Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Viking Flying Boat Company, New Haven, Connecticut
Specifications from Aero Digest, April, 1935:
• President: Robert E. Gross. Vice-president, Treasurer and Sales Manager: Courtlandt S. Gross. General Manager and Assistant Treasurer: Jacob L. Freed. Chief Engineer: Franklin T. Kurt.
Three-place open biplane. A TC 392. Kinner B-5 engine, 125 horsepower.
Span 28 feet 4 inches. Length overall [...]
A Wilford Gyroplane looks like an Autogiro but differs in that its rotor blades are controllable from the cockpit, and rigid save for a feathering motion. The idea behind this craft was a scheme for feathering the pitch of the blades rotating round the hub instead of the blade flapping system which La Cierva [...]
from Aero Digest, April, 1935:
Kinner Airplane & Motor Corporation, Ltd., Glendale, California
• Two-place open low-wing monoplane. ATC 522. Kinner B-5 engine, 125 horsepower. Span 34 feet 5 inches. Length overall 24 feet 2 inches. Height overall 7 feet. Chord 6 feet. Wing area 199 square feet. Power loading 16.0 pounds per horsepower. Wing loading 10.0 [...]