History of AirplanesFrom Aero Digest, April, 1935:
The Northrop Corporation, Inglewood, California
• Five- or eight-place low-wing monoplane. ATC 553. Wright Cyclone SR1820 F-3 engine, 710 horsepower at 7000 feet, or Wright Cyclone SR1820 F-2 engine, 735 horsepower at 4000 feet or P. & W. of equivalent power. Span 47 feet 9.5 inches. Length overall 33 feet 1.125 inches. [...]
From Aero Digest, April, 1935:
The Northrop Corporation, Inglewood, California
• President: John K. Northrop. Vice-president, General Manager and Sales Manager: W. K. Jay. Export representative: E. P. Howard, 51 Canton Road, Shanghai, China.
One-place open (or closed) low-wing mail monoplane. ATC 549. Wright Cyclone SR1820, F -3 engine, 710 horsepower at 7000 feet. Span 47 feet 9.5 [...]
The Fairchild XC-31 was an experimental cargo aircraft built for the U.S. Army Air Corps. Note the retractable landing gear on this large, strut-braced monoplane. Fairchild XC-31 (Kreider-Reisner): The large XC-31, built by the Kreider-Reisner division of Fairchild aircraft was used, in part, for icing studies while with the NACA at Langley. This is the [...]
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 [...]
An unusual biplane airliner, capable of carrying 18 passengers.
photo probably taken at East Boston airport, c. 1936
Curtiss-Wright Condor, NC12396
On the Curtiss-Wright Condor aircraft (which had no galleys) American Airlines (Airways) hostesses served their eighteen passengers coffee, tea, Coca-Cola, biscuits and coffeecake from a picnic hamper.
From Aero Digest, April, 1935:
Curtiss-Wright Airplane Company, Robertson, Missouri
• Fifteen- or [...]
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 [...]
from Aero Digest, April, 1935:
The Beech Aircraft Corporation, Wichita, Kansas
• Four-place biplane. ATC 548. Wright Cyclone R1820-F11 engine, 710 horsepower.
Span 34 feet 6 inches. Length overall 24 feet 2 inches. Height overall 8 feet 9.5 inches. Wing area 322 square feet. Chord 60 inches.
Power loading 7.5 pounds per horsepower. Wing loading 16.1 pounds [...]
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 [...]
The Aircruiser was commissioned in 1928, by Italian WW I ace, Caesare Sabelli, who wanted a plane that could fly non-stop from New York to Rome. Giuseppe Bellanca’s original design, the Model K , never made the flight, but the design survived. The distinctive “W” silhouette of the plane is derived from [...]
from the April, 1935 Aero Digest:
• President: Don P. Smith. Vice-president and Chief Engineer, Gerard F. Vultee.
Nine- or ten-place low-wing monoplane.
ATC 545. Wright Cyclone F-2 engine, 735 horsepower at 4000 feet.
Span 50 feet. Length overall 37 feet. Height overall 10 feet 2 inches. Wing area 384 square feet.
Power loading 11.55 pounds per horsepower. Wing loading [...]