L. V. R. Jones in Australia constructed his first aircraft in 1907, but his own power plant for that aircraft was not successful. His Bleriot-type monoplane, which was steam powered, flew for the first time in 1911, and another one, powered by a petrol engine, flew in 1912. The petrol-engined monoplane, his third design, was tested at Emu Plains on March 3, 1912.
The Charles Oliver Jones Aeroplane of 1905 was the first heavier-than-air craft to be fitted with a Curtiss engine. Jones was quite active as a socialist lecturer and also an early aeronaut. After his aeroplane failed to fly, he turned his attentions to aerial exhibitionism, first building and flying a unique dirigible named the “Boomerang”.
Charles Oliver Jones in 1905 built the first heavier-than-air craft to be fitted with a Curtiss engine.
Jones was quite active as a socialist lecturer and also an early aeronaut.
He turned his attentions to aerial exhibitionism, first building and flying a unique dirigible named the “Boomerang”, then modifying the apparatus in the style of Capt. Baldwin, on which he lost his life when it caught fire during a flight at Waterville, Maine on September 2, 1908.
The two-seat Jonas Hummingbird canard featured a lifting body fuselage, moulded glass-fibre wings and fuselage, and graphite wing spars and landing gear struts. Power is a 78 hp Revmaster VW 2000cc engine.
The first flight of the Hummingbird was expected in October 1977.
The design started out as the Windwagon from the US, was scaled up to produce the Hummelbird, then Cliff Johnston increased the size of the wings and fuselage to produce the Skybird, still incorporating folding wings.
Engine: VW 1200
Cruise: 80 kt
ROC: 600 fpm
The 1911 monoplane was the second monoplane of Harry, Louis and Julius Johnson. It may have been the first truly successful US monoplane.
Built of steel tubing and powered by a 60 hp V-type 2-cycle motor of their own design.
Wingspan 36 ft
Wing chord 8 ft
Length 34 ft
Harry, Louis and Julius Johnson built their second monoplane in 1911.
They were later notable for outboard motors.
The last product of the Johnson Airplane & Supply Co (first flown December 1936) was the Twin-60, a twin-pusher-engined two-seat open-cockpit biplane with 30 hp Cherub engines.
A single engined three-seat biplane.
USA
Johnson Airplane & Supply Co. Inc, Dayton, Ohio, was a firm supplying aeronautical equipment and rebuilding surplus military aircraft. Expanded in 1926, rebuilding DH-4s and also producing the Canary, a single engined three-seat biplane. Last product (first flown December 1936) was the Twin-60, a twin-pusher-engined two-seat open-cockpit biplane with 30 hp Cherub engines.
