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The Royal Aircraft Establishment Larynx (from "Long Range Gun with Lynx engine") was an early British pilotless aircraft, to be used as a guided anti-ship weapon. Started in September 1925, it was an early cruise missile guided by an autopilot.[1]

Design

A small monoplane powered by a 200 hp (150 kW) Armstrong Siddeley Lynx IV engine, it had a top speed of 200 mph (320 km/h), faster than contemporary fighters.[2]

It used autopilot principles developed by Professor Archibald Low^{[citation needed]} and already used in the Ruston Proctor AT, a radio controlled biplane that was intended to be used against German Zeppelin bombers.^{[citation needed]}

Project history

• First test 20 July 1927. Launched from cordite-powered catapult fitted to the S class destroyer HMS Stronghold. Crashed into Bristol Channel.[3]
• Second test 1 September 1927. Thought to have flown 100 miles (160 km) and was then lost.
• Third test 15 October 1927. 112 mile (180 km) flight, hit five miles from target.
• Two more launches in September and October 1928 from HMS Thanet, another S class destroyer.[3]
• Two launches May 1929. Launched from land, one overflew target and other was successful.

Specifications

Data from [2]

General characteristics

• Powerplant: 1 × Armstrong Siddeley Lynx IV radial engine, 200 hp (150 kW)
• Propellers: 2-bladed

Performance

• Maximum speed: 200 mph (320 km/h, 170 kn)

See also

• Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane
• Kettering Bug
• V-1 flying bomb

References

External links

• (1.0) The Aerial Torpedo
• Remote Piloted Aerial Vehicles : The 'Aerial Target' and 'Aerial Torpedo' in Britain
• Interwar British Experiments with Pilotless Aircraft pay to access
• "Automatic Flight" a 1958 Flight article
• The Mother of All Drones - Article Vintage Wings of Canada

На других языках

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- [en] RAE Larynx

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[fr] RAE Larynx

Conçu par le Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE), le RAE Larynx, pour « Long Range Gun with Lynx engine » (en français : « canon à longue portée équipé d'un moteur Lynx ») était un avion sans pilote britannique primitif, devant servir d'arme antinavire guidée.

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[ru] RAE Larynx

RAE Larynx (аббревиатура от англ. Long-range gun with Lynx engine, буквально «дальнобойное орудие с двигателем „Рысь“») — беспилотный самолёт-снаряд с поршневым двигателем, разработанный ВМФ Великобритании в конце 1920-х. Предназначался для обстрела береговых целей с кораблей. Несмотря на ряд сравнительно успешных испытаний в 1927—1929 годах, программа была закрыта из-за несоответствия параметров летательного аппарата развитию авиации.

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