Built circa 1930 by Simon Smith, the single-place, high wing monoplane was powered by a motorcycle engine. Smith had “bought $200 worth of parts and put the machine together.”
Wingspan: 20’0″
Length: 15’0″
Speed: 75 mph
Seats: 1
A two-seat turboprop lightplane
The 1979 Mike Smith Aero Super Interceptor was destroyed at an early stage of flight testing.
Engine: 750hp P&W PT6A-34
Wingspan: 24’0″
Length: 23’0″
Speed: 440 mph
Seats: 2
The 1982 Prop-Jet N3191K uses Beechcraft P-Baron wings and landing gear mated to a Smith T-tailed carbon fibre composite fuselage.
Engine: 850hp P&W-Canada PT6A-41 derated to 550hp
Useful load: 2000 lb
Max speed: 350 mph @ 31,000 ft
Seats: 6
Circa 1929 J W Smith of Cicero IL. USA, built a single-place, open cockpit, high-wing monoplane.
The monocoque fuselage was made from red fiber paper rolled into shape and riveted. The wings were steel-tubing framed—the first-ever wing to have metal ribs. The fuselage hung below the wing with a pivoting arrangement somewhat like that which George Spratt would champion much later.
According to William B Stout, “Its one bad habit was changing shape from day to day as the humidity increased or decreased.”
The Parasol Monoplane was built by James Smith (AKA Jim O’Berry) and flew briefly in 1955.
It is now situated at the Scalloway Museum, Shetland Islands.
The 1958 Sputnik, built by father and son Herb O & Herb V Smith of San Antonio TX., USA, was a single-place cabin, high-wing monoplane.
Engine: McCulloch 0100, 72hp
Wingspan: 32’0″
Length: 19’5″
Useful load: 275 lb
Max speed: 105 mph
Cruise: 80 mph
Seats: 1
The 1922 H J Smith built June-Bug Aerial Flivver was a single-place, open cockpit mid-wing monoplane, described as “a bathtub with a pole sticking out behind it” and wearing a child’s tricycle wheel on its tail. The planned maiden flight in mid-May at the State Fairgrounds (some say Curtiss Northwest Airport) was delayed by a balky 30hp 2-cyl engine and the tailwheel breaking off, and no further account was found.
In 1932 Glen A Smith built the Smith S-2 single-place, open cockpit, high wing monoplane.
Only one was built, registered N12935 c/n S-1.
Engine: 38hp Ford A
Wingspan: 25’0″
Length: 15’10”
Seats: 1
In 1933 Glen A Smith built a single-place open cockpit, V-strutted biplane. Power was a 40hp Ford engine.
Circa 1936
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