Norfolk Petrel

摘要

In Fordaire Aviation Ltd's hangar at the former USAAF airfield at Seething, a unique survivor of a pre-war British wooden twin-engined aircraft is undergoing an intensive restoration, over half a century after the type's last flight. The Percival Type Q was the first twin-engined type designed by the company and was originally intended to be produced in two variants; the Q.4 (to be powered by a pair of four-cylinder de Havilland Gipsy Major engines) and the Q.6 (powered by six-cylinder Gipsy Sixes, and fitted with longer-span wings).