A well detailed ½in.:1ft scale static display model of an A.S.L. Valkyrie Type B Pusher Monoplane of 1910 built by P. Veale with wooden braced airframe of mahogany and spruce, fore and main planes and rudders covered in doped fabric, working aelerons and rudders, detailed 50h.p. Gnome rotary engine with fuel tanks, carburettor, valve gear and throttle lever, wooden propellor, pilots seat with rudder bar and control column, rubber tyred spoked wheels with shock cord suspension and other details, finished in natural doped fabric and letterd 'Valkyrie No 5'. Wingspan -- 15½in. (39.5cm.) Overall length -- 12½in. (31.6cm.) Airstrip plinth and perspex cover

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A well detailed ½in.:1ft scale static display model of an A.S.L. Valkyrie Type B Pusher Monoplane of 1910 built by P. Veale with wooden braced airframe of mahogany and spruce, fore and main planes and rudders covered in doped fabric, working aelerons and rudders, detailed 50h.p. Gnome rotary engine with fuel tanks, carburettor, valve gear and throttle lever, wooden propellor, pilots seat with rudder bar and control column, rubber tyred spoked wheels with shock cord suspension and other details, finished in natural doped fabric and letterd 'Valkyrie No 5'. Wingspan -- 15½in. (39.5cm.) Overall length -- 12½in. (31.6cm.) Airstrip plinth and perspex cover
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Provenance

'Flight' and'Aero' magazines, October 1910 - March 1911
R. Dallas Brett History of British Aviation 1908-1914
Peter Lewis British Aircraft 1809-1914
J.M. Bruce Esq: Archive material owned
The late Major John Wells M.C., ex pupil at Hendon, c.1911

Lot Essay

This aircraft was one of several hundred built by the Aeronautical Syndicate formed by Horatio Barber on Salisbury Plain in 1909.

The company moved to the London Aerodrome at Hendon in 1910 where they built a number of similar pusher monoplanes with various engines.

They also operated a flying school using their own aeroplanes for tuition and several people qualified for their Royal Aero Club certificates until Barber decided to cease manufacture and the company was wound up in 1912.

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