Swallow Aircraft H / HA / HC / HW

Swallow HA NX109V

The 1929 Swallow H was a three-place open cockpit biplane designed by Dan Lake. One prototype was built, registered NX/NC108V c/n 101, powered by a 100hp Kinner K-5 engine.

The Swallow H was converted to the HA Sport in 1930 (ATC 341), still registered X/NC109V but with c/n 102. It was priced at $4,250 and powered by a 150hp Axelson-Floco B engine.

Swallow HA NX109V

The Swallow HA was later converted to a HW model with a new c/n.

The HC Sport three-place open cockpit biplane of 1929 was powered by a 160hp Continental A-70 and registered NC110V c/n 2003.

Swallow HC NC110V

The 1930 HW Sport (ATC 379) registered NC109V c/n 2002 was the HA refitted with a 165hp Wright J-6 engine.

Swallow HW NC109V

H
Engine: 100hp Kinner K-5
Wingspan: 31’0″
Seats: 3

HA Sport
Engine: 150hp Axelson-Floco B
Wingspan: 31’0″
Length: 22’2″
Useful load: 784 lb
Max speed: 130 mph
Cruise: 110 mph
Stall: 42 mph
Range: 435 mi
Seats: 3

HC Sport
Engine: 160hp Continental A-70
Seats: 3

HW
Engine: 165hp Wright J-6
Wingspan: 31’0″
Length: 22’2″
Useful load: 820 lb
Max speed: 135 mph
Cruise: 115 mph
Stall: 42 mph
Range: 500 mi
Seats: 3

Swallow Aircraft C Coupe

Swallow C Coupe CC-DVC

Designed by Sam Bloomfield (ex-Fairchild Corp) in 1936, the Swallow Aircraft Co C Coupe (ATC 2-538 issued in 1937) sold for $3,990.

Three were built; NC15818, NC18586, and NC19540, of which one crashed in a fog, killing company president E B Christopher, and one went to Chile as CC-DVC.

C Coupe
Engine: 125hp Menasco C-4
Wingspan: 36’8″
Length: 24’4″
Useful load: 530 lb
Max speed: 145 mph
Cruise: 135 mph
Stall: 43 mph
Range: 500 mi
Ceiling: 18,000′
Seats: 2

Swallow Aircraft TP

Swallow TP NX6174

The 1929 Swallow TP (ATC 105) was designed by Amos Payne. Priced at $1,725 less motor, about 200 were built. Strengthened construction, wider cockpits.

Swallow TP C9097

The 1929 TP-K (ATC 186, 2-500) was priced at $4,123. Twenty to twenty-five were built.

Three TP-W (ATC 253) were built in 1929, priced at $4,250.

TP
Engine: 90hp Curtiss OX-5
Wingspan: 30’11”
Length: 23’7″
Useful load: 542 lb
Max speed: 90 mph
Cruise: 75 mph
Stall: 35 mph
Range: 300 mi
Seats: 2

TP-K
Engine: 100hp Kinner K-5
Wingspan: 30’11”
Length: 23’10”
Useful load: 530 lb
Max speed: 100 mph
Cruise: 85 mph
Stall: 35 mph
Range: 340 mi

TP-W
Engine: 110hp Warner Scarab

Sverchkov Cycloplane

This strange machine with shovel-shaped paddle-wheel rotors that were intended to give direct lift, controlled by a system of springs and eccentrics, was built in 1909 at the expense of the Main Engineering Directorate of the Russian Army (GINJU). In the same year it was exhibited and even won a medal at the St. Petersburg Exposition of Modern Inventions. However, when tested, the machine refused to even move.

Sutro 1913 Hydroaeroplane

Assisted by Waldo Waterman, California millionaire Adolf Gilbert Sutro designed and built this machine in San Francisco, and, powered by a Hall-Scott 60 hp engine, it flew quite successfully.

Reportedly it was used to set several international records, including a speed record of 51 mph in 1913.

Engine: Hall-Scott 60 hp
Upper span: 45 ft
Lower span: 33 ft
Length: 25 ft