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Austin Whippet
The Austin Whippet was a British single-seat light aircraft designed and built by the Austin Motor Company just after the First World War. It was a small single-seat biplane, intended to be an inexpensive aircraft for the amateur private pilot, and a small number were built before Austin abandoned aircraft production.
==Development and design==
In 1919, John Kenworthy, chief designer of the motor manufacturer Austin Motor Company, (who had built large numbers of aircraft under license during the First World War) designed a small single-seater light aircraft in order to cash in on an expected boom in private flying. The resulting aircraft, named the Austin Whippet, was a small single-seat biplane of mixed construction, with a fabric covered steel tube fuselage, and single-bay, folding wooden wings. The wings avoided the need for rigging wires by use of streamlined steel lift struts.〔Jackson 1974, p.89.〕〔''Flight'' 15 July 1920, pp. 751-752.〕
The first prototype, powered by a two-cylinder horizontally opposed engine,〔''Flight'' 14 August 1919, pp.1076-1078.〕 flew in 1919, receiving its Airworthiness Certificate in December that year.〔 Production aircraft were powered by a six-cylinder Anzani air-cooled radial, and four more aircraft followed before Austin abandoned aircraft production in 1920, when it realised that the postwar depression was severely limiting aircraft sales.〔〔Gunston 2005, p.36.〕
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