A monoplane is an aircraft with one main set of wing surfaces, in contrast to a biplane or triplane. Since the late 1930s it has been the “ordinary” form for a fixed wing aircraft.
In a high-wing monoplane, the wing upper surface is mounted above the top of the fuselage. The term parasol monoplane, is more or less obsolete – it used to be applied to a high-wing monoplane, especially one where the wing was mounted well above the fuselage.
Today, small, light airplanes, like the Piper Cub, are high-wing monoplanes.
Stinson Aircraft Corporation, Wayne, Michigan
Specifications from Aero Digest, April, 1935:
• Two-place open high-wing monoplane. Lycoming R-680-4 engine, 225 horsepower.
Span 39 feet 11.5 inches. Length overall 21 feet 8 inches. Height overall 8 feet. Wing area 215 square feet. Power loading 11.75 pounds per horsepower. Wing loading 12.3 pounds per square foot.
Empty weight [...]
Star Aircraft Company, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Specifications from Aero Digest, April, 1935:
• President: John H. Kane. Vice-president, General Manager and Sales Manager: Billy Parker. Chief Engineer: Charles Peters.
Two-place high-wing monoplane. A TC 321. Lambert R-266 engine, 90 horsepower.
Span 31 feet. Length overall 20 feet 1 inch. Height overall 6 feet 8 inches. Wing area [...]
Spartan Aircraft Company, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Specifications from Aero Digest, April, 1935:
• Vice-president and General Manager: E. W. Hudlow. Chief Engineer: James B. Ford.
Four-place high-wing monoplane. Pratt and Whitney Wasp Junior engine, 320 horsepower. ATC 389.
Span 50 feet. Length overall 32 feet 7.75 inches. Height overaIl 8 feet 11 inches. Wing area 299 square feet. [...]
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Bridgeport, Conn.
Specifications from Aero Digest, April, 1935:
• Seventeen-place high-wing amphibion. Two P. & W. Hornet S1E-G engines, 750 horsepower each.
Span 84 feet. Length overall 50 feet 5 inches. Height overall 17 feet 9 inches. Wing area 775 square feet. Chord 11 feet 6 inches. Power loading 11.7 pounds per horsepower. Wing loading [...]
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Specifications from Aero Digest, April, 1935:
• Thirty-seven place high-wing seaplane. ATC 544. Four P. & W. S5D-1G Hornet engines, 700 horsepower each.
Span 114 feet 2 inches. Length overall 67 feet 8 inches. Height overall 17 feet 4 inches. Wing area 1330 square feet. Power loading 13.57 pounds per horsepower. [...]
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Specifications from Aero Digest, April, 1935:
• President: Fred W. Neilson. Vice-president in charge of engineering: Igor I. Sikorsky.
Forty-five place high-wing seaplane. A TC 454. Four P. & W. Hornet engines, 575 horsepower each.
Span 114 feet. Length overall 76 feet 8 inches. Height overall 23 feet 10 inches. Wing [...]
A long distance aircraft of the 1920s
All-metal, high-wing monoplane
The freezing Arctic wind penetrated the unheated, corrugated metal craft taking off from Spitsbergen, Norway. Navigator Richard Byrd, an ambitious U.S. Navy Commander, and pilot Floyd Bennett struggled to keep warm in their furs. They made a long flight north that day, and on their return [...]
Most widely produced military aircraft of the interwar period
The “Question Mark” made the Paris – New York flight in 1930
an aircraft featured on the Hall of Fame of the Air
Captain Dieudonne Costes and navigator Maurice Bellonte flew this specially modified red Breguet 19, “Point d’Interrogation,” or “Question Mark” on the first non-stop, Paris to [...]
From Aero Digest, April, 1935:
Rearwin Airplanes, Incorporated, Fairfax Airport, Kansas City, Kansas
• President and General Manager: R. A. Rearwin. Vice-president: Albert R. Jones. Sales Manager: George M. Prescott. Chief Engineer: William Henry Weeks.
Two-place high-wing monoplane, American Cirrus Hi-drive inverted engine, 95 horsepower or Menasco. Span 32 feet. Length overall 21 feet 6 inches. [...]
Two-place high-wing monoplane. LeBlond engine, 70 horsepower.
Advertisement and schematic from Aero Digest, April, 1935:
Porterfield Aircraft Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri
• President and General Manager: E. E. Porterfield, Jr. Vice-president: M. S. Porterfield. Designer and Production Manager: N. R. Hockaday. Chief Engineer: Hugh L. Thompson.
Span 32 feet. Length overall 20 feet. Height overall 6 feet 7 inches. [...]
