception to the " all-metal " construction. A 150 h.p. inverted 4-cylinder, in-line air-cooled Cirrus Major engine is fitted and this gives a top speed of 125 m.p.h., a cruising speed of n o m.p.h., a service ceiling of 15,000ft., and a cruising range of 450 miles. Using the split trailing-edge flaps, the stalling speed is 53 m.p.h., but employing '' tricycle technique '' the Owlet may be landed at anything from 60 to 80 m.p.h. This wide range of landing, speeds, possible with a tricycle undercarriage since the nose wheel may be held down and the wings thus kept at negative incidence, is claimed by the machine's sponsors to-make it particularly suitable for preliminary training in night flying as well as for initial instruction in tricycle technique. Indeed they claim that pupils can be taught ab initio by night.

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