Wag-Aero was founded by Dick and Bobbie Wagner in the basement of their house in Lyons in the early 1960s. By 1965, Wag-Aero printed its first catalogue and continued to expand. In 1971, the company moved from Wagner’s basement to North Road. The original warehouse and manufacturing facility has been expanded by three additions. The airstrip was built at the top of the hill for the convenience of fly-in customers.
Wag-Aero’s first kit aircraft, the Sport Trainer, is a replica of the Piper J-3 Cub. Home builders can build this aircraft by ordering many required parts through Wag-Aero. Later, the Wag-A-Bond and the Sportsman 2+2 were added. The Sportsman 2+2 was one of the first four-place homebuilt aircraft which could be purchased via kit.
Aero Fabricators, was formed in the mid – 1970s. There are three departments within Aero Fabricators: welding, sheet metal fabrication, and seat belt manufacturing. The welding department remanufactures aircraft mufflers and engine mounts to FAA standards. They also produce many new manufactured aircraft exhaust systems, as well as structural components. The sheet metal department manufactures gas tanks, leading edges and metal skins and cowlings for many different aircraft, including our own kit aircraft. Both departments work together on the prefabrication of different items for our kit aircraft, including complete pre-welded fuselages. The seat belt division manufactures and repairs FAA approved seat belts and shoulder harnesses in many styles and colors and has been a leader in the industry in designing and manufacturing shoulder harness installation kits. In all, Aero Fabricators produces approximately 850 various components.
1995-8: 1216 North Rd, Box 181, Lyons, WI 53148, USA.
On September 1, 1995, Dick and Bobbie Wagner sold The Wag-Aero Group of companies to Bill Read and Mary Myers. In April 1997 Wag-Aero acquired the assets of Viking Aero Manufacturing to expand the product and manufacturing lines.
In October 2002 Wag-Aero acquired the assets of Ground Support Manufacturing, Inc. which further expanded our product and manufacturing lines into aircraft and airport related equipment. All products are now all manufactured in the facility in Lyons.
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Wadsworth Flying Fish
In 1911, Detroit industrialist and boat tycoon Frederick Elliott Wadsworth built a hydro-aeroplane named the Flying Fish which debuted at the New York Boat Show. The vehicle was designed to skim on top of the water at speeds of up to 65 mph, with the ‘skipper-pilot’ seated in a wicker chair at the rear of its canoe-like hull. The Flying Fish was successfully tested on the ice of Lake St. Clair but no further development occurred.
Wadsworth, Frederick Elliott
Frederick Elliott Wadsworth (1868-1927), retired automobile body manufacturer of Detroit and Irvington-On-Hudson, in 1911 built a hydro-aeroplane named the Flying Fish
Wade 1909
Circa 1909 and mentioned in Jane’s as “Extraordinary claims have been made for this machine and its applicability to an ordinary motor car, producing the opinion that it is a mere myth. It appears, however, to be in the ordinary category of ‘air suckers,’ collecting air in front and above, creating a partial vacuum, and expelling the air behind and below.”
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Chicago
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USA
Circa 1909 built an aircraft
Wacyk-Tyrala WT-1
Stanisław Wacyk and Tadeuz Tyrala designed the high performance sports WT-1 aircraft during 1930 and they largely financed the construction of its fuselage at the Aviation Circle of the Industrial School at Kraków and wings in the workshops of the Kraków Air Regiment. It was completed in the summer of 1931.
The aircraft was an aerodynamically clean cantilever wing monoplane. Its high-mounted, one piece wing was built around two spars, with a plywood covered leading edge and fabric covering. Narrow chord ailerons occupied the whole of the trailing edges.
The WT-1’s borrowed 67–73 kW (90–98 hp) de Havilland Gipsy I four cylinder upright inline engine was mounted largely exposed, though with a fairing behind it. The ply-covered fuselage had rounded decking; the fuel tank was in the forward fuselage and its two seat, side-by-side cockpit was behind the wing trailing edge. The fuselage tapered rearwards, with the tailplane mounted on top. A tall triangular fin carried a rounded rudder, which reached down to the keel. Its fixed landing gear was conventional, though details are not known.
An initial first flight was abandoned due to a fuel supply problem. The system was modified and a new fuel pump fitted, after which Stanisław Szubka piloted its first flight, finding the WT-1 hard to fly because of a misplaced centre of gravity (c.g.), and damaging it on landing. After accident repair and c.g. adjustment the WT-1 was flown by Jerzy Bajan. The take-off run was short and performance high, but Bajan found its handling dangerous. At this point the loaned Gipsy engine had to be returned to the Kraków Air Regiment and the development of the WT-1 was abandoned.
Engine: 1 × de Havilland Gipsy I, 67–73 kW (90–98 hp)
Propeller: 2-bladed Schwartz
Wingspan: 8.5 m (27 ft 11 in)
Wing area: 10 sq.m (110 sq ft)
Length: 6.2 m (20 ft 4 in)
Height: 2.0 m (6 ft 7 in)
Empty weight: 260 kg (573 lb)
Gross weight: 410 kg (904 lb)
Maximum speed: 210 km/h (130 mph; 113 kn)
Cruise speed: 180 km/h (112 mph; 97 kn)
Stall speed: 90 km/h (56 mph; 49 kn) minimum speed
Range: 700 km (435 mi; 378 nmi)
Service ceiling: 3,000 m (9,800 ft)
Rate of climb: 2.5 m/s (490 ft/min)
Crew: One
Capacity: One passenger
Waco Aircraft Co
USA
Founded 1966 to build Savoia-Marchetti S.205 (as Waco Vela II) plus turbosupercharged Taurus derivative, SF.260 (as Waco Meteor), and Socata Rallye Commodore (as Waco Minerva). Became Waco Aircraft Division of Allied Aero Industries. Ceased work 1971.
Waco Classic Aircraft YMF
The 1934 model YMF was substantially redesigned with a longer and wider fuselage, larger rudder and other structural changes, and put into production in March 1986 by WACO Classic Aircraft of Lansing, Michigan as the YMF-5.
The YMF-5 new design was roughly based on the YMF, built by WACO Classic Aircraft. Waco Classic Aircraft revealed the YMF-5D model new build which introduced a more powerful Jacobs R755-A2 300 hp (225kW) engine in June 2009. A smaller 275 hp (205 kW) engine was an option. The aircraft is fitted with a new Garmin G600 glass avionics package.
Deliveries were to be from October 2009, pending FAA certification.
Over 100 YMF-5s were completed as of 2012 with new examples being built to specific orders.
1998 Waco F-5C
Base Price: US$245,000
Engine: Jacobs R-755-B2, 275 hp @ 2200 rpm
TBO: 1200 hr
Fuel type: 92 octane
Propeller: Sensenich fixed pitch
Max ramp weight: 3218 lb
Gross weight: 3218 lb
Landing weight: 3218 lb
Empty weight: 2250 lb
Useful load (lbs.): 968
Payload, full fuel: 680 lb
Usable fuel: 48 USgal
Optional fuel: 73 USgal
Wingspan: 30 ft
Overall length: 23 ft. 10 in
Height: 8 ft. 6 in
Power loading: 11.7 lbs./hp
Seating capacity: 3
Cabin width (in.): 46 in
Baggage capacity (s.):75 + 200 lb
Cruise speed 75% power @ 7,000 ft.: 92 kt
Max range (w/ reserve) 75% power: 200 nm
Fuel consumption 75% power: 15 US gph
Estimated endurance (65% power w/1 hr reserve): 3.2 hr
Stall speed (flaps up): 52 kt
WACO Aircraft Company MF
275 hp (205 kW) Jacobs R-755, built by WACO Aircraft Company of Ohio Inc by 2011
WACO Aircraft Company ATO / Super Taperwing
From 1997 the WACO Aircraft Company of Quillayute Airport in Forks, Washington offered a kit version of the ATO model, featuring completely re-drawn plans, a book of plans for the small parts and an instruction manual. Kit form for was $38,000 less motor, plans for $350.
