The 1911 Warchalowski VIII single-seater pusher biplane was designed by A.Warchalowski and built by Autoplan, Austria
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Warchalowski VII
The 1911 Warchalowski VII and VII bis single-seater pusher biplane were designed by A.Warchalowski and built by Autoplan, Austria.
Warchalowski IV
The 1911 Warchalowski IV single-seater pusher biplane was designed by A. Warchalowski and built by Autoplan, Austria.
Arup S-4
The 1935 Arup S-4 was a remake of the S-3, with a 70hp LeBlond engine. Small elevators were added atop the fin. Some reports tell of a return to conventional gear, but photos in Aug 1935 Popular Aviation show a nose gear.
US patent #2,062,148 was assigned to Cloyd Snyder in 1937 for a variable wingform aircraft.
Registered N14529, it was first flown on 19 March 1935. Only the one was built.
A smaller single-place replica was built and flown c.1985 in Bristol IN.
Engine: 70hp LeBlond
Wingspan: 22’0″
Length: 18’6″ Useful load (included two parachutes): 550 lb
Max speed: 110 mph
Stall: 28 mph
Ceiling: 9,000′
Aspect ratio 1:1.78
Seats: 2
Arup S-3
The 1934 Arup S-3 was a two-place flying wing larger version of S-2 with ailerons moved flush with the wing-tips, and tricycle gear.
Registered N14147, it first flew on 15 July 1934.
It was destroyed by an unsolved arson fire after its test flight.
Engine: 70hp LeBlond 5DE
Wingspan: 22’0″
Length: 17’6″
Useful load: 490 lb
Max speed: 97 mph
Cruise: 90 mph
Stall: 20 mph
Seats: 2
Arup S-2 / Snyder A-2
The 1933 Arup S-2, or Snyder A-2, single-place flying wing was designed by Raoul Hoffman and C L Snyder. Developed from Snyder’s flying-wing glider, Arup 1 Dirigiplane, it featured wing-tip “ear” ailerons, and STOL flight characteristics.
Registered BX/R12894 it first flew on 7 September 1933, piloted by Glenn Doolittle. Only the one was built.
Engine: 36hp Continental A-40
Wingspan: 19’0″
Length: 17’2″
Seats: 1
Arup 1 Dirigiplane
C.L. Snyder’s flying-wing glider, Arup 1 Dirigiplane, was ultimately fitted with a Heath-Henderson motor.
Developed into the Arup S-2, or Snyder A-2
Arrowplane 1910
Hilliard and Shoemaker bought the Herring-Burgess #3 in May 1910 as foundation for this company and modified it to an unknown extent as an exhibition craft.
This plane was most recently stored at NASM’s Silver Hill facility.
The company, as such, also flight-tested other Burgess airplanes, but no information was found about any specific production under the Arrowplane name.
Voisin-Bristol 1911 monoplane
The 1911 Voisin-Bristol monoplane, designed and built by Freres Voisin in France, was all metal construction
Schaef Vogel
Arthur Schaef was a Wellington photographer who had a strong interest in machinery and motion. In 1909 he built a plane called Vogel, which is German for bird. But when he tried to take off the English engine lacked sufficient power.
Schaef’s friend, Percy Fisher, rebuilt the engine and finally, on 5 March 1911 at Lyall Bay, Wellington, New Zealand, Vogel flew.
Evening Post reporter, Charles Marris, was on hand to describe the historic moment:
“Schaef lifted the flier with his tailplane, and with graceful coordinated movement the main planes thrust upward, and the monoplane was afloat, about fifteen feet in the air. With wonderful stability the machine glided forward past the onlookers, who scattered when she rose, to settle down, bird-like, on the base some yards further on…”
Schaef’s flight was more of a long hop of 50 metres.
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