The Druine D.60 Condor is a light aircraft designed by Roger Druine in France in the 1950s. Druine’s primary aim was to design a trainer aircraft for amateur construction. The Condor was subsequently made in quantity in the UK by Rollason Aircraft & Engines .
5-521: The first Condor F-WBIX first flew in 1956. The Condor was an evolution of the Druine Turbi , but featured an extensively revised fuselage allowing the pilot and instructor to sit side by side under a full canopy. Norman Jones, the founder of the Tiger Club and owner of Rollason Aircraft & Engines, had already had a number of Druine Turbulents built by his company and hit upon the idea of developing
10-552: A single passenger sat in tandem, open cockpits. Essentially a scaled-up version of the Druine Turbulent design, the Turbi shared that aircraft's wooden construction. Again, like its predecessor, it was intended to be able to be powered by a variety of air-cooled engines. The aircraft was marketed as plans and as a kit by Falconar Avia of Edmonton , Alberta, Canada. Plans are now supplied by Manna Aviation of Australia. The Turbi
15-576: The Condor for the demands of club flying. With a number of refinements to the design, Rollason Aircraft and Engines undertook series production at Croydon Airport from 1961 as the Rollason Condor . As Croydon had closed for flying in 1959, all aircraft were transported to Redhill, where they were reassembled and test flown. Norman Jones was keenly interested in the development of Flying Clubs and so made Condors available on favourable loan terms. To emphasise
20-424: The fact that his company was entirely independent and un-subsidised, Norman Jones had painted on the rudder of one aircraft the legend "British Made - Private Enterprise and No Taxpayers Money". In 1973, Rollasons ceased all aircraft work at Croydon and moved to Shoreham where a single Condor was completed. A number of unfinished fuselages were sold off for possible completion as amateur-built aircraft; one of these
25-513: Was G-BADM , registered to Rollasons in 1972 and subsequently completed in 1994 by an amateur. Borea in France also produced the D.61 Condor. Data from Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1966–67 General characteristics Performance Druine Turbi The Druine D.5 Turbi was a light aircraft designed in France in the 1950s for home building. It was a low-wing cantilever monoplane with fixed tailskid undercarriage. The pilot and
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