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Old 24th Jan 2010, 22:31
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One11 . You have it, it is indeed the DeBruyne Snark otherwise known as the Aero Research Snark.

In 1931, Doctor Norman de Bruyne, a professor at Cambridge University founded the Cambridge Aircraft Construction Company in a workshop at the flying school at the Cambridge airport. He was the first pupil of the school, learned to fly and soon bought a Gypsy Moth biplane. Convinced that British aircraft design had 'got stuck in a rut', he and a friend designed and built a low-wing monoplane called the Snark. The project took three years, and he changed the name of the company to Aero Research, and moved it to Duxford, ten miles south of Cambridge and the site of the Ciba-Geigy plant that today makes Aerolite.

The Snark was an all-wood design assembled with casein glue which was the only glue available with even the slightest water resistance.

Though stressed plywood skinned aircraft had been built before, it was claimed at the time that the Snark was the first to have be designed with full stress calculations, including loads carried by both wing and fuselage skins.
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