from Aero Digest, April, 1935:
Lawrence W. Brown Aircraft Company, Los Angeles, California
• One-place open low-wing monoplane. Menasco C4S engine, inverted in-line rated at 150 horsepower. (225 horsepower for racing purposes.)
Span 16 feet 8 inches. Length overall 16 feet 9 inches. Wing area 50 square feet.
Power loading 5.1 pounds per horsepower. Wing loading 20.5 pounds per square foot.
Empty weight 741 pounds. Useful load 384 pounds. Gross weight 1025 pounds.
Fuel capacity 20 gallons. Oil capacity 3 gallons.
Maximum speed 240 miles per hour. Landing speed 70-80 miles per hour.
Fuselage: fabric covered; welded steel tubing with spruce fairing; rigid engine mount integral part of fuselage; small windshield with streamlined head rest extending back to the fin. Wing: fabric covered; spars solid spruce; ribs built up spruce and basswood; Curtiss racing airfoil section with a thin leading edge; steel tube and wire drag bracing; two-ply reinforcing over leading edge of wing; flaps have solid spruce spars, built up spruce and basswood ribs. Tail group: fabric covered; welded steel tubing; wire bracing. Rigid type landing gear equipped with Goodyear airwheels enclosed in streamlined pants; consists of two side Vees, the apieces of which form the anchorage of the lower wing-bracing wires and interconnected by a single horizontal streamlined wire.
Standard equipment includes Hamilton Standard hub and special. blades by Story-Gawley.
This plane was first flown in 1933 at the National Air Races and was awarded the American air race championship for its 1934 showing where it was a winner at New Orleans, Miami, Omaha, Buffalo and the Cleveland air races. I t also established a new official straightaway speed record for light planes at 233.44 miles an hour and a new 100-kilometer closed course record of more than 209 miles per hour. It is owned and flown by Leland S. Miles.