page_title: RAE Larynx
hierarchical_section_title: RAE Larynx
caption_attribution_description: The RAE Larynx (Long Range Gun with Lynx Engine) missile on cordite-fired catapult of destroyer HMS Stronghold, July 1927. The man on the box is Dr. George Gardner; later Director of RAE.
context_page_description: The Royal Aircraft Establishment Larynx 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; faster than contemporary fighters.
  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.
context_section_description: 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.
  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.
caption: "RAE Larynx on cordite fired catapult of destroyer HMS Stronghold, July 1927.  The man on the box is Dr. George Gardner, later Director of RAE." [1]
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