The BAT F.K.28 Crow was a British single-seat ultralight aircraft produced by
British Aerial Transport Company Limited of
London
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. It was intended to be the "aerial equivalent of the motor cycle".
Design and development
The smallest of designs from
Frederick Koolhoven
Frederick (Frits) Koolhoven (11 January 1886 – 1 July 1946) was an aircraft designer in Britain and his native Netherlands.
Koolhoven was born in Bloemendaal, Netherlands. After training as an engineer in Liège and Antwerp, he worked from 1 ...
when he worked for the British Aerial Transport Company was the F.K.28 Crow. It was very small and light high-wing monoplane, with a conventional tractor configuration. The monoplane's
tail surfaces were carried by
two slim booms. An
ABC Gnat 2-cylinder
horizontally-opposed engine
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- together with fuel and oil tanks - was mounted on the wing centre section. The pilot's seat was set between the landing gear suspended below the wing. It was designed to be dismantled for road-transport with the removal of twelve bolts. It was displayed at the First Air Traffic Exhibition in
Amsterdam
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, but it did not fly until some time later. It only flew once and proved to be underpowered. It was scrapped in 1920.
Specifications (F.K.28 Crow)
References
Further reading
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External links
Koolhoven aircraft
{{Koolhoven aircraft
1920s British civil aircraft
Crow
A crow is a bird of the genus ''Corvus'', or more broadly, a synonym for all of ''Corvus''. The word "crow" is used as part of the common name of many species. The related term "raven" is not linked scientifically to any certain trait but is rathe ...
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Twin-boom aircraft
Koolhoven aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1920
Aircraft flown once