Curtiss-Wright Condor Cargo Carrier CT-32

Curtiss-Wright Condor Cargo Carrier CT-32From Aero Digest, April, 1935:

Curtiss-Wright Airplane Company, Robertson, Missouri

• Two-place biplane. Two Wright Cyclone SGR-1820-F2 geared engines, 750 horsepower each.

Span upper wing 82 feet. Span lower wing 74 feet. Length over all 49 feet 7 inches. Height overall 16 feet 7.5 inches. Wing area 1276 square feet. Power loading 12.4 pounds per horsepower. Wing loading 13.9 pounds per square foot.

Empty weight 11,762 pounds. Useful load 6738 pounds. Payload 4598 pounds. Gross weight 18,500 pounds. Fuel capacity 350 gallol1s. Oil capacity 30 gallons.

Maximum speed 180 miles per hour. Cruising speed 160 miles per hour. Landing speed 58 miles per hour. Service ceiling 20,000 feet. Rate of climb 1000 feet. Cruising range 750 miles.

Fuselage: welded 4130 steel tubing, fabric covered; five longerons rigid arch trussed in plane of wing beams and behind and ahead of cabin door; floor structure fabricated from aluminum alloy stringers and arches riveted into sections, arranged either as freight carrier, troop transport, ambulance plane; especially wide loading door. Wings: fabric covered; built up beams, Warren truss type, chrome molybdenum steel tubing; ribs duralum in tubular construction; NACA 2412 airfoil section. Tail group: welded chrome molybdenum steel tubing, fabric covered; ribs of bulb section flanges and round tube diagonal web members. Fully retractable landing gear ..

Standard equipment includes Hamilton Standard three’-bladed controllable-pitch propellers, Exide battery, monorail hoist, loading ramp, removable rear floor, block and tackle, hold down eyes, two emergency exit doors, hatch in floor for dropping food or supplies, heating and ventilation, radio.

Instruments: Sperry gyro-horizon, Sperry directional gyro, bank and turn indicator, climb indicator, airspeed indicator, standard altimeter, sensitive altimeter, magnetic compass, aircraft clock, main tank fuel gauges, tachometers, oil pressure gauges, manifold pressure gauges, instrument vacuum gauge, fuel pressure gauges. Also see data in February, 1935, AERO DIGEST.