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Waco Aircraft Company, Troy, Ohio
Specifications from Aero Digest, April, 1935:
• Four-place biplane. (Models UOC, YOC, and CUC respectively; data on YOC indicated in brackets, and on CUC following brackets in that order.) Continental engine, 210 horsepower (Jacobs engine, 225 horsepower) Wright engine, 250 horsepower.
Span 35 feet. Length overall 25 feet 4 inches (25 feet 6 inches) 25 feet 3 inches. Height overall 8 feet 1 inch. Wing area 238.8 square ‘feet. Power loading 14.76 (13.78) 12.8 pounds per horsepower. Wing loading 12.9 (12.9) 13.4 pounds per square foot.
Empty weight 1880 (1900) 1990 pounds. Useful load 1220 (1200) 1210 pounds. Payload 720 (700) 582 pounds. Gross weight 3100 (3100) 3200 pounds . Fuel capacity 50 (50) 70 gallons. Oil capacity 4 (4) 5 gallons.
Maximum speed 151 (155) 162 miles per hour. Cruising speed 133 (137) 145 miles per hour. Landing speed without flaps 53 (53) 55 miles per hour. Service ceiling 15,300 (16,300) 17,000 feet. Rate of climb 920 (1000) 1070 feet per minute.
Fuselage: fabric covered; chrome molybdenum welded steel tubing; tandem’ seating arrangement in pairs, with dual throw-over wheel control column. Wings: fabric covered; spars spruce; ribs spruce and plywood. Tail group: fabric covered; wood spars; metal ribs in fin and stabilizer; metal tubing in rudder and elevators; adjustable stabilizer; tab on aileron; flaps. Fixed divided-type landing gear equipped with 7.50 X 10 tires, Autofan wheels and brakes, oleo shock absorbers; consists of two faired side Vees with cross bracing between front legs; equipped with tail wheel adaptable for installation of floats.
Standard equipment includes electric starter, navigation lights, fire extinguisher, indirectly lighted instrument panel, Hartzell wood propeller, Exide battery.
Instruments: tachometer, altimeter, compass, air speed indicator, oil pressure gauge, oil temperature gauge, fuel gauge. Photographs and drawings of these models were not available at the time this issue of AERO DIGEST went to press.
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