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= LATEST LISTINGS and REVISIONS |
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Waco's history started in 1919 when businessmen Clayton J. Brukner and Elwood Junkin met barnstorming pilots Charley Meyers and George Weaver. Although their initial floatplane design was a failure, they went on to found the Waco company in 1920 and established themselves as producers of reliable, rugged planes that were popular with travelling businessmen, postal services and explorers, especially after the company began producing closed-cabin biplane models after 1930 in addition to the open cockpit biplanes. |
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The Waco closed cabin biplanes, initially known as the C (for Cabin) series were all unequal span, staggered single bay biplanes. They were fabric covered, the wings having a wooden structure and the control surfaces and fuselage constructed from metal frames. The wings were braced with outward splayed N form interplane struts plus a strut connecting the centre section rear spar to the bottom of the forward interplane strut, following Waco's standard practice. They had a fixed tailwheel undercarriage, which could be partially or completely faired. There was seating for 4/5 including the pilot. Most were powered by 7 cylinder radial engines of different makes. |
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JIMMY WEDELL (PRONOUNCED WE-dell) who had
only a ninth grade education, couldn't read a blue print and was denied
Army and Navy pilot training, not only became one of the great race
pilots of the country, but also one of the greatest and most prolific
designers and builders of racing aircraft. During the period 1931 to
1936 the Wedell-Williams race jobs took more than their share of firsts
Second. third and fourth places were also filled by Jimmy's speed
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The Westland Lysander was a British army co-operation and liaison aircraft produced by Westland Aircraft. It was used during the Second World War and was renowned for its ability to operate from small, unprepared airstrips. The aircraft's exceptional short-field performance made possible clandestine missions behind enemy lines that placed or recovered agents, particularly in occupied France. Like other British army air co-operation aircraft, it was given the name of the Spartan general Lysander. | 3 | ||
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The Westland Whirlwind was the first twin engined fighter to enter RAF service. When it first appeared it was faster at low altitude than any single seater fighter, and its four 20mm cannon gave it the heaviest firepower of any fighter in the world. With these attributes one might expect the Whirlwind to have been a highly successful aircraft, but in fact only two squadrons were ever equipped with the type, one of them after production had been cancelled. 1939. |
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Although Messerschmitt designed
the Bf 163, the prototype was actually built by the small firm of Wesser Flugzeug
in Stuttgart in a design competition withe The "Storch"
which was already flying when the call for competing
designs was announced. The Bf 163 copied it's design features ruthlessly (high
wing, leading edge slats, full span "slotted" flaps, tall undercarriage with
long suspension travel) and used the same Argus As10, inverted V8 motor. The
short field performance was actually a little worse than that of the Storch
because of the additional weight of the wing system! This
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The Westland Wizard was Westland Aircraft's first attempt to produce a monoplane fighter. The project was privately funded and the prototype design was done in the spare time of the company's engineersThis all happened during 1926, with high-speed performance as the primary goal. |
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The Westland-Hill Pterodactyl was a series of experimental aircraft designs starting in the 1920s named after the pterosaur. They were designed by Geoffrey T. R. Hill and built by Westland Aircraft. The first (Pterodactyl lA and lB) were high wing tailess monoplanes with fully moving wingtips for control built to overcome the issue of stalling and spinning. In some designs the monoplane wing was supported by struts from a stubby lower wing giving them some of the appearance of an unequal span biplane (sesquiplane). Later designs included fighter and transport aircraft. The designs were credited as being inspired by observation of seagulls and used fully moving outer wingtips for control. If both tips were moved in the same way they functioned as elevators, in opposite ways then as ailerons |
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The Westland Whirlwind was a British twin-engined heavy fighter developed by Westland Aircraft. It was the Royal Air Force's first single-seat, twin-engined, cannon-armed fighter, and a contemporary of the Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane. It was one of the fastest aircraft when it flew in the late 1930s, and was much more heavily armed than any other. However, protracted development problems with its Rolls-Royce Peregrine engines delayed the entire project and only a relatively small number were ever built. During the Second World War only two RAF squadrons were equipped with the Whirlwind, and despite successful use as a fighter-bomber it was withdrawn from service in 1943. |
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The aircraft underwent trials in the winter of 1940-41. Lysander K6127 was by now fitted with a Bristol Perseus XII engine. Radical changes to the rear fuselage enabled a mock-up of a four-gun Nash & Thompson turret to be installed, made of plywood and perspex and having a very light framework. The overall length of the aircraft became 25 feet 7 inches. It was hoped the design would develop into an effective night-fighter, or at least a gunnery trainer. However, the Lysander turret night-fighter, despite successful flight trials, remained a one-off experiment |
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The Wright Model A was an early aircraft produced by the Wright Brothers in the United States beginning in 1906. It was an outgrowth of their Flyer III airplane of 1905. The Wrights actually built about seven Model As in their bicycle shop during their interim period 1906-1907 in which they did no flying. One of these was shipped to Le Havre in 1907 in anticipation of it being demonstrated for the French. The Model A had a 35 horsepower (26 kW) engine and seating for two with new control arrangement. Otherwise it was identical to the 1905 airplane. The Model A was the first aircraft that they offered for sale, and the first aircraft design to enter serial production anywhere in the world. Apart from the seven machines the Wrights built themselves in 1906-1907, they sold licences for production in Europe, with the largest number of Model As actually being produced in Germany by Flugmaschine Wright GmbH, which built about 60 examples |
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