The sole Triad 1000 (ATC 2-229) of 1930 was registered NX/NC808M c/n 1001.
It was reportedly scrapped in 1936 after its motors were traded for a new Porterfield. Assets of the corporation were liquidated in 1939 after the death of Irving Saul in 1933, but several accounts indicate that the aircraft was still operational long after that time.
Engines: three 65hp LeBlond 5D, later 180hp Lycoming O-360-A1A
Wingspan: 36’0″
Length: 28’8″
Useful load: 1650 lb
Stall: 68 mph
Seats: 5
1929: (W Irving) Saul Aircraft Corp
Carroll IA.
USA
Airplane builder
Assets of the corporation were liquidated in 1939 after the death of Irving Saul in 1933.
A 2500cc aero engine using a VW as a base.
Cycle: 4 stroke
No cylinders: 4
Bore: 97 mm
Stroke: 84 mm
Compression: 9.5
Displacement: 2500 cc
Cooling: Air
Ignition: Magneto
Reduction: nil
Weight: 79 kg
Max pwr: 93 hp at 3000 rpm
Price 1998: 26,300 DM
1998:
Nieder olme strasse 16
D 55270 Ober-Olm
Germany
LSA engine builder
pres: L W Hubert
chief engr: C G Taylor)
Oxnard CA.
USA
Circa 1960 airplane builder
NPO Saturn
Saturn
Moscow, USSR
Lyul’ka was a USSR aero-engine design bureau and manufacturer from 1938 to the 1990s, when manufacturing and design elements were integrated as NPO Saturn based at Rybinsk.
Designed by Omer Woodson, the 1922 Sattco Commercial was a six place open or closed cockpit biplane. The pilot in an open cockpit behind the cabin in the only Commercial built.
Engine: 350hp Liberty
Wingspan: 43’6″
Length: 30’2″
Useful load: 1960 lb
Max speed: 125 mph
Stall: 45 mph
Wabash IN.
USA
Circa 1922 airplane builder
Special Aircraft Transport International Company GIE, formed October 1991 as joint venture between Aerospatiale of France and Daimler-Benz Aerospace Airbus of Germany to develop a successor to the Super Guppy outsized freighter used to carry large Airbus airliner assemblies between factories in Europe. Resulting A300-600ST Super Transporter, known also as Beluga, based on A300-600R but with many important modifications including a completely new upper fuselage section to provide a freight hold of 24 ft 3 in (7.4 m) cross-section, with access via the largest door ever installed on an aircraft (upward-opening); cockpit moved forward and below cargo deck; new tailplane with endfins. First Beluga flown September 1994 and four of five ordered now in service (last for delivery in 2001); also used for charters when not engaged on main work.
