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After leaving school, Baynes started work in the fledgling aircraft industry with [[Airco]] (The Aircraft Manufacturing Company) at [[Hendon Aerodrome]]. From there, he moved on to [[Short Brothers]] at [[Rochester, Kent|Rochester]], where he redesigned the [[Short Singapore]] [[flying boat]].
In 1930, Baynes designed the ''Scud'' light [[glider (sailplane)|sailplane]], built at first by Brant Aircraft Limited at [[Croydon]]. The Scud was successful, and in 1931, Baynes went into partnership with E.D. Abbott as [[Abbott-Baynes Sailplanes Ltd]], of [[Farnham]], Surrey, to build [[Scud I|Scud 1]] sailplanes, and later the [[Abbott-Baynes Scud 2|Scud 2]] (1932). In 1935, a ''Scud II'' flown by [[Mungo Buxton]] took the British Height Record for a glider to 8,750 feet (2,666 m).
In 1935, [[Sir John Carden, 6th Baronet|Sir John Carden]], an authority on tank design who was interested in gliding, outlined to Baynes his requirements for a self-launching sailplane. Baynes designed the ''Scud III'' sailplane, built by Abbott-Baynes Sailplanes, which when fitted with an engine was called the [[Carden-Baynes Auxiliary]]. That carried a retractable 249 cc [[Villiers Engineering|Villiers]] engine mounted on top of the fuselage. The engine drove a pusher-propeller and produced 9 bhp, and the capacity of the fuel tank was enough to run the engine for thirty minutes. The 249 cc Auxiliary is believed to be the lowest-powered aircraft in the history of powered flight.<ref>Meaden (2008)</ref>
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