Comper Aircraft - Comper Kite, Comper Streak, Comper Swift, Comper Mouse (Paperback)

Chapters: Comper Kite, Comper Streak, Comper Swift, Comper Mouse. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 23. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Comper Kite was a single engined, two seat touring monoplane built in the UK, derived from the contemporary Comper Streak racer. Only one was built. The Kite was created by redesigning the single seat Comper Streak racing aircraft as a two seat tourer. The main changes, apart from the installation of the second cockpit by inserting an extra bay into the fuselage were the fitting of a more economical engine and the provision of extra tankage. Those things apart, only a few minor changes distinguished the two aircraft. The Kite, the last aircraft to be completed by the Comper Aircraft Company, was flying in early 1934, only a month after the Streak. The wings almost identical to those of the Streak. They were built up around a pair of spruce and plywood box section spars, carrying three-ply and spruce ribs and skinned with stressed three-ply sheet. They were gently tapering in plan with rounded tips. There was 5 dihedral outboard, but none on the centre section. Mass balanced ailerons, narrower than those of the Streak filled more than half of the trailing edge. The mass balances were conspicuously mounted on extended upward arms from near the aileron root. The tailplane and split elevators were also of spruce and plywood, but fabric covered. The rounded fin and rudder, though fabric covered had a steel tube structure. The elevators and rudder were mass balanced, with external weights like those on the ailerons. The rudder extended to the bottom of the fuselage, operating in a cut-out between the elevators. The rectangular cross-section fuselage consisted of four spruce Warren girders, fabric covered behind the engine. The pilot's cockpit was a...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2530628