Joseph L. Halsmer of Lafayette, Indiana was one of the numerous attempts at building a roadable aircraft,
Halsmer was a Seaboard World Airlines captain and father of 11 children, who built various Aero Car circa 1959.
Halsmer built a high-wing two-seater N12043 (possibly the Aero Car 2) with a uni-twin arrangement of two 65 hp engines driving two counter-rotating props.
Inglewood CA.
USA
Bult the H-526 aero engine in 1928.
USA
Founded 1927 to develop a prototype naval flying-boat based on the hull design of Britain’s Felixstowe F.5 for the U.S. Naval Aircraft Factory. The twin-engined Hall PH-1 was superseded by PH-2 and PH-3 variants which served in small numbers with the U.S. Coast Guard during the Second World War. In 1936 Hall flew the XP2H-1 four-engined patrol bomber, largest American-built flying-boat at that time.
Bob Hall, who had recently split with the Granville Brothers of Gee Bee fame, decided to form his own new aircraft company at Bowles-Agawam Field across the Connecticut River from where the Granvilles had their shop. Bob Hall had originally served the Granvilles as chief engineer, test pilot and draftsman. But after a heated dispute with Zantford Granville over race plane design, he decided to go it alone and build his own speed planes. This new group would be known as Springfield Aircraft, Inc. With two firm orders in his hand, Bob Hall had leased a corner of the main hangar at Bowles Agawam Field where work began early in 1932 on the two never to be forgotten Hall racers.
Deutsche Bristol-Werke was founded at Halberstadt in 1912 to manufacture products of the British & Colonial Aeroplane Company, but severed connection with the parent company in 1914. Subsequently it developed and built its own designs under the name of Halberstadter Flugzeugwerke.
Halberstadt’s first aircraft, the C.I reconnaissance biplane, first flew in May 1916, and together with more powerful C.III and C.V developments, was produced in large numbers in the First World War. The CL class two-seat escort fighters were particularly successful in ground-strafing roles during the campaigns of autumn 1917. Halberstadt’s D-class single-seater scouts were strong and maneuverable, but inferior to Allied fighters in speed. A number of D.ll and D.lll scouts were built by Hannoversche Waggonfabrik AG. The Halberstadt D.V, the company’s final scout design, appeared in early 1917.
Chicago
U.S.A.
In 1986 Joseph Haig built a Junkers J8 replica in the U.S.
Hagiwara Kokuki Seisakusho
1961:
40 Honcho,
Itabashi-machi,
Tokyo
Japan
Glider builder
Mr. Hisao Hagiwara of Tokyo formed the Jiyu Koku Kenkyusho (Liberty Aeronautical Research Institute) in 1952 in order to develop a helicopter with a jet-driven main rotor.
Raoul Hafner was a young engineer who had started the design of his first aircraft in Austria in 1929. This, the R.I helicopter, flew at Aspern Airport. Vienna, in 1930 and was followed by the R.II in1931. Hafner then came to England where he designed and flew, with some success, his A.R.III gyroplane, a jump start autogyro. There then followed a series of design projects, several of which were tendered to the requirements of the earliest Air Ministry specifications for helicopters.
1930
San Antonio TX.
USA
1938
Las Vegas NV.
USA
Airplane builder
All Aero 