Dart Aircraft - Aircraft

Aircraft

• The first aircraft produced by Zander & Weyl was a nacelled Zögling primary glider, built for the Cambridge University Gliding Club in February 1935. This was followed by a Grunau Baby.
• The Zander & Weyl Cambridge, a single-seat sailplane similar to the German Grunau Baby
• The Dart Totternhoe was a secondary glider designed by Mr J Keeble and similar to the Slingsby Kirby Kadet.
• A replica Cayley glider, Lilienthal monoplane and biplane types, and a Wright 1902 glider, were built in 1935 for the Alexander Korda film "Conquest of the Air".

By 1936 the company had begun designing and constructing light single-engine aircraft:

• The Dunstable Dart (renamed Dart Pup when the company name was changed). The Dart was a light aircraft built in 1936; only one example was built. The aircraft was destroyed in a 1938 crash.
• Dart Flittermouse (1936), a single-seat ultralight monoplane
• The Dart Kitten, another single-seat ultralight, a low-wing single-seater intended for the private owner and for the solo training of pupils with a few hours to their credit. . The Kitten I first flew in 1937. An Ava engine of 25 h.p. was specified, giving an estimated top speed of 87 m.p.h. The span, length and wing area are 31 ft. 9 in., 21 ft. and 130 sq. ft. At an all-up weight of 682 lb., the wing loading is 5.25 Ib./sq.ft.
• The Kitten II (G-AEXT)was also first flown in 1937.
• The Kitten III was built in 1951
• A fourth Kitten was home-built in Australia in the 1960s.
• The Dart Weasel was a trainer designed for an RAF competition but evidently not built