The Granger Archaeopteryx is a British single-engined, tailless parasol monoplane designed and built in the late 1920s by two brothers, R.F.T.
The layout of the Archaeopteryx was inspired by the tailless swept-winged Westland-Hill Pterodactyl, itself derived from the aircraft of J. W. Dunne.
The Archaeopteryx follows the Dunne D.7 in being a parasol wing monoplane, however it differs in being the first aircraft of tailless swept configuration to have a nose-mounted tractor propeller.
Lateral and pitch control is via all-moving wing tips which act as elevons, as developed by Hill for the Pterodactyl.
[1] The brothers both piloted the aircraft many times in the Nottingham area, and flew it as far as Hatfield in June 1935 to attend a flying display.
In the 1960s the designers realised the type's significance as a forerunner of modern swept wing aircraft, and on 28 April 1967, G-ABXL was presented to the Shuttleworth Collection by R.J.T.