American Eaglet

American Eagletfrom the April, 1935 Aero Digest:

• President and Treasurer: Victor Roos. Vice-president: W. B. Williams. Chief Engineer: M. P. Crews.
Two-place open high-wing monoplane.

Szekely engine, 45 horsepower.

Span 34 feet 4 inches. Length overall 21 feet 7.25 inches. Height overall 8 feet 4 inches. Wing area 164.4 square feet.

Power loading 20.5 pounds per horsepower. Wing loading 3.65 pounds per horsepower.

Empty weight 509 pounds. Useful load 413 pounds. Gross weight 922 pounds.

Fuel capacity 8.5 gallons.

Maximum speed 90 miles per hour. Cruising speed 75 miles per hour. Landing speed 25 miles per hour. Service ceiling 14.500 feet. Rate of climb 700 feet per minute.’ Cruising range 210 miles.

Fuselage: rectangular structure; welded S. A. E. 4130 steel tubes, fabric covered; tandem seating arrangement, with conventional dual controls, main fuel tank behind fireproof bulkhead. Wing: one-piece structure of conventional wood two spar spruce type, fabric covered; spruce compression struts and round tie-rods; attached to fuselage by two sets of cabane Vee struts, with an additional tubing brace extending diagonally from the upper forward fitting to the lower rear fittings on either side; two wing struts extent obliquely down on each side to the lower fuselage longerons; additional bracing provided by two jury struts tying into the wing structure. Tail group: balanced rudder; rigid fin; adjustable stabilizer; streamline wire braced to fuselage longerons. Fixed split-type airwheels on four-inch hubs, Goodrich tires and rubber ring shock absorbers; diagonally braced to provide strength. Cables running over pulleys are used for engine and plane controls.

Standard equipment includes Pyrene fire extinguisher and Flottorp propeller.
Instruments: altimeter, tachometer, oil pressure gauge, fuel gauge, switch, choke, fuel shut-off. Also see data in September, 1930, AERO DIGEST.