ANEC II vintage aircraft flying at the Shuttleworth Trust in October 2015
The ANEC I and ANEC II were 1920s British single-engine ultralight aircraft designed and built by Air Navigation and Engineering Company Limited at Addlestone Surrey. One was privately constructed in Brisbane, Australia. The ANEC I and II, designed by Shackleton, were amongst the earliest ultralight aircraft; they were very small, wooden, strut braced high-wing monoplanes. The first ANEC I, registered G-EBHR, first flew at Brooklands on 21 August 1923. It was the first aircraft with an inverted engine, a 696 cc Blackburne Tomtit, to fly in the United Kingdom. The ANEC I was designed to the rules of the 1923 Lympne light aircraft trials, principally an engine capacity limit of 750 cc, and the two aircraft completed that August took part. The main prizes were for fuel economy and the second ANEC I G-EBIL, flown by Jimmy James, shared half of the £1,500 prize with an English Electric Wren for flights of miles (141 km) on one gallon ( L) of petrol. He later reached an altitude of 14,000 ft (4,267 m) in it. G-EBIL was evaluated by the Air Ministry in 1924, briefly carrying the RAF serial J7506.[3] Afterwards it was modified with a wingspan greatly reduced from 32 ft to 18 ft 4 in ( m to m) and re-engined with a 1,000 cc Anzani engine for entry in the 1925 Lympne August Bank Holiday Races, designated the ANEC IA. The ANEC II was an enlarged version of the ANEC I built for the 1924 Lympne light aircraft trials competition. Following the revised competition rules, it was a two-seater The only ANEC II, registered was restored to airworthy condition in 2004, with a single seat, the revised undercarriage and the Scorpion engine. It flies regularly at the Shuttleworth Trust at Old Warden
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Location: Old Warden Bedfordshire UK
Photo credit: © Niall Ferguson / Alamy / Afripics
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