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.
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.
Wallace Touroplane C-31 N6842
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
Designed and built by Kevin Wall in 2001. It has a stepped keel Subaru E81 with a 2.1:1 belt reduction and three-blade, 72-inch Warp Drive propeller and 26-foot rotors.
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.
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 1928 Waldron Aircraft H-11, designed by Orville Hickman, was modified from his Pheasant design. A three-place, open cockpit biplane, registered NX5316, it first flew on 4 June 1928, piloted by Gene Shank. It was priced at $3,000.
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.