History of Airplanes

From Aero Digest, April, 1935:

Fairchild Aircraft Corporation, Hagerstown, Maryland

• Two-place open high-wing monoplane. Warner Super Scarab engine, 145 horsepower. Span 33 feet. Length overall 22 feet 3 inches. Height overall 7 feet II inches. Wing area 173 square feet. Power loading 14.5 pounds per horsepower. Wing loading 12.4 pounds per square foot.

Empty weight 1240 pounds. Useful load 860 pounds. Payload 377 pounds. Gross weight 2100 pounds. Fuel capacity 40 gallons. Oil capacity 3 gallons.

Maximum speed 135 miles per hour. Cruising speed 120 miles per hour. Landing speed 48 miles per hour. Service ceiling 16,000 feet. Rate of climb 730 feet per minute. Cruising range 500 miles.

Fuselage: fabric covered; welded steel tubing, truss type; tandem seating arrangement, dual controls; main fuel tank in fuselage; steel tube engine mount. Wing: two-spar type, braced internally with steel tie rods; fabric covered I -section, spruce spars, spruce ribs, truss type; one piece carried above fuselage by s~layed out struts and braced externally by sloping Vee streamline steel struts to the apices of the two steel tube pyramids on the sides of the fuselage, to which also are attached the legs of the undercarriage; narrow chord ailerons.

Tail group: fabric covered; steel tube; braced externally with streamline struts and wires; adjustable stabilizer. Fixed divided-type landing gear with Goodrich 6.50 X 10 tires, Warner wheels and brakes, oil and spring shock absorbers; consists of two oleo legs, the top ends of which are anchored to the apices of two steel tube pyramids, one on each side of fuselage, with bottom ends hinged to bottom fuselage longerons by steel tube axles and radius rods; equipped with tail wheel enclosed in metal fairing. Plane and engine controls actuated over ball bearings.

Standard equipment includes Hartzell wood propeller, Exide battery, electric starter, navigation lights.

Instruments: compass, altimeter, tachometer, oil temperature gauge, air speed indica¬tor, oil pressure gauge. Also see data in December, 1933, AERO DIGEST.