Aerospace engineers and
aviation enthusiasts can view some of the world's greatest aircraft
on-line.
Ron Darner, a longtime CR4er who is also the newsletter editor for
Chapter 320
(Watertown, Wisconsin) of the Experimental Aircraft
Organization (EAA), has offered to take us on such a tour. Today, let's examine a British-built aircraft.
The Armstrong Whitworth Argosy
The Argosy was a British three-engined biplane airliner built by Armstrong
Whitworth Aircraft and operated by Imperial Airways from 1926 to 1935. Known
popularly as a "flying railroad car", it was one of the earliest
forms of passenger air transport. Though assigned different type numbers, the AW.650 civil and AW.660
military models were both called "Argosy" and for practical purposes
are basically the same design.
The civilian version of the Armstrong Whitworth
Argosy stemmed from a declaration by Imperial Airways that all its aircraft
would be multi-engined designs on the grounds of safety. Only four were constructed Variants included the AW 650 Argosy, the AW 660 Argosy C Mk1, the Hawker Siddeley Argosy E Mk1, and the Hawker Siddeley Argosy T Mk 2.
The person who posted this YouTube video (and many others) calls himself Bomberguy, and is
listed as being 53 years old and named "Ed."
His home page has its own video, about Leonard Bonney and the plane he
built called the Bonney Gull. It was
intended to emulate a seagull. Shades of Richard Bach, in Jonathon Livingston Seagull, perhaps?
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