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Designer & manufacturer of the WICKO, Geoffrey Wikner with wife Trudy, and son Kynaston Val in WICKO

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WICKO Monoplane

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WICKO – prior to registration

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WICKO powered with converted Ford V 8 Motor:
Top speed – 110 mph; Cruising speed – 95 mph; Landing speed – 50 mph

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Original Wicko re-engined with 90 h.p. Cirrus Minor.

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WICKO  G-AENU:  powered with 90 hp Cirrus Minor Motor
Top speed – 120 mph; Cruising speed – 100 mph; Landing speed – 42 mph

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Trophy for Concourse d’Elegance won by WICKO Minor from a field of 20 British Aircraft.  Portsmouth 1937

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Wicko Minor G-AENU alongside first Gipsy Wicko G- AEZZ

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WICKO GAEZZ:  Top speed – 140 mph; Cruising speed -
120 mph; Landing speed – 45 mph  Original GMI Wicko G- AEZZ

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General arrangement drawings for Gipsy WICKO  - construction plan- front view

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General arrangement drawings for Gipsy WICKO  - side view

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General arrangement drawings for Gipsy WICKO  - top view

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Spat, leg and left lift strut detail GM1. Note cockpit door step

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Showing side-by-side seating,  duel controls and instrument panel.

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Gipsy Major Engine Installation Gipsy Major installation. Note upside down rubber engine mounts. Centrally hinged engine cowling. Oil tank mounted on fire wall. Filler cap vivible.

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The WICKO Contour Changing Wing Flaps, fully lowered.

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WICKO Simplified One-piece Wing Construction, which eliminates any possibility of malalignment.  Prior to the application of the top skin.

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Empennage and Rudder Mass Balance

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The WICKO Cantilever Undercarriage with Palmer Wheels.
Note.  This undercarriage has just been returned from the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough where it successfully underwent drop tests for ascertaining the shock absorbing qualities

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Undercarriage leg.

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The undercarriage in position and fitted with BENDIX Brakes

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The Rugged leaf spring tailskid

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An interior view of the fuselage prior to the insertion of four bulkheads and corner gussets.  The doors are constructed with the fuselage sides and are shown prior to cutting out.

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Wicko Warferry HM 574. Three seats, single control, smaller fuel tank, stub exhaust, no flaps.

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Fin and Elevator prior to the application of the skin

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Fitters at workFour Wickos under construction in original hangar at Eastleigh. Question is: Which one is JB?

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Fitters at work Casual work dress and even neck ties!

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Wood working machines. Note plume of unshielded saw dust!

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Tail view of Gipsy WICKO G-AEZZ. Spin parachute fitting and jettison control.

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The WICKO Aerobatic Two Seater fitted with Gipsy Major Engine

Air Ministry Spinning Trials necessitates the fitting of a tail parachute to the aircraft which here shown after ejection.  This is not standard equipment.  The WICKO readily recovers.

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The Wicko Aerobatic two seater.

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WICKO Warferry - HM574. The Newport Wicko ZK- AGN. This aeroplane had slight dihedral, increased tail plane area, built in rudder mass balance and removable wings, though this was a workshop job and designed to make packing the aircraft easier to ship. Impressed in WW II and destroyed in 1941.