User:Nigel Ish/SandboxAeronautical Syndicate Valkyrie

The Aeronautical Syndicate Valkyrie was as a series of British aircraft of the early 1910s. Unusually for the time, they were canard (i.e. tail first) monoplanes. Small numbers were built in 1910–1911, being used as training aircraft and flying the first air frieght flight, but the type was abandoned by 1912.

Design and development
In 1909 the British aviation pioneer Horatio Barber set up the Aeronautical Syndicate Ltd at Larkhill on Salisbury Plain, and started to design and build experimental aircraft. His first aircraft, which made its maiden flight in March 1910, was a single-engined pusher configuration canard monoplane. It had a fixed canard surface with a separate forward mounted elevator behind and below the canard, and a forward mounted vertical fin. Lateral control was by wing warping, while it was powered by a 60 hp (45 kW) Green engine.