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1928
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DECEMBER 13, 1928 THE WILLIAMS MONOPLANE An American Single-Seater Light Plane IN the spring of this year, tests were completed with the firstproduct of the Niles Aircraft Corp., of Niles, Mich.—a small single-seater low-wing monoplane fitted with a 30-h.p., 3-cyl.Anzani air-cooled radial engine. These tests being in every way successful, the firm decided, upon receipt of the U.S.Department of Commerce Approved Type Certificate, to put the machine into quantity production. of the rudder. The latter is of welded steel tubing with asheet metal cowling over the wheel. Thus the wheel is steerable with the rudder, besides being faired in.The rectangular fuselage is constructed of welded steel tubing, and no wire bracing is employed, the entire structurebeing built up in the form of a Warren truss. It is of good streamline shape, the airscrew being provided with a spinner THE WILLIAMS MONOPLANE : An American single-seater, low-wing light 'plane, fitted with a 30-h.p. Anzani. It is stated that during its trials this machine took off in50 ft. and climbed at the rate of about 1,000 ft. per minute. The landing speed was 25 m.p.h., although it was designedfor 30 m.p.h. Its estimated top speed is 85 m.p.h., while it has a cruising radius of 360 miles.As regards design and construction, the Williams monoplane more or less follows conventional practice, except for the some-what unusual feature of the employment of a small wheel in place of the usual tail skid. Here a small wire wheel,fitted with a brake band at its rim, is mounted in the bottom which fairs in with the lines of the fuselage, a wood turtledeckon top of the fuselage, from cockpit to tail, completing the streamline form ; in addition, there is a fairing extendingalong the top of the fuselage, in line with the pilot's head, from the nose and merging into the rudder, broken only bythe opening for the cockpit. The cockpit is very wide and roomy, from which excellentvision is afforded in all directions except directly below the pilot, where, of course, the wing obstructs the view. Con-ventional stick and rudder pedal control is fitted, and behind SPAN 26 - O. LENGTH I8'-Or WING AREA WILLIAMS MONOPLANE. 3OH.P ANZANI ENGINE. THE WILLIAMS MONOPLANE : General arrangement drawings. 1050
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