Flight test | Lambert Mission

The Lambert brothers'

Spacious Mission

This four-seat, award winning tourer will also be available as a kit.

Words by Bob Grimstead. Photos by James Grimstead.

FILIP AND STEVEN Lambert are young men with a mission. Knowing most high-performance lightplanes get their speed by having minimal frontal area, they felt that, using modern technology, it should be possible to make a light aircraft with both swiftness and interior roominess. As Filip says, "Human height increases by half-an-inch every ten years. Aeroplanes have not kept up. Current lightplanes were designed fifty years ago, so now they're cramped. And, if you design for Mr Average, by definition you instantly lose half your potential customers. We designed for big men!"

      So, they set to work crafting a safe and spacious four-seat aircraft with good performance and easy handling. Filip studied aeronautical engineering at Cranfield College of Aeronautics (now Cranfield University). This aeroplane (or, rather, family of aeroplanes) started as his postgraduate master's research