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1920
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MAY 13, 1920 SMALL SPORTING AEROPLANES WE have received from the Controller of Information of theDepartment of Civil Aviation Technical Memo. No. 13, in the form of a summary of the existing information in regardto small sporting aeroplanes of 50 h.p. and under. Inasmuch as the subject of small sporting aeroplanes'is, in our opinion,a very interesting and important one, we have taken this opportunity of enlarging somewhat on the information sentus by the above Department, and thus provide our readers with a more complete reference to this type of machine.We have prepared sketches of each of the machines (with one exception), and have added to the data supplied in thetable of specifications—we have also taken the liberty of slightly altering the arrangement of the latter. The following is a list of the machines, together with theirspecial features :— Monoplanes B.A.T. "Crow" F.K. 28 (BRITISH).—Tractor single-seater " Demoiselle " type with 40 h.p. A.B.C. " Gnat " engine. Cantilever wings. Tail carried by two box-girder outriggers.Engine mounted on centre of wings. Pilot seated in nacelle underneath. Has flown. Messrs. British Aerial TransportCo., London, England. Blackburn " Sidecar " (BRITISH).—Tractor side-by-sidetwo-seater with 40 h.p. A.B.C. " Gnat" engine. Messrs. Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Co., England. Didier " Oiseau Bleu " (FRENCH) .—A twin pusher two-seater with two 3 h.p. engines. Reported patented design of Capt. Didier of the French Army. No further particularsknown. Farman " Moustique " (FRENCH).—Tractor single-seater with A.B.C. " Gnat." Has flown. M. and F. Farman, Billancourt, France.Fokker V. 40 (GERMAN (?) DUTCH).—Tractor single-seaterwith 30 h.p. Anzani engine. Parasol type, mainly of metal construction. Has flown. Fokkerwerke, Schwerin, Ger-many. Gallaudet " Chummy Flyabout " (U.S.A.).—Twin pusher side-by-side two-seater with two Indian motor-cycleengines mounted in the nose of the fuselage and driving the airscrews through shaft and bevel transmission gear. Gal-laudet Aircraft Corp., East Greenwich, Conn., U.S.A. Loening " Kitten " (U.S.A.).—Tractor single-seater sea-plane with inverted Y-type three-cylindered Lawrence (air-, cooled) engine. Twin single-step floats made of aluminiumWings braced from underneath by struts, no top bracing. Modified R.A.F. 15 wing section. Has flown. LoeningAeronautical Engineering Corp., New York, U.S.A. White " Sportplane " (U.S.A.).—Tractor single-seaterwith 18 h.p. Indian motor-cycle engine. Wings braced by diagonal struts (underneath) to fuselage, no wires. Noundercarriage or shock-absorbers, spring wheels attached directly to fuselage. George D. White Co., Los Angeles,Co., U.S.A. BiplanesAce (U.S.A.).—Tractor single-seater with 40 h.p. four- cylindered water-cooled Ace engine. Two one-piece I inter-plane struts each side of the fuselage. Wheel and skid under- carriage. Has flown. Horace Kean Aeroplanes, NewYork, U.S.A. Ace " K-I " (U.S.A.).—1920 model of above. Tractorsingle-seater with 40 h.p. Ace engine. Nose radiator. One I interplane strut each side of fuselage. Folding wings. Hasflown. As above. Austin " Whippet " (BRITISH).—Tractor single-seaterwith 45 h.p. Anzani engine. Mainly of metal construction, without bracing wires. Folding wings. Has flown. Messrs.Austin Motor Co., Birmingham, England. Avro " Baby " (534) (BRITISH).—Tractor single-seaterwith 35 h.p. four-cylindered water-cooled Green engine. Nose radiator. Has flown. Messrs. A. V. Roe and Co., Manchesterand Hamble, England. Bellanca (U.S.A.).—Tractor single-seater with 35 h.p.Anzani engine. Has flown. Maryland Aeroplane Co., New York, U.S.A. •„•-,' • -.. ".- -.•• _••" t: .... -...-./. .' '.-••".:;. " Flight" Copyright THE SMALL SPORTING AEROPLANES : Seven types of monoplanes of British, American, French and German origin ••*• 5*9 D 2 ,- • •.•"**•
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