Circa 1975 Fred W Wallman Jr built the two-place, open cockpit, high-wing monoplane, Sportplane, registered N4FW. The fuselage and tail were steel tube, and wing was all wood.
The Sorrtplans was first flown on 24 September 1975, piloted by Bert Sissler. Only the one was ever built.
Engine: 115hp Lycoming O-235-C1
Wingspan: 30’0″
Length: 21’6″
Useful load: 566 lb
Cruise speed: 100 mph
Stall: 35 mph
All-British aeroplane constructed by brothers Percy Valentine & Horace Samuel Wallis in the shed at the rear of their parents’ house in Cambridge with ‘offices’ of the Wallbro Aeroplane Co. in their bedroom overlooking the rear garden. By May 1910, it was complete and was put on display to the public. On July 4, 1910, the brothers made their first tentative ‘hop’ near Abington, where the machine had been brought to be housed. A complete and detailed description of the craft can be found in the Thursday, May 12, 1910 edition of the Cambridge Daily News.
The brothers were strong believers in the strength of steel tubing. The fuselage used mainly one-inch diameter tube of 20 gauge, arranged on the girder principle, strongly braced with steel wire. The cross tubing were double bolted onto steel lugs similar to those used in motor cycle construction. The wire stays were attached to eyebolts passing through these lugs. Tightening of the wires was accomplished by means of bronze tensioning screws, which have right and left-hand screw threads. These ideas together with a multitude of others succeeded in producing a machine, which was both light and very strong. The fuselage was twenty-five feet long with a wing span of thirty feet. The undercarriage was also of tubular design but used heavier gauge tubing.
The 1928 Wallace C-2 two-place cabin, high-wing monoplane was to sell for $4,250. Possibly as many as 6 were built in developmental stages leading to the Touroplane.
Engine: 80hp Anzani
Wingspan: 37’0″
Length: 23’6″
Useful load: 650 lb
Max speed: 95 mph
Cruise: 82 mph
Stall: 40 mph
Range: 500 mi
Seats: 2
Designed by Stanley Wallace, the Touroplane B (ATC 119) featured folding wings.
Wallace Aircraft Co was formed 1928 at Chicago, Illinois, to manufacture the B.330 Touroplane, shown at Detroit Aero Show. The price being $4,885-5,795.
One prototype (NX4253) was built with an 80hp Anzani, subsequently 165hp Wright J-5 were used. Thirteen production aircraft were built (NC209N, NC211N, NC276K, NC566H, NC571H, NC580H, NC584H, NC590H, X/C6842, NC744K, C7740, NC7742, NC7987), of which two were powered with a 90hp OX-5 (NC7740, C7987) and one with a 150hp MacClatchie [C6842] as C-31.
American Eagle Aircraft Corporation continued production of the Touroplane B from 1929 as the American Eagle 330.
Engine: Anzani 6-cyl, 80 hp @ 1600 rpm
Wingspan: 37 ft
Chord: 70 in
Airfoil: Eiffel
Wing area: 205 sq.ft
Length: 24 ft
Height: 7 ft 6 in
Sweepback: 0
Dihedral: 0
Aileron area: 31.2 sq.ft
Tail area: 38.2 sq.ft
Empty weight: 735 lb
Payload: 450 lb
Wing loading: 8 lb/sq.ft
Top speed: 97 mph at 3000 ft
Cruise: 85 mph
ROC: 820 fpm
Endurance: 5 hr
Service ceiling 11,000 ft
Landing speed: 40 mph
Width folded: 12 ft 6 in
Seats: 3
Engine: 165hp Wright J-5
Wingspan: 37’0″
Length: 23’11”
Useful load: 780 lb
Max speed: 115 mph
Cruise speed: 100 mph
Stall: 43 mph
Range: 500 mi
Ceiling: 14,000′
Seats: 2-3
The 1932 Wild Goose three-place cabin monoplane, registered N11387 c/n 2 (later changed to c/n M80), was powered by a 90hp Curtiss OX-5.
Apparently, the Wild Goose was built by Walker, then sold to the Greves on 4 November 1932.
It was involved in an accident and the registration was cancelled on 5 August 1934.
Bruce Walker of Tauranga, New Zealand, designed and built this homegrown microlight which used some components from a Quicksilver that Bruce had previously owned. The wing is a high lift Australian Tyro kitset wing of 32 foot span, and the pusher engine is a Rotax 447 which gives a cruise of around 70 mph.
Bruce Walker Custom Skylark ZK-MYT (c/n TY 6520) was first registered by Bruce on 1 December 2000. Bruce says it has done around 200 hours and flies really well. Bruce keeps it in a hangar on a topdressing strip near Te Puke.
ZK-MYT was for sale.
Built in 1935 by Arthur L Waldrop, the A-1 (registered N14499 c/n 101) was a two-place open-cockpit monoplane, powered by an 80hp LeRhône rotary.
The 1928 H-12 Imperial N371 c/n 2 was a three-place cabin, high wing monoplane, powered by a 265hp Menasco-Salmson engine. It has also been noted as a five place with a 220hp Wright J-5 engine.
It was destroyed when it hit a snowbank on take-off.
The Walden V to XII were built during 1911-13. The eight built were all monoplanes with tricycle gears and various powerplants, for flight training. Reportedly IIX had a 50hp Roberts, and a 40hp Hall-Scott powered the last four.
Built by Dr. Henry W Walden in 1910, the Walden IV was similar to III, but with 40hp Hall-Scott and ailerons. The Model IV really flew on 3 August 1910 to become the first successful US-designed and -built monoplane, and the first US craft to be licensed by FAI and Aero Club of America.
Reportedly III and IV went to Dyott when the partnership broke up in 1911 and were sold in South America; Walden retained the hangar and inventory.
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