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Hammond Model Y

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

From Aero Digest, April, 1935:
Hammond Aircraft Corporation, Ypsilanti, Michigan
• President and General Manager: Dean B. Hammond.
Two-place, side-by-side, low-wing, pusher monoplane, powered with the Menasco B-4 engine, 95 horsepower. Being built for the Bureau of Air Commerce in accordance with specification AB-205. The fuselage will be of all-metal construction with provision made for 40 pounds [...]

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American Gyro Crusader

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

An odd-looking little plane with twin engines and twin booms, in appearance anticipating the P-38 Lightning of World War Two.
from the April, 1935 Aero Digest:
• President: F. B. Searle. Vice-president and Chief Engineer: Thomas M. Shelton.
Four- or six-place low-wing monoplane.

Two Menasco engines, 150 h.p. at 2260 r.p.m. at 3000 ft.
Span 36 ft. [...]

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