In 1912 Philip O Parmelee modified a Wright B for tours with the Wright Exhibition group. The single-place, open cockpit biplane first flew on 17 February 1912.
Engine: 60hp Hall-Scott A-2
Pioneers
Parmelee, Philip O
Matherson MI.
USA
In 1912 built a single-place biplane for tours with the Wright Exhibition group.
Parker Pusher
William D “Billy” Parker manufactured personal and exhibition biplanes, stressed for competition and aerobatics, principally powered by 50-80hp LeRhône rotary, during 1912-1914.
NX62E was a personal plane flown by Parker during his years as sales representative for Phillips Petroleum Co (later manager of Aviation Dept), and was active into the 1960s. Rebuilt and upgraded many times over the years, including the mid-wing ailerons were replaced by trailing-edge ailerons.
Parker had other pushers along the way for exhibition flying, as well [NR8Y (90hp OX-5), N66V, N4161K (80hp LeRhône)]. The latter was the most recent addition (c.1955), registered as Parker-Curtiss, with a rebuilt 90hp Curtiss OX-5. While the Curtiss name is often attached to Parker’s products, and he admitted to initial design influence to some degree, he was in fact quite vocal about his planes being his own creations, noting that anyone serious about doing “loops and fancy flying” [his terms] in the ‘teems would never use a Curtiss pusher because of the weakness of its “bamboo outriggers and other frail parts.” Parker was still flying two of his originals in the ’50s and ’60s on tours for Phillips.
Parker 1911 airplane
Built from what materials were on hand or found locally, it sported a landing gear of four motorcycle wheels, plain galvanized wire helping to brace its structure, and some gas pipe for parts of its frame. Parker incorporated a smoke chamber, with hand-operated bellows, built to study airflow across model wings.
After incorporation with a couple dozen townsfolks, completion of the airplane mid-year, and a maiden flight to 20′ high and 1,500′ in length (during which Parker also learned to fly) followed by a crash-landing, an exhibition tour was planned. Those plans were cut short when a second flight also ended in a crash with more severe damage.
With funds running low and no signs of any income on the horizon, and the reluctance of the plane to leave the ground in further modifications and attempts over three more years, the company was dissolved in 1914. Yet Parker is credited by many as the first to fly in Utah, which is contested by supporters of Lagar Culver for the honors.
Engine: Emerson, 60hp
Wing span: 14’0″
Seats: 1
Parker, Wilford
Utah Aviation Co
Utah Aviation Assn
Grantsville UT.
USA
Circa 1911 airplane
Parker 1910-1911 biplane
James J. Parker, of Fulton, NY, made the first trial and successful flight with this machine completely of his own construction starting on skids from the ice of Lake Neahtawanta 1910-1911. A flight of a mile and return was reportedly made. The generally Farman-like plane was equipped with a four-cylinder, two-cycle motor of his own make and had a unique tandem-mounted ailerons arranged between the wings.
Parker 1910 Monoplane
The Spokane (Washington) Spokesman-Review of August 28, 1910 reported Fred Parker’s monoplane’s first flight in Minnesota occurring a day earlier. Fred was 22-years old at the time. The monoplane was built in a workshop in Hamline, a St. Paul suburb, and weighed 130 pounds. It is stated in Popular Mechanics (1909) that Fred Parker had previously made several dirigible flights for Roy Knabenshue and Captain Baldwin.
Parisot Tristable
Léon Parisot was a Frenchman who qualified for a French pilot’s license on a Farman in 1910, before moving to Belgium and starting a flying school at the Liège-Ans airfield. He built the “Tristable” in 1913, a rather Farman-like biplane powered by a 50 hp Gnôme rotary. Parisot was killed in a 1913 crash in this machine during a display in Bombaye in northern Belgium, close to the border of Luxemburg, together with two more on the ground and three injured.
Parisot, Léon
Léon Parisot was a Frenchman who qualified for a French pilot’s license on a Farman in 1910, before moving to Belgium and starting a flying school at the Liège-Ans airfield. He built the “Tristable” in 1913.
Parent 1910 monoplane
A Hanriot-inspired monoplane, built by one or both of brothers François (1876-1949) and Hippolyte Parent (1885-1974). Both were born in the outskirts of Lyon to the same father, who had a mechanical workshop at Villefranche.
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