Perris CA.
USA
Airplane builder circa 1937
Manufacturer
Williams, Robert F
Houston TX.
USA
Airplane builder circa 1959.
Williams, Paul
Dayton OH.
USA
Airplane builder circa 1936
Williams, Osbert Edwin / O E Williams Aeroplane Co
Williams, was an engineer, responsible for the power plant that provided the electricity for the Laurel and Wyoming Valley Railroad (L. & W.V. RR) near Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1902. In 1907, he resigned his position as Chief Engineer and Electrician, to accept a new position as Superintendent of the power plant for the Delaware, Lakawanna and Western Railroads (D.L. & W. RR) at Scranton, Pennsylvania.
In the fall of 1911, Calbraith Perry Rodgers made his transcontinental flight. This event was the beginning of Williams’ interest in aviation.
1911: O E Williams Aeroplane Co (fdrs: Osbert Edwin & Inez Williams), Scranton PA.
1912: Flying field at Forty Fort PA.
Williams held several U.S. patents, and his application for an aircraft windscreen, is accompanied by a 6 January 1912 photo of what is almost certainly the second (or third) incarnation of the Model 1.
1914: Williams School of Aviation, Fenton MI.
March 1917: Sold local operations to Flint Aircraft Co, Flint MI, and moved to Mobile AL, where a new flight school was established.
Williams, J Newton
Ansonia CT
USA
Helicopter experimenter circa 1907-08.
Williams International
Walled Lake, Michigan USA
In addition to engine manufacture, has developed the V-Jet II as an engine demonstration aircraft as part of a joint NASA/industry General Aviation Propulsion Program, intended to assist the U.S. light aircraft industry through turbofan technology. V-Jet II first flew April 1997 as a fiveseat jet of composites construction.
In 2010, Williams was in the component design phase of the engine technology program, is emphasizing low cost manufacturing processes suitable for high quantity production, and is active with key suppliers to minimize material and purchase parts costs. The new Williams engine has been named the “FJX-2.”
Dr. Sam Williams, Chairman of Williams International, said, “Our objective is to replace aging, piston-powered light aircraft with all new, four-place single and six-place twin, turbofan-powered modern aircraft. This means we must develop a turbofan in the 700 lb thrust category that is very low in cost at a high production rate, is extremely quiet, is light in weight, and is very reliable.”
Williams, Geo. Airplane & Manufacturing Co
Texas Aero Manufacturing Co
Temple Aero Club
Texas Aero Corp
Texas-Temple
USA
George W. Williams designed and built his first aircraft, a light monoplane, about 1908 and started operations at Temple, Texas, as the Texas Aero Manufacturing Company. With George Carroll was credited with development of first full monocoque cantilever wing (not flown). Only production aircraft Texas-Temple of 1928-1929. On Williams’s death in 1929 company reorganized as the Texas Aero Corporation.
George Williams was a pioneer aviator who lived in Temple. He had built and flow his own monoplane called the Prairie Queen in 1910. Williams had been experimenting with aircraft design from at least 1908. Williams first aviation company was the Texas Aero Manufacturing Company, formed in 1911, which became in turn George Williams Airplane and Manufacturing Company in 1920. The Texas Aero Corporation of Temple became in 1928 the first Texas business licensed by the government to sell new aircraft. Begun with a $150,000 stake.
In 1911 Williams and others formed the Temple Aero Club. The club was based at Woodlawn Field, Temple, Texas. Its officers in 1920 were President, Eldon Kent Williams (Williams’ newspaperman brother); Secretary-Treasurer, George W Williams; and Field Manager, Lieutenant Eric A Locking, ex RAF.
James Albert Jackson Carroll (aka George A Carroll), was born on April 4, 1902 in Belton, Texas and died on July 17, 1987 in Tujunga, California. Carroll had joined with the Williams’ to found the Texas Aero Corporation; the first commercial aircraft fabricating facility in Texas.
George Williams, learned to fly but never took a pilot’s license. His brother, E.K. Williams, publisher of the Temple Telegram, promoted the venture with a plane that delivered the newspaper by plane.
In October 1927 the Aero Club changed its charter to form the Texas Aero Corporation. Its purpose was to manufacture aircraft in Temple. At the time the Corporation commenced it had orders for six aircraft.
To increase the Corporation’s capital in June 1929 it offered 100,000 shares at $10 per share in 1929. A 4-acre site was acquired at Love Field, Dallas for a new factory to replace its Temple facility.
Williams, aged 45, died in an air crash in August 1930, while training Clyde Moore, a student pilot. The plane had stalled at low altitude and crashed 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Temple near the hospital dairy farm. The Corporation folded as a result.
George Williams and Carroll designed and built the Texas Monoplane. In total 12 aircraft were constructed between 1928 and 1930 when the Corporation ended.
Texas Aero Corporation planes were registered as Texas-Temple and Temple.
Williams, Floyd
Eagle Grove IA.
USA
Airplane builder circa 1970
Williams Co, Beryl J
Venice & Pasadena CA.
USA
During 1911-1914, several single and two place open cockpit biplanes were built apparently following the Curtiss design as exhibition ships. Later models with fabric-covered fuselage and rounded wingtips made them quite modern for their day.
The 1911 original had a 60hp Hall-Scott motor and later versions 80hp Curtiss power.
Williams soloed his own creation at Hyde Park Aviation Field (Pasadena CA) on 26 August 1911 at age 19 as the world’s youngest licensed pilot, according to Aero Club of America officials.
Williams, Alexander
Nassau Blvd Aerodrome,
Long Island NY.
USA
In 1912 Alexander Williams built a single place open cockpit biplane powered by a 40hp Williams. It was described as being a “combination Farman and Howard Wright.”
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