Argonaut Pirate

Argonaut Pirate

from the April, 1935 Aero Digest:

• President: J. Leroy Sutton. Vice-president and General Manager: Howard J. Heindel!.

Three-place high-wing pusher-type amphibian.

Menasco Pirate C-4 engine, 125 horsepower.

Span 35 feet 4 inches.

Length overall 26 feet.

Height overall 8 feet 2 inches.

Wing area 185 square feet.

Power loading 15 pounds per horsepower.

Wing loading 10.67 pounds per square foot.

Empty weight 1100 pounds.

Useful load 870 pounds.

Payload 100 pounds.

Gross weight 1970 pounds.

Fuel capacity 40 gallons.

Oil capacity 3 gallons.

Maximum speed 120 miles per hour.

Cruising speed 104 miles per hour.

Landing speed 40 miles per hour.

Service ceiling 15,000 feet.

Rate of climb 1000 feet per minute.

Cruising range 500 miles.

Hull: single water step side vent type, semi-monocoque wood construction; Haskelite 7-ply diaphragms connected longitudinally with spruce stringers; Haskelite plywood planked and doped top, bottom; fabric covered. Wing: fabric covered; solid spruce spars; built up ribs; Clark Y section; externally braced with streamline flying and landing wires; nose section plywood covered. Retractable landing gear, positive acting and locking; actuated by wheel in cockpit which moves axle and wheel down by fore-and-aft movement into line of flight; equipped with Goodyear airwheels, mechanical brakes, Rusco ring shock absorbers; full swiveling tail wheel equipped with Goodyear tire; engine mounted on steel tube struts carried through to the landing gear.

Standard equipment includes Flottorp four-bladed metal-tipped wood propeller, starter, cabin heater, anchor, navigation lights, brakes, switch.

Instruments: airspeed indicator, compass, tachometer, fuel gauge, ammeter voltmeter, altimeter, oil pressure gaug e, oil temperature gauge, bank and turn indicator.