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The Royal Aircraft Establishment Larynx (from "Long Range Gun with Lynx engine") was an early British pilotless aircraft, to be used as a guided anti-ship weapon. Started in September 1925, it was an early cruise missile guided by an autopilot. A small monoplane powered by a 200 hp Armstrong Siddeley Lynx IV engine, it had a top speed of 200 mph (320 km/h); faster than contemporary fighters.〔Gibson and Buttler. ''British Secret Projects: Hypersonics, ramjets and missiles'' Midland 2007〕 It used autopilot principles developed by Professor Archibald Low and already used in the Ruston Proctor AT, a radio controlled biplane that was intended to be used against German Zeppelin bombers. ==Project history== *First test 20 July 1927. Launched from cordite-powered catapult fitted to the S class destroyer HMS ''Stronghold''. Crashed into Bristol Channel. *Second test 1 September 1927. Thought to have flown 100 miles (160 km) and then was lost. *Third test 15 October 1927. 112 mile (180 km) flight, hit five miles from target. *Two more launches in September and October 1928 from HMS ''Thanet'', another S class destroyer. *Two additional launches May 1929. Launched from land, one overflew target and other was successful.〔Werrell PDF page 29〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「RAE Larynx」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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