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General Aircraft GAL.50 Hamilcar I – half scale prototype Hamilcar I – one built. General Aircraft GAL.55 – a two-seat training glider, two built. General Aircraft GAL.56 – an experimental flying-wing glider, four built. General Aircraft GAL.58 Hamilcar X – a powered version of the Hamilcar I with 22 converted from the latter.
The GAL.55 was a two-seat training glider to meet Air Ministry Specification TX.3/43, [1] and was selected ahead of the Airspeed AS.54, with the British Air Ministry ordering three prototypes. [2] The requirement called for a glider for basic and advanced training transport of glider pilots. [2]
GAL then produced a developed version, the Monospar ST-10, externally the same but powered by two Pobjoy Niagara engines, an improved fuel system, and aerodynamic refinements. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] The Monospar ST-11 was developed from the ST-10, with retractable landing gear, and two were built for export to Australia .
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The number of Hamilcars that the War Office required frequently fluctuated. In May 1942 the War Office asked GAL for 360 Hamilcars to be used in two major airborne operations, but this was found to be unrealistic; not only was the production rate for the glider far too slow to accommodate this large number, the same number of tugs needed to tow the gliders could not be found.
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