Word: aeroncas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Avian biplane. Their ambition was to become Chinese Air Force pilots. Last week Student Pilots Wong & Fong decided to put on an aerial exhibition to welcome to the U. S. Chang Fa-kwei, China's famed "Iron General." Fong flew the Avian. Wong hired a tiny 2-cyl. Aeronca at Flushing Airport. Over Brooklyn's people-packed Williamsburg district they flew in close formation, weaved back & forth, up & down. Then, in a flash, Wong zoomed up too close. Like a buzz saw, Fong's propeller sheared off his plane's tail, sent him whirling and whining...
...been expected, it was largely a "light-plane show," about half the planes on display falling into the price range between $1,000 and $3,000. Notable among the "flivver planes" were Stout's Sky Car (TIME, April 13), the Buhl Bull Pup, Curtiss-Wright Junior, the Aeronca and the Heath...
Other light planes of the year: Heath ($975),†† American Eaglet ($995 & $1,395), Aeronca ($1,495), Huntington Chum...
Another to capitalize upon advance fame was the tiny Aeronca sometimes referred to as a powered glider, which, with its 2-cylinder 30 h. p. motor, had flown from Cincinnati to New York at $9.60 fuel cost (TIME, April 21). Other comparatively new features were likewise to be found among small craft: the Sikorsky S-39 four-passenger sport amphibian; the Eastman small flying yacht; the Whittelsey flying boat; three two-place craft. Huntington Governor, the Continental Sport, and the Engineer Aircraft Corp.'s The Engineer, the latter capable of storage with wings folded in a garage...
Engines in the show ranged from the 30 h. p. Aeronca to the 1,800 h. p., 18-cylinder Isotta-Fraschini, largest single-unit aircraft power plant ever built...