History of AirplanesFrom Aero Digest, April, 1935
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Fairchild Aircraft Corporation, Hagerstown, Maryland
• Ten-place high-wing amphibion. Pratt and Whitney Hornet S3Dl engine, 645 horsepower. Span 57 feet. Length overall 45 feet 9 inches. Height overall 15 feet 11 inches. Wing area 475 square feet. Power loading 13.2 pounds per horsepower. Wing loading 17.9 pounds per square foot.
Empty weight 4972 [...]
The Douglas DC-2 was a 14 seat, twin-engine airliner produced by Douglas Aircraft Corporation. Designed to meet TWA requirements for a new airliner, the DC-1 (which evolved into the DC-2) made its first flight in 1933. Inspired by the success of the DC-1, the DC-2 was introduced less than a year after the DC-1’s first [...]
From 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 [...]
The B-10 was the first USAAC all-metal monoplane bomber to be built in numbers. Its innovations included: internal bomb storage, retractable landing gear, a rotating gun turret, and enclosed cockpit. It was much faster than its contemporary biplane bombers and as fast as most fighters of the day. The USAAC’s order of 121 B-10s [...]
The Douglas B-18 Bolo was a USAAC bomber of the late 1930s, based on the Douglas DC-2. Although obsolescent by 1941, the B-18 saw service as a patrol aircraft early in World War II. It was powered by two Wright R-1820 radial engines, and could reach a speed of 215 MPH.
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Douglas B-18 Bolo [...]
A nice shot of some passengers de-planing at East Boston airport:
Douglas DC3 - one of the most famous, longest-lived airplanes. At least until the 1980’s, some were still flying commercially in South America and Africa. In World War Two, the military version was the C-47.
Douglas DST Sleeper
“an idea that didn’t work out”
from April, 1935 Aero Digest:
• Eighteen-place sesquiplane. Two Wright Cyclone geared engines, 710 horsepower each. Available as land plane, amphibian, seaplane.
(Specifications given for landplane; data on amphibion and seaplane in brackets in that order.)
Span 76 feet. Length overall 44 feet. Height overall 14 feet. Wing area 770 square feet.
Power loading 10 pounds per horsepower. Wing [...]
from the April, 1935 Aero Digest:
• President and Chief Engineer: Allan H. Lockheed. Vice-president, General Manager and Sales Manager: Homer T. Seale. Export representatives: Sverre Krabbe, Oslo, Norway. Companhia Commercial de Representacoes, Ltda., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, S. A. Tugan, Ltd., Sydney, Australia.
Five- or eight-place high-wing monoplane.
Two horizontally disposed Menasco engines, 210 horsepower [...]
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. [...]