Welcome to this Tales From the Hut & Hangar Aviation Rarities episode about General Aircraft Limited’s GAL.33 Cagnet, GAL.45 Owlet & GAL.47. Around the start of WW2 the British Air Ministry put out tenders for the requirement for an Air Observation Post aircraft under the specification F/140. GAL aircraft & other types that were also considered.
The aircraft mentioned in the video:
A later AOP (A.2/45) aircraft:
Dinger’s Aviation Pages;
https://www.dingeraviation.net/
My connections with Taylorcraft Plus D Auster Mk.I c/n 211 LB352 (G-AHCR) Built in 1942. My crap filming of a landing at Middlezoy Aerodrome:
Flight of the Auster: Remembering D-Day:
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Recorded @ BTRADS early December 2024, Weston-super-Mare, England.
Sorry about the background noise it was very windy!
All the best! Keith
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Can always depend on TFHH for finding aircraft I have never heard of. Thanks!
…LOVE YOUR CHANNEL SIR , NOT JUST FOR THE INTERESTING AIRCRAFT , BUT FOR THE GREAT HISTORY LESSON AS WELL…👍
Again very intersting,,thx for findin such aircraft.👍👏,,have a wonderful "Adventszeit"🕯️🌟🌲
F.y.i. Musch, nowadays spelled as mus, is the Dutch word for sparrow.
De Schelde was actually a navy shipyard but tried to diversify into aircraft design and production before WW2. After the war it survived quite long as the main supplier of ships for the Dutch navy but never went back to aircraft.
Three for the price of one! Christmas came early!
Was the "Cag" in Cagnet a deliberate pun on the initials of the Civil Air Guard and the Cygnet?
The Owlet was advertised as being able to be left outside in all weathers (albeit sheeted over)…with a baby owl sitting on a branch in sunshine and alongside with icicles hanging from its beak.
fun looking aircraft, but probably not for the faint of heart,
or stomach.
GAL.47 is kind of neat looking.
I like the Vigilante, it looks like the forerunner for the Lysander.
The GAL.47's looks would suggest it was made by Blackburn…