This Bicycle Bird will fly, insists inventor Lehman Wilde. For 34 years Wilde has dreamed of his ornithicopter, now it is ready for its final tests at Curtiss Field on Long Island. The machine weighs 275 pounds and is composed mostly of wings. There is a sprocket-and-gear arrangement that flaps these wings while a pilot treadles, as one would a bicycle.
Lehman Wilde
NY.
USA
Built the Wilde Bicycle Bird Ornithicopter
Wilcox ran an airport, located NE of Tulsa in Verdigris, that consisted of associated hangars and an office on 300 acres. William Collier built a number of planes there, reportedly including the 1930 T-12, until he relocated to Kansas.
The T-12-1 Sport Trainer was possibly first registred N550V.
T-12-1 Sport Trainer
Engine: 110hp Warner Scarab (originally a Siemens)
Wingspan: 31’6″
Length: 21’7″
Seats: 2
H F Wilcox Aeronautics Inc
Verdigris OK.
USA
Circa 1930 Wilcox ran an airport, located NE of Tulsa in Verdigris, that consisted of associated hangars and an office on 300 acres. William Collier built a number of planes there, reportedly including the T-12, until he relocated to Kansas. At least one of the hangars with the Collier name was still standing, overgrown and unused, in the ’80s.
Wiley Post Aircraft Corp was founded in Oklahoma City in 1935 to build Model A (ATC 2-478, ATC 561), cheap two-seat aircraft. Designed by Ross Holmes and Glenn Stearman and powered by a 40hp Straughn AL-1000 converted Model A Ford engine, the first example was built by Straughan Aircraft. Reportedly was first developed as a parasol monoplane at Cessna factory. The ATC was issued in 1934.
One prototype (NX12561) and two production Model As were built in 1931-32 (N11919 and NC12582). Originally price at $1,438, it was $1,692 in 1935.
One 60hp experimental B NX493N was built.
Wiley Post acquired rights to Straughan assets 1935, and transferred production to Oklahoma City. Thirteen Model As built before company liquidated after Wiley Post’s death.
Engine: 40hp Straughn AL-1000 (converted Ford A)
Wingspan: 28’6″
Length: 19’9″
Useful load: 393 lb
Max speed: 82 mph
Cruise speed: 70 mph
Stall: 28 mph
Range: 110 mi
Seats: 2
Founded in Oklahoma City in 1935 to build Model A, cheap two-seat aircraft. Powered by converted Model A Ford engine, the first example was built by Straughan Aircraft. Wiley Post acquired rights to Straughan assets 1935, and transferred production to Oklahoma City. Thirteen Model As built before company liquidated after Wiley Post’s death.
One of four machines built Leutnant Karl Wildt (1882 – 1932) in Germany. Shown it at the “Bayerische Fliegerschule” at Oberwiesenfeld bei München, pilot and passenger are Bavarian officers.
Helmut Wilden designed the VoWi 8 two-seat lightweight sporting aircraft which first flew in 1974.
Germany
Formed 1974 at Hennef-Sieg. Designed VoWi 8 two-seat lightweight sporting aircraft which first flew in 1974, followed by ultralight single-seat, very simple VoWi 10, which was being built under subcontract in 1977.
Ray Wilcoxsen of Indiana, USA, built in 1930 an aircraft for the light plane market, powered by a rebuilt Henderson motor cycle engine.
Wilcoxsen received a Commerce Department permit to fly the plane and planned to sell complete aircraft for $960 and plans for homebuilders.
Engine: Henderson motorcycle, 27 hp at 3000 rpm
Wingspan: 27 ft 3 in
Length: 14 ft 6 in
Empty weight: 280 lb
Fuel capacity: 7 USG
Max speed: 76 mph
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