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Fairchild Cabin-plane-5-seat cabin monoplane; folding wings braced by steel V tubes on each side; radial motor, low-placed, affording view through sloping windscreen from glass-enclosed deep cabin; fuselage full; rudder, stabilizers large and curving...
Peculiar was the trifling 600-lb. plane tested at Akron, Ohio, last week by Vearne Clifton Babcock, designer. Wings taper from narrow tips to broad bases at the fuselage. The fuselage is slim, rudder and stabilizers small. The motor is a 65 h. p. midget radial, built by the Le Blond Aircraft Engine Corp. of Cincinnati. At the machine's centre of gravity is the cockpit with two seats side by side. That location of the cockpit helps maneuver the machine, Designer Babcock found in his tests. The plane...
...Whirlwind for medium-sized passenger planes, its 150-h. p. Whirlwind for small runabout planes. Topping those advertisements, Wright's then announced that they would manufacture the loo-h. p. De Haviland Gypsy, a four-cylinder-in-line air-cooled engine (the other Wrights are radial air-cooled) for small gadabouts.† Usufructs of this astute advertising: people have bought twice as many planes as last year; next year they will buy twice as many as this; and they may naturally be expected to demand the motors they know most about...
...made Command-Aire a leader in the industry. *At $2,400 without motor. TIME, Dec. 3, erroneously printed the price as $24,000. †The Gypsy is the third British motor to be made in this country The others: Cirrus, similar to the Gypsy; the Bristol Jupiter air-cooled radial...
Motor Manufacture. The Wrights in 1903 could get no one to make them a suitable flying motor; they invented one themselves. It was vertical and water-cooled. But the Wright Aeronautical Corp., which bought their airplane patents now makes radial air-cooled (whirlwind and cyclone) motors, but no planes. Nearly 3,000 Wright whirlwinds will have been made & sold this year. Pratt & Whitney (Wasp & Hornet radial motors) is the next largest motor maker, with 1,200 output this year. Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. makes V-type motors for its own planes; Fairchild Aviation Corp. is almost ready to market...