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The THK 11 was a 1940s prototype
Turkish
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* Something related to Turkey
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four-seat
monoplane
A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane, in contrast to a biplane or other types of multiplanes, which have multiple wings.
A monoplane has inherently the highest efficiency and lowest drag of any wing con ...
, designed by
Stanisław Rogalski
Stanisław Rogalski (25 May 1904 – 6 February 1976) was a Polish aircraft designer, born in Olomouc, best known as one of the founding trio (the other two being Stanisław Wigura and Jerzy Drzewiecki) of the inter-war period RWD airplane facto ...
and built by (THK - Turkish Aeronautical Association).
Design and development
The THK-11 was a high-wing twin-boom cantilever cabin monoplane with a
de Havilland Gipsy Major
The de Havilland Gipsy Major or Gipsy IIIA is a four-cylinder, air-cooled, inverted inline engine used in a variety of light aircraft produced in the 1930s, including the famous de Havilland Tiger Moth, Tiger Moth biplane. Many Gipsy Major en ...
piston engine driving a pusher propeller.
It has a fixed nose-wheel landing gear
and was first flown in 1947.
Specifications
See also
References
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1940s Turkish civil utility aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Turkish Aeronautical Association aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1947
Twin-boom aircraft