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ORIGINAL WARDILL

There were, it seems, some benefits to those long lockdowns in pandemic times. Some projects which had languished long could finally come to fruition. You might have seen the Wardill 4 prototype at the end of the last decade, displayed at classic shows by its creator, Mark Wardill.

It was a homage to a machine created by his great-grandfather Percy Wardill in the early 1920s, which originally had a homebuilt two-stroke single engine in it. It's a Wardill 4 because the last

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